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rvp20182:
One is security for loan - the other you want to use as currency to buy oil. They are not the same. You want to use gold now that cedis is useless.

Problemo - you dont have any gold - it's been concessioned to private sector. You want to force them to sell gold for cedis that is useless so you go around it's uselessness

You are not making sense here and you expect me not to insult you.

You stupidly said a country that recently overtake south africa as the largest gold producer has nothing. Now tell me if I made mistake calling you a mad man.

Just40:
this video is funny because all there is is tea farm which is mostly corporate farms lands owned by multinationals.. with a 1.5 billion output
When Kenya is busy importing 900,000 metric tonnes of rice

Even in kenya, the largest farm owners aren't indigenous to kenya

rvp20182:
Reduce the base insults - and maybe your verbiage can make more sense.
Mineral concession is almost standard - you get a prospective license for few yrs, then once you have proven deposit, you get a long term minning license.
There are penalties on both parties if you were to renege.
The reality is your gov sold out - and is completely at mercy of private miners - both small and big.
Botswana has done very well - and is model country for mining in Africa.
This now a middle class country that made diamonds work for them.

Ghana has mined gold since 15th century with ABSOLUTELY nothing to show for it.

As for kenya - watch this video - and come & talk

you can't be making dumb comment and don't be expected to be insulted, I won't spare you. Unless I see there exist some decorum in your writing. At least make sense a little , maybe do a little research before you reply that may limit the insult . For now , enjoy it like your normal good morning tea.

Stop repeating what I know. Not every country goes with mineral concession . It depends on the amount the country is willing to spend itself . Aramco is fully pure Saudi Arabia property and they operate on nearly oil field in saudi arabia , they are so rich that they can both do the operation and the processing all alone. Ghana that enters into it has no financial power like Saudi Arabia . If there is adequate technology and enough financial muscle , there is no need of entering into concession if it happens you suspect a deposit of any kind of minerals .

Just like said, it is not sold but rent , you can't completely by gold mining area , nobody does it. What they do is renting , so you rent a surface area , you mine for a particular period of time within stipulated time in your agreement and if there is need to continue , you renew the renting again, it is call d mining lease.

For the fact that we aren't poor like the people of turkana, that alone makes us stand out . We have used gold money to increased the welfare of people.

For kenya , it is a dead case, the gap of poor and rich keep increasing at alarming rate , it isn't the same here

rvp20182:
You're mixing two unrelated things. Gold backed cedis - and bauxite used as loan security. The former is desperation in bid to secure forex & has made things worse for cedis - the latter is okay. It's better than using farmers cocoa beans as collateral like you have done before.

they are both securities dumb kid . You used what you have to gain what you don't have .instead of using the scarce dollar for the procurement of oil, we used what we can access for it ( gold ) instead of entering into expenditure mismanagement like kenya trainline deal that ends up as burden in your country , we rather furnished china with refined bauxite and got back our infrastructure in likely terms . So it is about having an advantage. You can't trade tea and flower for such a juicy package.

Do you know Despite your country known human right activist forcing kenya by getting court injunction to disclose the china -kenya loan agreement package to everyone, your country has failed to open up til date.

rvp20182:
This verbiage dont make sense.
You cannot privatize strategic assets completely.
Botswana that has done good job in minerals owns at least 15 percent of De Beers.
You cannot own what you dont mine.
You have to wait for gold miners to sell you the gold - because you cannot mine your own gold.
So all these gold ambitions are empty talk - and that is why Cedis has gone haywire.

Dont even try to compare yourself to kenya - Kenya SOES are all over the map in both strategic and non-strategic assets.

You are an asshole, nobody privatize anything, you are only renting the surface area as an investor and your license can be expired and renew. Once you have a million dollar and shows other legal documents to mine , you will be given a rented area to mine , you mine , you pay back to govt in form of royalties and others . I don't know botswana package for private investor but I doubt bostwana can have a better juicy package than this. Instead of owing the license , we sell out the license and other form of royalties. That is more than fifty percent stakes when you add everything there in up . We have a good management team hear. We aren't short of ideas. We sell license instead of doing the capital intensive work.

