Controversy erupts over Akufo-Addo's alleged denial of Mahama's presidential entitlements

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  • K 2 months ago

    Was it not this same John Mahama who said during his campaign that he was going to abolish Ex-gratia?He needs to be consistent he can't be playing with the minds of Ghanaians. After enjoying it for 24yrs I think it is enough ...
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  • Man pass Man 2 months ago

    @K make sensible submissions. Cancelling ex-gratia is different from former president's entitlement. Sometimes it's good we behave like the real Ghanaians we are than thinking in party lines which breed hatred. How can a form ...
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  • Rex 2 months ago

    That is how karma works, he never in his wildest dream ever anticipated that he will ever become an ex president directly under the same very person he was denying him his rights and entitlements. But Mahama that I know would ...
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  • Jesus Loves You 2 months ago

    Jesus died on Cross as atonement for our sins. Jesus has opened his arms to receive you now. The Kingdom of God is within your reach. Don't miss this opportunity. The alternative is everlasting punishment. Just accept Jesus C ...
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  • Please ask white jesus 2 months ago

    To do something about galamsey, corruption, and the lack of basic services for his “children.” Asking for a friend thanks!

  • OSABARIMA MENSA 2 months ago

    Why should the good people of Ghana provide the Airbus thief with a residence? No ex USA president nor ex British prime minister has been provided with a residence after leaving office. Ex president Kuffour did not ask for a ...
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  • Kk 2 months ago

    If you don't have facts, don't speak to the issue just because you have the platform. Who told you Kuffour hasn't been given official residence

  • Kwaku 2 months ago

    Foolish guy. You hide behind such platform like this to peddle falsehood. Go and face Mahama yourself and accuse him accordingly and you will see your smoothness level. He will sue you in court and even if you are sold, the ...
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  • No more NPP 2 months ago

    U do me l do

  • Stephano 2 months ago

    I'll hate Mahama if he doesn't reciprocate the same treatment to that mother serpent of corruption. After having looted destrutively for 8 years, does Akufo Addo deserves anything from the state?

  • Pope Innocent 2 months ago

    What was really the position of JDM - a former president or a flag bearer of a party? Former presidents JJ Rawlings and JA Kuffuor never contested to be presidents again, so they were really ex-presidents! I need to be educat ...
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  • Rex 2 months ago

    Are you being real or tell me you are just playing,? Does your trying to get married again takes away ur status of being a divorcee? He was being addressed as ex president Mahama, because he was an ex president, whatever he ...
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  • SAEED OSMAN 2 months ago

    It is a simple case of AN EYE FOR AN EYE, whatever treatment they gave you, you give them back the same thing. To them it was the best treatment they gave you. since they also deserve the best, give them the same treatment.

  • Kk 2 months ago

    How does a country pay an ex President who is also an opposition leader?

  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 2 months ago

    There is no opposition leader in our system of government. There is House majority leader and there is House minority leader. A former president has no constitutional position. That said, I think former Presidents should l ...
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  • Nkonim 2 months ago

    @Rex, you are just a fool with hollow and substandard anology

  • Kwaku 2 months ago

    You seem to be and educated idiot. Until Mahama is sworn in on Jamuary 7, 2025, he remains a former president. For 8 good years Akufo-Addo neglected John Mahama. He has denied him of all his entitlements except his pension. H ...
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  • Oheneba Dida 2 months ago

    But Kuffour stole Ghana money and built a home to Peduase lodge which is a retreat center for presidents...if not a thief, what else?

  • Obuobisa 2 months ago

    Do you remember what happened to kuffour's office? Was kuffour given any residence. Let's talk about how the economy/cost of living will get better instead of these non-issue.

