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Workers charge at Mahama over ailing economy

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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 9 years ago

    after today's demonstration, what next?

  • JAH LOVE 9 years ago

    MOTHERFUCKER IDIOTS

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

    GHANA HAS BEEN RAPED BY NDC IDIOTS. WE DO NOT NEED ANY NATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM, WE NEED A NATIONAL COURT OF JURISDICTION TO PUT MAHAMA AND HIS CABINET ON TRIAL. GHANA'S HOPELESS ECONOMIC SITUATION, TODAY, IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTA ...
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  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    Where is the Better Ghana we were promised, Mahama ?!

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    THE WHOLE WORLD HAVE SEEN WHERE MAHAMA HAS SEND GHANA TO (FROM GRACE TO GRASS) SEE WHAT THIS VISSIONLESS AKONFEM PREZ HAS DONE TO GHANA TODAY! A NATION TOOK OFF BRIGHTLY BY PREZ KUFFOUR HAS BEEN SEND TO DITCH BY NDC GREEDY BA ...
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  • gyan 9 years ago

    Why this Ghana. Don't blame Mahama third world countries are the same b/cos the dev countries are still dev'ing b/cos of their technology. Let shift from raw goods to finish goods.

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 9 years ago

    Every day there one form protest or the other in Ghana. Why? Just asking.

  • Baba 9 years ago

    We need education seriously!If Ghanaians were educated there would not have been this demonstration to ask for withdrawn subsidy. I wish the demonstrations were against the $3b chinese loan. That TUC sees nothing wrong with i ...
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  • wali 9 years ago

    "HE WHO LOOKS THE OTHER WAY AT INJUSTICE AND EVIL AND WONT STAND AGINST IT AND AGAINST WHAT IS RIGHT IS A CAWARD THAT DONT DESERVE TO LIVE"
    THIS WHAT THE HONORABLE MARTIN LUTHER KING ONCE SAID

  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    this seems to be another fake demo organized by the ndc to diffuse tensions in the wrong direction and away from the main issue of discrimination against the Akans . the ndc knows the people have had enough and want it to app ...
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  • Abena Annette-fueh Gorman 9 years ago

    My fellow concerned citizens and aliens, should this be all about - we graced in red & black clothing; placard inscriptions of all kinds; troops of buses and cars; profane utterances; 24 hr standstill production line, - heave ...
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  • Daniel 9 years ago

    The article you have written is out of place. The Ghana economy is part of the changes going on in the world market as a whole. You cannot hold Ghana government or whoever is ruling the country responsible for the economic co ...
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  • Objective Adancorata 9 years ago

    Where is Kwesi Pratt in the recent economic hardship Demos? Kwei no longer has at heart the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian!!!!! Has Kwesi been charmed by the soft touch of Mahama? The soft touch that has calmed the nerves of ...
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  • K. Tawia 9 years ago

    'Yentie obiara'. NPP/Akuffo Addo are nation wrecker and saboteurs. They can go and burn the sea.

  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    As the days go by more and more people wake up to the reality of the ndc anti Akan hate agenda and their deep rooted corrupt dark souls of evil .This was first initiated by the Ewes and through Mahama and his brothers being c ...
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  • TACITUS CLAUDIUS OF ROME 9 years ago

    This how the NPP behaves when in opposition.

    500 people only have so gathered and TUC buses are still going around to bus people from the roadside to the Obra spot to participate in their APIO DRINKING CARNIVAL, how sad?
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    CANT YOU SEE CLEAR? OR IS IT BECAUSE YOU ARE AYIGBE OR KOTOKOLI? SO NO MATTER WHAT EVEN TO THE EXTENT OF GHANA COLLAPSING YOU PEOPLE DONT CARE? THAT MEANS YOU HAVE AN AGENDA.... AYIGBE,KONTOKOLI, AND SOME GAs HAVE AGENDA WHIC ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

    The Trades Union Congress (TUC) started converging at the Obra spot? Well, if not Obra spot, where else again! Shameless desperados.