The gold ambitions is already in place , Ghana refined gold deposit as increased since January when the law was passed.

Kenya has nothing to compare , even the little resources you have , you badly managed it . Checked the oil deposits in turkana , tullow oil was forced out of the deal since it lacks value. No energy company is interested in your backwater country

GeneralDae2:
I read somewhere Ghana wants to exchange gold for petrol rather than dollars due to the low dollars in reserves.

I think this is a good policy and Africans should wake up and try to find substitutes for the U.S dollars.

What do you think? @vaxx, Just40??

Gold has won where oil has failed. We are joining the forces of ending dollarization soon. We first forcefully start buying gold from our major miners in cedis instead of dollar ( the international Company got pissed off but they can only bark, they can't bite )Ghana is the largest gold producing country in africa , they are aware of it. The gold getting from here doesn't consume so much resources like that of any country ( particularly south africa) where you have to dig deeper than necessary making them loosing money and resources . So they have no other option than to succumbed.
The logic is , gold would prevent the exchange rate from directly impacting fuel or utility prices as domestic sellers would no longer need foreign exchange to import oil products. We did something of similar by signing synohdro deal with china , we exchange bauxite with infrastructure deals. They are developing high way roads , constructing bridges and about building the largest dam in the northern region ( Worth about 900 million dollars ) we are exchanging refined bauxite for this deal instead of borrowing cash.

rvp20182:
That is why your ministry of finance cannot use gold - but must go to the market - and buy it.
If I was MoF in Ghana - I would want to sit on that board - be part of operation.
There is a lot of crap that goes on there - you need to be part of the operation.
And you need to make decisions as part of company operation

Your gov priority should be to start gold and oil extraction company. You should learn from Nigeria - though NPP is raking losses - but at least they now own like 50% of their oil/gas sector - and are not completely under whims of Shell.

I think Angola owns lot more - and definitely Algeria is SOE run - State-owned national oil company Sonatrach, the largest company in Africa, owns roughly 80 percent of total hydrocarbon production in Algeria

As of now - you just wait at end of the line for royalties and taxes.

You are just an idiot , always typing hogwash, once you don't know, humbly ask. I always told you, this is not a republic of tea and flower . Govt owns nothing but control everything ( that is govt interest) no govt owns cocoa land too in Ghana, the govt rather buy from farmers and sell it on their behalf .

Ghana has a gold deposit even if at all it is not willing to go to market for it .

They are lot of government reserved area here that has not yet been sold out for private development and even the current largest gold mines ( tarkwa mines), govt owns more than 10 percent shares . And Ghana is now building her gold reserved. Gold miners must sell 20 percent of their gold refined to Ghana govt and cedis will be used to pay . It is a law in Ghana now. Every 20 percent of gold mines in Ghana belong to Ghana government. Govt buy them by law with cedis .

Paying royalties and export tax alone tells you , you indirectly govt owns it while those private company managed it for you. It is win -win situation. Bring your money , find the deposit( oil or gold ) Yourself with your resources ( you might be lucky or not ) if lucky pay royalty on it and get govt interest on it , by automatically awarding shares to govt . Gives job directly to people and indirectly. It therefore decreased govt unnecessary spending. That is logical .

rvp20182:
I am sure after next game - you'll have nothing to say about soccer. What is complicated about soccer. It's popular because it possibly the most easiest team sport.

your are always found of barbarous statement , statement from uncivilized kenya . Soccer is the most popular sport in the world because it attract the biggest investment . The advertisement side of it tell it all. Logical people put their money where there is value and not on unskillful game like running. Running is not even an exciting sport . Who cares about the kilometers you run . but in soccer, your adrenaline must pumped up (irrespective of being a player or a spectator). I wonder how running entertains you.

rvp2018:
That is very very low standard. South Korea went to semi-final and you're meeting them. They dont respect you. Remember that. Dont be overconfident they will beat you - and KQ will be there to bring you home.

Getting to quarter final in the world cup is a very low standard according to you the daunce, I am really wasting my time . I think you know nothing about football, stick to running. You might make sense

rvp2018:
I actually checked - Ghana gov own 0.01 % of Anglo_ashanti
Something is wrong in that NATION.
How did this happen??

