tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71467135217461690512012-02-01T11:13:00.012ZGhana PunditGHANA PUNDIT IS A TALKING SHOP FOR INSIGHT ANALYSIS OF ISSUES IN GHANAGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.comBlogger34401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-70447457816190956252012-02-01T11:12:00.001Z2012-02-01T11:13:00.020ZA-G ordered Woyome payment; Duffuor tells Mills
Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Finance and Economic Planning Minister.
In the wake of the ongoing controversy surrounding ‘the Woyome judgment debt payment saga’, The New Crusading GUIDE has intercepted a document which indicates that the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning was virtually ‘pressurized’ by the Attorney General (AG) in a letter dated April 29, 2010, to pay Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome “Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-18193231097574525872012-02-01T10:51:00.002Z2012-02-01T10:51:38.887ZWoyomegate: Letter from Betty Mould to Dr. Duffour on 29th April, 2010
The Hon. Minister
Minister of Finance & Economic Planning
Ministries, Accra
Attn: Dr. Kwabena Duffour
SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS INVOLVING THE REHABILITATION OF THE OHENE DJAN, BABA YARA AND EL WAK SPORTS STADIA This is in response to your letter dated 12th April, 2009.
In that letter, you stated that Austro-Invest by its letter dated 16th February 2010 indicated that it is prepared to accept one Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-10882371175803367812012-02-01T10:25:00.001Z2012-02-01T10:30:11.600ZWoyomegate: Did Dr. Duffour's letter to Mills expose, implicate Betty-Mould?
Dr. Kwabena Duffour
REPORT ON PAYMENT OF JUDGEMENT DEBT TO MR. ALFRED AGBESI WOYOME
*1: I refer to your letter on the above subject matter dated December 15, 2011.
*2: Available records show that Government in conjunction with the
Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the Ghana 2008 Football tournament advertised for Expressions of Interest in year 2005. The tender was to be awarded on Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-38664651916147670582012-02-01T04:50:00.000Z2012-02-01T04:50:01.901ZDUFFUOR WARNED BETTY …Over Fraudulent Woyome payment
From Sebastian R. Freiku, Kumasi
Dr. Kwabena DuffourTHE CHRONICLE has sighted a document emanating from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, in which the Sector Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor asked the then Attorney General and Minister for Justice to do due diligence in the authorization of the payment of 1,106,470,587.00 Euros to Alfred Agbesi Woyome.The six-paragraph caution letterGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-53162841420692077372012-02-01T04:29:00.000Z2012-02-01T04:29:23.264ZThe Law, the People and the Republic: The importance of ethics in a functioning democracy The last few months have been colored by events in the beloved republic of Ghana which demonstrate how ethically challenged we are as a nation. There is no perfect nation but when problems occur as they invariably do, in most places it is understood that the laws of the land simply go into effect without fear or favor. That is, no single person is bigger than the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-47072100768686359942012-01-28T01:37:00.000Z2012-01-28T01:37:21.353ZCorruption scandal shakes Vatican as internal letters leaked
Pope Benedict XVI
The Vatican was shaken by a corruption scandal Thursday after an Italian television investigation said a former top official had been transferred against his will after complaining about irregularities in awarding contracts.
The show "The Untouchables" on the respected private television network La 7 Wednesday night showed what it said were several letters that Archbishop Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-27879323997294685902012-01-26T06:34:00.001Z2012-01-26T06:40:14.286ZTullow Oil, Sunderland FC launch ‘Invest In Africa’ initiative
Tullow Oil in collaboration with UK-based Sunderland Football Club has launched a new business initiative dubbed “Invest in Africa” to attract and facilitate further investments in the continent.
The initiative is intended to promote Africa’s investment opportunities to the international business community through football, and encourage long-term investment across the continent to help Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-29386080209967968322012-01-26T06:28:00.000Z2012-01-26T06:28:52.974ZTullow Oil launches $6 million Scholarship Scheme
Tullow Oil has launched a scholarship scheme worth more than $6million to support 110 young scholars from nine developing countries including 50 from Ghana.
The Tullow Group Scholarship Scheme would benefit university graduates with second class upper or first class degrees, and HND holders with distinction drawn from Ghana, Uganda, Gabon, Cote D’Ivoire, Kenya, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-28163938253422713822012-01-25T17:12:00.000Z2012-01-25T17:12:48.708ZAllotey Jacobs: Woyome scandal stinks, it’s an albatross on our neckCentral Regional Communication Director of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, says the Woyome scandal is an albatross on the neck of government.Describing the controversial payment of GHS58 million judgment debt to the NDC financier as stinking, Mr Jacobs admitted: “It has become an albatross on our neck as a party and as a government…”He was, however, quick toGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-75704117865449807422012-01-25T16:53:00.000Z2012-01-25T16:53:26.790Z
A leading member of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and a public interest lawyer, Sam Pee Yaley, has admonished all “true” members of the party to stay off the controversial Wayome judgement debt scandal.
He said members and supporters of the party should not necessarily have to back Albert Agbesi Woyome because he is supposedly a member of the NDC.
The businessman and NDC Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-73709387037974277742012-01-25T16:44:00.000Z2012-01-25T16:44:30.892ZTrue NDC members should back off Woyome saga – Sam Pee YarleyA leading member of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and a public interest lawyer, Sam Pee Yaley, has admonished all “true” members of the party to stay off the controversial Wayome judgement debt scandal.
He said members and supporters of the party should not necessarily have to back Albert Agbesi Woyome because he is supposedly a member of the NDC.
The businessman and NDC Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-55365024568458056292012-01-25T16:26:00.000Z2012-01-25T16:26:13.986ZMinisterial reshuffle: Fritz Baffour, Lee Ocran, Asaga in; John Tia, Yieleh Chireh, Cyril Neku out!
