Vanderpuije is good mayor but power drunk - Nana Akomea

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CTZ 10 years ago

YOU ALL THE SAME. NPP, NDC!!!

YOU ALL THE SAME. NPP, NDC!!!
Metro-TV3 on www.nollytuned.com 10 years ago

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Joy 10 years ago

A comment in today's forum very interesting: If Oko keeps it up he will change Mahama's name. wow!!

A comment in today's forum very interesting: If Oko keeps it up he will change Mahama's name. wow!!
krikri 10 years ago

Oko Vanderpuije is not power drunk. He does not want to listen to others whose advise could help him do better

Oko Vanderpuije is not power drunk. He does not want to listen to others whose advise could help him do better
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GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

REVERT TO OHENE DJAN STADIUM, NOW!
the topic of the AMA being caught in National Democratic Congress politics, especially with the decision to remove the name Ohene Djan from the signpost of the sporting edifice in Accra.
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REVERT TO OHENE DJAN STADIUM, NOW!
the topic of the AMA being caught in National Democratic Congress politics, especially with the decision to remove the name Ohene Djan from the signpost of the sporting edifice in Accra.
Expect the bearded Mayor to defend his corner. He insisted that the changing of the name was in respect of the exercise of the right of the AMA to name streets and monuments in the national
capital. I put it to him that the renaming of the Jubilee House to Flagstaff House was without the input of the AMA, and that when the Black Star Square became Independence Square the AMA never
raised a finger. I assured him that so long as some of us continue to live, Ohene Djan would be back. He threatened to summon me before the full assembly of the AMA to show why I should not be
disciplined for flouting the rules of the assembly. I assured him that I was prepared to face the Sanhedrin. OKO IS WAY IN OVER HIS HEAD. IF OKO VANDERPUIJE SHOULD CONTEST THE ACCRA MAYORAL JOB
AGAINST A BEARDED, HAIRLIKE MONKEY FROM THE BUSH OF GH NATIONAL COLLEGE.. TRUST ME, THE MONKEY WILL WIN!
HOW CAN YOU COWTE TO THE DEMANDS OF THESE NON TAX PAYING, NON EDUCATED GA YOUTHS N CHANGE THE NAME OHENE DJAN TO ACCRA SPORTS STADIUM. IS OKO ON DRUGS?
THE AMA DOES NOT OWN THE STADIUM. IT IS PUBLIC PROPERTY OWNED BY THE GOVT OF GH. JUST BCOS THE STADIUM IS IN ACCRA DOES NOT MEAN THAT AMA OWNS IT. IF AMA WANTS TO OWN THE STADIUM.
THEY SHOULD BUY THE STADIUM FROM THE GOVT OF GH. THE ONLY RIGHT TO NAME CHANGING AMA HAS IS WITH THE PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLIC TOILETS N GA MANTSE CHIFTANCY SEATS IN ABOSSEY OKAI, MANPROBI, TESHIE, NUNGUA ETC....
I DONT WANT HEAR ABOUT GA DISENFRANCHISING ETC. THATS TYPICAL INWARD LOOKING TALK. THE KMA HASNT CHANGED THE NAME BABA YARA. DO U SEE ANY DISENFRANCHISEMNT FROM THE ASHANTIS?
IF HE IS RENAMING PUBLIC/GOVT PROJECTS WITHOUT WARRANT. WAHT ELSE IS HE DOING UNLAWFULLY WITHIN THE AMA AND IN THE GREATER ACCRA REGION? IM SURE HE IS SERIOUSLY EMBEZZLING MONEY..WAAAAAAA. EMBEZZLING AMA MONEY WAAAA WAAAAA!
FOLKS, HOW CAN Salaries Of Ghanaian MPs BE THE 3rd Highest In The World? HIPC, 3RD WORLD NATION GHANA?...NO WAY!
REDUCE THE SALARIES OF THESE USELESS , OVERINFLATED EGOS N USE THE CASH TO DEVELOP OUR RAILWAYS, HIGHWAYS, MARKETS, STADIUMS, POLICE FORCE, SECURITY AGENCIES.
OH GH. TOO MUCH STRIFE, HUNGER. PPL ARE DISILLUSIONED. THEY DONT EVEN USE THEIR THINKING CAPS ANYMORE. THEY ACT AND BEHAVE LIKE ZOMBIES. ALL BECAUSE OF
CORRUPTION N GREED FROM OUR SO CALLED POT BELLIED LEADERS.
OKO CANT DO THE MAYOR JOB. HE SIMPLY DOSENT HVE THE FORESIGHT, STRENGHT. HE IS NOT ENERGETIC BUT LAZT N OLD.
Waspi 10 years ago

A classic case of the POT & the KETTLE

A classic case of the POT & the KETTLE
Kojo T 10 years ago

Yes he has a good vision but needs to consult more.

