Ghana is in trouble if Mahama is easygoing - Awuku

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Julor Agyekum Kwakwe JAK 10 years ago

Particularly the backward ugly ashantis

Particularly the backward ugly ashantis
King George 10 years ago

when will people like you talk positive and sensible to help the progress of this country other than insulting Ashanti's . please stop such insane comments

when will people like you talk positive and sensible to help the progress of this country other than insulting Ashanti's . please stop such insane comments
BEN 10 years ago

HEAR THIS

HEAR THIS
kojo 10 years ago

Ewe man efo is laborer in my grandfather's cocoa farm.

Ewe man efo is laborer in my grandfather's cocoa farm.
BEN 10 years ago

THIEVWES

THIEVWES
Krikri,, 10 years ago

Even greedy thiefman Agyekum Kufour,who told us all that he came to acquire wealth THROUGH LOOTING for himself, children, family and party cronies misruled Ghana for 8 years and we did not have any trouble.

Even greedy thiefman Agyekum Kufour,who told us all that he came to acquire wealth THROUGH LOOTING for himself, children, family and party cronies misruled Ghana for 8 years and we did not have any trouble.
insight to the bone 10 years ago

now we see the international community through their credit agencies moody's marking the state of the country's economy as going from bad to worse in reality its just hopeless as long as pepeni and his crooks are there . this ...
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now we see the international community through their credit agencies moody's marking the state of the country's economy as going from bad to worse in reality its just hopeless as long as pepeni and his crooks are there . this time their feeble hogwash bullshit excuses of blaming the npp and the Akans has been exposed .they did not fall for the story of not being able to work because of a petition or that a drill ship saga undermines their ability to perform but looked at the facts and saw the govt is a useless piece of shit and the only reason its not worse is the effort of the industrious enterprising Akan. they are so busy stealing and working to sabotage and undermine the Akan economy due to their intrinsic envy and hate that they have got no time for anything else . even here we see they go into a hysterical frenzy when they hear the patriotic nationalist call of yen Akanfuo as they do not know what it means so think it means what they think when they conspire against the Akans . Akans unlike the scots , yugoslavs , russians etc are not allowed to think of political solutions that dont include them ruling .pepeni is a natural born toxic liar who has surrounded himself with grossly incompetent ministers with suspect criminal motives . not a single minister came to to office with projects, ideas, solutions or even concepts of how to move the economy forward except steal and take bribes for work not done . they count on the blind support of their tribesmen and a system that ensures they will always declare themselves as the winners of any election . we saw the determination of the people to remove them from there and how very naively some went to sleep over night to exercise this power , little did they know that ayigbe jj had already put his key men in place to rig these elections . the only way to secure true democracy is with a war or revolution until then we remain in this desolate wilderness of pepeni /ayigbe evil. long live the republic of Akan
CHARLES KOFI,AFRICA 10 years ago

WHO IS THIS AWUKU BOY ALWAYS NOISY FOR CHEAP POPULARITY?HE WILL BE WISER IF HE CONCENTRATED ON DEVELOPING HIMSELF ACADEMICALLY,SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY AND STOP MAKING CHEAP NOISE.

WHO IS THIS AWUKU BOY ALWAYS NOISY FOR CHEAP POPULARITY?HE WILL BE WISER IF HE CONCENTRATED ON DEVELOPING HIMSELF ACADEMICALLY,SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY AND STOP MAKING CHEAP NOISE.
Dakoa 10 years ago

S. Awuku always wants to say something he cant express in English. Ure advised to go & learn. PERIOD. U must know politics not good 4 some of u. YAA

S. Awuku always wants to say something he cant express in English. Ure advised to go & learn. PERIOD. U must know politics not good 4 some of u. YAA
MY FUCKING PISTOL NEVER JAM 10 years ago

