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It is frustrating living in Ghana right now - Akorsah

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  • Sunkwa 11 years ago

    WELL SAID Prof. You have spoken the truth.

  • Ama Atta B, NY 11 years ago

    The present Ghana Army is very coward!!! How can you sit silently in the barracks without rescuing the people from these shameful politicians looting the country and yet singing "Ghana is a middle income country"? Look at the ...
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  • Prof. D. Nermah 11 years ago

    The truth bites but it must be told, well said Ama. If the Army fail to intervene and punish the corrupt politicians, posterity will never forgive Ghana Army.

  • KK_D 11 years ago

    Ama Atta B, NY and Prof D. Nermah,
    You may have spoken well, but military adventurism (intervention) has never been an answer. You don't have to look far to know what the June 4, December 31 (Rawlings and his cohorts) brough ...
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  • AND OUR 170 MILLION 4M SWISS 11 years ago

    THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T HAVE THE NATION AT HEART. HE STOLE OUR GOLD(80,000,000) AND TOOK IT TO TURKEY. HE STOLE OUR MONEY(170,000,000) INTO HIS SWISS ACCOUNT. THE ONLY WAY CORRUPTION CAN CEASE IN THE COUNTRY STARTS FROM THIEF M ...
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  • Otumfuo Osei Tutu II 11 years ago

    It appears you dont know the history of Ghana. All the PROBLEMS and FRUSTRATION in Ghana started from 24th Feb. 1966. The fore runners of NPP did this country the disservice of the first Coup, which plunged the country itho i ...
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  • jankrojah 11 years ago

    The president if ready to helped the nation,how old is the president from the day of election and now,we hve had no toilets from the time of K Nkrumah is t now the president to build toilet? Why re you crying you don't have ...
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  • BRUTUS de ROMA 11 years ago

    OF COURSE PROF AKORSAH IS IN A HOLE OF FRUSTRATIONS AS POLITICIAN. HE IS SIMPLY HIDING BEHIND THE PROBLEMS OF UTILITIES NAMELY WATER AND ELECTRICITY WHICH OF COURSE ARE TRANSIENT PROBLEMS THAT COULD AFFECT ANY COUNTRY IN OUR ...
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  • chief NEW YORK 11 years ago

    Stupid professor where did u get degree fool.

  • chief NEW YORK 11 years ago

    I think u pay for the degree because u are taking like a street man.

  • the truth 11 years ago

    sorry chief but you are a fool personified.

  • oto 11 years ago

    Ndc members always identified in their speech by insults. When will you speak sensibly and contribute manfully for readers to pick something

  • chief NEW YORK 11 years ago

    Stupid Ama Atta why don't u go and do it yourself, Son of a dog.

  • Kondendiara Kakraba 11 years ago

    You are rather a big fool and an empty head to call Ama 'son' of a dog. Am sure you live in a care-taker house for Chief NEW YORK who supplies you with freebies so you have no clue what is going on in the country.

  • colins 11 years ago

    u re an illiterate to think that coup is thge best. ur npp will not come to power anytime soon.

  • CRYSTAL TRUTH 11 years ago

    EI!!! HAS IS COME TO PEOPLE CALLING ON SOLDIERS TO REMOVE THIS CORRUPT GOVERNMENT??? TOO BAD. IF PEOPLE WANT TO JUMP FROM FRYING PAN TO TTHE FORE THEN INDEED, THE FRUSTRATION HAS BECOME UNBEARABLY UNBEARABLE. THE NDC IS A "RE ...
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  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    The status of middle income nation is more to do with a superior mind set of a nation and her ppl through quality education than few Ghanaians riding in posh cars on bad roads littered with filth and think we've arrived.

