Bawumia must be stopped from reckless borrowing - MP

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Joe 6 years ago

Empty barrels make the most noise. These empty headed NDC propagandist are just blowing hot air over every issue on good governance which the NPP is bringing on board. They should just shut up and give the NPP the chance to c ...
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Empty barrels make the most noise. These empty headed NDC propagandist are just blowing hot air over every issue on good governance which the NPP is bringing on board. They should just shut up and give the NPP the chance to clean the mess they have created for the past 8 years. They borrowed to spend on unproductive ventures. The NPP is borrowing wisely to invest in productive ventures which will pay for themselves. That's the difference. So my advice to these block headed and empty barrels to shut up.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 6 years ago

AUTHOR : MAAME ABENA ------- The NDC lost the election because they became God. Pride they say comes before the fall. How dare the NDC carry a cofin and says it was Nana Akufo-Addo? Today Nana Akufo-Addo has been brought back ...
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AUTHOR : MAAME ABENA ------- The NDC lost the election because they became God. Pride they say comes before the fall. How dare the NDC carry a cofin and says it was Nana Akufo-Addo? Today Nana Akufo-Addo has been brought back alive and well and is made ruler of Ghana. The NDC will remain in the wilderness for 40yrs. The NDC's crime against the people of Ghana has come before God,because the peoples cries were heard by God. The real job of the one that rules is a servant of the one they rule over. It means that to rule you must first learn to serve. Zanator Rawlings of the NDC as young as she is, is more of a leader than the likes of Kofi Adams and rest of his clowns. Learn to serve before you become a leader and you will go places. Jesus washed the feet of his deciples,but now all knees are subjected to His Name.
Joe 6 years ago

This is the stupid thing NDC were doing because NPP did not have the numbers to stop them. And you are encouraging the same thing.

This is the stupid thing NDC were doing because NPP did not have the numbers to stop them. And you are encouraging the same thing.
insight to the bone 6 years ago

We are definitely a nation of idiotic fools , i have for a while decided to hold my peace because it seemed we have a sensible finance minister making the right moves but this toxic pepeni kwasiapanyin Bawumia has erased all ...
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We are definitely a nation of idiotic fools , i have for a while decided to hold my peace because it seemed we have a sensible finance minister making the right moves but this toxic pepeni kwasiapanyin Bawumia has erased all good. Atta Mills went to bed with this Satan and it cost him his life together with 200,000 hardened criminals they sent here that have poisoned our water bodies and long term devastated our economy. China has ignored over a billion of their citizens in dire need of the entering into the post industrial era and come here and promise WHAT? I said that this Bawumia is the reincarnation of the devil and evil that air brained Nana has put in his office. He continues with his project of the islamisation of Ghana with the establishment of an Islamic university to breed toxic propagators of evil in our land. He blocks all Akan diaspora private capital in the tens of billions because its from primarily Christian countries. Where in the world has China given capital , technology and industry for another country to develop? The only reason why this is on the table is to make Ghana a suspicious ally at best to our western civilizations and other christian countries . We saw an influx of islamic money which we dont need yet everyone played dumb because the political oligarchy is playing ball with the Muslim caliphate and soon our stubborn Christians will start seeing their children's throats being turned toward Mecca like goats and slashed . My brothers arm yourselves like our friends in Denkyira but wait for the clarion call to wipe out this cancer amongst us. Enough is enough
O.K 6 years ago

The past government made mistake and borrowed too much,so,should we allow the present government to do the same thing?The answer is NO.

The past government made mistake and borrowed too much,so,should we allow the present government to do the same thing?The answer is NO.
Over rated Nepotism President 6 years ago

A few months ago, did the NPP not hit the roofs telling the whole world that it is only “idiots” who go for loans to develop a nation?

Did the NPP not run through the rafters telling the whole world that they had all t ...
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A few months ago, did the NPP not hit the roofs telling the whole world that it is only “idiots” who go for loans to develop a nation?