  • Santana 9 years ago

    I expect you to know better. You have to learn to look beyond partisan politics and think GHANA FIRST. Being an NDC sympathizer does not mean you should endorse whatever Mahama does, even if it's leading to economic hardships ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

    Yes, Ghana first and that's about all most of us have been putting across before all in here. But, don't use this well criticized economic hardship by plenty including a majority of the element within the NDC party as well as ...
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  • Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 9 years ago

    It is amazing how NDC blind men will make it sound like they want to remain jobless and allow only NPP members to work in all private and public institutions. So all the workers are NPP members you guys mean? Including Volta ...
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  • Kofi Wayo Teye BaakaJnr 9 years ago

    Jah love. You are worse than a fool. Where do you work? Where do you buy kenkey, gari , rice soap and the like. Stupid guys like have to be struck by lighting. Fool

  • ghanaian 9 years ago

    IS THE BATTLE FOR THE LORD WORKING AGAINST THIS GOVERNMENT. IF SO THEN I PITY FOR THEM.BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT FIGHTING AGAINST HUMANBEING OR POLITICSL PARTY BUT AGAINST ALMIGHTY GOD
    THAT'S WHY EVERY THING THEY TRY TO DO DO ...
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  • wali 9 years ago

    IT IS TIME TO LET MAHAMA THAT IS HIGH WATER FEES ,HIGH ELECTRIC BILLS ,HIGH TAXES ,HIGH FEES ,HIGH VAT MUST BE REVERSE WE OPPOSE THE DESTRUCTION OF GHANA BY MAHAMA VOODO ECONOMICS THAT FAIL US.
    "HE WHO WONT TAKE A STAND AGA ...
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  • Concerned Person 9 years ago

    Jah Love, you are a selfish, ignorant wee smoker. You are the motherfucker idiot! You have never done an honest day's work and probably live on handouts from the thieving NDC bandits who are in power. Get a life and leave har ...
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  • SGT ANAI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    Yes, if indeed the whole country can go on demonstration, and it could be orchestrated by NPP, as you stupid cow claims then it is clearly open that, Mahama was not voted as President during 2012 elections.

    If the whole p ...
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  • Fiifican 9 years ago

    USELESS NDC FOOT SOLDIER WITH NO BRAIN.
    FUCKING ILLITERATE!!!!!!

  • ESONG U/W 9 years ago

    THE MAHAMA GOVT and THE NDC EYES WILL OPEN WIDE AFTER THE GARGANTUAN DEMO IN THE REPUBLIC OF NKRUMAH GHANA.TUC HAS ALSO TO GO INTO ACTION NO LONGER THE TALKS. THE GOVT SHOULD GO INTO ACTION. MAHAMA ROLL YOUR SELVES AND WORK.

  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    Sweep them away and free Mother Ghana for development !

  • Fiifican 9 years ago

    That's how the grass root revolutions start.
    First, notice is served and if no change is noticed in a given time, then more demos one after the other until the country becomes ungovernable

  • Old Soldier 9 years ago

    It serves them right. If you build a house on blatant untruths, it stands to fall. Propaganda is not governance and lies do not build a state.

  • Kwame Asante 9 years ago

    let there be heavy rain throughout all the ten regional capitals to disperse this ingrates.Ghanaians wish Ghana is like America and the UK.However,what this two countries did to be where they are today,we don't wish to to sam ...
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  • brasco 9 years ago

    u talk as if you're not in Ghana. they are not getting the basic economic decisions right hence, all these labor unrest. let me give u only one example. we have refinery in fact one of the largest in Africa, we were importing ...
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  • AT 9 years ago

    But the leaders of the USA don't steal and go unpunished! Ghana is a poor country and we have millions of dollars in judgement debt given to party crooks. Corruption everywhere without punishment. That is the difference!

  • ABBA 9 years ago

    THE SPIRIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS TOTALLY DEAD BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS LOOTED THE COFFERS OF THE NATION. NOW IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BLOOD OF GEN.I.K.ACHAMPONG AND THE OTHERS WHO WERE EXECUTED ARE INNOCENT.