  • FORTUNE 11 years ago

    EEEEEEEEEEEI NTSI DABEN NA PARTY FO YI BEFRI SO,ALL THEY KNOW IS TO GET RICH,ILLITERATES MIND,WHY GHANAIAN LEADERS,CANT U BE SELFLESS FOR ONES,WHY MOST OF U WANT TO BE RICH BY FORCE,"NYAME NA EMA NIPA YE ODEFO Y,GHANAIAN LEAD ...
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  • Professor 11 years ago

    The doctor is bang on with the truth! In times of crisis such as Ghana finds itself currently, all these meaningless so-called independence celebrations should have been postponed. While I was in Ghana only a few short days a ...
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  • Professor 11 years ago

    It was President Lee Kuan Yew's SINGAPORE that attained independence about the same time as Ghana did, not Malaysia. My apologies.

  • Francis C. Quainoo 11 years ago

    Sorry Professor, your first assertion was right. In that, Malaysia had their Independence some Four Months after Ghana's. Furthermore, the King of Malaysia stayed in Ghana for well over TWENTY EIGHT YEARS.

    Interestingly Gh ...
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  • Hanna 11 years ago

    What is your point from this long article?

  • crystal clear 11 years ago

    that's perfectly, perfect the truth, SHORT AND DRY AND NOT A WORD WASTED!!!!! we are suffering in ghana due to ndc's massive corruption; the woyomegates, cpgates, isofotongates are massive capital flight!!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO ...
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  • KENASS 11 years ago

    My heart bleeds when I sit back and contemplate on the state in which Ghana finds herself now! Governments have come and gone over the years yet the condition of Ghana is getting worse and worse. Oh God, save us now before ...
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  • Don Blunt 11 years ago

    Did John Mahama ever call on his brother to be "devoted to the nation's development.."?
    Does John Mahama know his brother is the only Ghanaian who own a private Jet plane, after fleecing the merchant bank?

    Is there one b ...
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  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    In Africa , and in Ghana in particular, if you're a president you want to be richer than every one else.
    (Mobutu and the crowd and lately K4 came to mind)
    Now, will Mahama allow his brother to be richer than him when he ret ...
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  • KK_D 11 years ago

    Dear Folks,
    Every observation made in this news, by Prof. Agyeman Badu Akorsah is correct, most importantly his statement: "Prof Akorsah blamed Ghana underdevelopment on politicians whom he says have relegated patriotism to ...
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  • Kondendiara Kakraba 11 years ago

    Let us be realistic here folks. If you don't sing their praises they say you oppose them. During Kuffour's era we had these power outages but it was manageable. Kuffour has many projects and programs to show for his stewardsh ...
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  • Abu Ben Adam 11 years ago

    Things are going to be bad if we keep the present gov't in power for the next four years. We all saw how cars, lap tops, motors and clothes were given out freely so that people would vote for NDC. Now we have all seen that th ...
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  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Another stupid monkey

  • Eric Oduro. 11 years ago

    We seem to always have bad elements in society who have no love for country in leadership positions. Ghana needs pragmatic leaders who do not indulge in nepotism and ethnocentric partisan politics to lift us out of this curre ...
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  • TerriblY. Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    Good citizen

  • Kwami 11 years ago

    56 years of independence and we are partying in the dark. This is really awkward..

  • Favour 11 years ago

    We need innovative solutions to our problems. We all know the problems, my question is: what is the professor doing about them? Is he offering decisive leadership? The CPP has been relegated to the political wilderness.

  • Ato John 11 years ago

    What has the professor done in the past to help bring development to this country. What has he done in the cpp to help them win power to build Ghana? Power drunk, and stabotaging others effort is what he is good about. He sho ...
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  • SULE 11 years ago

    THE WHITE MAN SHOULD RULE GHANA.OUR BLACK BROTHERS ARE SATANIC.THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR GOD. THEY ARE GREEDY, CORRUPT, THIEVES, WOMANIZER, ....YOU NAME IT!

  • Baba 11 years ago

    Would u ask for another man to fuck your mother becos your father can no longer perform. U are good for nothing. Infact the white man will not know what to do with an idiot like you, he will work u like an ox.

  • the truth 11 years ago

    wow Baba haha nice question.

