I can pray for Aboadze Thermal Plant to work – Pastor

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Kwame 10 years ago

How about praying that no more Idiots are born. Some people should just not be allowed to reproduce.

How about praying that no more Idiots are born. Some people should just not be allowed to reproduce.
IBM 10 years ago

It is very sad to know that some people are still backward; blaming everything to supernatural forces! Please, let's solve the technical problems, and that will be it!

African governments, please, educate your people. PLEA ...
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It is very sad to know that some people are still backward; blaming everything to supernatural forces! Please, let's solve the technical problems, and that will be it!

African governments, please, educate your people. PLEASE!!!
Don Blunt 10 years ago

You just can't stop shaking your Head!
In which century do we find Ghana at all?

No wonder my blood pressure soars whenever I read these things, and listen to how a few Ghanaians take the rest of the nation for brainless ...
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You just can't stop shaking your Head!
In which century do we find Ghana at all?

No wonder my blood pressure soars whenever I read these things, and listen to how a few Ghanaians take the rest of the nation for brainless fools

We have a lot of problems address. We spend much more money to tackle a problem, but dishonestly steal more than half of the officially announced funding for that project. Then we present a mockery of a technical plant as "THE SOLUTION". Just to watch it blow up in our face, before it begins to operate.
Loss of life and resources. But we always know the faults: "BAYIE", witches, evil spirits, God, and whatnots. Most importantly, we must never tell the truth. Therefore Mallams, Priests, Pastors and Prophets, as well as all those shady elements, come and tell us what went wrong.
Nana 10 years ago

The Minister goes along with the supernatural nonsense. OMG, what have we done to deserve such people as ministers? Buah, his former boss Oteng Adjei, Rashid Pelpuo, Oye Lithur, Tekper, Hannah Tetteh, etc. The CRAZY GANG who ...
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The Minister goes along with the supernatural nonsense. OMG, what have we done to deserve such people as ministers? Buah, his former boss Oteng Adjei, Rashid Pelpuo, Oye Lithur, Tekper, Hannah Tetteh, etc. The CRAZY GANG who are taking Ghana to the cleaners or rather to the mad house.
consider 10 years ago

this time not presidents and ministers will doe ooo,, it's machines to work

this time not presidents and ministers will doe ooo,, it's machines to work
Shamu 10 years ago

I will like to tell Ghanaians that, the pastor offering prayers is a good idea, but should not make it on himself. If he was to generalize his idea, that would have been better. He should not make himself special when it come ...
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I will like to tell Ghanaians that, the pastor offering prayers is a good idea, but should not make it on himself. If he was to generalize his idea, that would have been better. He should not make himself special when it comes to this this point. Gone are the days when people just tell lies and be giving opportunity to do whatever they want by stealing money from people in the name of God. In some cases we need to go back in to our own tradition to apply things the way we believe in. In reality that do not means believe in gods better rather just a simple poor larbation.
Gaius HO 10 years ago

Another 419 and fake pastor.i saw him yesterday on TV demanding for car before going there to pray.how many of this fake things have we not seen in this country.pls TV and radio stations stop making them popular.There are Afa ...
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Another 419 and fake pastor.i saw him yesterday on TV demanding for car before going there to pray.how many of this fake things have we not seen in this country.pls TV and radio stations stop making them popular.There are Afake.
ghanaba 10 years ago

give us the scripture for interceding publicly on thermal plants and we shall help you dear pastor. this has nothing to do with a pastor. even when you have that capacity, which will never come from God, how can you prove to ...
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give us the scripture for interceding publicly on thermal plants and we shall help you dear pastor. this has nothing to do with a pastor. even when you have that capacity, which will never come from God, how can you prove to the world your fervent prayer and its effectiveness. you may refer to elijah and that will bring you future troubles, when the assembled thermal plant shall be definitely consumed ( from the picture it is already on fire since).if a sane minister or authority will dare even his presence for the said ritual, then the problem is no more technical but lunatic.
m.m Hamburg 10 years ago

Africans wake up. stop this rubbish just make a good service of plant and stop talking nonsense

Africans wake up. stop this rubbish just make a good service of plant and stop talking nonsense
Osofo 10 years ago

Since when does somebody ask permission to pray? Prayers alone won't fix the plant.

Since when does somebody ask permission to pray? Prayers alone won't fix the plant.
NAKED 10 years ago

Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch ...
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Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism.

Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a landmass three and a half times the size of Germany, is a land-locked largely Saharan Desert country in the center of western Africa, bordered by Algeria to its north, Mauritania to its west, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Niger to its southern part. People I know who have spent time there before the recent US-led efforts at destabilization called it one of the most peaceful and beautiful places on earth, the home of Timbuktu. Its people are some ninety percent Muslim of varying persuasions. It has a rural subsistence agriculture and adult illiteracy of nearly 50%. Yet this country is suddenly the center of a new global “war on terror.”

On January 20 Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron announced his country’s curious resolve to dedicate itself to deal with “the terrorism threat” in Mali and north Africa. Cameron declared, “It will require a response that is about years, even decades, rather than months, and it requires a response that…has an absolutely iron resolve…” [1] Britain in its colonial heyday never had a stake in Mali. Until it won independence in 1960, Mali was a French colony.

On January 11, after more than a year of behind-the-scenes pressure on the neighboring Algeria to get them entangled in an invasion of its neighbor Mali, Hollande decided to make a direct French military intervention with US backing. His government launched air strikes in the rebel-held north of Mali against a fanatical Salafist band of jihadist cutthroats calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic-Mahgreb (AQIM). The pretext for the seemingly swift French action was a military move by a tiny group of Islamic Jihadists of the Tuareg people, Asnar Dine, affiliated with the larger AQIM. On January 10 Asnar Dine – backed by other Islamist groups – attacked the southern town of Konna. That marked the first time since the Tuareg rebellion in early 2012 that Jihadist rebels moved out of traditional Tuareg territory in the northern desert to spread Islamic law to the south of Mali.

As French journalist Thierry Meyssan noted, French forces were remarkably well prepared: “The transitional President, Dioncounda Traore, declared a state of emergency and called to France for help. Paris intervened within hours to prevent the fall of the capital, Bamako. Far-sightedly, the Elysée had already pre-positioned in Mali troops from the 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (“the Colonials”) and the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, helicopters from the COS (Special Operations Command), three Mirage 2000D’s, two Mirage F-1’s, three C135’s, a C130 Hercules and a C160 Transall.” [2] What a convenient coincidence.

By January 21 US Air Force transport planes began delivering hundreds of French elite soldiers and military equipment to Mali, ostensibly to roll back what we were told was an out-of-control terrorist advance south towards the Mali capital. [3] French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told media the number of its ‘boots on the ground’ in Mali had reached 2,000, adding that “around 4,000 troops will be mobilized for this operation,” in Mali and outside bases. [4]

But there are strong indications the French agenda in Mali is anything but humanitarian. In a France 5 TV interview, Le Drian carelessly admitted, “The goal is the total reconquest of Mali. We will not leave any pockets.” And President Francois Hollande said French troops would remain in the region long enough “to defeat terrorism.” The United States, Canada, Britain, Belgium, Germany and Denmark have all said they would support the French operation against Mali. [5]

Mali itself, like much of Africa is rich in raw materials. It has large reserves of gold, uranium and most recently, though western oil companies try to hide it, of oil, lots of oil. The French preferred to ignore Mali’s vast resources, keeping it a poor subsistence agriculture country. Under the deposed democratically-elected President Amadou Toumani Toure, for the first time the government initiated a systematic mapping of the vast wealth under its soil. According to Mamadou Igor Diarra, previous mining minister, Malian soil contains copper, uranium, phosphate, bauxite, gems and in particular, a large percentage of gold in addition to oil and gas. Thus, Mali is one of the countries in the world with the most raw materials. With its gold mining, the country is already one of the leading exploiters directly behind South Africa and Ghana. [6] Two thirds of France’s electricity is from nuclear power and sources of new uranium are essential. Presently, France draws significant uranium imports from neighboring Niger.

Now the picture gets a little complex.

According to usually reliable former US military experts with direct familiarity with the region, speaking on condition of anonymity, US and NATO Special Forces actually trained the same “terrorist” bands now justifying a neo-colonial US-backed invasion of Mali by France. The major question is why would Washington and Paris train the terrorists they are now acting to destroy in a “war on terror?” Were they really surprised at the lack of NATO loyalty from their trainees? And what is behind AFRICOM’s American-backed French takeover of Mali?
SAMPSON 10 years ago

Well,well,well.Pastor,you may be right but.Remember the bible tells us that we should give unto Ceasar what belongs to Ceasar and unto God what belongs to God.Don´t we have our ancestors gods before the coming of christianit ...
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Well,well,well.Pastor,you may be right but.Remember the bible tells us that we should give unto Ceasar what belongs to Ceasar and unto God what belongs to God.Don´t we have our ancestors gods before the coming of christianity into this country? Please let be careful of some of these things.They have been part and parcel of our society and shall forever remained.What about praying for some of your people who are seducing married women and ingaging in criminal activities?
John Morgan 10 years ago

So where were all those african spirits when we were being colonze and enslave by the whites?