Did the NPP not run through the rafters telling the whole world that they had all the brains to find money locally to give meaning to all their “Mills & Boons” promises and that they SHALL NEVER look outside for any funding to operate?
TIME WILL TELL 6 years ago

PERIOD. BAWUMIA THE INTELLIGENT CREVER BRIGHT COMPETENT BRAVE HUMBLE RESPECTFUL YOUNG FUTURE AWAITING GHANA PRESIDENT PERIOD. MAHAMA THE WORST EVER USELESS INCOMPETENT VISIONLESS LOOT SHARE CHOP GO SCOT FREE PRESIDENT EVER EX ...
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PERIOD. BAWUMIA THE INTELLIGENT CREVER BRIGHT COMPETENT BRAVE HUMBLE RESPECTFUL YOUNG FUTURE AWAITING GHANA PRESIDENT PERIOD. MAHAMA THE WORST EVER USELESS INCOMPETENT VISIONLESS LOOT SHARE CHOP GO SCOT FREE PRESIDENT EVER EXPERIENCED IN GHANA HISTORY. WE WILL JAIL MAHAMA, MARK MY WORDS
computer man 6 years ago

This is very foolish accept of the disgrace NPP government because they point it clear not to even borrow so what should we call this

This is very foolish accept of the disgrace NPP government because they point it clear not to even borrow so what should we call this
Johnny 6 years ago

Education is not good for the northerners

Education is not good for the northerners
TIME WILL TELL 6 years ago

PERIOD. NDC USELESS INCOMPETENT LOOT SHARE CHOP GO SCOT FREE, THINKS NPP WILL DO THE SAME THIEVERY THAT WENT ON UNDER THE WATCH OF EVKL CORRUPT THIEF JOHN MAHAMA. THANK GOD BAWUMIA IS NOT MAHAMA. BAWUMIA HAVE SENSE MORE THAN ...
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PERIOD. NDC USELESS INCOMPETENT LOOT SHARE CHOP GO SCOT FREE, THINKS NPP WILL DO THE SAME THIEVERY THAT WENT ON UNDER THE WATCH OF EVKL CORRUPT THIEF JOHN MAHAMA. THANK GOD BAWUMIA IS NOT MAHAMA. BAWUMIA HAVE SENSE MORE THAN THIEF MAHAMA PERIOD
Anagogbemi 6 years ago

Who secures 16billion dollar loan within 6 months?,global economic dynamics indicates this loan is a sham.

Who secures 16billion dollar loan within 6 months?,global economic dynamics indicates this loan is a sham.
TIME WILL TELL 6 years ago

PERIOD.UNDER MAHAMA'S WATCH INCLUDING HIS BROTHER IBRAHIM AND HIS SO-CALLED WIFE LORDINA, TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED. MAHAMA IS A FANTASTICALLY DIRTY THIEF AND HE WILL SOON FACE THE SPECIAL PROSECUTORS PERIOD.

PERIOD.UNDER MAHAMA'S WATCH INCLUDING HIS BROTHER IBRAHIM AND HIS SO-CALLED WIFE LORDINA, TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED. MAHAMA IS A FANTASTICALLY DIRTY THIEF AND HE WILL SOON FACE THE SPECIAL PROSECUTORS PERIOD.
Abdul-latif issahak from Accra kole b 6 years ago

what fake government its very shameful on our part NPP government God must surely punished them all upon all the empty false they told Ghanaian

what fake government its very shameful on our part NPP government God must surely punished them all upon all the empty false they told Ghanaian
Yaw Berko 6 years ago

Somebody should tell this useless man that he should wait and see the details of the agreement before criticising it. You have not seen the thing but crying wolf. Sometimes I wonder if we sat in the same classroom at Legon, U ...
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Somebody should tell this useless man that he should wait and see the details of the agreement before criticising it. You have not seen the thing but crying wolf. Sometimes I wonder if we sat in the same classroom at Legon, UST and UCC with these Adongos. Or are they the Stephen Adei-GIMPA-baked graduates. Lordina Mahama is one of them and do you remember her arguments and reasoning. Adongo, are you a graduate? Which university did you get your first degree from. Do you remember Kwabena-Minta Akandoh? Ohh NDC MPs!!!!
ASIEDU NKETIA, TAIN 6 years ago

The government has to borrow because the NDC stole all our money

The government has to borrow because the NDC stole all our money
Aboki 6 years ago

I do not have access to the credit agreement with Chinese private sector. But my preliminary analysis of public information about the credit, the Chinese companies involved and NPP agenda gives indication the loan is a trade ...
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I do not have access to the credit agreement with Chinese private sector. But my preliminary analysis of public information about the credit, the Chinese companies involved and NPP agenda gives indication the loan is a trade line of credit which allows us to procure materials and expertise from china for our projects in Ghana.