The much anticipated ministerial reshuffle has finally been done with three ministers losing their jobs.
Health Minister, Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Deputy Volta Regional Minister Cyril Neku and Information Minister John Tia have lost their jobs.
Acting Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr Benjamin Kunbour has been made the substantive AG, while Works and Housing Minister Alban Sumana Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-89234525033322431372012-01-25T16:24:00.003Z2012-01-25T16:24:42.712ZBetty Mould-Iddrisu resigns over Wayome payments saga
Education Minister, Betty Mould-Iddrisu has resigned from office over developments associated with the Alfred Woyome judgment debt saga.Mrs. Mould-Iddrisu who confirmed her decision to Joy News’ presidential correspondent, Seth Kwame Boateng, fell short of explaining her decision but promised to make it public later tomorrow (Tuesday).She presented her letter of resignation to the Office of the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-66271520363291037362012-01-25T16:23:00.002Z2012-01-25T16:23:38.805ZAnti-corruption coalition wants gov't to deal with Woyome case
Rev. Fred Deegbe
PRESS RELEASE
GOVERNMENT MUST DEMONSTRATE STRONG COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN THE WOYOME JUDGEMENT DEBT CASE
The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition has followed with concern the unfolding controversies and confusion related to the Woyome Judgement Debt Case. The confusion has been worsened by the events leading to dismissal of the now former Attorney General, Honourable Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-15845974261025800482012-01-25T16:22:00.003Z2012-01-25T16:46:28.239ZBetty Mould resigned because of poor handling of the Woyome scandal-Ayariga
Deputy Education Minister Mahama Ayariga says his former boss, Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu resigned from her post because the incessant discussions on the the controversial Woyome judgement debt payment had become an unbearable distraction.
He said the former Attorney-General who authorised the payments to Mr Woyome having entered into an agreement on the basis of which the NDC financier procured Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-59660566440028429172012-01-24T12:08:00.002Z2012-01-24T12:08:08.907ZBetty-Mould should’ve gone long ago – Ransford Gyampo
Former AG, Minister of Education, Betty-Mould Iddrisu
A Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo, says immediate past Education Minister Betty Mould Iddrisu should have resigned a long time ago.
He said given the brouhaha that followed the discovery of the controversial payment of a GHS58 million default judgment debt to National Democratic Congress (NDC) financierGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-67737435443607636102012-01-24T06:51:00.000Z2012-01-24T06:51:21.230ZGhana’s electricity thieves; total rot at ECG as uncovered by Anas Aremeyaw Anas
Eight months’ undercover investigations by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas have uncovered acute maladministration, massive corruption, pilfering and plain stealing at the Electricity Company of Ghana, losing for the country millions of Ghana Cedis.
From 5 Star hotels to telecom companies, from state institutions to educational institutions, from lush resorts to plush residential Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-71689703950108853592012-01-24T03:53:00.002Z2012-01-24T03:53:57.755ZECG to reply Anas over revelation of deep seated corruption in the company
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is preparing a response to the latest investigative piece exposing alleged acts of corruption in the company.
The documentary was put together by ace Investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
The undercover investigations reveal the indebtedness of the companies accounts for the ECG’s inability to deliver efficient service.
The defaulters include Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-5875124602963895512012-01-24T03:48:00.000Z2012-01-24T03:48:42.526ZBetty Mould-Iddrisu resigns over Wayome payments saga
Education Minister, Betty Mould-Iddrisu has resigned from office over developments associated with the Alfred Woyome judgment debt saga.Mrs. Mould-Iddrisu who confirmed her decision to Joy News’ presidential correspondent, Seth Kwame Boateng, fell short of explaining her decision but promised to make it public later tomorrow (Tuesday).She presented her letter of resignation to the Office of the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0Accra, Ghana5.555717 -0.19630600000004965.478495499999999 -0.3156965000000496 5.6329385 -0.07691550000004961tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-61747873976598408692012-01-21T07:07:00.002Z2012-01-21T07:07:56.537ZActing AG to meet with sacked Martin Amidu over Woyome case
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Acting AG, Dr Kunbour
Acting Attorney-General, Dr. Benjamin Kunbour, says he will be meeting with sacked A-G, Martin Amidu to get detailed briefing to inform his pursuit of the Alfred Woyome judgement Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-57319226254001947992012-01-21T07:06:00.002Z2012-01-21T07:06:19.722ZAttorney-General, Martin Amidu, has been sacked
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Mills’ order to AG to prove his allegations or resign a setback in fight against corruption
You have the nerve to refuse to resign; Bature spikes A-G
Calls for Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-84790684724830004082012-01-21T07:02:00.000Z2012-01-21T07:02:16.545ZGovernment, organised labour meeting ends inconclusivelyA meeting between the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Vice President Friday afternoon over the recent hikes in fuel prices is said to have ended inconclusively.
The meeting was prompted by ongoing nationwide consultations among labour unions to take a firm decision on what action to take to get government to revert to the regime of fuel subsidy.
Government had announced that the workers willGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-16903186048600428282012-01-21T06:57:00.000Z2012-01-21T06:57:16.837ZMills asks A-G to go if...
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A-G vows to retrieve ¢51m from Woyome
Martin Amidu has done nothing wrong to be sacked – P.C. Appiah Ofori
Mr. Martin Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-54125314736288065112012-01-21T06:55:00.002Z2012-01-21T06:55:36.533ZMartin Amidu: I never begged to be A-G; Kobby Fiagbe says he is even unfit for the office
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A-G, Martin Amidu
Editor of pro-NDC newspaper, the Ghanaian Lens, Mr Kobby Fiagbe, says Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr Martin Amidu is unfit for the office of A-G and must thus be sacked with immediate effect.