  • Abongo 9 years ago

    You are a fool

  • Maa Adwoa 9 years ago

    We have today being reduced to a class of working poor.
    Why should I even work and come home to no food? People are dying just because they can not afford the cost of medical services, Mahama's government is squeezing the l ...
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  • BLOOD MONEY 9 years ago

    THE VERY SAME PEOPLE THAT VOTED A CRIMINAL WE SO CALLED A PRESIDENT... NEXT TIME

  • RAFIQ 9 years ago

    I LOVE THAT ,IF NOT THIS JOHN MAHAMA WILL KILL US, NO BODY CAN BUILD HOUSE AGAIN, HE IS STUPID

  • ABBA 9 years ago

    EVEN THE OIL DESCOVERY HAS BEEN THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF NDC CRIMINALS AND THAT HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE AILING ECONOMY.

  • KOTOKOLI 9 years ago

    OH YOU ARE A BIG PROPAGANDAIST FOR NPP. EVERY TOM, DICK, AND HARRY KNOWS THAT "DIEWUO" KUFFOUR AND YOUR NPP EXECUTIVES PLUS AMERICANS OWNS THE MAJORITY SHARE IN THE GHANA OIL RESERVE IN THE WESTERN REGION. ASHANTIS IN CHARGE ...
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  • OPANIN KWAKU ATTA 9 years ago

    YOU GUYS SHOULD KNOW THAT,YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RECEIVE ANY PAY AS LONG AS YOU STAY AWAY FROM WORK.

  • ESONG U/W 9 years ago

    NO WORK NO PAY.VERY GOOD OF YOU THEN TELL YOUR PREZ. HAS HE GOT THE STRONG WILL,MAN'S HEART TO DO IT???? OR IS IT THE WIFE OR GENERAL MOSQUITO OR WHO WILL DO IT.

  • GODWITHUS 9 years ago

    GHANAIAN MENTALITY.SUPPOSE WORKERS WHO ARE LATE TO WORK AND EARLY TO CLOSE FROM WORK.ARE YOU ALL SURE YOU WORK EARNESTLY STEPPING UP PRODUCTION COMMENSURATE TO WHAT YOU TAKE AT THE END OF THE MONTH AS PAY PACKET?THINK ABOUT ...
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  • TOO BAD 9 years ago

    BAD TRANSPORT SYSTEM

  • Albert. 9 years ago

    Thanks guy, people refuse to work because they think they're working for gov't and at the end of the month they expect to be paid. we must change our attitudes towards work and we will grow the economy. Chase people out of of ...
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  • unmisguided African child 9 years ago

    ...pray that this is not an inside job,being manipulated by some Militant twerps from the NPP.

    Labour and government arbitrations must have a proper channel to work out their disputes....

    However, if this is being under ...
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  • The Mask 9 years ago

    The economy is hitting workers hard.

    Boachsoft Finance 2012 software, developed in East Akyem Municipality (Akyem-Maase and Bunso) in the Eastern Region of Ghana and in Accra/Sakumono, is helping many families across the g ...
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  • OBIBA-JUDAS 9 years ago

    ONLY THE FOOLS WILL VOTE FOR NDC 2016

  • opusuodum 9 years ago

    President Mahama please do the right thing for your country Ghana just step down please

  • Abongo 9 years ago

    Go and tell your father to step down

  • Kofi Wayo Teye BaakaJnr 9 years ago

    Abongo, i hope you are ok in your bloody head. You sit only to be fed by this stupid Mahama and just insult. People like you need be hanged. Where the hell do you work? Where do you by kenkey. Where do you buy your provisions ...
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  • Love Ghana 9 years ago

    TUC have a point but there is more politics than the reality of the workers problems.
    If T U.C, Traders and Goverment were all honest Ghanaians would not be suffering the way they are suffering. Despite all the injustices
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  • Victor Baidoo, South Africa 9 years ago

    Fellow Ghanaians, let's pray for peace to prevail in Ghana until the next elections. The happenings of today are not different from those that preceded that 1979 Coup de Tat. May whoever comments on today’s worker’s demon ...
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  • GHANA FIRST 9 years ago

    When USA economy crushed a in 2007/2008 what did the American people do? Did they close their factories and took the streets? Did they support Obama to think and resuscitate the economy? Is USA fully out of the economic probl ...
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  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    You can't compare Ghana and US in terms of leadership quality, decision making mechanism, and institutions. We have leaders who do not think about their people, decision making processes that are not transparent, and weak ins ...
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  • Israel Bungu 9 years ago

    I think this whole idea of demonstration is characterized by unscrupulous and opponent of current government to look bad in eyes of many and ordinary citizens.