I HAVE TO BE HONEST - GHANAIAN POLITICIANS ARE AIM LESS AND THEY DO NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL BY WATCHING BRITISH AND AMERICAN POLITICS ON TV AND THAT MIGHT TEACH THEM HOW TO BE COME A BETTER POLITICIAN . NPP AND NDC NEVER C ...
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I HAVE TO BE HONEST - GHANAIAN POLITICIANS ARE AIM LESS AND THEY DO NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL BY WATCHING BRITISH AND AMERICAN POLITICS ON TV AND THAT MIGHT TEACH THEM HOW TO BE COME A BETTER POLITICIAN . NPP AND NDC NEVER COMPROMISE IN ANYTHING THAT WOULD HELP THE COUNTRY MOVE FORWARD THAN POINTING FINGERS, ATTACKING , INSULTING EACH OTHER EVERYDAY 24/7 AND THIS IS VERY BORING TO ME . WE HAS MR JJ THAT THINK HE IS SMATER THAN EVERY GHANAINAN KEEPS STEPING THE WAY . STOP YOUR TRIBE HATRED BCOS THAT WOULD NEVER HELP MOVE THE CONTRY FORWARD . THE SAME OLD SAME .
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am c ...
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AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am compelled to do this expose on the former junta head for those who do not know his role in promoting corruption as a national concept. Read on!
In June 1979, eight top military officers, including three former heads of state, were lined up and executed at the Teshie Military Firing range in two batches. Gen. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Gen. Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo, Gen. Robert Kotei, Lt-Gen. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa, Rear Admiral Joy Amedume, Air Vice-Marshall George Yaw Boakye, Emmanuel K. Utuka and Colonel Roger Felli were accused of corrupting the body politic.
In an interview with New Nation, a monthly magazine circulating in Nigeria and now defunct, the Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which supervised over the most famous case of extra-judicial killings in the history of the political evolution of Ghana, justified the action of his military junta as a necessary action to rid the body politic of corruption.
“They were jumbo-sized armed robbers whose killings left the world smelling nicer,” Flt-Lt. Rawlings was quoted by the magazine as saying in explanation.
Jerry Rawlings said the officers had to be killed, “because Ghana was faced with their type of thievery breed of criminals who were worse than Nigeria’s armed robbers” in the 1970s.
“Now, I’ll tell you what we have here. We have a breed that is, perhaps, worse than your armed robbers,” he told reporters of the New Nation in an exclusive interview. “They are the pen robbers. These species of vermin have for long perpetrated corruption with impunity.
“They have not only bled the nation white, but as a result of their thievery, Ghana has suffered hunger, loss of national spirit, loss of pride and respect in the military uniform. So, as you can see, while Nigerians have perceived their main social problems to be the proliferation of six Naira armed robbers, we, in Ghana, think that our problem is that of people who take widow’s mite from a bankrupt nation.”
In the words of the ex-junta head: “While you (Nigeria) content yourself at the Bar Beach by watching the executions of mal-adjusted labourers, mechanics or clerks, we in Ghana, have killed the jumbo armed robbers, call them generals or brigadiers – whose going to leave the world smelling sweeter.”
One interesting thing about this claim is that Jerry Rawlings and his righteous AFRC members could not account for monies lodged in AFRC Account 48, which was specially created to lodge huge monies paid by businessmen and other persons and institutions found guilty by a so-called people court to have corrupted the system. Monies from seized goods auctioned to the public at so-called control prices were also lodged in the account.
When President Hilla Limann took power after the AFRC had left the scene on September 24, 1979, the new Head of State complained that there was nothing in the coffers, insinuating that the famous Account 48 could not be traced.
When Flt-Lt. Rawlings, who had refused to accept the new government’s offer to go on course abroad, was questioned on the disappearance of the huge lodgings in the account, he replied that he was not an accountant. Incidentally, the fate of PNDC Account 48, established by the second junta led by the same person, has not been accounted for as you read this piece.
One of the most interesting developments in Ghana’s political evolution was the decision to abolish the General Certificate of Examinations -Ordinary and Advanced levels- by the Provisional National Defence Council. The main reason given was that the old educational system had favoured only the children of the elite class.
At a time ordinary folks of the land were enrolling their children in what became known as the Junior and Senior Secondary schools, whose certificates -BECE and SCCE- were not recognised beyond the four corners of the country, Jerry Rawlings enrolled his children at the expensive Ghana International School in Accra to read subjects that qualified them to sit for the GCE Ordinary and the Advanced levels his PNDC administration had prohibited the mass of Ghanaian children from.
