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@ECGghOfficial @050 829 6435 pls investigate this number being calling people to ask them to send money for meter is installation at a cost GHS600 to a Momo number. ROSEMOND OSEI, 0203195427 I know it a scammer but someone may fall victim

@ECGghOfficial Please add Gbawe Dollar church transformer,the breakdown one too many

@samgeorgegh Data has become expensive ooo since your last announcement on data price.

When you say a prayer, please say one for me. Thanks. 🦁🙏🏾

@BBSimons @Joy997FM

1. I was totally perplexed to read that a retired Wing Commander (equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in the army branch) of the Ghana Air Force says that the 4 Harbin Z-9EH helicopters, one of which tragically crashed last week, were DONATIONS from China to Ghana. 2. No disrespect to the retired senior officer, but this information is INCORRECT. I'm only motivated to post this because the claim appears to be circulating widely in mainstream media. 3. Ghana bought and paid for the helicopters from CATIC, a major Chinese defence contractor. CATIC is actually busily pursuing more deals in Ghana now. It wants to sell major platforms to the Ghana Navy. (Analysts feel that the Navy is behind on its procurement plans compared to the other services leading to smart brokers pushing their luck in the bid to cut deals.) And last year, CATIC asked Ghana to sign a maintenance and overhaul deal for both the helicopters and the Air Force's fixed-wing attack planes. 4. Ghana got the money to pay CATIC for the 4 helicopters from a $3 billion China Development Bank (CDB) loan signed in 2011. The loan was meant to be disbursed in two fat tranches. Twelve separate credit facilities covering 12 major projects were identified for the two tranches. Not all projects could be delivered after the loan was capped following a disagreement over how much collateral in oil was required. 5. The helicopter deal was in Tranche B of the deal, under the $150 million "ICT surveillance" component. (Interestingly, Tranche B projects were executed ahead of Tranche A.) Ghana Gas was the entity designated as the notional beneficiary. The helicopters were meant to be used to monitor oil & gas infrastructure in the Western enclave, covering fields and installations to pipelines as well as processing plants. 6. Though the specific cost of each helicopter was not disclosed, it can be deduced by subtracting the Huawei component of the project that they must have cost roughly $11 million each. Important to note, however, that the cost on delivery would normally depend on the customisation specs as agreed with the Ghana Air Force. 7. The original thinking was that live feed from helicopters and other aerial vehicles would be integrated into a central console for round-the-clock monitoring of Ghana's petroleum. That vision was somehow aborted. No one has asked why, and no answers have been offered. 8. In the Air Force, 2 Squadron is normally tasked with VVIP transport. However, 2 Squadron, to the best of my knowledge, has no helicopters. 3 Squadron has thus become increasingly responsible for VVIP transport where helicopters are required. However, none of the MI-17, Agusta/Bell, and Z-9 crafts in the Ghana Air Force fleet are VVIP configured. This is something that I suspect will come up during the expert inquiry. 9. The Nigerian Air Force, for instance, has a strict protocol for VVIP-configuration when buying helicopters. Example: the AW101 Mk 641 helicopters delivered by Augusta in 2014. 10. Saying all the above does not, however, suggest in any way that Ghana got the helicopters as a gift or that they were not customised for field deployment. It only raises a few questions about whether the crashed helicopter was customised for the VVIP transport use case. It is not being suggested that lack of VVIP customisation implies a safety limitation. However, it is usually understood that VVIP configuration would entail a higher than usual standard. 11. I don't know why the Wing Commander thinks the helicopters were gifts. Maybe because Ghana is paying through a loan facility provided by the Chinese government? Well, that does not make it a gift. Ghana has had to deliver thousands of barrels of oil every quarter or so from its share of production in our oilfields to Unipec for loan service purposes since 2015. China is not Santa Claus. 12. I have attached extracts from Parliamentary records for our colleagues in the media who may want to correct the impression.

@Gen_Buhari_ 😂😂😂 masa do you know heaven exists

If I send you this, it means USA Visa has been increased by $250.

@Jerry_Shaib please he road from Bulamin to winners is so bad and unmemorable.Please do something about it now

@garyalsmith She started spraying pepper and that triggered the chaos.Watc the video carefully

Small election at Able Ablekuma and they're manhandling Hawa Koomson like this? Absolutely not on at all.

@Stephis_world Visit Ghana 🇬🇭 in west Africa

Good morning from sunny Portugal

@withAlvin__ He did the right thing by greeting the elderly first

This video is trending. If you know you know. 👀 Actress Fella Makafui at the Bukom Boxing Arena for the Big Night bout.

@asaaseradio995 Smh

#TheForum| Under the NDC, in less than six months, foodstuffs and clothing inflation has quadrupled, I now spend GHS 2,000 on food alone every week. — Ellen Ama Daaku #AsaaseRadio #AsaaseNews

@Popony_J Man pass man.Oower is indeed transient

Chairman Wontumi can't escape jail, despite public sympathy 😂😂

@AnnanPerry Making sense for the first time.

Sammy Gyamfi committed no crime.- Owusu Bempah

@AnnanPerry Is agraada I needy person Sammy is digging his grave

Sammy Gyamfi ❤️

@GodsonKankani Ur math teacher die ?

If you save 2cedis daily, it will be: 2×7 =14cedis weekly 14×30 = 420cedis monthly 420×366= 153,720cedis yearly

@utvghana But this was happening before you lost the election

Electricity tariffs to increase every three months – Oppong Nkrumah #UTVNews

@Gen_Buhari_ Being a problem since Kuffour era

Just In Students of Odorgonno Senior High school block main Awoshie-Anyaa road demonstrating over faulty traffic light. Ghana is cursed under this new President.

@RocksonSoul1 @ndcgrassroots Has Haurna heard this?

Mr Speaker must punish the MP who called Hon Zenator “daughter of a murderer”. @ndcgrassroots this can’t slide.

@alkalineRMFC_ Why uncle Allottey no Dey

Kwame Sefa Kayi vs Sammy Gyamfi and NDC supporters. Vawulence 🔥 🔥 Check thread 😂

@Gen_Buhari_ Ur job hard

Mahama has cleared CORRUPTION CHARGES against the following individuals within 12hrs 1. John Mahama clears CORRUPTION Charges against Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson and Richard Japka in a €2.37m ambulances procurement deal.✅ 2. John Mahama clears CORRUPTION Charges against Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, former CEO of COCOBOD, and businessman Seidu Agongo have been through the new Attorney General.✅ 3. John Mahama drops CORRUPTION charges against former Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana, Johnson Asiama for his role in the collapse of UniBank and UT Bank.✅ NOTE; all these individuals fingered in these corruption allegations are NDC members and carried out these activities under John Mahama, again, all these cases were still at court but has been dropped by the Government. We finally have a CORRUPTION CLEARING PRESIDENT, corruption has just been made attractive in NDC 🔥🔥🔥 Thank You

@tv3_ghana Expected.More CEO expected to do same in coming days

Joseph Boahen Aidoo has tendered his resignation as the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board #TV3GH