    What next after this, will the situation change over night, t ...
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  • Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 9 years ago

    For the first time in world's history, we had a former president and his vice leading demonstrations to denounce the government over their perceived economic hardship. Mills carried empty gallon to protest against Kuffour. Gh ...
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  • Concerned Person 9 years ago

    Oh shut up! This govt continues to blatantly steal from our national chest, put grossly incompetent semi-literates in big jobs and condone theft, bullying and worst of all, destroy the hardworking of others through hate and j ...
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  • Sewordor EE 9 years ago

    TUC, please organize one of these demo's to clean the choked drains and gutters in Accra to prevent the perennial floods.

  • .......p 9 years ago

    We deserve all what we get under this government society and people in high society placed these looters in power. Sympathy??? Not at all .this will serve as an eye opener to politics in Ghana.there are worst to come so we sh ...
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  • ghanaian 9 years ago

    Jah luv , if NPP SPONSORED THE DEMO, THEN THEY WON THE ELECTION AND IT WAS STOLEN FROM THEM BY THE IEC IS THEY CALLED THEMSELVES
    How can one party tell the whole nation to stop working , if what they are saying is not ...
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  • ghanaian 9 years ago

    INCREASING THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING FOR THE FOOR AND THOSE WHO WANT TO CREATE AND ARE CREATING JOBS FOR THEMSELVES, WHILES YOU ARE GETTING EVERYTHING FOR FREE ON THE EXPENSE OF THE SAME POOR AND TAXPAYER YOU ARE TO TAKE CARE O ...
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  • JOE CANADA 9 years ago

    SOON GIRLS WILL DEMOSTRATE FOR LACK OF PADS.

  • Ghana midfield rocks 9 years ago

    They always want to blame everyone for their problem.

    What is stopping any of the protestors to setup a toothpick making business or a rice farm so the country stops importing it. this will help the economy.
    Ghanaians don ...
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  • Papa Yaw. 9 years ago

    No

  • Cashman 9 years ago

    is gud to demonstrate against prez.mahama bcox he is y3n tie obiaa man

  • Lord Mansfield - LONDON 9 years ago

    Whom are you fighting for? The corruption everyone is talking about started from ADAM inherited and revisited by Kuffour. It is a fact that the Busia faction in the NPP has had their share of looting again through Kuffour and ...
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  • Lord Mansfield - LONDON 9 years ago

    But it does not take out the fact.
    Please i will edit and post again.

    Stay Tuned.

  • NN 9 years ago

    Please do. it sounds very interesting and factual.

  • GBEVU 9 years ago

    NPP ORGANIZED DEMONSTRATION. YOU ARE BENT ON MAKING THE COUNTRY UN-GOVERNABLE, BUT U LIE GOD WILL SHAME U.

  • King 9 years ago

    You guys live in a country where you can't even make some transactions with your local currency. You have to pay with US Dollars, and many of you accept that as normal, and see nothing wrong with this. It's amazing! Where els ...
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  • GHANABA 9 years ago

    Majority of poor Ghanaians will be working to keep Ghana going these are just few workers who think money grow on trees! Ghana need better Labor laws to stop few unelected people holding the nation to ransom. God bless Ghana! ...
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  • c.bee 9 years ago

    Well done T.U.C....

  • FANTASTIC 9 years ago

    I THINK PRESIDENT MAHAMA IS THE ONLY CARING AND LISTING GOVERNMENT EVER IN GHANA. IS ONLY UNDER THE NDC AND JDM REGGIM THAT CAN GIVE FREE AND PEACEFUL DEMO

  • King 9 years ago

    This reminds me of the heady days of the revolution in 1979 when I was then in primary school. "GHANA WORKERS WE NO GO SIT DOWN MAKE THEM CHEAT US EVERY DAYYYYYY', WE NO SIT DOWN MAKE THEM CHEAT US EVERYDAY', DAABI DA; WE NO ...
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  • FANTASTIC 9 years ago

    THE GOOD PEOPLE OF GHANA VOTED VOTED THE NDC AND JDM INTO POWER SO THE KANGAROO GROUP OF THE SO-CALLED NPP TUC SHOULD US A BREAK,

  • MYSELF 9 years ago

    You are one of those son of bitches who support blindly. What this motherfucker idiot mahama is doing should be a concern to everyone no matter of your party affiliation so jah love fuck yourself and do what do best and go pl ...
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  • MAKAMAKA 9 years ago

    another dickhead..

    damn!!!!

    are u that shallow

  • MAKAMAKA 9 years ago

    what a shame... only 150 people???