I do not believe corruption is only putting state money in one’s pocket. Exploiting state resources for one’s advantage could even be a worse form of corruption. That is why I have an axe to grind with Jerry Rawlings for enrolling all his children abroad to study with the GCE Ordinary and Advanced levels, acquired outside the formal sector in the country.
What I call Jerry’s Stupid Schools has debased education up to the tertiary level, where lottery numbers, other than real academic work, determines qualification at the first degree level.
To add insult to injury, when asked to tell Ghanaians how he was funding the education of all the three children -Ezanator, YaaAsantewaa and Kimathi- in expensive universities in Britain and Ireland, Jerry Rawlings looked at Ghanaians in the face and answered that unknown benefactors were picking up the bills for their fees.
The Almighty is a kind Lord. It emerged that companies the state of Ghana was dealing with and which were milking Ghana dry, were picking up the bills of Jerry Rawlings’ children. And such a person has the audacity to complain about leaders being corrupt.
I dare state that corruption was elevated into an art under Jerry Rawlings. The circumstances under which he transformed himself from a military dictator into a civil constitutional President smells of corruption all the way to the Castle.
After eleven and a half years of the ‘Gospel According to Jerry Rawlings,’ a period he himself identified as the ‘culture of silence’, Jerry Rawlings and those who claim to believe in him used the resources of state to convert his military oligarchy and the entire governance system into a political party. With the Electoral Commission and the entire process under his thumb, Jerry Rawlings exchanged his military garb for a description as Constitutional President of the Republic of Ghana. God Almighty should remain where he is.
The eight year administration he led, as Constitutional President of this Republic, eulogised corruption as a state-sponsored event. State asserts were transferred to cronies under the guise of divestiture. As you read this piece, Nsawam Cannery, one of the flagship projects of the now defunct Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation, belongs to Caridem, a company floated by Mrs. Rawlings’ 31st December Women’s Movement, in a purchasing agreement that parceled the company to Caridem for a pittance.
Under the Government of the National Democratic Congress Mark One, corruption festered on a large scale. It would take volumes to chronicle corruption under the NDC. But four prominent issues stand out. Getting to the end of the first term of office, newspapers that had been freed from the bondage of the culture of silence began chronicling evidence of corrupt deals by leading members of the regime.
In 1996, the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice investigated one matter and established massive corrupt deals against Ibrahim Adam, then Minister of Agriculture, Colonel E.M. Osei Owusu, a former Minister of the Interior, P.V. Obeng, a Presidential Staffer, and Dr. Adjei Marfo, a Chief Executive Officer of a state-run company.
Instead of prosecuting them, the Government of Saint Rawlings rather issued a While Paper exonerating the corrupt elements, and rather indicted the media for highlighting the issue.
In Britain, Mabey and Johnson was prosecuted not too long ago for corruptly influencing Ghanaian politicians between 1994 and 1999 to gain bridge contracts, The news in these contracts is that barely one year after completing two bridges in Ghana, including one over River Oti, the Ghana Government had to contract experts from Britain to repair them as they threatened to cave in.
In 2002, the former Managing Director of Ghana Rubber Estates Limited, Mr. Etienne Arthur Marie Popeler, told an Accra Fast Track High Court that he gave millions of dollars to Mr. Dan Abodakpi, then Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Shirley Ayittey, then Treasurer of the 31st December Women’s Movement, in bribes before his French company, SIPH, could secure GREL.
The case of Ms. Cotton, an unemployed American, secured $20 million of scarce state cash from compromised state officials, ostensibly to grow rice for Ghanaians at Aveyime in the Battor area of the Volta Region. Even when Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States had sent a warning letter about the background of Ms. Cotton, and intimating that she was incapable of undertaking the task, state officials paid the money. As it turned out, the main motivating factor was the cut they all stood to make.
If corruption is endemic in the body politic after the so-called June 4, uprising, the genesis could be traced to Jerry Rawlings who executed eight Ghanaians officials on unproven trivial charges, and out-doored full- blown corruption as a state policy.
In other exposé next week, I intend to draw the link between the free for all looting that assails the body politic in the Mills-Mahama regime, and the adventure of Jerry John Rawlings as Head of State of this Republic. I shall return!
BE SMART 10 years ago