Line of credit is normally tricky trade finance tool.Its effectiveness depends on the efficiency, timing and viability of the projects the credit is use to finance.In this particular case, the viability of the $19 billion line of credit will depend on Ghanaian beneficiaries. History tells me the odds are high.
RICHMOND, MARYLAND 6 years ago

Ghanaians must stop living in a fool's paradise. We simply don't hv the capacity to borrow $19b dollars. Wait till one year elapses without he loan coming and then ull see how uve been hoodwinked. And then as usual the politi ...
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Ghanaians must stop living in a fool's paradise. We simply don't hv the capacity to borrow $19b dollars. Wait till one year elapses without he loan coming and then ull see how uve been hoodwinked. And then as usual the political blame games will start.
KK 6 years ago

NO WAY FOR BAWUMIA TO MORTGAGE GHANA'S MINERAL RESOURCES TO THE CHIANESE LIKE A PROSTITUTE.

NO WAY FOR BAWUMIA TO MORTGAGE GHANA'S MINERAL RESOURCES TO THE CHIANESE LIKE A PROSTITUTE.
stone jaggar 6 years ago

JONNY U ARE A BIG FOOL WHO DARE U, BAWUMIA IS A NORTHERN AND MADE NPP USELESS AKAN PARTY COME TO POWER. FOOLISH TALK, REASON U BELONG TO MONKEY FAMILY JONNY.

JONNY U ARE A BIG FOOL WHO DARE U, BAWUMIA IS A NORTHERN AND MADE NPP USELESS AKAN PARTY COME TO POWER. FOOLISH TALK, REASON U BELONG TO MONKEY FAMILY JONNY.
OPANINPA 6 years ago

CHINESE GIVE LOANS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY - NOT TO CORRUPT POLITICIANS. THAT IS WHY THEY WOULD TIE A LOAN TO A PROJECT AND EXECUTE THE PROJECT THEMSELVES. RATHER OUR POLITICIANS WILL WANT TO FORM SHAM COMPANIES, INFLATE ...
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CHINESE GIVE LOANS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY - NOT TO CORRUPT POLITICIANS. THAT IS WHY THEY WOULD TIE A LOAN TO A PROJECT AND EXECUTE THE PROJECT THEMSELVES. RATHER OUR POLITICIANS WILL WANT TO FORM SHAM COMPANIES, INFLATE PRICES, USE CHEAP INFERIOR MATERIALS TO DO THE PROJECTS. THESE PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY LOCAL COMPANIES, CREATE UNFAVOURABLE IMPRESSIONS ON THE CHINESE THAT IA WHY THEY DO NOT GIVE CASH (PREFERRED BY POLITICIANS). WHY NOT USE THE MONEY TO BUILD REAIWAY S FROM ACCRA/TAKORADI VIA KUMASI/SUNYANI TO TUMU/WA?.
Reuben 6 years ago

Most people commenting on the issue of china loan seems to be blind fools. If l promise not to go for loan when you give me the chance to be president and you gave me the chance and am now borrowing, should you keep quiet and ...
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Most people commenting on the issue of china loan seems to be blind fools. If l promise not to go for loan when you give me the chance to be president and you gave me the chance and am now borrowing, should you keep quiet and be seeing me? Why will you be insulting a previous government who goes for loan? Do you think the current government is an angel who will not also steal? Haven't we recorded much corruption during the previous NPP regime? Those people insulting the minority should think reasonably. haven't they analysed the economy well before telling Ghanaians they will run this country without loan as the NDC government was doing? Shine your eyes Ghanaian youths and stop this hanky panky politics of insult on ghanaweb if you are truly the future leaders of Ghana.
ugly akufo addo 6 years ago

the trap has been set for him to fall in to , JM advises him n he refused take , this is a lazy gov't led by a useless prez n his third vice prez

the trap has been set for him to fall in to , JM advises him n he refused take , this is a lazy gov't led by a useless prez n his third vice prez
ugly akufo addo 6 years ago

Ghana is now a useless nation

Ghana is now a useless nation
Emo 6 years ago

Senseless minority talks,Mahama who even took a car gift as a bribe never stepped aside.