Mr Fiagbe said he and Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-92075557251504149812012-01-21T06:53:00.002Z2012-01-21T06:53:40.305ZKufuor: How can a ‘broke’ nation pay that sum to Woyome?
From: Ghana|Myjoyonline.com| Nathan Gadugah Last Updated: January 21, 2012, 6:30 am
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Ex-President Kufuor and President John Mills
Ex-president John Kufuor has expressed shock over monies paid as judgement debt to National Democratic Congress financier, Alfred Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-89313907003101907022012-01-17T03:57:00.002Z2012-01-17T03:57:52.316ZRawlings: Africa has failed its people
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Ghana’s former President and African Union High Representative for Somalia, Flt Lt Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-64288241397902526892012-01-17T03:43:00.002Z2012-01-17T03:43:23.216ZMartin Amidu has done nothing wrong to be sacked – P.C. Appiah Ofori
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P.C Appiah Ofori
NPP Member of Parliament for Asikuma Odoben-Brakwa in the Central Region, Paul Collins Appiah Ofori has jumped to the defense of embattled Attorney General and Minister ofGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-50822103279514282732012-01-17T03:29:00.000Z2012-01-17T03:29:02.660ZDishonest Auditor General must resign – Osei Kwame Prempeh
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Osei Kwame Prempeh
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Subsidiary Legislation has accused the Auditor General, Richard Q. Quartey, of denigrating his office and must therefore, resign.
Osei Kwame Prempeh said the conduct of Mr. Quartey in the ongoing Woyome saga is reprehensible and must be Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-22140667346679014822012-01-16T20:35:00.003Z2012-01-16T20:35:24.789ZWoyome has no contract with government - A-G reveals
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Woyome’s ‘1.2bn euro mirage’
NPP running away from Economic and Organized Crime Office
PAC asks Auditor General to amend details of Woyome payments in court
Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-88754273480067676612012-01-16T20:34:00.002Z2012-01-16T20:34:29.851ZAlfred Woyome appears before EOCO
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EOCO makes progress despite boycott
Mr Alfred Agbesi Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-22925642014948752602012-01-09T08:53:00.000Z2012-01-09T08:53:14.035ZGlobal Energy Security and Africa's rising Strategic Importance
Oil and gas are strategic commodities
Thus whether analysed from the perspective of the United States, the European Union or China, there is growing recognition that Africa is on a strategic transition to become a major geostrategic powerhouse for the maintenance of the global economic system. As a matter of fact Africa now features in the international calculus of many of the major global Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-25785074872008182032012-01-09T08:20:00.000Z2012-01-09T08:20:55.933ZOil and Gas at Ghana-Ivorian border: conflict or cooperation?Oil and gas resources at Ghana-Ivorian border: conflict or cooperation?
However, if both countries choose to war-war instead of jaw-jaw then it is important to point out to them the ramifications of having to engage in a dangerously competitive and ruthlessly conflictual exercise. For example such conflictual exercise has potential to send West Africa back to the days of low investment, low Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-3995597035208092882011-12-14T13:20:00.000Z2011-12-14T13:20:09.638ZStory on school felling trees for charcoal to buy computers attracts donations
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The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa and some other philanthropists have pledged to provide some computers to the Volta region school that is planning some drastic measures to improve ICT education.
The donation follows a Joy News report about the Adidokpoe Methodist School in Battor in the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-21768857998377323682011-12-14T12:29:00.002Z2011-12-14T12:29:59.385ZCID investigates how cocaine turned into sodium bicarbonate
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Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) says it will investigate how cocaine kept in the exhibit room at its headquarters turned into sodium bicarbonate.
This had led to the court acquitting the man who was accused of possessing the narcotic substance.
A circuit court judge has therefore directed Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-4586649619039923262011-11-24T21:56:00.002Z2011-11-24T21:56:23.866ZGhana 2012 elections: There can be politics without violence
The campaign must move away from the shallow politics that addresses none of the major problems facing the country to substantive and critical issues such as how do we connect the south of the country to the north by fast train network so that we do not have all our goods and passengers move by road thereby creating congestion and unnecessary fatal accidents. Language used by politicians and Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-57624123054948189342011-11-05T23:52:00.007Z2012-01-13T05:50:02.853ZAfrica's military must be a force for stability, peace, prosperity and positive change
Captain Moussa Camara, chief of the ruling junta whose officers massacred 157 Guineans in September 2009
A reflection of the role of the army in the past
The Arab Uprising in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya as well as the recent deadly civil war in Ivory Coast has shown the paradoxes within the Africa military establishment. The uprising and wars have brought to the to fore how the military Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-40253465827898085842011-10-26T20:24:00.000+01:002011-10-26T20:24:34.691+01:00Equatorial Guinea dictator's son 'splurged millions of impoverished country's money'The US Justice Department has accused an African dictator's son of splurging $100 million of his impoverished country's money on luxuries including a private jet, a Malibu mansion, and a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia.
Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue first moved to the United States in 1991, at the age of 23, to study English at Pepperdine University in Malibu Photo: flickrBy Nick Allen, Los Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-40583332130613983732011-10-26T19:43:00.004+01:002011-10-26T19:58:11.663+01:00Embarrassing moment playboy son of an African dictator (whose people live on £1.50 a day) has £5million in supercars seized from outside his home
Embarrassing moment playboy son of an African dictator (whose people live on £1.50 a day) has £5million in supercars seized from outside his homeBy PETER ALLENLast updated at 1:54 PM on 1st October 2011 Eleven supercars worth up to £5 million have been seized from outside an African dictator’s Paris mansion as part of a foreign aid money-laundering investigation. The vehicles, which included Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-38892672008697789092011-10-26T17:58:00.001+01:002011-10-26T17:58:51.996+01:00Equatorial Guinea’s president plundered his country’s natural resources through corruption
The son of Equatorial Guinea’s president plundered his country’s natural resources through corruption, spending more than $70 million in looted profits on a Malibu mansion, a Gulfstream jet and Michael Jackson memorabilia, the U.S. government said.In what appeared to be a concerted action, France last month seized 11 luxury sports cars belonging to Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue, a government Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-64755486766174145032011-10-26T17:35:00.001+01:002011-10-26T17:47:30.693+01:00US Seeks $70M From President Nguema’s Son
African dictator's son who became Malibu playboy after 'siphoning off $70m' from his impoverished people is set to lose his fortune (and his $3m of Jacko trinkets)Son of Equatorial Guinea's president splashed out $38.5m on private jet
Dated rapper Eve and 'hired super-yacht for $700,000 to impress her'
American-educated 39-year-old also spent $30m on Malibu mansion
Shelled out $39m on GulfstreamGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-63260569219057039162011-10-26T03:15:00.000+01:002011-10-26T03:15:30.554+01:00World Bank warns against prospect of $3bn “white elephant projects"
Mohammed Amin Adam, an Energy Expert(left), Sebastien Dessus, resident Chief Economist of the World Bank(right)The World Bank has urged Ghanaians to expand public discussions on the controversial record loan facility from China to focus more on interrogating the efficient use of the funds and the nature and scope of the projects selected in order to achieve the desired national development Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-47698392264216076502011-10-23T12:56:00.002+01:002011-10-23T12:56:59.527+01:00Libya needs a constitutional leader - Kufuor
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The former president, John Agyekum Kufuor, has called for a constitutional rule in Libya after the death of the Libyan leader Muamar Al Gaddafi.
Speaking on Badwam, a morning show on MultiTV, Mr. Kufuor expressed his condolence to the family of the Libyan leader.
He retorted that “I am not going to sayGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-43070519224205863212011-09-05T18:50:00.003+01:002011-09-05T18:50:52.247+01:00Wikileaks - Raw Notes On Ghana
http://wikileaks.org/origin/190_0.html1997 - 2010 1. Embassy was approached by two advisors to National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate John Atta-Mills, Edward Nunoo and Sylvanos Tamakloe, who told Political Office that Electoral Commission (EC) Chairman Kwadwo Afari-Gyan was being pressured by the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) to announce false results that would be supplied by the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-63689420920736183832011-09-05T18:50:00.001+01:002011-09-05T18:50:46.734+01:00Wikileaks - Raw Notes On Ghana
http://wikileaks.org/origin/190_0.html1997 - 2010 1. Embassy was approached by two advisors to National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate John Atta-Mills, Edward Nunoo and Sylvanos Tamakloe, who told Political Office that Electoral Commission (EC) Chairman Kwadwo Afari-Gyan was being pressured by the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) to announce false results that would be supplied by the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-89922327042391458932011-09-05T18:48:00.000+01:002011-09-05T18:48:29.514+01:00Wikileaks - Serious Allegations
25. Former Local Government and Rural Development Minister Charles Bintim was demoted for being ineffective and unable to account for $200,000 reportedly deposited in a personal bank account in 2005, although he was kept as a minister apparently because he is the only tribal Konkomba in Cabinet.
26. By the end of January 2006 the situation at Ghana International Airlines began to unravel. Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-70288781053905663372011-09-05T18:47:00.002+01:002011-09-05T18:47:25.941+01:00WikiLeaks: NACOB Boss Says NDC Gov't Has Failed So Far ...C O N F I D E N T I A L ACCRA 001070SIPDISEO 12958 DECL: 10/08/2019TAGS SNAR, PGOV, CVIS, XA">XA, GHSUBJECT: COUNTER NARCOTICS HEAD DENIES POLITICS AT BOARDClassified By: Charge d,Affaires Julie Furuta-Toy for reasons 1.4(b) an d (d).1. (C) SUMMARY: Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) Executive Secretary Yaw Akrasi Sarpong told Poloffs October 5 that while he is a staunch supporter of the ruling Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-27353945537819884912011-09-05T18:46:00.000+01:002011-09-05T18:46:16.729+01:00Wikileaks - Fierce fight in gov't for control of Ghana oil
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The latest release of leaked diplomatic cables by the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks has revealed some persons around the Presidency have tried to use their influence to manipulate control of the country's oil resources for their personal gain.The documents detailing correspondence between the US Embassy and Washington reveals private discussions with government aides who Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-72102306253438836082011-09-05T18:28:00.002+01:002011-09-05T18:28:54.030+01:00Kwsei Pratt speaks on "Akufo-Addo smokes wee" wikileaks claims
From: Akuamoah Boateng/Adom News/Ghana Last Updated: September 5, 2011, 11:00 am
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The Managing Editor of The Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has confirmed Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-30244398414927198892011-09-05T17:53:00.002+01:002011-09-05T17:53:30.204+01:00Wikileaks: The day Mbeki cried
September 5 2011 at 07:41am Comment on this storyINLSAFormer president Thabo MbekiA secret US document released on Wikileaks details how former president Thabo Mbeki cried before announcing his resignation, The Times reported on Monday.The document, dated September 5, 2008, detailed a meeting between deputy director-general of policy co-ordination to the presidency Vusi Gumede, analysts Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-83344140681774624002011-09-05T17:39:00.002+01:002011-09-05T17:39:50.215+01:00Wikileaks - Akufo-Addo Smokes Marijuana
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that the issue of drug use and arrogance among others are now an albatross that is getting more tightly fixed around the neck of New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as the allegations have now formally taken an international dimension. The latest to give credence to the barrage of the damning allegation of drugGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-25177078666540193692011-09-05T17:26:00.000+01:002011-09-05T17:26:04.230+01:00Wikileaks gives a peek into Francis Poku's dismissal
From: Malik Abass Daabu/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana Last Updated: September 5, 2011, 10:00 am
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Whistle-blower website, Wikileaks, has given what appears to be the clearest explanation yet to the circumstances leading to theGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-38379962082805066362011-09-05T17:20:00.000+01:002011-09-05T17:20:34.597+01:00Joe Gidisu for court over luxury Chinese BMW
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Roads Minister Joe Gidisu is considering going to court over reports he has received a luxury BMW saloon car from a Chinese construction firm working on the Achimota-Ofankor highway.