WHY ALL THIS RUBBISH,YOU SEE THE WAY YOU ARE PANTING PRINCE,WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS DOGGING FROM THE TRUTH WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT KUFFOUR WAS RECEIVING KICK BACKS IN THE CASTLE.KUFFOUR AS HE RESUME OFFICE IN 2000,HE TOLD THE WHOLE ...
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WHY ALL THIS RUBBISH,YOU SEE THE WAY YOU ARE PANTING PRINCE,WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS DOGGING FROM THE TRUTH WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT KUFFOUR WAS RECEIVING KICK BACKS IN THE CASTLE.KUFFOUR AS HE RESUME OFFICE IN 2000,HE TOLD THE WHOLE WORLD THAT HE WILL RULE FROM HIS HOUSE AND YOU PEOPLE IN NPP SUPPORTED HIM ONLY TO OUR(GHANAIANS) REALISATION THAT HE HAS RENOVATED HIS HOUSE WITH OUR MONEY,BUT WHEN ASK THE SOURCE OF FUNDING WE WERE ONLY TOLD THAT A FARMER FUNDED THE RENOVATION.AFTER THE RENOVATION WAS COMPLETED HE LATER SAID HE WILL MOVE TO THE CASTLE,AND AGAIN TOOK GARGANTUAN MONEY TO RENOVATE THE CASTLE.A PLACE WHERE RAWLINGS YOU ARE RUBBISHING WAS RULING THE COUNTRY FROM.AS IF IT WAS NOT ENOUGH TO KILL OUR ECONOMY,HE KUFFOUR LEAD HIS OTHER CRIMINALS TO SELL THE DRILL SHIP TO USE THE PROCEEDS FOR THEIR SELFISH INTEREST.CHANGING OUR CURRENCY TO THE NEW GHANA CEDIS WAS ALSO A PLATFORM FOR KUFFOUR AND HIS PEOPLE TO LOOT THE COUNTRY.IF YOU ARE DOUBTING ME
1.HOW MUCH MONEY(OLD CURRENCY)WAS RETRIEVE FROM THE SYSTEM.
2.HOW MUCH MONEY(NEW CURRENCY)WAS EJECTED INTO THE SYSTEM.
WAS HE KUFFOUR GAVE US ANY ACCOUNT BUT PRETENDEDLY CREATED ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE.
zz 10 years ago