Now they are chasing galamsy for gold to prop the cedis?

Kenya gov will never allow such strategic assets to be completely privatized.
https://www.anglogoldashanti.com/investors/shareholders/shareholder-analysis/

you didn't want a reply but forth and back argument. So I wouldn't give you the chance here but for record . Nobody really owns majority in anglo ashanti therefore it belongs to nobody. I am even a shareholder. What is wrong if govt owns nothing at all. They are paying royalty , rental surface tax , export tax and so on. This is capitalist economy

rvp2018:
Then grow some spine and improve in the next game. That is what we want to see. Not complaints.

you are incredibly daft. I only made you know , Ghana had once qualify beyond group stage . You were arguing ortherwise.

rvp2018:
If we go by olympics - Kenya beat you stil.

I use The African Amateur Boxing Championships is the premier pan-continental annual competition for amateur boxing in Africa. The championships are organised by the continent's governing body, the African Boxing Union (ABU). The first edition of the tournament took place in 1962.

the record of asumah nelson alone in boxing is bigger than the entire east africa . Go check world international boxing record .

rvp2018:
This is all time Africa boxing - Ghana is nowhere - Kenya is boxing giant of Africa. If this is your second best sport after football - then you truly UNDERPERFORM as country.

As of 2015 inclueding men's events of the combined editions until 2022:

The African Amateur Boxing Championships is the premier pan-continental annual competition for amateur boxing in Africa. The championships are organised by the continent's governing body, the African Boxing Union (ABU). The first edition of the tournament took place in 1962.


Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Algeria 36 23 21 80
2 Egypt 20 17 13 50
3 Kenya 20 14 4 38
4 Uganda 18 15 12 45
5 Morocco 17 20 21 58
6 Ghana 16 17 15 48
7 Cameroon 16 14 9 39
8 Mauritius 13 9 7 29
9 Tunisia 10 3 16 29
10 Zambia 8 4 6 18
11 Nigeria 6 16 9 31
12 South Africa 5 9 21 35
13 DR Congo 4 1 4 9
14 Namibia 3 1 2 6
15 Mozambique 3 0 1 4
16 Gabon 2 5 7 14
17 Madagascar 2 2 4 8
18 Libya 2 2 0 4
19 Niger 2 1 0 3
20 Botswana 1 9 19 29
21 Senegal 1 4 8 13
22 Sudan 1 4 3 8
23 Benin 1 0 6 7

the idiot is using olympic measurements. Who do you this ?

rvp2018:
Yet you always exit in 1st round almost in every world cup with template of complains - racist referee.

graping at straw again. Ghana was once playing quarter final in south africa world cup. The only africa team then .

rvp2018:
Yet Kenya has better boxing record than Ghana.

flaws

rvp2018:
I bet you only won the u20 by fielding u25 like Nigeria did.
Soccer is popular sports but it's not the only sport.
You're nowhere in sports.
In soccer - you suck - you are slighly better than any other african team.
Because face it - you will always exit in the 1st round.

you aren't debating, you are pained. We won under20 world cup championship and it is on record we are the only country from africa to have ever won it . You can keep graping at straw for the rest .

In most popular sport ( soccer) we are a big powerhouse in africa .

rvp20182:
And stop talking about boxing that you last won centuries.Cuba excel in boxing because they have instilled that mentality on Africa west African in their country.They are likely to win world cup of they start taking it seriously than any African team.Fix the loser complaining mentality best exemplified by analyzing an inch of a shoe that was offside and blaming the referee for racism

Another hogwash. The record can't be clean off. Boxing is the next most popular sport after football here.

rvp20182:
There are many sports.Some people consider Olympics bigger than world cup ..summer world cup.Some consider winter Olympics even greater.You suck in only sports you could excel because you consider yourself to Africa standards..what is winning Africa cup... Africa is worst in soccer than even middle east ...Every region have natural talent in something based on body build for example...west African have soccer build but they underperform...so problem is not lack of natural talent..it's lack of a winning mentality

You actually missed the sarcasm, poor student . I mean soccer is the most popular spot in the world , Deal with the rest . No sporting event will gulp over 300 billion dollar just for a single monthly event not even olympic for its five consecutive times . Qatar just did it . Soccer is the real big deal.