The vehicle has been widely reported as a gift which President Atta Mills has ordered him to surrender to Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-22761636137784758062011-09-05T17:19:00.000+01:002011-09-05T17:19:05.995+01:00Wikileaks: Rawlings was on drugs
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Latest publication by the International whistle blowing website wikileaks indicates ex-president Jerry John Rawlings was on drugs.
The August 31 publication also described then Finance Minister under his (Rawlings) administration as incompetent.
Titled “a close look at Ghana’s ex-president Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-24311009076817098642011-08-31T20:30:00.000+01:002011-08-31T20:30:14.946+01:00STX Boardroom Crisis: Bagbin denies fighting John Mahama
Hon Alban BagbinThe Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Alban Sumana Bagbin, has issued a statement in Accra to reinforce an earlier press release in which Vice President John Dramani Mahama denied media reports that he recently fought with the former Majority Leader over the crisis-ridden STX Housing deal. In the Statement, Hon Bagbin said: “My attention has been drawn to snatchesGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-83160423591322382792011-08-31T20:20:00.000+01:002011-08-31T20:20:06.380+01:00EC sued over biometric registerOne of the disqualified bidders to provide appropriate technology for the proposed biometric voter registration exercise has filed a suit in court to restrain the Electoral Commission from awarding the contract.The register is expected to be used for next year’s crucial presidential and parliamentary polls to check electoral fraud and remove any doubts about the authenticity of votes cast.LawyersGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-20994966900922319312011-08-31T20:15:00.001+01:002011-08-31T20:17:59.543+01:00Minister's Luxury BMW impounded by CastleBMW saloon car cost a total amount (Price + VAT) = $166,000
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Information picked by the Republic newspaper reveals how the President, John Evans Atta Mills cracked the whip on Minister Joe Gidisu, Minister for Road and Highways and Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Tongu constituency to disrupt the Minister’s fast growing taste for luxuries.The revelation, the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-32041578839491445922011-06-14T21:16:00.002+01:002011-06-14T21:25:49.440+01:00Africa: A climate war has been forced on usA climate war has been forced on Africa by the polluters in the world. Africa did not contribute to the destruction of the environment yet as the story in East Africa shows it is the one being hit the hardest. East Africa has seen one of the worst droughts in human history, a consequence of the climate war that has been forced on Africa. But since there is no justice in this world, Africa cannotGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-68765548959803145442011-05-30T00:17:00.001+01:002011-05-30T00:18:49.770+01:00BIG Corruption Scandal Under Mills: TAQA Paid $1m To Govt Officials - CEO Confesses
President Mills is he going to take action or it
will be business as usual?
In 2009, barely a year into the 4-year term of the Mills-Mahama National Democratic Congress, functionaries of the NDC allegedly received at least US$1 million dollars in bribery payments from TAQA, the United Arab Emirates based majority shareholder of the Aboadze thermal plant.
Moreover, according Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-21475514330691681272011-05-09T07:16:00.006+01:002011-05-09T12:35:45.540+01:00Ghana oil through the lens of NorwayBy Lord Aikins Adusei
Norway and Canada are two great examples of how oil could be a blessing helping a nation to turn her fortunes around. Forty years ago Norway was an impoverished Northern European country. Then in 1969 Ocean Viking an oil exploration company discovered oil and production became intensive in the 1980s. The country's leaders vowed to pull Norway from its poverty using the oil Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-27215328758567321532011-04-27T17:37:00.002+01:002011-04-27T17:37:34.566+01:00Nana Konadu campaign team denies receiving cold reception in W/R
Nana Konadu
Campaigners for former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings’ presidential ambition have denied allegations in the media that they had a cold reception in the Western Region.
The campaign team was in the region to campaign for the former first lady ahead of the July flagbearership elections of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The Enquirer Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-67837392700688751362011-04-27T17:31:00.000+01:002011-04-27T17:31:09.438+01:00AFAG exposes ‘chop-chop’ at forestry commission running into GH¢3 million
Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has accused some top board members of the Forestry Commission of awarding a contract at the cost of GH¢3 million to a company, it said, had not yet fulfilled its part of the contract.
AFAG expressed utter dismay as to why the Forestry Commission and its board, totally disregarded the laid down rules of procurementGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-28268789695163458492011-04-27T17:28:00.002+01:002011-04-27T17:28:59.501+01:00AFAG exposes ‘chop-chop’ at forestry commission running into GH¢3 million
Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has accused some top board members of the Forestry Commission of awarding a contract at the cost of GH¢3 million to a company, it said, had not yet fulfilled its part of the contract.