Justice Atuguba is kcte bctc

Justice Atuguba is kcte bctc
KOMBIAN 10 years ago

Rawlings referred to Kufuor as Atta Ayi. He will soon refer to John Mahama as KOMBIAN

Rawlings referred to Kufuor as Atta Ayi. He will soon refer to John Mahama as KOMBIAN
Thief-Mahama 10 years ago

Bad leadership in Ghana was started by Nkrumah. In fact all our problems started with him. Nkrumah was a dictator and very ambitious. He introduced one party rule in Ghana and made himself life president. He was neither carin ...
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Bad leadership in Ghana was started by Nkrumah. In fact all our problems started with him. Nkrumah was a dictator and very ambitious. He introduced one party rule in Ghana and made himself life president. He was neither caring, compassionate, visionary, smart nor politically savvy. Most of the things he took credit for had been started by the British, our colonial masters. For instance Tema Motorway was on the drawing board when he took over and Akosombo Dam was not his brainchild. KNUST was established by Asantehene and the British. Surprisingly, most of the things he takes credit for were never initiated by him

Independence, for instance, was sought for by many and achieved under the aegis and cunningness of Kofi Nwiah, trickster and schemer extraordinaire. Well, all along I have been asking how and under what circumstances "Francis Kofi Nwiah" was able to change his name to "Kwame Nkrumah". I know that it is permissible for anybody to change his name anytime he or she wishes but it is strange and beyond comprehension for one to change his birthday from Friday to Saturday ie from Kofi to Kwame. This is what makes me suspicious of Kofi Nwiah or Kwame Nkrumah. He claimed that his date of birth was 21st September 1909. This day according to the 20th century Calendar was a Tuesday!!! So was Nkrumah born on a Tuesday, a Friday or a Saturday? We must find out what he was up to with all these very strange findings. He was indeed cunning and only preyed on the emotions of the Ghanaian masses. It was my wish that president Mills would set up a committee to investigate before declaring Nkrumah's "unknown" birthday a holiday.

When he took over we had trade surplus running into millions of Pound Sterling but when he was forced out we had a trade deficit of several million pounds sterling!! This was the result of bad governance. He should have been overthrown earlier than 1966. We all saw good governance under K4. To me K4 is the best president Ghana has ever had. Kuffour is the greatest. We thank Kotoka and Afrifa for stoping the dictator in his tracks. Ayekoo Kotoka and Afrifa. Kotoka AirPort should never be renamed.
Analyst 10 years ago

Mr Awuku's dishonesty is clearly seen in him accepting one side of Rawlings' claim and rejecting the other.

Mr Awuku's dishonesty is clearly seen in him accepting one side of Rawlings' claim and rejecting the other.
kwaku prince 10 years ago

hello ghana. politice is game which every one to win the best, you not see nelson mandala?he win his game his life and his peoples the same time his country and the world.gh.politians they chalege their slfe and no provement ...
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hello ghana. politice is game which every one to win the best, you not see nelson mandala?he win his game his life and his peoples the same time his country and the world.gh.politians they chalege their slfe and no provement way? fight for curruption is better for our country and you can see forward not backwards stop to insult ashantis.ashantis is not the problem of ghana.it is the leader you chose for self.
Louis 10 years ago

I think Mahama does not have the "fire-power" in him to vigorously fight corruption. It seems to me, he is overwhelmed by events. He is indeed too easy-going. One expects that, as a president, when you speak, something MUST h ...
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I think Mahama does not have the "fire-power" in him to vigorously fight corruption. It seems to me, he is overwhelmed by events. He is indeed too easy-going. One expects that, as a president, when you speak, something MUST happen and happen to achieve the desired goal. May God have mercy on us.
MAHAMADU KONTOLI KOKU 10 years ago

HAS THIS MAN FORGOTTEN THAT MAHAMA IS A BREED OF NDC. WHO MADE HIM THE DEPUTY MINISTER FOR COMMS. WAS RAWLINGS ASLEEP WHEN MAHAMA WAS VOTED IN BOLE BAMBOI. WE WILL BOO AT MAHAMA IN PUBLIC THESE DAYS. AS FOR RAWLINGS ......... ...
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HAS THIS MAN FORGOTTEN THAT MAHAMA IS A BREED OF NDC. WHO MADE HIM THE DEPUTY MINISTER FOR COMMS. WAS RAWLINGS ASLEEP WHEN MAHAMA WAS VOTED IN BOLE BAMBOI. WE WILL BOO AT MAHAMA IN PUBLIC THESE DAYS. AS FOR RAWLINGS ...........I DOUBT WHETHER HE WILL BE FORGIVEN
Quransha 10 years ago

AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am c ...
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AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am compelled to do this expose on the former junta head for those who do not know his role in promoting corruption as a national concept. Read on!
In June 1979, eight top military officers, including three former heads of state, were lined up and executed at the Teshie Military Firing range in two batches. Gen. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Gen. Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo, Gen. Robert Kotei, Lt-Gen. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa, Rear Admiral Joy Amedume, Air Vice-Marshall George Yaw Boakye, Emmanuel K. Utuka and Colonel Roger Felli were accused of corrupting the body politic.
In an interview with New Nation, a monthly magazine circulating in Nigeria and now defunct, the Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which supervised over the most famous case of extra-judicial killings in the history of the political evolution of Ghana, justified the action of his military junta as a necessary action to rid the body politic of corruption.
“They were jumbo-sized armed robbers whose killings left the world smelling nicer,” Flt-Lt. Rawlings was quoted by the magazine as saying in explanation.
Jerry Rawlings said the officers had to be killed, “because Ghana was faced with their type of thievery breed of criminals who were worse than Nigeria’s armed robbers” in the 1970s.
“Now, I’ll tell you what we have here. We have a breed that is, perhaps, worse than your armed robbers,” he told reporters of the New Nation in an exclusive interview. “They are the pen robbers. These species of vermin have for long perpetrated corruption with impunity.
“They have not only bled the nation white, but as a result of their thievery, Ghana has suffered hunger, loss of national spirit, loss of pride and respect in the military uniform. So, as you can see, while Nigerians have perceived their main social problems to be the proliferation of six Naira armed robbers, we, in Ghana, think that our problem is that of people who take widow’s mite from a bankrupt nation.”
In the words of the ex-junta head: “While you (Nigeria) content yourself at the Bar Beach by watching the executions of mal-adjusted labourers, mechanics or clerks, we in Ghana, have killed the jumbo armed robbers, call them generals or brigadiers – whose going to leave the world smelling sweeter.”
One interesting thing about this claim is that Jerry Rawlings and his righteous AFRC members could not account for monies lodged in AFRC Account 48, which was specially created to lodge huge monies paid by businessmen and other persons and institutions found guilty by a so-called people court to have corrupted the system. Monies from seized goods auctioned to the public at so-called control prices were also lodged in the account.
When President Hilla Limann took power after the AFRC had left the scene on September 24, 1979, the new Head of State complained that there was nothing in the coffers, insinuating that the famous Account 48 could not be traced.
When Flt-Lt. Rawlings, who had refused to accept the new government’s offer to go on course abroad, was questioned on the disappearance of the huge lodgings in the account, he replied that he was not an accountant. Incidentally, the fate of PNDC Account 48, established by the second junta led by the same person, has not been accounted for as you read this piece.
One of the most interesting developments in Ghana’s political evolution was the decision to abolish the General Certificate of Examinations -Ordinary and Advanced levels- by the Provisional National Defence Council. The main reason given was that the old educational system had favoured only the children of the elite class.
At a time ordinary folks of the land were enrolling their children in what became known as the Junior and Senior Secondary schools, whose certificates -BECE and SCCE- were not recognised beyond the four corners of the country, Jerry Rawlings enrolled his children at the expensive Ghana International School in Accra to read subjects that qualified them to sit for the GCE Ordinary and the Advanced levels his PNDC administration had prohibited the mass of Ghanaian children from.
I do not believe corruption is only putting state money in one’s pocket. Exploiting state resources for one’s advantage could even be a worse form of corruption. That is why I have an axe to grind with Jerry Rawlings for enrolling all his children abroad to study with the GCE Ordinary and Advanced levels, acquired outside the formal sector in the country.