I just told you , we won under20 world cup yet you are still limiting it to africa standard . Are you daunce. Or is it because it is under20? Your submission is becoming irrelevant.

We are good at soccer simply because we invest in it , forget your nonsense body build .

rvp20182:
This is your best sports and you suck at it.India play crickets to best level.New Zealand rugby.South Africa just won word cup in rugby.Kenya is world long distance running giant.What is Ghana at world class level at.. nothing...your best in soccer outside the young league where you put overage players is quarters.You have talent for soccer and short distance running but you lack a winning mentality. France with African players likely to win because of their instilled mentality... Africa with their huge talent will underperform blaming racism when they have instilled a loser complaining mentality

You are an idiot , there are only two sport in the world , it is football and the rest. The most celebrate sport in the world is soccer.

Ghana is four times africa champion, under20 world champion ( the only africa team that has ever won it ) in all area of football, we have performed awesome well than many africa team . This is a football nation. And when it comes to boxing too , our men have gotten more award than any nation in africa .

rvp2018:
You lost. When will you learn not to equivocate every world cup. This is sickening attitude that explain why Africa never reaches it's potential. One or two decisions cannot explain 3 goals you leaked. You lost...repeat 10 times. Every world cup - we were robbed - referee did this - ohoo racism. One can never run out of excuses when you start.

Then make your players and coach understand they lost - and work on winning. You have one more game - and it's over. You lose the next game - as always you're back to Africa on the next available flight.

Actually you're the bottom of group H. Your next game is a must win.

we lost and so? And portugal conceded two goals as well. The game is still on. Corruption must be replaced with deligent work , where there is corruption, it doesn't matter who meted it , it shall be discussed. We have won under20 world cup once , so I don't get your logic by repeating it when you said africa haven't "reached it's potential". We once reached quarter final of the senior team world cup. So what is your problem. You have a more bigger problem when it comes to soccer than Ghana , you aren't the right person to advice Ghana. Your country is sick when it comes to soccer . my local home team will beat down your national team . This is a fact .

rvp2018:
I dont dispute that Ghana is more Urbanized than Kenya. I dispute if that is a good thing. You study a little bit about premature urbanization and see why you've turn you cities into huge slumpolis. Kenya itself should not be at 25-30 percent with half the resident living in urban squalor - we should ideally only have 15 percent of people living in urban areas - and rest in rural areas.

How do we stop premature urbanization - Kagame in Rwanda forcefully send back people to rural areas - Mugabe in Zimbwabwe destroyed slums in Harare - and declare Zim a country of no slums.Somewhere like Kinshasasa is like 95% slum shanties - majority just escaping because of security and total lack of infrastructure in rural DRC.

As for Ghana - most of Accra for example should be declare unfit for human settlement - destroyed and rebuilt properly.

what are you even saying , by statistics report , Ghana is fast covering her slums more faster than kenya ? So where do you get your bullshit? There are too many poor people in kenya , they can't even afford a mortgage house since they are not formally employed, the only apartment they call home is the sharks house . Some of them still cant afford it either.

The best way to stop slums is to increased the living standard of the people , poverty will naturally breakdown. When you increased social amenities like water , access to electricity , good roads etc sharks house will become very difficult to be erected.in a poor underdeveloped neighborhood, it is easy to come across slums as it is the only option for the poor. People pay little or nothing at all.

Accra slums is a child play comparing it to Nairobi, it seems the bigger the population the bigger the slums .

rvp2018:
Nobody cares about beauty or wonderful. They want to win. I want you to address the weakness in the team. The team lost. You should devise a WIN despite and inspite of any rigging/unfairness. That basically mean NO EXCUSES. The press and Ghanians should not push that theory of we were stolen. They should tell Ghanian footballers they DISAPPOINTED. THEY FAILED. THEY LEAKED THREE GOALS in a world cup match. THEY SUCKED. THEY WERE BEATEN. THEY CAME OUT WITH ZERO POINT.