Yes he has a good vision but needs to consult more.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

What really was the sense in that renaming. Similarly, Ohene Djan stadium had his name taken off it because he was not a Ga. Why did the Asante people maintain Baba Yara's name on the Kumasi Sports stadium? Very soon, he migh ...
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What really was the sense in that renaming. Similarly, Ohene Djan stadium had his name taken off it because he was not a Ga. Why did the Asante people maintain Baba Yara's name on the Kumasi Sports stadium? Very soon, he might rename the Atlantic ocean after Mills. If he is power drunk, then he cannot be a good leader. Is that not why his own people did not want the president to re nominate him?
CITIZEN ONE 10 years ago

You people took the "L" out of logic. Why do you always have to draw that "Baba Yara" analogy every time name changing comes up. Had it been an Ewe or Ga Soccer star, they, your Asante people would have burnt the place down s ...
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You people took the "L" out of logic. Why do you always have to draw that "Baba Yara" analogy every time name changing comes up. Had it been an Ewe or Ga Soccer star, they, your Asante people would have burnt the place down so chill. Had Accra sports stadium been named Baba Yara Stadium, I can assure you, there would have never been a fuss. Everybody in Ghana hates Ashantis, especially fellow Akans (like Kwahus, Fantis, Brongs, Akwapims, etc.)

Listen you creeps, the Gas have a point. You people from above the Capital and Coastal South fault line, always want to be part of Accra Ghana, but when you climb up your hills and into the bushes, you do not entertain anything non-Akan unless the people succumb to your whims and caprices. Truth is everybody loved Ohene Djan ans respectfully he deserves a monument in his name, but the attitude of the Gas was borne out of the way Akans stampeded, ravaged and insulted the intelligence of Gas right here in their homeland. They are warm and receptive to a fault, but never fools till the end, that is why of late there has emerged a New Ga Attitude. It is also in line with these ignoramus migrating to Accra, claiming they can't speak and won't speak Ga, but expect these Gas who haven't even traveled beyond Nsawam to speak Twi - this is stupidly ignorant and an affront to their own intelligence. Like everything in Ghana, it never lasts forever!!!
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

Is this how low you can stoop with your insulting behavior?

Is this how low you can stoop with your insulting behavior?
SAFO,NY 10 years ago

DOES IT RING A BELL IN YOUR EARS?
"I WILL CONSULT" THAT SPORTS MINISTER!

DOES IT RING A BELL IN YOUR EARS?
"I WILL CONSULT" THAT SPORTS MINISTER!
Jeff, UK 10 years ago

This issues do not put bread and butter on the tables of the many hungry Ghanaians

This issues do not put bread and butter on the tables of the many hungry Ghanaians
ANOTHER AFRICAN PATRIOT 10 years ago

Man shall not live by bread alone

Man shall not live by bread alone
Shamu 10 years ago

NPP are really confused now. Most of their speaches do not reflect Ghanaian life or direct to the point. I think they need to be fired from the country or be banned. Their mental capacity does not work anymore. I do not know ...
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NPP are really confused now. Most of their speaches do not reflect Ghanaian life or direct to the point. I think they need to be fired from the country or be banned. Their mental capacity does not work anymore. I do not know if God is punishing them as a result of the wicked practices they did during their term in office. They all need mental evaluation.
Abongo 10 years ago

The President did the right thing. If it were to be the NPP, it should have been different as you like hiding things so Akomea just leave the President alone. Were you able to tell Ghana how Kufuor sold GTC and pocketed one m ...
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The President did the right thing. If it were to be the NPP, it should have been different as you like hiding things so Akomea just leave the President alone. Were you able to tell Ghana how Kufuor sold GTC and pocketed one million US Dollars?
Abokyi 10 years ago

Abongo, you are a Billy-goat. Who gonna cut grass for you? Don't you
know that MAHAMA'S PRESIDENCY gives him the mandate to be father as well as ruler of all Ghanaians irrespective of area or party affiliation. Once elected ...
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Abongo, you are a Billy-goat. Who gonna cut grass for you? Don't you
know that MAHAMA'S PRESIDENCY gives him the mandate to be father as well as ruler of all Ghanaians irrespective of area or party affiliation. Once elected and sworn in, he is for all. OK? He just used the NDC Party as a political platform to channel his ideas, and that is all. Right now, the day to day running affairs of how to run the whole country rests on his shoulder so shut the fuck up of trying to divide the good people of Ghana, period.
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

He likes equivocation too much.