AFAG expressed utter dismay as to why the Forestry Commission and its board, totally disregarded the laid down rules of procurement Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-16653813151136078092011-04-27T11:45:00.000+01:002011-04-27T11:45:24.389+01:00NPP smells corruption in road, school contracts; demands probe
NPP smells corruption in road, school contracts; demands probe
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The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is demanding a probe into some road and school building contracts awarded since coming into office of the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-53985424189957042932011-04-15T19:02:00.001+01:002011-04-15T19:02:45.615+01:00Konadu is not a Kwesi Botchwey; Kofi Adams tells critics
Deputy NDC General Secretary, Kofi Adams
A Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and an aide to the Rawlingses, Mr Kofi Adams has dismissed suggestions that former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings will be thrashed by President Mills at the party's July Delegates Congress as was the case with Dr Kwesi Botchwey and Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah in Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-19935829962212412842011-04-15T17:18:00.002+01:002011-04-15T17:18:39.393+01:00We are not zombies - E/R NDC Chair tells the Rawlingses
Eastern regional Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Mr. Julius Debrah says former President Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings must be told in the face that the party is nobody’s property.
The leadership of the party in some regions have thrown their weight behind President Mills after the party's first Vice Chairperson and wife of former Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-60875069675022123912011-04-15T15:29:00.002+01:002011-04-15T15:29:54.923+01:00Konadu: I am not worried about coerced declarations for Mills
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings
Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has played down the wave of declarations and public support for President John Mills ahead of the party’s delegates conference in July to elect a flag bearer.
Mrs. Rawlings Wednesday resigned her position as a National Vice Chairman of the ruling party to enable her contest the president when nominations Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-82820431038500381222011-04-15T15:24:00.002+01:002011-04-15T15:24:48.558+01:00Gbagbo militia leader 'arrested'
The Young Patriots leader was put under UN sanctions accused of inciting attacks against UN personnel
Ivory Coast youth leader Charles Ble Goude, a key ally of deposed strongman Laurent Gbagbo, is under house arrest, a presidential spokesman says.
The BBC's John James says the spokesman confirmed the detention after rumours about Mr Goude's whereabouts.
Mr Ble Goude, known Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-74455175953961666452011-04-15T15:23:00.000+01:002011-04-15T15:23:50.486+01:00Statement: Volta Youth League throws its weight behind the president
President J.E.A. Mills
The Volta Youth League has observed with keen interest, the recent developments in the NDC that sought to question the performance of H.E. John Evans Atta Mills during his short tenure of office and his ability to lead the party to victory come 2012.
To the keen observer, the achievements of the President over the past two years in the field of health, Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-67574435991314365272011-04-03T07:20:00.000+01:002011-04-03T07:20:15.801+01:00NDC, NPP and the Ghanaian Journalist: A Critical Rebuke*By Lord Aikins Adusei
Many Ghanaians are dismayed and horror-struck at the kind of journalism being practiced in today's Ghana. There is no doubt the NDC and NPP are the two leading political parties in Ghana and to replace them with a third party is unthinkable for now. But for journalists to defend their lies, their corrupt cocaine ridden behaviours, their ill-conceived economic policies, andGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-59304355311694622802011-04-03T07:18:00.002+01:002011-04-03T07:18:42.721+01:00Sustainable energy access for Africa: a win-win solution for climate and development*By Fiona Lambe and Patricia Tella
A woman cooks using firewood Photo courtesy
Supporting developing countries to scale-up access to sustainable energy for cooking will not only bring positive effects for climate change; it will improve the health and economy of the world’s most vulnerable households. What’s more, the cost of achieving universal energy access in the coming decades is Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-15416209767754910842011-03-11T00:43:00.000Z2011-03-11T00:43:17.172ZGhana to bag $110m from sale of first crude oil
Ghana to bag $110m from sale of first crude oil
Ghana is expected to earn approximately a hundred and ten million dollars from the sale of its first share of crude oil from the Jubilee Field.
The amount is revenue expected from the lifting of GNPC’s cargo on Wednesday.
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s lifting comes after three previous consignments had been taken Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-33658911187972874512011-03-11T00:38:00.000Z2011-03-11T00:38:08.979ZAkufo-Addo: We can transform Ghana in 10 years
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party
The Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party has stated that his party is preparing a comprehensive programme of industrialization and modernization that can transform Ghana’s economy in a matter of one decade.
“What Ghana needs is a structural transformation of her economy. We cannot Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-29401145191414994652011-02-27T05:43:00.002Z2011-02-27T05:43:12.633ZSupporting Democracy in AfricaDemocracy is not just a word. It is the wheel through which both the poor and the rich are given the opportunity to influence decisions that affect their lives including education, jobs, electricity, housing, transportation, and all the freedoms known to mankind. But recent developments in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Cameroon, Gabon, Ethiopia, Gambia and Ivory indicate that achieving democracy always Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-23148505524434217502011-02-25T02:44:00.002Z2011-02-25T02:53:29.861ZFacebook activists are two steps ahead of world Intelligence Agencies
It is understatement to say that the recent revolutions and uprisings taking place in North Africa and the Middle East caught the intelligence community and their political masters off guard. The intelligence community is asking why they didn’t get to know that the poor were planning to overthrow the allies of our governments in North Africa and the Middle East. They wish they had known the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-65358097092256485162011-02-23T07:40:00.006Z2011-02-23T08:42:09.396ZLibya and the silence in US and Europe
There are report of horrendous atrocities being committed against the Libyan people by Gaddafi and his agents. While the reports make me sick it is the near-silence coming from Europe and America that rattles me. I must say without hesitation that I am deeply and horror-struck at the silent in Washington and Europe regarding the atrocities being carried out by the Libyan regime against the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-41978050894623659582011-02-22T06:44:00.000Z2011-02-22T06:44:10.849ZIt is over for Mubarak, Ben Ali and soon it will be over for GaddafiI have been following the development in north Africa. I have spent a lot of time arguing for the people to claim back their countries and I am glad the people have finally risen up to redeem their country from the autocrats.