What I call Jerry’s Stupid Schools has debased education up to the tertiary level, where lottery numbers, other than real academic work, determines qualification at the first degree level.
To add insult to injury, when asked to tell Ghanaians how he was funding the education of all the three children -Ezanator, YaaAsantewaa and Kimathi- in expensive universities in Britain and Ireland, Jerry Rawlings looked at Ghanaians in the face and answered that unknown benefactors were picking up the bills for their fees.
The Almighty is a kind Lord. It emerged that companies the state of Ghana was dealing with and which were milking Ghana dry, were picking up the bills of Jerry Rawlings’ children. And such a person has the audacity to complain about leaders being corrupt.
I dare state that corruption was elevated into an art under Jerry Rawlings. The circumstances under which he transformed himself from a military dictator into a civil constitutional President smells of corruption all the way to the Castle.
After eleven and a half years of the ‘Gospel According to Jerry Rawlings,’ a period he himself identified as the ‘culture of silence’, Jerry Rawlings and those who claim to believe in him used the resources of state to convert his military oligarchy and the entire governance system into a political party. With the Electoral Commission and the entire process under his thumb, Jerry Rawlings exchanged his military garb for a description as Constitutional President of the Republic of Ghana. God Almighty should remain where he is.
The eight year administration he led, as Constitutional President of this Republic, eulogised corruption as a state-sponsored event. State asserts were transferred to cronies under the guise of divestiture. As you read this piece, Nsawam Cannery, one of the flagship projects of the now defunct Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation, belongs to Caridem, a company floated by Mrs. Rawlings’ 31st December Women’s Movement, in a purchasing agreement that parceled the company to Caridem for a pittance.
Under the Government of the National Democratic Congress Mark One, corruption festered on a large scale. It would take volumes to chronicle corruption under the NDC. But four prominent issues stand out. Getting to the end of the first term of office, newspapers that had been freed from the bondage of the culture of silence began chronicling evidence of corrupt deals by leading members of the regime.
In 1996, the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice investigated one matter and established massive corrupt deals against Ibrahim Adam, then Minister of Agriculture, Colonel E.M. Osei Owusu, a former Minister of the Interior, P.V. Obeng, a Presidential Staffer, and Dr. Adjei Marfo, a Chief Executive Officer of a state-run company.
Instead of prosecuting them, the Government of Saint Rawlings rather issued a While Paper exonerating the corrupt elements, and rather indicted the media for highlighting the issue.
In Britain, Mabey and Johnson was prosecuted not too long ago for corruptly influencing Ghanaian politicians between 1994 and 1999 to gain bridge contracts, The news in these contracts is that barely one year after completing two bridges in Ghana, including one over River Oti, the Ghana Government had to contract experts from Britain to repair them as they threatened to cave in.
In 2002, the former Managing Director of Ghana Rubber Estates Limited, Mr. Etienne Arthur Marie Popeler, told an Accra Fast Track High Court that he gave millions of dollars to Mr. Dan Abodakpi, then Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Shirley Ayittey, then Treasurer of the 31st December Women’s Movement, in bribes before his French company, SIPH, could secure GREL.
The case of Ms. Cotton, an unemployed American, secured $20 million of scarce state cash from compromised state officials, ostensibly to grow rice for Ghanaians at Aveyime in the Battor area of the Volta Region. Even when Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States had sent a warning letter about the background of Ms. Cotton, and intimating that she was incapable of undertaking the task, state officials paid the money. As it turned out, the main motivating factor was the cut they all stood to make.
If corruption is endemic in the body politic after the so-called June 4, uprising, the genesis could be traced to Jerry Rawlings who executed eight Ghanaians officials on unproven trivial charges, and out-doored full- blown corruption as a state policy.
In other exposé next week, I intend to draw the link between the free for all looting that assails the body politic in the Mills-Mahama regime, and the adventure of Jerry John Rawlings as Head of State of this Republic. I shall return!