He is not that bright and someone else more intelligent should occupy his position.

He likes equivocation too much.

He is not that bright and someone else more intelligent should occupy his position.
DONBOLI 10 years ago

National properties in Accra are for the nation not ACC. Vanderpuije dont respect John Mahama and wants to show who is boss.

National properties in Accra are for the nation not ACC. Vanderpuije dont respect John Mahama and wants to show who is boss.
CITIZEN ONE 10 years ago

I would like to come and desecrate it.
You go to Cape Coast castle and tell the Fanti people out there that, you a Ga man, Ashanti man or Ewe man owns that castle as much as they the indigenes. Find a national property and i ...
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I would like to come and desecrate it.
You go to Cape Coast castle and tell the Fanti people out there that, you a Ga man, Ashanti man or Ewe man owns that castle as much as they the indigenes. Find a national property and in Kumasi and send a Ga or Ewe man to Kumasi and get a bull horn preaching in Ga out there and see if he doesn't get beheaded the next day.

Rubbish!!! any national property placed in any region will always be in the absolute and direct care of the indigenes of that region. It will only be so, when it affects your village or hamlet - Forest dweller.
Prof. A.K.Appiah 10 years ago

Vanderpuije's problem is that he is managing like it's done in America and Ghanaians are not prepared for that hence, our problem in that country. You are branded power drunk when you are managing your organization the way it ...
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Vanderpuije's problem is that he is managing like it's done in America and Ghanaians are not prepared for that hence, our problem in that country. You are branded power drunk when you are managing your organization the way it's done here. Heads of institutions don't go around asking President Obama when to go to lunch, or change street names? Waste of time, leave the Accra Mayor to do his job.
OB 10 years ago

We do not have states in Ghana. You should have known this, Prof.

We do not have states in Ghana. You should have known this, Prof.
DKB 10 years ago

Prof, have you ever wondered why very senior roles in Africa normally require applicants to have worked or have knowledge of working practices in Africa? Have you asked yourself why multinational organisations prefer people w ...
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Prof, have you ever wondered why very senior roles in Africa normally require applicants to have worked or have knowledge of working practices in Africa? Have you asked yourself why multinational organisations prefer people with experience working in similar multinational companies? It's all about cultural awareness. One cap does not fit all. You can't carry American experience and apply it in whole to a Ghanaian environment without tweaking it to fit the Ghanaian culture and level of awareness. You will fail if you tried. I doubt your Prof status because i don't expect this level of reasoning to be coming from a professor.
Mosmen 10 years ago

He must be sacked. This is not the first time. Leaders who don't consult can't rule. He has not even find it prudent to apologise to the Old Good/Hero grandmother.

He must be sacked. This is not the first time. Leaders who don't consult can't rule. He has not even find it prudent to apologise to the Old Good/Hero grandmother.
ME AND YOU WERE NOT THERE 10 years ago

NANA AKOMEA IF KEEP IT UP OKO VANDERPUYIE WILL CHANGE JOHN MAHAMA'S NAME.

NANA AKOMEA IF KEEP IT UP OKO VANDERPUYIE WILL CHANGE JOHN MAHAMA'S NAME.
Nii Kootse. 10 years ago

Nobody is good when "Power Drunk"!
One either has knowledge which is power, and therefore good.

Ever remember Salifu Amankwa, and how he ended up.

Nobody is good when "Power Drunk"!
One either has knowledge which is power, and therefore good.