Ben Ali, Mubarak and Gaddafi thought they were in control of their police states. They called for jet fighters, helicopter gunships, armoured carriers, water cannons, and Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-26389200311270545652011-02-09T21:05:00.000Z2011-02-09T21:05:52.711ZThe enemy within: The challenges of transformation in a corrupt society
An unemployed university graduate allegedly operating an unlicensed fruit stand in Tunis was harassed by a corrupt policeman for trying to eke out an honest living under an autocratic regime. In desperation, he set himself on fire. This suicide set off demonstrations which culminated in Ben Ali’s rapid flight from Tunis. This achievement has given birth to hope for true freedom in North Africa Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-87798630915983858382011-02-05T09:48:00.002Z2011-02-05T09:48:09.404ZCEPS and Corruption in Ghana: Where Does the Buck Stop?There are custom officers who own 13 cars and 5 houses in Koforidua. Corruption at CEPS is runs deep from the head to the bottom. The head of the commission of CEPS is corrupt. The police is corrupt. The Accountant General's department is one of the most corrupt institution in the country. Do anyone knows any institution in Ghana that is not corrupt? I am struggling to find one.Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-60112447667353518542011-02-05T08:58:00.002Z2011-02-05T09:11:05.704ZPresident Mills and the culture of Corruption in GhanaI am shocked and dismayed by the response of President Mills to the recently released Anas video in which officials at the Tema harbour were caught taking bribes and sabotaging the state in its effort to mobilise funds for the nation's development. The President's response has been (as at it has always been) to give a long lecture about how officials should behave without taking concrete action.Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-69582644641087840142011-02-05T06:39:00.001Z2011-02-05T06:43:02.066ZMills: Arrest anybody who 'trades' in my name
President J.E.A. Mills is angry at corrupt practices at the Tema Harbour
President John Mills has charged authorities at the Tema Harbour to arrest anybody who comes to transact business at the harbor in his name.
He is incensed over startling revelations of bribery and corruption uncovered by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
The investigative piece exposedGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-56899589355667634782011-02-04T07:05:00.002Z2011-02-04T07:11:25.658ZEnemies of the Nation: The dark secrets of Tema Harbour
By Anas Aremeyaw Anas
A veritable commercial beehive; the economic nerve centre of Ghana, sits on the shores of the Atlantic and overlooks the bubbling big blue sea. The sea breeze seems to have been directed purposely to produce a calming effect on the crammed and torrid atmosphere and on the bristling pace of business. The national flag, the Customs flag, and that of the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-58858828800554519112011-02-04T06:49:00.000Z2011-02-04T06:49:48.178ZGov’t vows to 'crush' “Enemies of the Nation”
Dr Kwabena Duffour, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning
The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffour has commended investigative journalists, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, for his latest expose of graft, pilfering and plain stealing going on at the Tema Port.
He has promised to “use all the necessary administrative and legal means to retrieve every pesewa Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-43323396857657271512011-02-04T06:45:00.000Z2011-02-04T06:45:26.861ZNana Konadu declares she will challenge Mills in 2012 - Daily Guide
Nana Konadu
Sixty-two-year old Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has told the Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that she wants to be a candidate for the Party’s 2012 presidential election, reports the Daily Guide newspaper.
Mrs. Rawlings is reported to have officially declared her presidential ambition at a meeting of the NDC Council of Elders held in Accra Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-84195028592765878092011-01-26T10:06:00.000Z2011-01-26T10:06:13.425ZTunisia: Opportunity for United States to Begin a New Chapter*By Lord Aikins Adusei
The events in Tunisia offer a real opportunity for United States and her European allies to take a critical look at the way they have used the so called national interests to protect autocratic regimes in the Middle East and Africa and put them on collision with the people. For decades United States of America and her European allies have openly supported the corrupt and Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-89301968433767388492011-01-26T07:50:00.002Z2011-01-26T07:50:32.149ZOver liberalization of trade, killing local industries - Participants
Wa, Jan. 25, GNA - Participants at a two-day sensitisation and information workshop, on international trade issues, have observed that, the over liberalization of the trading system in Ghana was hampering the growth of indigenous Ghanaian industries.The participants noted that foreigners had invaded the Ghanaian market with cheap and low quality products that could not be compared with Ghanaian Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-48266935887698632702011-01-22T20:18:00.000Z2011-01-22T20:18:21.966ZMills shouldn’t have signed if he didn't want war – NPP Chairman
NPP Chairman, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey says President J.E.A. Mills should not have signed the ECOWAS document on Cote d’Ivoire if he knew that military intervention was not on the cards for Ghana.
The NPP Chairman was reacting to claims from government circles that the African Mission at the United Nations (UN), Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-48614020710830351722011-01-22T20:16:00.000Z2011-01-22T20:16:49.708ZGabby: Mills' vindication letter is "desperate propaganda" piece
The Executive Director of Danquah Institute, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko, is asking President John Mills to tell Ghanaians whether or not he would pullout Ghanaian peacekeepers in Cote d’Ivoire should war break out there.
The president on January 7 told journalists that Ghana would be unable to commit troops to support a military intervention in the Ivorian crisis because the nation was Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-47316548205121680602011-01-22T20:11:00.002Z2011-01-22T20:11:59.201ZNDC wants credit for things they've not done - Ex-minister
Former Minister for Fisheries, Gladys Asmah
Former Minister for Fisheries, Mrs. Gladys Asmah has described as laughable, assertions by Deputy Minister in charge of Fisheries, Nii Amasah Namoale that the Mills' administration deserves all the credit for the current infrastructural development projects in that sector.