Now on the next game - they work on the weakness

You are a dunce. So because I must point out black star weakness ,I need to hide out the corruption meted out against them ? What a porous thinking? Portugal won but they won poorly . We loose but we loose galantly. That is the difference. In football, scoring goal is the most important aspect . We scored but we couldn't outscored our opponent. If at the end , we share same points with other team in the group (quite common), they will take the goals we score and the goals we received into account.so our two goals are not waste. Mr idiot .

rvp2018:
Ghana is not urbanizing faster than Kenya. It urbanized long time ago. It prematurely urbanized creating slumpolis. Houses for rent, AirBnb, and any decent housing is expensive because there is no supply of decent housing. Almost everyone in Ghana just buys or get a plot - and build their own ramshackle without water or sewage - or even metered power. The main rentals available are normally corner or extension of the main houses.

Problems
1) Premature Urbanization - 50% plus urbanization at your stage of under-development is not good - half of those people should be in their villages digging or tending to goats.

2) Informal housing created sprawling slumpolis without decent formal housing sector.

Quick solution - stem any further urbanization and even reverse if possible - by making sure rural development happens - and most important start to formalize housing sector.

Let big insurances, pensions, real estate firms and others build huge uniform standard housing that are affordable to Ghanians - who should get very cheap mortagages. This is what Kenya is now doing. Someone from university should after 1-2yrs be able to get cheap mortagage - and be on rent to own.

Not every tom, dick and harry building their own thing.

shut up, Any good report study will tell you straight, Ghana is well urbanized than kenya, and currently, Accra is the fastest growing africa city follow closely by ibadan( Nigeria). Houses are charged based on the area of location, there is value for property here. And you can quickly roll up your investment here particularly in real estate. The real reason almost every rich men are diverting into the business now. And again, Ghanaian are free minded people, we love our own privacy. everybody want to become a landlord , hence the reason for different types of structure.With govt control area( they are law,) for example, bungalows aren't allowed to be build in airport city. Both 1 and 2. And by kind of fortune, Ghana recognised free own land and customary land, therefore we buy and build according to our Will. people can build a storey building and later add to it in a later year when they have the financial strength. So, it is common to see a single room turning into two or full bedroom flat. The owner gradually add to the building as he or she can provide financially.

Giving institutions the option to build property will only birth problems, there will be lot of homeless people as many people will not be able to afford the kind of property a business venture like that has in stocks, or be able to finance it. Unless the rich only . And with a mortgage, it is really nice to be debt free, you can actually sleep well at night. We are not copying blindly.

rvp2018:
You lost. Football has no appeal mechanism. The last whistle ended the game. You focus on the next game or next world cup. The usual cries. Focus on what you could have DONE better. Things within your control.

whatever that rocks your boat, the fact remains that Ghana play a very wonderful football. Any good coach will tell you that . Our performance was at best but not enough. The earlier penalty sent a bad signal , demoralized the players but wasn't enough to stop them from firing a good two shot in. That is awesome . Our remaining two match will be beautiful as well.

rvp2018:
At least Senegal has become the 1st African team to win a game -- against the hapless host. 2-Nil so far. The African team mental or psychological block continues. It can only be dealt by team focusing on their players mentality.

Qatar is a walkover for any serious team . A brilliant performance for senegal anyway.

gallivant:
Really? If housing is plenty in Ghana why is everyone asked to pay a year's advance in rent? Don't you understand the simple complexities of demand and supply? Don't answer, I know you don't!

The house advance rent payment option only happens in Urban area and because Ghana is quickly urbanizing, there is much more demanding in the central urban where there is major commercial activity hence the demand from the greedy landlord .in the north for instance , even sheep's and cow sleep in a big room , too much empty house. People are really moving to much more urbanized area. And it is on record Ghana is more urbanized than kenya .

To the idiot who said we should not throw the narrative of being robbed.
This is a statement from retired English referee.


