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[Torgbuigà @Mr_Ceyram]

Fuel tank you filled for less than 450gh is now 703gh this morning.

Shame on the government.

[Onipa nua 🇬🇭💰❤️ @mylo_melo]

For how long is the NDC government going to contain with these harassment and intimidation of opposition members, knowing well that you will not stay in power forever!

KOKA has been remanded and he will surely bounce back stronger ‼️

[I K E @IKENDLUX]

@haywhyy09 Is Gusto a goat or a mascot for France?

[Osono Ammiel @OsonoAmmiel]

The NDC does not trust itself, They Are Scammers — Kofi Tonto

[Ahenkan @DjoletoT]

Your President gave us this but instead you chose to give birth in the USA 🇺🇸
To you, ordinary Ghanaians deserve to sleep in a Pragia ambulance.
We will meet you during the 2028 elections

[I K E @IKENDLUX]

@CFCKhris Who care about you?

[Nαɳα Kɯαɱҽ @NanaKwame_off]

The NDC appears to have already "cooked" Wontumi's judgment behind closed doors. What is happening to Ghana's judiciary under Mahama?

[I K E @IKENDLUX]

@_kobbyphocus True

[Boatemaa Gifty @GiftyBoatemaaO]

It's Bawumia or nothing. 🇬🇭🔥

#Bawumia2028

[I K E @IKENDLUX]

@Sir_jaay01 Ranking MU above Chelsea is where I draw the line.

[I K E @IKENDLUX]

@CPFC You're better than a certain London club. No European pedigree.

[I K E @IKENDLUX]

@CfcRayyy Definitely

[I K E @IKENDLUX]

@grok @TheChelseaForum @grok doesn't know anything, you see Arsenal and remove PSG?

[Joy is coming 🥰 @osibisa09]

We are Still Up Breaking this Useless government Down because of their Failed Policies & Promises 🔥🔥

[Ms.Anita @Msaniluv]

This government is an association of lying men and untrustworthy women. The president cannot be trusted. He is a liar and doesn’t keep his word - Kwesi Botchway Jnr, Esq

[Fiifi Sage @_Fiifi_Sage]

Ato Forson urged the BoG to sell their building when he assumed office as Finance Minister. Their MP for Asunafo North also mentioned the same but now that the news has leaked, the BoG is running away from it🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

1. A friend kindly sent me a short clip of architect David Adjaye extolling the virtues of Bank Square, the new HQ of the Bank of Ghana that he designed for contractor GoldKey to build.

2. Since the imposing building divides opinion on its elegance and beauty, I was very keen to hear what the designer himself had to say.

3. It was surreal!

4. I heard the architect talk about how when he saw the other designs entered into the competition by rival bidders, he literally burst out laughing. He said that his competitors had thrown up all manner of "Dubai like" glass and steel buildings that look like "dancing" structures.

5. His choice of design was heavily informed by the deeper symbolism of what the new Bank of Ghana HQ stood for. He had concluded that the apex body managing a nation's wealth cannot look transient. It must project absolute permanence and ascendance.

6. He thus bypassed lightweight design trends of the current era in favor of heavy, earth-bound stone to project regulatory power and systemic stability. In fact, he said he would have done a ramped-earth tower if he had the chance! And then, with a glint in his eye and a chuckle rolling down his throat, threatened to build one somewhere very soon.

7. So, why surreal?

8. Regular readers may recall that I have worried in the past about the cost overruns during the building's development. I think that by the time the various features that were suspended to get it over the finishing line are added, it may top $600 million. But that was not what jolted me. At all.

9. It is the uncanny semblance between the architectural logic behind BoG's Bank Square and that behind a cluster of buildings built between 1917 and 1973 for a financial institution in Rhode Island that used to finance hospitals in Providence.

10. The cluster of buildings then came to be taken over by banks. One was eventually donated to the Rhode Island School of Design, which is how I came to know their story in the first place. You see, I had once considered pursuing the artistic portion of my creative passions.

11. When you look at the Sovereign Banking Tower (as the main tower in the cluster aforementioned is sometimes called when not being called "One Financial Plaza") and its adjacent sister buildings, and then flip your glance over to Bank Square in Accra, you can't help but gasp.

12. Exactly the same thinking that drove Adjaye many decades after and in a totally different cultural setting can be found in the design language of John Carl Warnecke & Associates. It is manifested in the rectangular prism with beveled vertical edges adorning the skyline of Providence.

13. See attached images (incl one of the rejected "dancing" designs).

14. What is at work here? I think it is the same spirit that drove both Newton and Leibniz working oceans apart to independently invent the calculus: creative telepathy.

15. There is a bond that binds all feats of intellect regardless of culture, context, and circumstance.

[I K E @IKENDLUX]

@haywhyy09 12draws the hate?

[Ms.NPP @DashelleAdu]

This NDC government has not implemented any policies exactly as they promised Ghanaians in 2024.

The "No Fees Stress" policy is nothing short of a rebate. This is not what they promised young people.

[I K E @IKENDLUX]

The bank of Ghana office was reportedly built at $200m. Sammy Gyamfi's Goldbod made a $214m loss. Instead of pursuing him for our money, it is the BoG office, a national asset you want to sell. This NDC people never build anything for the country but always selling our assets.

[Gen. Buhari @Gen_Buhari_]

𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐀 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐄!!

The Bank of Ghana [BoG] together with Ministry of Finance are advanced in terms of negotiations in selling the BoG head office. The sale, will not be outright, but it will be a sale and leaseback — here is what it means;

The BoG will sell this national asset which cost $ 260 million to a buyer for a certain number of years, assuming [ less /more than] 20 years. The buyer will then RENT the building to BoG at monthly or yearly amount. In effect, the bank of Ghana, now the OWNERS of the building, will become TENANTS in their own property.

Some board members are kicking against this move, citing that, the agreement favors the buyer more than the state, but influential people within the government are hell bent on completing the deal, just like the gold sales.

This is the price we are paying for a 3% inflation that only works on paper. If Ghanaians do not wake up early, all our assets will be in hands of private individuals before John Mahama leaves office.