  • jon 2 months ago

    Gimiiiiii. Entitlement is not exgratia

  • Abass 2 months ago

    Jon, relax it's another NPP fool soldiers trick to divert topic. If the headline on social media doesn't favour Akuffo Addo, NPP member, and the party itself, foot soldiers try to change public comment. When they realised the ...
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  • Osei Manu 2 months ago

    Be consistent and don't just start making hate speech against Mahama. Let Mahama act before you react. Meanwhile, Mahama deserves to receive his entitlement for his first term as president which Nana Addo is denying him uncon ...
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  • Nana 2 months ago

    Mahama did same to Kuffour. Besides, looking at the millions he spent on campaigning he looted more than enough to take care of himself

  • Abass 2 months ago

    Nana, you bloody liar and a child of hardened criminals. John Mahama did not do that to Kuffour neither he looted the country. Your comment is equalization tactics to paint John Mahama bad but it won't work

  • DotCom 2 months ago

    @Nana
    You have no intelligence to see things accurately. Your comments are like a child whose toy has been taken away from him. Mahama never treated the thief Kuffour that way indeed, he made sure Kuffour got all what he des ...
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  • Kwaku 2 months ago

    Shame on you, you fool. Always peddling falsehood.

  • Doris Dey 2 months ago

    Your mouth like big bucket, when did he enjoyed for 24yrs? Sometimes I wonder how some of you your brain works. Where is the inconsistency here. He said he will will amend the constitution and cancel the exgratia when he come ...
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    Worship and pray today but know that It would be 2025 in a bit. Has the celebrations(good as it feels) wiped away your financial sorrows? Nah, it's still there until you take positive action. Take advantage of our December di ...
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  • Kwasi 2 months ago

    Another ponnzi scheme being boldly advertised for block heads to go searching!!!

  • MoonGod 2 months ago

    no need for fa ma nyame. Show him where power lies

  • K 2 months ago

    How do you understand ex-gratia and entitlement?
    Let's be informed about issues before we make commitments that would expose our ignorance

  • BANKRUPT GHANA'S ECONOMY MUST CEASE TO BE OPERATED LIKE A PONZI SCHEME. WHAT YOU PUT IN MUST EQUAL OR EXCEED WHAT YOU GET OUT. 2 months ago

    BANKRUPT GHANA'S ECONOMY MUST CEASE TO BE OPERATED LIKE A PONZI SCHEME.

    WHAT YOU PUT IN MUST EQUAL OR EXCEED WHAT YOU GET OUT.

    THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY GHANAIAN FOOLS, AND THIS GUY IS ONE OF THOSE NINCOMPOOPS. THAT'S WHY ...
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  • No more NPP 2 months ago

    We hear what you are saying

  • Yaw Yeboah 2 months ago

    Ghana is a poor under developed country that has had to seek IMF bailouts twice in the past 8 years. Ex Gratia payments & entitlements for former Presidents & other public servants should be scrapped.

  • GHANA'S PRESIDENTS ARE TOO IRRESPONSIBLE AND CORRUPT TO BE DESERVING OF THE PROTECTIONS AFFORDED BY THAT INDEMNITY CLAUSE. 2 months ago

    GHANA'S FRAUDULENT PRESIDENTS ARE NOT ABOVE GHANA'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE LAWS SO THE CONSTITUTIONAL INDEMNITY CLAUSE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.

    IT MUST BE EXPUNGED FROM THAT FRAUDULENT CONSTITUTION WHICH IS PACKED WITH FRAUDULENT C ...
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  • Willie 2 months ago

    Masa, be wise and a little bit of intelligence will make a huge difference in your comment. Were they talking about his ex-gratia or his entitlement. Wake Up.

  • Stephano 2 months ago

    Did you even read the text at all? You just get up from your bed and talked nonsense?

  • Now Now 2 months ago

    Akufo has already worked out all that. What he has made in office reduces those benefits to chicken feed

  • Ama 2 months ago

    Akuffo Addo enjoyed the best as a kid he doesn't need any enjoyment again in his old age.Brokeman John Mahama is a threat to our finance bcoz he did not see money as a kid.He wants to enjoy in his old age.