So where were all those african spirits when we were being colonze and enslave by the whites?
Don Blunt 10 years ago

Do you think the whites are the cause of our inability to use our own brains?

When the colonial whites left the shores of Ghana, they accounted for some positive millions in our Bank Accounts.
Nearly sixty years later, w ...
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Do you think the whites are the cause of our inability to use our own brains?

When the colonial whites left the shores of Ghana, they accounted for some positive millions in our Bank Accounts.
Nearly sixty years later, we go round the world begging for charity. Our own BLACK leaders steal whatever they can carry, caring less for the rest of the nation, telling us to blame the white for our woes.
John Morgan 10 years ago

My problem is with the traditional leaders in Ghana and Africa and some of our tradions which have no place in this modern world.

My problem is with the traditional leaders in Ghana and Africa and some of our tradions which have no place in this modern world.
Don Blunt 10 years ago

Well, our traditional leaders of long ago were able to preserve our forests, our wild, and natural resources. Without formal education.
Our so called "educated" elites have made us believe that our own traditions have no pl ...
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Well, our traditional leaders of long ago were able to preserve our forests, our wild, and natural resources. Without formal education.
Our so called "educated" elites have made us believe that our own traditions have no place in this modern world, because we are now enjoying the comfort of mobile phones and laptops, as well as private vehicles. One's wealth is displayed through their mansions, the type(s) of vehicles they possess, etc.

With all this, people die for lack of adequate medicare. people offer themselves as 'modern slaves' for a ball of Kenkey. And the very people using dubious and/or corrupt means to enrich themselves at the cost of the rest of us, tell us we should abolish our traditions.
Sadly, they get enough hungry people to carry out their warped ideas
John Morgan 10 years ago

I like comment, but how can we get electricity by perfoming some rituals?

I like comment, but how can we get electricity by perfoming some rituals?
Don Blunt 10 years ago

Our 'uneducated' old people trusted our elites.
Instead of using our assets to build and operate technically reliable plants to solve our problems, our elite, believing they are the only wise people, steal part of the money ...
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Our 'uneducated' old people trusted our elites.
Instead of using our assets to build and operate technically reliable plants to solve our problems, our elite, believing they are the only wise people, steal part of the money, and present us inferior quality stuff.
Can we blame the old man who wholeheartedly trust our lerned leaders, and believe what these people have to tell us? You and I may know that the plant is technically dangerous, but the Polititian tells the villagers "This is the most modern technology", and the villagers believe him. Now when such a 'NEW' thing all of a sudden explodes, can you blame the old man for suspecting some evil spirits?

If, as you say, we want to get electricity, then the only right thing to do is to grasp the balls of our political leaders. Unfortunately, we almost always blame the other political party and their members.
John Morgan 10 years ago

Don Blunt, i like your comments. My only fear and problem is for more than 50yrs after independence we still depend on white people for most of our infrastructural, social and economic needs. My question is if there are no wh ...
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Don Blunt, i like your comments. My only fear and problem is for more than 50yrs after independence we still depend on white people for most of our infrastructural, social and economic needs. My question is if there are no white people in this world how would Ghanaians and Africans live like?
LARYEAH 10 years ago

ANOTHER EWE FOOL, SO WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ATOA NYAMAA AND TRIGARI gods? ARE THEY DEAD NOW? IF SO WHAT YEAR AND TIME OF THE MONTH DID ALL THE AFRICAN gods DIE. THE TRUTH IS THAT, THERE IS ONLY ONE AFRICAN GOD, THE ONLY POTENT ...
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ANOTHER EWE FOOL, SO WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ATOA NYAMAA AND TRIGARI gods? ARE THEY DEAD NOW? IF SO WHAT YEAR AND TIME OF THE MONTH DID ALL THE AFRICAN gods DIE. THE TRUTH IS THAT, THERE IS ONLY ONE AFRICAN GOD, THE ONLY POTENTATE ON HIGH, THE ALL MIGHTY GOD MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.
Nana 10 years ago

