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Ex-president Kufuor in big rice business

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  • DUMBASS MAMAHA 9 years ago

    This shd be blown on all the news media for the world to know

  • ELINAM 9 years ago

    So what K4 really do to earn World Food Organization, a UN - Rome organization ambassador agric matters?
    To import with millions of dollars for quick profits and starve your own country's investment in agriculture and abili ...
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  • ELINAM 9 years ago

    If this effort can steer us away from importation, the country could save that $400M for higher education in science and agric.

  • THE COMPUTER DOCTOR - CHARLOTTE, NC, 9 years ago

    I'm not sure exactly what the writer hoped to get from this publication. And I wouldn't even ask the authenticity of the information presented. Did he want President Kuffour to end up like Dr Hilla Lihmahm (may his soul res ...
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  • PEPPER 9 years ago

    THIS SAME KUFUOR ENCOURAGED RICE IMPORT DURIS HIS TIME ! INSTED IF BRINGING RICS MILLING MACHINES FROM CHINA, HE MADE "IMPORT DUTY FREE" AND OPENED THE DOOR TO THE LEBANSES,SERIANS,INDIANS etc. TO PROFIT BILLIONS AND TRILLION ...
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  • KB,LONDON 9 years ago

    Not sure if anyone noticed the trend-that NDC takes the country to HIPC everytime. What a bunch Of useless thieves.

  • read 9 years ago

    Yes, Satan too says prayers for the sick-but would kill you the next minute.
    "Who are you fooling? I have no problem with Pres Kuffuor planting, have resting and marketing rice in Ghana. My problem is that Hippocrates shoul ...
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  • KB,LONDON 9 years ago

    Those guys were convicted for defrauding the state. How much of taxpayers money did they invest and how many bags of rice did they harvest? NDC? IRK! Woyome, Akomfem, Gosh! This is K4's private project so back off. The residu ...
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  • Kojo Bonsu 9 years ago

    Who are you fooling? I have no problem with Pres Kuffuor planting, have resting and marketing rice in Ghana. My problem is that Hippocrates should be called out in our body politics. Did Kuffour not jail Kwame Peprah, Ibrahim ...
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  • Adanko 9 years ago

    This is the type of men Ghana needs to steer our affairs. And not foolish people like mahama who will throw our monies away. Bravo Mr. Agyekum. You are the best.

  • Kokotako 9 years ago

    Your brand of a wise man! Where was his rice growing ideas when he was the President?

  • Big mouth 9 years ago

    He was fixing the mess JJ left behind. Ghanaians with short memories. Nigeria government donated Cars to the Police, their uniform and shoes were in a very bad shape. We we're turn to orphans, we lost our sense of Nationalism ...
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  • PEARL 9 years ago

    HOW POSSIBLE?! THIS MAN KILLED THE AVEYIME RICE PROJECT THAT WAS TO MAKE GHANA SELF-SUFFICIENT IN RICE PRODUCTION BY 2006 AND WITH HIS GANG, TURNED GHANA INTO THE 2ND BIGGEST RICE IMPORTER IN WEST AFRICA. NIB IS STILL TRYING ...
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  • Poku 9 years ago

    Action not words!

  • EX PRESIDENT 9 years ago

    With all his PPP projects why did he not do this when in power...Guy is totally irrelevant and opportunistic

  • Rosa Mensah 9 years ago

    Well Done President Kufuor. Imports are killing the value of our cedi and impoverishing Ghanaians.

  • Financial Freedom 9 years ago

    Please add human capacity building to your programs

  • SIMON 9 years ago

    THIS IS WHAT GHANA NEED AND STEALING FROM THE POOR INCLUDING THE REST OF AFRICA. NO MONEY STOLEN MATCHES THIS GREAT VISION FOR GHANA AND AFRICA GOOD THINKERS IS WAHT GHANA NEED TO CHANNEL RESOURCES FOR BETTER TOMORROW FOR HIG ...
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  • kkp 9 years ago

    After stealing our money, you are throwing dust into our eyes

  • SHAKARA 9 years ago

    K4 SHOULD BE GIVEN ALL THE ENCOURAGEMENT HE NEEDS IN THIS PROJECT. HE WILL PUMP ALL THE STOLEN MONEY INTO THIS PROJECT.