Senseless minority talks,Mahama who even took a car gift as a bribe never stepped aside.
jammi 6 years ago

The so called competent Npp are also borrowing.just in governance for 6month.mother ghana u are not safe
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The so called competent Npp are also borrowing.just in governance for 6month.mother ghana u are not safe
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RPG 6 years ago

"Chinese loans are always work in progress because they will never reach a conclusion. They will not give you the money to embark on the projects themselves but will prefer to bring their own contractors to come and do the wo ...
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"Chinese loans are always work in progress because they will never reach a conclusion. They will not give you the money to embark on the projects themselves but will prefer to bring their own contractors to come and do the work for you. They will get other benefits either than what was agreed in the deal”.
Isaac Adongo-NDC MP Bolga Central.
You want them to give it to you so you steal it and go and stash it in foreign accounts so their investment goes down the drain and nothing gets accomplished? Do you know have any idea of how much of Africa's loans, aid and grants have found their way back into foreign accounts, and have never come back for the intended development of Africa? Go to Nigeria and go and go and ask President Buhari he will tell you how much Alison Madueke stashed in foreign accounts or ask John Dramani Mahama, he went for the Anti-corruption summit called by David Cameron and he has an idea of how much he and his cronies have spirited out, and if nothing lights up in your coconut, nothing ever will.
Vinss 6 years ago

WHO VOTED FOR YOU TO BE MP OH CHEAP POLITICS FROM ndc,ndc WISH THEY HAD THE CHANCE BUT LACK OF CONCRET VISION FOR GHANA HOW CAN THEY BRING IN INVESTORS,OH IS SO SAD TO BE IN OPPOSTION AND THE HURTING POINT WHEN YOU ARE THE MI ...
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WHO VOTED FOR YOU TO BE MP OH CHEAP POLITICS FROM ndc,ndc WISH THEY HAD THE CHANCE BUT LACK OF CONCRET VISION FOR GHANA HOW CAN THEY BRING IN INVESTORS,OH IS SO SAD TO BE IN OPPOSTION AND THE HURTING POINT WHEN YOU ARE THE MINORITY STAY THERE INDEFINETLY.
Chapter 4 6 years ago

He is competent

He is competent
Akora Oteng( 6 years ago

We need to give good ADVICE to the GOVERNMENT and NOT the NEGATIVE HULLABALOO! Use the BULK of it for a NATIONAL RAILWAYS SYSTEM. Instead of a LONG-TERM SOLUTION,the previous Government bought so many cars to ran on Pot-hole ...
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We need to give good ADVICE to the GOVERNMENT and NOT the NEGATIVE HULLABALOO! Use the BULK of it for a NATIONAL RAILWAYS SYSTEM. Instead of a LONG-TERM SOLUTION,the previous Government bought so many cars to ran on Pot-holed ROADS.That was NOT SMART.Build Railways all over Ghana, and we will reap the BENEFITS of it for CENTURIES.Believe me.
NATIVE 6 years ago