According to the former Minister, the NDC after failing to Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-10265311110109127422011-01-22T20:09:00.002Z2011-01-22T20:09:50.538ZAppiah Ofori: Mills only pays lip service to fight corruption
PC Appiah Ofori wants President Mills to prosecute corrupt officials
The Member of Parliament for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, PC Appiah Ofori, is furious no public official under the past and present governments has been prosecuted for corruption in spite of credible evidence of corrupt practices.
According to him, the president only pays lip service to the fight against Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-86282267654470925492011-01-22T20:08:00.000Z2011-01-22T20:08:23.829ZMills: Ghana backs ECOWAS on military action but will not contribute troops
President John Mills during his meeting with journalists at the Castle
President John Mills says he will back any decision taken by ECOWAS or AU to solve the crisis in Cote d’Ivoire even if it involves military action.
This is according to Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga who is on a day’s visit to Ghana to acquaint himself with Ghana’s official position on the troubled Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-77428027973106891992011-01-22T20:06:00.002Z2011-01-22T20:06:50.386ZMills was ‘humbly excited’ on Cote d'Ivoire ‘vindication’ – Koku
Koku Anyidoho
… this matter is a matter of national interest. Sometimes if we can move away from the politics and look at it as a national interest matter, maybe we will score better points… Koku Anyidoho, Communications Director at the Presidency
Communications Director at the Presidency, Mr. Koku Anyidoho says President John Evans Atta Mills was happy at the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-9961940120262563582011-01-05T06:09:00.003Z2011-01-05T06:13:51.502ZThe Ivorian Crisis where does Ghana stand?The government of Ghana seem confused as to what it should do regarding the impasse going on in Cote D'Ivoire between Gbagbo and Ouattara. There are news reports that the government of Ghana moving closer to endorse Gbagbo or at least accept the legitimacy of his government. When such news paper reports are subjected to further scrutiny the facts do not stand. There are no shred of truth in such Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-71696193924590312292010-12-29T07:13:00.007Z2011-01-05T06:06:37.266ZLand: The New International Strategic Asset. How Africa is losing big time
By Lord Aikins Adusei
There are credible reports that big multinational corporations like Biofuel Africa Ltd in cahoots with corrupt politicians and traditional leaders and with the backing of global financial institutions are buying large tracts of land in parts of Africa, under bizarre circumstances, displacing rural farmers, destabilising rural communities and slowly building up chaos Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-40578841186094116082010-12-26T12:42:00.003Z2010-12-29T07:11:58.507ZPower sharing: An ugly Paradigm shift in African Politics;Gbagbo must be removed by forceGbagbo must be removed by forceLord Aikins Adusei*By Lord Aikins Adusei
Dangerous precedents
The year was 2008. The countries: Kenya and Zimbabwe. The subject matter was presidential elections between the then incumbents Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and their challengers Raila Odinga and Morgan Tsvangirai respectively. Both elections had similar things in common. The Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-29984285506563059162010-12-22T14:41:00.002Z2010-12-22T14:41:21.862ZMajority kicks against proposed Petrol Development Fund
Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu
Controversial clause 17 of the Petroleum Revenue Management Bill, on Monday set Parliament apart again into voting sending the minority tumbling with 60 votes against 81.
By the decision there would not be a separate account for the petroleum revenue as proposed in the amendment that stood in the name of Mr Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the Minority Leader.Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-31026264954107593792010-12-22T14:40:00.000Z2010-12-22T14:40:20.901ZWorld Bank supports Ghana with US$38m to build capacity for oil management
World Bank (Ghana) Country Director, Ishac Diwan
The World Bank Board today approved a credit of US$38 million to the Government of Ghana for implementation of an Oil and Gas Capacity Building Project.
The Project, which has become necessary following Ghana s discovery of oil and gas in commercial quantities has two main objectives: first, to help improve public management andGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-48176976862198347802010-12-22T14:38:00.000Z2010-12-22T14:38:00.163ZGhana to avoid oil curse - says World Bank
Country Director of the World Bank for Ghana, Ishac Diwan
The World Bank says it believes Ghana can avoid the "Dutch disease" on account of established and well-managed mining and cocoa sectors as commercial oil production began on December 15, 2010.
According to the Country Director of the World Bank for Ghana, Ishac Diwan, "It's a bit of oil, not a whole lot, so it's not Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-85775747585771407982010-12-16T09:34:00.002Z2010-12-16T09:34:55.821ZWikiLeaks cables: Ghanaian police 'helped drug smugglers evade security'
African anti-narcotics operation funded with £1m from UK thwarted by corrupt officials at airport, US embassy cables say
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guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 December 2010 21.29 GMT
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Security guards on duty at Kotoka airport in Accra, Ghana. Some unidentified airport police are corrupt, according to the US embassy cables. Photograph: Tugela Ridley/AFP/Getty ImagesA Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-71448135860517074972010-12-16T09:29:00.000Z2010-12-16T09:29:30.362ZPresident Mills suspects drug traffickers in his own government?
The troubled yet troublesome Wikileaks cables rummaging nations across the globe has its snowballing damnations hitting Ghana as the Guardian goes public with a detailed account of how security operatives engaged in the fight against drug trafficking are tipping off “couriers” with information of when it is “safe” to board flights to avoid being arrested.
President John EvansGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146713521746169051.post-42894672945393883112010-12-05T16:31:00.000Z2010-12-05T16:31:09.909ZWorld leaders back Ouattara as Ivory Coast poll winner
World leaders have voiced their support for Ivory Coast opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara, saying he is the true winner of a presidential run-off.
The country's Constitutional Council has overturned results to declare President Laurent Gbagbo the winner - he is due to be sworn in shortly.
The US, UN, France and the West African bloc Ecowas have urged Mr Gbagbo to accept defeat.
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