  • De-Wango. 11 years ago

    I certainly agree with professor Arkosah's article. Although currently I do not leave in Ghana. However,anytime I visit I get frustrated how the ordinary people get treated. It seems their life line got sucked out of them to ...
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  • CC GAYE 11 years ago

    If you run away to work as a labrourer in another country how do you then expect Ghana to progress. Do you not know the energy you exert in the country where you live on cuppers can be useful to embark on farming to bring Gh ...
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  • CC GAYE 11 years ago

    If you run away to work as a labrourer in another country how do you then expect Ghana to progress. Do you not know the energy you exert in the country where you live on cuppers can be useful to embark on farming to bring Gha ...
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  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Why don't you leave and go somewhere else.

  • Ghnana ba ba 11 years ago

    Let us give Ghana back to the British. For Ghana was better of with them. At least the gave us education, the gave us a nice capital, and they understood our problems.

  • KK 11 years ago

    you voted him knowing fully well that DR SAKARA would be a better leader.
    dam you, you reap what you sow.
    did you 4get that you will stay after election 2012? its only the begining!

  • Akosua Faibille 11 years ago

    Fellow Countrywomen and men, each person including the frustrated Professor should ask themselves what they have done for Ghana. What have you contributed concretely to make Ghana a better place?
    Each person who has held sen ...
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  • Nana Appiah 11 years ago

    Ghana Is Doomed..If a President Can Declare HIPC and Waste resources given to you as a Start Up by Donor Nations On Travelling, enriching your family and friends, Building Hotels and Shopping Malls,Off-Shore Fake Businesses a ...
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  • mahama is BIG THIEVE 11 years ago

    MAHAMA NDC CHOP ALL GHANA MONEY,DID HE TELL OTHER PARTY??? NO NO,MAHAMA NDC WOYOME CHOP ALONE,SO THEY SHOULD FICKS IT,IS NOT GHANA OR ANT PARTY TO HELP TEM,YOU CHOP ALL WITH UR NDC PEOPLE SO FICKS IT WIT THEM,PERIOD,SHAMEFUL, ...
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  • AND OUR 170 MILLOINS 4M SWISS BANK 11 years ago

    MAHAMA DOESNOT HAVE THE NATION AT HEART,IDIOT MAHAMA IS CRIMINAL,FAKE TO THE NATION,CORRUPTS THE NATION, MORE GANGATUAN DEPTS TO THE NATION,GHANA GOLD TO IRAN,HOW COME MAHAMA ITS JUST THERE FOR ALL THIS THINHS TO HAPPEN TO GH ...
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  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    You are all the same. What would you do differently to change the situation,Prof?
    If you have any idea as to how to solve those problems listed,what is stopping you from giving advice to the president or those responsible to ...
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  • EGYIRBA AMA 11 years ago

    So now we see. He chases & beds his house maids because he is frustrated. This so-called Professor is one hell of a charlatan. Vicious, overblown, empty, conceited & underminer. No wonder CPP is now dead. He has nothing to of ...
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  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    Sad that we celebrate 56 years with nothing to show.Yes some infrastructural developments but comparing the deficit is there anything to celebrate?We have a railway system that has deteriorated compared to the standard on the ...
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  • KA AKYIRE 11 years ago

    PROF. WHO CAUSE IT? YOU PEOPLE, UNTIL CALLING A SPADE,A SPADE? WE WLL REMAIN LIKE THIS. ALL OF YOU DENIED DR NKRUMAH AND THOSE WHO TOOK OVER BROUGHT US BACK TO COLONIAL REGIME. RAWLINGS STARTED AND WITH THEIR 8 YRS ENTRY SEND ...
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  • Nii Ansah 11 years ago

    So what is the way forward, the talking has been too much, it is high time people suggest better ways of solving problems!

  • Kwabena 11 years ago

    And make the light offs fewer.

    To help pump expired water out of our taps.

    And turn all the 'boiler' into gas.