Ever remember Salifu Amankwa, and how he ended up.
Zaga. 10 years ago

When Kufuor changed the name of Accra Sports Stadium, it wasn't NPP impunity, it was humility Kufuor style. Damn braggart. We will never allow you degenerates to change names in Accra willy-nilly. Go and change names of landm ...
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When Kufuor changed the name of Accra Sports Stadium, it wasn't NPP impunity, it was humility Kufuor style. Damn braggart. We will never allow you degenerates to change names in Accra willy-nilly. Go and change names of landmarks in Kumasi. Criminal politicians.
OPINION 10 years ago

It pained them (NPP) that the president intervened and denied them the ground to vilify him before the Ga community and use it to campaign against him during the next election; yet they must still find something to say agains ...
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It pained them (NPP) that the president intervened and denied them the ground to vilify him before the Ga community and use it to campaign against him during the next election; yet they must still find something to say against him. NPP is the main propaganda party.
Nii Okai 10 years ago

Naturally in my own opinion Vanderpuije never had any bad mind towards Madam Okoh, nor his action is of the angle of power drunk, but what I saw and understood is that he, Vanderpuije mistakingly looked at one side, that is t ...
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Naturally in my own opinion Vanderpuije never had any bad mind towards Madam Okoh, nor his action is of the angle of power drunk, but what I saw and understood is that he, Vanderpuije mistakingly looked at one side, that is the death of his master Atta Mills whom he loved so much that, it never occured to him that even though the ex president was in love with hockey, the park had already been renamed after somebody, Madam Okoh.

The major problem that is destroying the Ghanaians' political lives is ANGER, HATRED, and FOOLISH PARTY MINDEDNESS which drive them, therefore any little thing that by mistake happens, they all quickly give way to Anger and hatred, tribalism and turn the whole nation into sadness for days, weeks and months if not years while people are abusing each other in different ways. This evil spirit of ANGER and HATRED is what make them not to understand themselves and always blame each other and derive joy whenever one falls into temptation, just like the situation Okoe Vanderpuije finds himself. I have known him and never find him to be power drunk, he is a hard working person, and even considering the good efforts he made to transform the PRIMARY/JHS schools from the shift system to a normal way of schooling in most of the schools in the Greater Accra Region. He lobbied for the building of more classrom blocks for the schools mentioned above but what generally we do not have to forget is once a time life proves us to understand that the only one who makes no mistake is God, and thus it is a pity things have been taken up to this level that Akomea could describe the mayor as power drunk. What a hell of statement!!.

Akomea thinks when one has access to the media means he/she is a good analyst in every area of discussions. Ghana is sick that is why there are no bold, genuine and honest analysts to help steer our nation when an issue arises and common sense decision is needed to help move our loving nation forward. Ghanaians have schooled and have degrees but common sense over petty situations have escaped them b'cos of their stupidity and the spirit of PRIDE.

About the Accra sports stadium issue that Akomea tried to accuse the mayor and I quote '' he [Akomea] stated that if the Accra mayor had been cautioned for reverting the Ohene Djan station to Accra sports stadium he would have not taken this recent decision''. The point here, concerning the reference Akomea made to the Ohene Djan stadium is based on shallow mindedness and lack of good knowledge of the english language. The reason is that grammatically the stadium in question has already been named as the ACCRA SPORTS STADIUM many years ago and not just SPORTS STADIUM therefore renaming it as Ohene Djan stadium raised uproar in the minds of many intelligent folks, except the ones who hang on tribalism to argue their points.

ACCRA as a noun in this context was used as an adjective to qualify the stadium, which means the stadium has name. Why is there an uproar today over the attempt of AMA to rename the hockey stadiun after Atta Mills? It is b'cos it has a name that qualifies it, and that's Madam Okoh. At this stage I see Akomea as a fellow with small mind of tribal sentiments therefore I will advise him to allow wisdom, knowledge, intelligence and discrection to lead him before calling people like Vanderpuije as power drunk.
kofi k 10 years ago

I just bought a new dog and need a name for it. Any name from vanderpuije

I just bought a new dog and need a name for it. Any name from vanderpuije
Whatever 10 years ago

I kinda agree with Nana Akomea

I kinda agree with Nana Akomea
OKO VAN MILLS 10 years ago

I, ALFRED OKO VANDERPUIJE HENCEFORTH WISH TO BE KNOWN AND CALLED ALFRED OKO VAN-MILLS. THIS CHANGE TAKES IMMEDIATE EFFECT. ALL EXISTING DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES REMAIN VALID.

I, ALFRED OKO VANDERPUIJE HENCEFORTH WISH TO BE KNOWN AND CALLED ALFRED OKO VAN-MILLS. THIS CHANGE TAKES IMMEDIATE EFFECT. ALL EXISTING DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES REMAIN VALID.

Vanderpuije is good mayor but power drunk - Nana Akomea

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