  • Joe 9 years ago

    If all workers in Ghana, formal and informal are converging Ta designated locations in Accra and other regional capital to demonstrate, who is going feed them. You complain that the economic conditions are hard yet you the re ...
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  • KABIYESI 9 years ago

    NPP is good for opposition

  • David 9 years ago

    I love it - people power at its best. NDC and NPP should never contest elections again - they have dragged our motherland into an abbyss. Both totally incompetent.

  • Daniel 9 years ago

    Only the Akans dress this way in times of frustration. This is irresponsible act.The leader of the TUC, has no clue as to how a country is run. What do you accomplish after this protests/demostrations? This is my point.

  • Maa Adwoa 9 years ago

    President Mahama must be made to understand that the real power belongs to the people. The people put you where you are to serve them but not to Lord it over them.
    The NDC government have lost their way, and focus. Yesterday ...
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  • Araba 9 years ago

    Time wasters. Go and do some communal labour and stop this unproductive nonsense.

  • NANA AKUFO ADDO 9 years ago

    THIS IS OPPOSITION(NPP) DEMO MENT TO WHIP ACRIMONIOUS SENTIMENTS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. THEY WILL NOT SUCCEED. THE ECONOMY IS RECOVERING, THE ECONOMY IS TURNING AROUND. NPP OPPOSITION SO SCARED TO DEATH THAT IT IS GOING TO C ...
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  • care 9 years ago

    kufour hotell and shopping more children and his parlimentry teach the ndc who to robb,every body want something big if they reach there,may the Lord God judge both ndc and npp including the Ghanaians whom robbing ghana to be ...
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  • maltina Agyakoma 9 years ago

    we are tired of this government and he must step down period

  • MAWULI (Keta Abutiakope) 9 years ago

    it has come to light that even if 100yrs is given to this administration there will be nothing to write home about. Economics team out of lack of experience and incompetence fighting among themselves, how can we rely on this ...
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  • Akomadan Adjei Nkansah Belgium 9 years ago

    EVIL,CRIMINAL,BONSAM CORRUPT MAHAMA MUST GOOO FOR GHANIANS TO BE FREEEEEEE,CHOP ALL OUR MONEY AND LEFT BONES FOR GHANIANS,NKWASEASEM.ABOA,ODWAN MAHAMA MUST STEP DOWN,

  • Sankofa 9 years ago

    How are demonstrations going to solve our problems?

    We call on the demonstrators and their leaders to think again.

    Go back to work, do a decent day's work and proffer suggestions to gov't for solving the country's prob ...
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  • NaijaBadoo 9 years ago

    1. Ghanaians are used to easy-living. Minimum effort for maximum pay. Ask every single employer in Ghana, since 2002 they have perfected the art of doing nothing, using connections, lying, cheating and talking loudly and insu ...
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  • Captain Canada 9 years ago

    This is the problem with the demonstrators. They are the problem.

  • Sankofa 9 years ago

    Wow, you could not have put it more succinctly!

    If only we Ghanaians would learn to think through issues,we would be the better for it. If only we would utilise our abundant natural resources for the benefit of all our peo ...
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  • Robin Hood 9 years ago

    For Mahama and his incompetent bunch of cleptomaniacs.The Blackman will never resign in the face of general failure unless he is overthrown.The writing is on the wall for Mahama and thieving NDC.Never again will Ghanaians eve ...
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  • RealEstates 9 years ago

    If you have a house sell and put your money in the bank. The market will drop over 150%. Foreigners are selling and moving out.

  • KWAME 9 years ago

    Does these so called workers goes to work at 6.30am?