  • Joe Pike 2 months ago

    Fool. Mahama dad was a minister u der Nkrumah. Mahama has more money than Nana if you dont know

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 2 months ago

    And besides Politics, what other work has Mahama done in life? Yes, and according to Maame Akua Donkor, Mahama knows something about the death of Mills. She said this on National television and many of us saw and heard what s ...
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  • Kwasi 2 months ago

    The man is a commercial farmer oo, madam Empty Head Know-it-All. Your line of thinking is very bizarre. Is it a family curse?

  • Awudsum 2 months ago

    But you know that President Akufo Addo doesn’t need this. He is not as greedy as the incoming one.

  • Game Changer 2 months ago

    Yes we know the akyem sakawa mafia have looted a lot to take care of their generation for the next century. They have created pseudo companies like SML, Kelni GVG, Hubtel etc as conduit to syphon public funds for years. Akufo ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 2 months ago

    What about Mahama with his many scandals including that of the Aircraft. Yes, we also remember what his excellency Efo Jeremiah John Rawlings, Boakye Djan and Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and their children? Where are our Fifty C ...
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  • Kwasi 2 months ago

    This NPP's loss dey pain you papa!! If you want o know about your 50 cenis notes assuming you had one, ask Kuffour why the Ghana cenis notes with indeces A to C came out only in 2010. Find out from him when we started reading ...
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  • Osei Manu 2 months ago

    If Nana is not greedy, Ghanaians will not sack him and bring Mahama again.

  • Castro 2 months ago

    Akyem mafias wahala

  • Poor heading 2 months ago

    Ghanaweb, find a way to get better titles for some of your articles. This is very poor. On the substantive issue. We all know they don’t live and need these emoluments. They’ve made so much money for themselves

  • Achakanapaya 2 months ago

    Same yard stick must be use ooh.
    But Akuffo Addo has stolen Alot from Ghana, so he won't even care.
    Ghanaian's don't forget Akuffo Addo is the mother serpent of corruptions in the whole world. Very evil demolic wicked mind ...
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  • Truth 2 months ago

    The npp govt if is true the you guys didn't do well at all...you were petty and vindictive...we all suffered under this npp govt. It was an irresponsible govt.. failed to take accountability of anything as if they were angels ...
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  • Raymond 2 months ago

    An eye for an eye. He who has EARS........

  • HILL 2 months ago

    These emolument issue should be scrapped.
    Teachers, nurses, farmers, doctors, drivers etc pay light, water, rents bills etc. Y should politicians get away with loots and also get these emoluments.
    We want an equal society f ...
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  • Kwam 2 months ago

    Hmm very unfortunate, but this policy of proving office accommodation and other benefits to the Ex Presidents must be looked at again, because if the practice continues by100yrs in constitutional rule all public lands within ...
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  • Osei Manu 2 months ago

    100 years is too long, I see it by 50 years.

  • Stone 2 months ago

    This is not tit for tat. Akuffo Addo refused to pay JM his entitlement so JM should continue with what Akuffo Addo started. JM should also refuse to pay both Akuffo Addo and Bawumia their entitlements. Simple. What's good for ...
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  • Osei Manu 2 months ago

    I pray that Mahama cancels the house and office purchase for our ex presidents. Mahama deserves it in his first term but in his second term the Constitution must be amended to scrap it. Nana has not provided Mahama his benefi ...
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  • Governor 2 months ago

    Akufo addo is aboa and can't think straight. He is just dump

  • Albert 2 months ago

    Let's use the denial as an opportunity to scrap it altogether. Use the expense to provide infrastructure for SHS

  • World 2 months ago

    Ndc party leaders and lies creat and loot have just started Ghanaians will see for themselves hop mahama have a good heart,stand firm against his brigade of creat and loot now they have started mahama didn’t get paid under ...
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  • Sam Assensoh 2 months ago

    Please did Constitution catet for ex president who decide to return for another campaign to be president?