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12-10 09:28

NDC TOO CORRUPT!! IS THIS
James K Adams 10 years ago

When one kills the soul of those killed wrongly starts to attack the one who killed him this is what is happening to Rawlings a disgrace a wicker leader.

When one kills the soul of those killed wrongly starts to attack the one who killed him this is what is happening to Rawlings a disgrace a wicker leader.
Kwame Kofigah 10 years ago

See you soon during the next election petition. Hahaha.

See you soon during the next election petition. Hahaha.
still rastafari 10 years ago

how cld an easygoing lead a nation???

how cld an easygoing lead a nation???
still rastafari 10 years ago

rawlings is so inconsistent & childish

rawlings is so inconsistent & childish
Santa 10 years ago

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... shut up!!

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... shut up!!
kb 10 years ago

Please countryman let us stop talking against and the blame politic and find a lasting solution our country problem. I head of SNIT/MERCHANT BANK problem infact this information made my spirit goes down.If steps are not taken ...
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Please countryman let us stop talking against and the blame politic and find a lasting solution our country problem. I head of SNIT/MERCHANT BANK problem infact this information made my spirit goes down.If steps are not taken on time and things went offtract like what is happening now in Egypt it will end in civil war.
ME 10 years ago

YOU AND YOUR OKRO MOUTH AGAIN.

YOU AND YOUR OKRO MOUTH AGAIN.
Whatever 10 years ago

Was it Mills or Mahama that Rawlings described as easygoing? Can't these NPP people read and write too? In any case, a quality of being easygoing is even a positive quality so whats the problem? I don't even see the head or t ...
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Was it Mills or Mahama that Rawlings described as easygoing? Can't these NPP people read and write too? In any case, a quality of being easygoing is even a positive quality so whats the problem? I don't even see the head or tail of these illogical reactions
Notorous peoples party(NPP) 10 years ago

NPP IS FULL OF IDIOTS,FORMER PRESIDENT JJ WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID KUFFOUR REGIME WAS THE MOST CORRUPT.WE WERE ALL IN GHANA HERE WHEN ONE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF NPP SAID KUFFOUR WAS IN CASTLE TAKING KICK BACKS.KUFFOUR USING THE NAT ...
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NPP IS FULL OF IDIOTS,FORMER PRESIDENT JJ WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID KUFFOUR REGIME WAS THE MOST CORRUPT.WE WERE ALL IN GHANA HERE WHEN ONE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF NPP SAID KUFFOUR WAS IN CASTLE TAKING KICK BACKS.KUFFOUR USING THE NATION'S MONEY TO BUY CHAINS TO DECORATE HIMSELF.AS IF THAT WAS NOT ENOUGHT, USE OUR MONEY FOR WOMANIZING THUS GIVING BITRTH TO TWINS.KUFFOUR INDEED WAS A CRIMINAL IN DISQUISE.
AKONFEM JDM ATOPAHENE 10 years ago

JJ,MAHAMA ARE CRIMINALS AND NUMBER ONE CORRUPTS PREZ IN GHANA HISTOTY,WHAT A SHAMEEEEEEEEM

JJ,MAHAMA ARE CRIMINALS AND NUMBER ONE CORRUPTS PREZ IN GHANA HISTOTY,WHAT A SHAMEEEEEEEEM
AKONFEM JDM ATOPAHENE 10 years ago

GOD BLESS YOU,WISE,GREAT,MAN BE BOOOOOOLD,NO BOGAWAYA,KEEPT IT UP BRO

GOD BLESS YOU,WISE,GREAT,MAN BE BOOOOOOLD,NO BOGAWAYA,KEEPT IT UP BRO
dani 10 years ago

The Israeli parliament has passed a law to keep illegal africans in detention for up to a year. Hmm!! Friends of apartheid.

The Israeli parliament has passed a law to keep illegal africans in detention for up to a year. Hmm!! Friends of apartheid.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

What actually baffled me is that with all the so called thievery and corruption under K4, people did not complain of any hardship. In fact, people felt K4 came to bring some relieve to them. If this gvt is able to do half of ...
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What actually baffled me is that with all the so called thievery and corruption under K4, people did not complain of any hardship. In fact, people felt K4 came to bring some relieve to them. If this gvt is able to do half of what npp did, the nation would moved fwd. I think all those backing what jj said are living in another planet not in my Ghana where my family lives.
NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY 10 years ago

Look at his nose, like his diseased balls stuck on his face.

NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY

Look at his nose, like his diseased balls stuck on his face.

NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY

Ghana is in trouble if Mahama is easygoing - Awuku

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