Issac Adongo, Ato Forson Ablakwa and Nukpenu utterances regarding foreign loans are not only idiotic but out right embarrassing for Ghana. ! Responsible opposition is not about "pull them down " propaganda. The government has ...
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Issac Adongo, Ato Forson Ablakwa and Nukpenu utterances regarding foreign loans are not only idiotic but out right embarrassing for Ghana. ! Responsible opposition is not about "pull them down " propaganda. The government has said it will table these loans before Parliament so why don't you wait for the fine prints of these loans to interrogate them? Your roles are in Parliament not outside. Making noises on the airwaves will not discourage the current government from pursuing their development agenda? Based on the preliminary information in the public domain, the loan facilities are all targeted at the implementation of key NPP manifesto promises. The NDC should understand that the Chinese are not going to haul wheel barrels of Remimbi into some false bottom buckets in Ghana based on their experience? So Mr Adongo why worry about reckless borrowing?! Or you are afraid Dr. Bawumia will repeat your NDC government 's reckless borrowings for inflated costs projects? Your claim that Ghana does not have the capacity to take on a $19 billion loan facility is laughable, as if Ghana's economy is static? Unlike the NDC economic management team which shrunk the economy , this NPP economic management team is managing for growth and using their experience on Wall Street by introducing financial models in loan acquisitions that will share investments risks with market participants. Ato Forson's claim that the loan will push our debt burden to 130% of GDP shows how incompetent and challenged his knowledge about finance is? Ghana should feel blessed that we have Dr Bawumia, Akoto Osei, Baffour, Osafo Marfo, Ken Ofori Atta, Alan Kyremateng , Afua Boahene and Kwarteng in charge of the economy. We need leaders of vision and with innovative actions. When Dr Nkrumah went for a quarter of a billion dollars from the US government to build the Akosombo Dam , an equivalent of billions in today dollars, we did not argue about capacity to borrow? Today we look on the A-Dam as a strategic and transformational national treasure. Today again , Nana Akuffo Addo iwants to source $10 billion to build build our railway infrastructure to help in the extraction of our minerals and to spur industrial transformation. $2 billion to make us a value added producer instead of suppliers of commodities and consumers of others value added products . And NDC wants to pull him down ? We want to source loans and grants to build bridges and roads and the NDC want it stopped? China has an appetite for metals which we are endowed in the ground. If our former masters could help us extract, they would have done so in the last 60 years? And think about this: if we can seek closer business cooperation to add value to our cocoa to export to China? Imagine if the Chinese add chocolate products to their diet? NDC think ahead ." Forward ever; Backward never"
Nkansah 6 years ago

Weren`t you borrowing from the Chinese too? What about the 14million dollars for Veep`s residence?Does he need such a mansion when your Gov`t owed almost everybody in Ghana? To hell with you idiot!

Weren`t you borrowing from the Chinese too? What about the 14million dollars for Veep`s residence?Does he need such a mansion when your Gov`t owed almost everybody in Ghana? To hell with you idiot!
Tibaa 6 years ago

Let me get this straight. According to Mr. Know it all Bawumia, the $2bn facility will be relayed to banks in Ghana, then Ghana government will in turn borrow the money to finance the obstreperous one-district-one-factory pro ...
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Let me get this straight. According to Mr. Know it all Bawumia, the $2bn facility will be relayed to banks in Ghana, then Ghana government will in turn borrow the money to finance the obstreperous one-district-one-factory project, then the government will pay interest over the loans to the banks in Ghana, then the banks in Ghana will in turn pay the Chinese the interest over the loans. That means, the people of Ghana will be paying double interest: one to the banks in Ghana, and the other to the Chinese.

This is the most convoluted financial trickery in the history of Ghana.

Will continue to weep for Ghana
Kwabena Anane 6 years ago

GO ON We as Ghanaians must understand the MP because the NDC is afraid that if the money materialises that will spell doom for the NDC.
The minority should have waited for the details of transaction to be laid before them a ...
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GO ON We as Ghanaians must understand the MP because the NDC is afraid that if the money materialises that will spell doom for the NDC.
The minority should have waited for the details of transaction to be laid before them at Parliament before giving theories,
In any legal transaction you get what you bargain for so the NDC were not smart and that is why the Chinese could dribble them on the $3.0 billion loan.
I can see a lot of creativity in the way the NPP is handling the governance process and that is why the NDC is dazzled.
Common sense tells you that you use what you want to get what you need. We cannot sit down on natural resources and wallow in abject poverty as a result of bad leadership.
Nana Akuffo Addo, Bawumiah, Ken Ofori- Attah and the economic Management Team go on, we are behind you.
Don't listen to the economic short-sighted NDC party.
I don't think the NPP will create, loot and share to quote the supreme Court judge.
good magic 6 years ago

Indian spiritualist in Ghana master of the night0244908520 healing of HIV black money rituals healing power for church

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Amidini 6 years ago

Loot and share npp govt. it is indeed reckless

Loot and share npp govt. it is indeed reckless

Bawumia must be stopped from reckless borrowing - MP

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