  • Kwasi 2 months ago

    A former president is a former president!!

  • Gen 2 months ago

    Tit 4 Tat. Massa if Mahama comes in with this Father for all attitude me ago vote against NDC in 2028 God willin

  • Ayeetey..................Osu 2 months ago

    Former presidents don't contest elections again they become national monuments.

    How would you describe Mshama.Ex president or Presidential candidate.The same constitution as description for both.

    President Kofour and Pr ...
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  • Owens 2 months ago

    It seems John Mahama's promise of resetting the country for the better is at variance with the aspirational goals of some of the leadership of the party . Some of the leaders are happy because it's time for them to eat big. ...
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  • CJ 2 months ago

    One good turn deserves another. What is good for the goose is equally good for the gander. Nana Addo will not be allowed to pay himself before leaving office. The Ghc60 million sent to the castle last week will be accounted f ...
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  • Ayeetey..................Osu 2 months ago

    Kuffour gave Rawling Monument for 6years
    Mills & Mahsma refuse predidrnt Kuffour for 8ys
    Nana addo
    Gave Mahama & Kuffour for 8years

    Nana gave Lordina salary for 8years
    Nana paid his wife and vice wife for 5years till ...
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  • Yakubu 2 months ago

    @Ayeetey…See how u are struggling with ur spellings. Very indicative of incompetence as ur concert man Bawumia. Take ur time and intelligently articulate ur points rather than being fueled with emotions to put any rubbish o ...
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  • Mr. Good 2 months ago

    Aryitey, you are right.
    Ghanaians aren't truthful.

  • Yankey 2 months ago

    The slogan of resetting the country for the better is just drawing the wool over the eyes of the gullible ones. We have a huge debt as country, which will be a big albatross for the future generations but we are not debating ...
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  • Ebenezer 2 months ago

    And so what?
    This same Mahama failed to pay workers salaries under the guise the of 3 month salary arrears payment policy

  • FACTS CHECK 2 months ago

    Akufo Addo is a demonic dwarf

  • Kwabena Gyamfi 2 months ago

    It you would not accept and congratulate your opponent who had won the competitive election fairly how can you expect to be accorded the niceties you crave for?

  • Kwasi 2 months ago

    Was that the condition in the constitution? Is it the case that if you found the walls of a man's house broken, you can defecate in his compound without commiting any offence?

  • Nana should no be given a peswas 2 months ago

    Leave him empty, the same way.

  • MoonGod 2 months ago

    pay him back squarely and treat him more shabbily

  • Enyo 2 months ago

    Well, the man wanted the residence reserved for VPs or nothing else!! Height of greediness, btw why do Presidents and VPs deserve all these material things at the expense of the ordinary Ghanaian all in the name of corruption ...
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  • Alafia-Walewale Witch Camp 2 months ago

    Upon all the money they still as a President and government officials, still they fight for entitlements to enrich their families as if we forced them to rule us

  • Alhaji Alhaji 2 months ago

    Where then did the fmr President and now incoming President get all the money he has been throwing around for the past 8 years including the lavish campaign he executed with the millions of dollars.In any case was it not the ...
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  • Kayeh 2 months ago

    This is not the time to bring back this memories. Wait for Mr Mahama to be officially sworn in.But i don't think humble Mr Mahama will retaliate.

  • Kwaky 2 months ago

    The NDC foolishness continues. Setting a pretext to refuse Nana Addo his due.Go ahead pay him nothing Mahama changed from PRO in Japan Embassy to richest financer of NDC.No one questions the source of his wealth. Time will t ...
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  • Yakubu 2 months ago

    Please do the same to him and his aplanke. This is a clear case of a tooth for a tooth. What at all is wrong with this short man????
    On the 7th he needs to be given some lashes

  • NANA 2 months ago

    Mr Akuffo Addo has saved and invested enough money in his family to take care of himself until his darth.