“The VAR, in my opinion, should have gotten involved, should’ve invited the referee over to have a look at it,” Mike Dean, has questioned the officiating in Ghana’s 3-2 defeat to Portugal in the 2022 World Cup on Thursday. American referee, Ismail Elfath, penalized Mohammed Salisu for the least contact with Cristiano Ronaldo to award the two-time World Cup semi-finalists a penalty.
Mike Dean believes Elfath should have been invited to review the incident at the pitch side Video Assistant Referee (VAR) monitor, but that was not done. He continued, “I like to back referees all the time, but you can’t support stuff like that. You can’t defend the undefendable. “For me, it should’ve been overturned, he should’ve gone to the screen…100% it was wrong.”

Shma2022:
Dwarf step indeed.
A mere single block of 11fls with a useless render.
Look at this single structure again. It can form a new Accra.

essence is really ready, not render, the picture can be gotten online.

This is some abandoned estate. Can you count the number of house unit



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQlFSIf2KV8

POKUASI2:
coming from Ghanaians who robbed south Africa to be at the world cup crying wolf �

if we face south africa 10 times , we will beat them 8 and 1/2 time and draw for the 9th time , while they might be lucky enough to win us in the next half time . Our head to head count justify this prediction .

rvp20182:
You have a good young team. Focus on building their mental strength. Kenyans we dont have talent for soccer. But when it come to althetics - we win. Previously Europeans use to says African cannot run for long distance because they lack mental strength. They were used to former Ghanian slaves in America. The tough Europeans like Norwegians and Scandivians were one who use to win long distance races. Until they met Kenyans and Ethiopeans who can endure incredible pain. This comes with training.

What you need is simple - mental toughness - military bootcamp for the boys - get them running on top of thorns - until they cant cry no more - let them play through the worse referees as part of training - every world cup - we were robbed.

At that level NO EXCUSES . Everyone at this level has come to WIN. Motivation for everyone is 100 percent. You cannot show up with 90 percent.

The team are fresh and are playing together for the first time , so indeed they have done very well for themselves, infact , the names of player to represent us actually came just six days before the world cup begin, at first , I was thinking they weren't serious because of such terrible delay , now I realised I am wrong , they actually hunt for the best representative. Every country have their strength. Ghana is known for soccer and boxing , and not very much in running, it isn't our strength. Jamaica are mostly Ghanaian by heritage and ethnicity and they are known very well when it comes to running race , therefore , mental strength isn't what we are lacking , we aren't just developing that area of sport as we do not really Fancy it like football and boxing ( our strength) . We have done well in this area far better than many africa despite our little population.


When it comes to rigourous training , I think black stars have it too . This team will really go far .so far, we have played better than the remaining africa team for the first match .

rvp20182:
The worse thing you can do to your players is to perpetuate this narrative that they were robbed.
They lost.
That guy was not suppose to be unmarked. They are three players in one position - and if they had spread - or had better positioning they would not have left the guy unmarked.

Africans of the Niger-Congo-Bantu are naturally talented in soccer.
What they lack is mental toughness and discipline.
The Europeans have that GRIT to play the 90 minutes with alertness and discipline - and the seriousness.

If our people the Kalenjin were to good in football - we would long have won the world cup.

Sports is MENTAL. Physical talents get you there - like Ghana's Italian Balotelli - but to win requires grit, discipline and mental toughness.

This aspect Africa football lacks - and we have accepted RACISM as lame excuse.

Africans of niger-congo are way TOO naturally talented in football to be stopped by racism. The coaches need to take them through Military Training where the referee is 100 percent biased - and build their mental strength - where referee award points to losers - and slowly they built that mental grit to overcome such challenges.

And indeed we are robbed, can't you see it was an offside even without the line? Almost same goal was disallowed in Qatar-Equador match. Why Africa? No VAR review.

And with kenya , it is a known fact , you are bad in soccer, africa winning world cup is possible, Ghana won under20 world cup and it remains the only african team to have achieved that feat . I still have a bigger hope for the black stars

rvp20182:
Why are you deliberating blocking your defender hand that is making him onside.

for now , I focused on the two remaining games, and with their performances today, I see them going forward. They have perform well beyond my expectations.