  • kofi 9 years ago

    No my brother ... Not all the stolen money but 0.5% of it...

  • Walewale boy 9 years ago

    It is not a secret that if you go to Walewale today my illiterate father will show you how to grow and harvest rice 2x a year! Rice was farmed at Nasia by the Japanese (NIPAKOI. Ghanaian governments and administrators know th ...
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  • Kodjo 9 years ago

    Better Ghana agenda in motion??!!!

  • Nii 9 years ago

    If is strange that some ghanaians will support a party of thieves who have stolen billions of dollars and increased the national debts dating from K nkrumah to Kuffior @ $5.5b to $27b with nothing to show for. Ghanaians ask y ...
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  • Kojo 9 years ago

    JJ please you to do some thing for Ghana.

  • ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

    THIS IA WHAT NPP THINKING IS. POLICY INITIATIVES THAT ARE MEGA, PRACTICAL, ACHIEVABLE AND THINKS OF THE MASSES TO BENEFIT, AS WELL AS NATIONS CLOSE TO US IN OUR REGION AND EVEN CONTINENTAL. THIS IS NOT A "YENTIE OBIAA" INITIA ...
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  • DENTE 9 years ago

    K4 A CREEP WHO STOLE OUR MONEY

  • WOFA YAW 9 years ago

    I THINK WE SHOULD INSTALL NANA K4 AND HIS BUSIA IDEALOGIST IN POWER TO LET US ENJOY REAL GHANA.WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS ALL WAIST OF TIME.WE GOT NOTHING TO REMEMBER THE NDCS

  • Mr. Never 9 years ago

    Hmmm!!!!
    The stone the builders rejected, now is the head of the corner.

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    The only benefit is that people are going to get to buy rice from a locale. All the profit is going to go to Kufour and his family. The state will benefit less

  • DB 9 years ago

    You don't even understand the import of the article. Oh "Whatever", Poor you,commenting on issues beyoud your level of reasoning.

  • Paa Kwesi 9 years ago

    So what.
    If you have any proof of corruption go to courtor give information to police or BNI to begin investigationand follow up with prosecution. We are witnessesto what was said about the fomer speaker of parliament Justic ...
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  • Concerned 9 years ago

    So why did Rawlings kill this man of deeds. Why is rawlings walking around. Why is rawlings not in jail

  • JOSUAH 9 years ago

    GOD BLESS PURE VISIONARY LEADER, THIS IS WHAT GHANA NEED

  • Calculus 9 years ago

    The evil, visionless NDC Government will make sure this laudable n noble idea is nibbed in the bud. Until Mahama is voted out na lie Mr K4. Follow their comments to see.

  • agyeman 9 years ago

    JAK this a good initiative but don't put too many book people on the board. No suit wearing directors but rather field dressed persons so that the youth will be motivated to join the project. Djan Baffour looks ok but I think ...
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  • Victor A. Young 9 years ago

    Thank you so much, Opanin-pa and Oman-ba pa J.A. Kuffour for your grea vision. You did so much for mother Ghana, yet the NDC tried in many ways to rubbish your noble achievements for Ghana. The fact is that, light will always ...
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  • JOE QUARCOO. TEXAS USA 9 years ago

    PATHETIC, AFTER WASTING OUR HARD EARNEED DOLLARS TO IMPORT RICE WHILST MACHINERY WAS GOING WASTE AT AVEYIME, HE HAS NOW REASONED THAT IT WAS A BAD THING HE DIDAND NOW WANT TO GO INTO RICE PRODUCTION? POOR )4 AND NPP

  • Samuel Asante 9 years ago

    Important personalities should go into farming to encourage the rich in Ghana to go into the farming business. We all know that in the advanced countries its the rich folks who go into farming. Good job Mr ex President. I wil ...
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  • mr amin 9 years ago

    Kufour, the best president ever. take it or leave it.

  • Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago

    If JA Kufuor who was dead broke ( I mean penniless) before he became president of Ghana, and if in 5 years (after his 8 years presidency) he tells Ghanaians that his foundation is worth $400 millions, then we Ghanaians have e ...
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