  • Ghana Money. 2 months ago

    This should be seen as the beginning of scrapping those goodies for former Presidents.
    They must live in their own houses and pay their bills like any Ghanaians.

  • Asonaba asiedu 2 months ago

    A lawless lawyer president!!

  • Richard 2 months ago

    We should do away with all these nonsensical entitlements. In the advanced industrialized countries (with massive financial resources) leaders buy their own homes when they leave office. The only things provided by the state ...
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  • Asonaba asiedu 2 months ago

    You're right Richard, but as long as it's the law, it must be applied.

  • Shon 2 months ago

    We are doing them same pls , Do you guys forgotten what mr Guy porpor did to President Rawlings?

  • Nana Akua Adobea 2 months ago

    Nkwaseasem. Such entitlements must stop. Obama lives in his own house.

  • Kk 2 months ago

    Does the constitution says ex presidents who becomes opposition leaders be paid from hard earned workers taxes??

  • Joseph Frempong 2 months ago

    Waw!!!
    Akuffo Aboa should be given the same treatment.
    Akyem sakawa idiot.
    God will punish you very well for sinking our beloved country Ghana.

  • Greedy bastard Mahama is just coming to continue his loot 2 months ago

    The greedy bastard has started. Foolish shallow mind Ghanaians would experience the real pains.

  • Ato 2 months ago

    Recruitment is still going on at Ankaful. Taking money from them before giving them appointment Letters. God will Punish all those collecting money from people before giving them appointment Letters. Collecting 25 Thousand t ...
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  • Marcus Adepaye 2 months ago

    This NDC hooligans should keep quiet over this nonsense!!! They can also choose not to pay Akuffo Addo's if they so desire!! Have they forgotten they started this nonsense!!?? What did they do to Kufour when he left office??? ...
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  • Time to investigate state money paid to Akyemmanhene 2 months ago

    Investigates Audits and demands to refunds state money paid unduly to Akyemhene, Now

  • Our Founder of our Republic Banned OutLaw Ofori Pannin 2 months ago

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  • Willie 2 months ago

    You don't deliberately turn a blind eye on your responsibilities for 8 good years and you same person come back to say it's regrettable. Very very bad. This Akuffo Addo and his people did everything possible to break the form ...
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  • ROGUE LAWYER 2 months ago

    This give mahatma the grace opportunity as the best person to cancel article 71 office holders.
    The ex-preisender should be paid his full salaries , and he the ex-president should use his salary to cater for his or her ne ...
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  • Oboy Santana 2 months ago

    So Madam Mogtari supported Mr Mahama to be given as part of his ex-gratia the Vice President's official residence upon leaving office in 2017? GREED!

  • Silver 2 months ago

    This man's complaints are becoming too many. He was voted in to find solutions to problems. He's making himself irrelevant so sooner as a problem solver. If he sees himself incompetent to his new found position, it's not too ...
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  • John 2 months ago

    Stop this nonsense and let Ghanaians think of our peace ok.After Ghanaians voted for Mahama, NDC still go ahead and destroyed properties and steal.Just disruption of our peace. Go to social media and seach, Mahama preside ...
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  • Col. James Obuor 2 months ago

    Nana Addo is a very wicked person; that’s why he led this country to a terrible mess, both economic and political. He amassed wealth indiscriminately, even his daughters amassed wealth. His lieutenants, the questionable cou ...
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  • Dboyy 2 months ago

    It’s sad he was treated this way but I strongly believe the wealth Mahama and his aids acquired durian thier President era was enough to cater for the things they are making noise about. Kuffour still makes noise of non pay ...
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  • Emmanuel 2 months ago

    Why now? Babies with sharp teeth at work again.

  • Ashanti 2 months ago

    Nana Addo should not be allowed to use airport vip area. Same treatment he melted out to Jerry John Rawlings when he was Attorney General should be melted out to him.

    Wicked president now ex