This is 2013, and Ghana is thinking about gods and dead people who are now electrical engineers who does not want a power plant to work because, they want what.
plan incompetence of our leaders, when are we going to start lo ...
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This is 2013, and Ghana is thinking about gods and dead people who are now electrical engineers who does not want a power plant to work because, they want what.
plan incompetence of our leaders, when are we going to start looking forward, didn't we head what Nkrumah.
when are we going to stop thinking like that.
Joseph Baffoe 10 years ago

Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and what's God's give to him. Why do we down grade own Culture ?Please Energy Minister please go ahead and do it. Take a cue from ex-Ankobra River Ship of defunct BlackStar Line 's Captain w ...
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Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and what's God's give to him. Why do we down grade own Culture ?Please Energy Minister please go ahead and do it. Take a cue from ex-Ankobra River Ship of defunct BlackStar Line 's Captain who said he was a Christian, so would not perform its yearly ritual,what happened to him and his crew on board the ship. That's why Ankobra ship was first to be sold. Minister go ahead ,as done at Atuabo and there had no problem.
Dhuruwah 10 years ago

Joseph, Ankobra River was sold because it was as old as methuselah. The Captain and his crew did not vanish into thin air. It was first to be sold because one of the ships had to go. Now tell me where are those ships that the ...
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Joseph, Ankobra River was sold because it was as old as methuselah. The Captain and his crew did not vanish into thin air. It was first to be sold because one of the ships had to go. Now tell me where are those ships that they poured juju on them. They all went soon after. An explosion in a thermal plant can happen regardless due to incompetency or simply lack of cooling or control. Ankobra, BULL
Alhaji Pope 10 years ago

Africans, where were these gods when the western world were brutalising us, in our own soil? At this modern age instead of thinking and researching into how things work, we are killing others for juju money. Are we also human ...
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Africans, where were these gods when the western world were brutalising us, in our own soil? At this modern age instead of thinking and researching into how things work, we are killing others for juju money. Are we also human beings?
JB Ansong 10 years ago

You mean we need to appease gods and pray to God to have technology work?

Russians succesfully launched the Sputnik in the 60's. Americans folowed and went to the Moon. India, Iran and China followed, to the extent that Ch ...
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You mean we need to appease gods and pray to God to have technology work?

Russians succesfully launched the Sputnik in the 60's. Americans folowed and went to the Moon. India, Iran and China followed, to the extent that Chnina plans to build a station on the moon.

Apart from these extreme cases of technological advancement, thermal plants and even nuclear plants are scattered all over Europe, North America and Australia. These are countries who whould not spend 1 second to pour libation because they do not believe in such crap. Yet the plants function to the maximum.

Ghana has a very long way to go with such mindset as believing that a plant won't work until people pour libation.
ABU 10 years ago

What a disappointment we have you and your type among us.

What a disappointment we have you and your type among us.
KOJO 10 years ago

OUR PROBLEM IN GHANA IS, WE HAVE TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO EITHER HAVE NO BRAINS OR REFUSES TO THEM.

OUR PROBLEM IN GHANA IS, WE HAVE TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO EITHER HAVE NO BRAINS OR REFUSES TO THEM.
Sakawa Boy 10 years ago

Fake men of god

Fake men of god
Green Economy 10 years ago

Another way for chop,chop and incompetence on behalf of the government. Let them chop wawaa, They will surely vomit before exiting mother earth.

Another way for chop,chop and incompetence on behalf of the government. Let them chop wawaa, They will surely vomit before exiting mother earth.
KWAKU ASUMAH 10 years ago

So you foolish bastard think that Ghana is a "christian nation" Ghanaians now know what you fake pastors do to people. churching and pastoring is now a lucrative business for unfortunate people like you. I know the good gover ...
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So you foolish bastard think that Ghana is a "christian nation" Ghanaians now know what you fake pastors do to people. churching and pastoring is now a lucrative business for unfortunate people like you. I know the good government of this nation would not listen to your selfish bid to pray for your own country. you really have to travel across the country to see how fast religion like Islam, is growing before making foolish statement that Ghana is a "christian nation."
Kwame Angel 10 years ago

Some of these loose talkers , including the pastors and the chiefs need to be executed so Ghana can move on.

Some of these loose talkers , including the pastors and the chiefs need to be executed so Ghana can move on.
KFK 10 years ago

My dear in Christ, IF THE ALMIGHTY GOD HAS SHOWN YOU THE WAY OF SOLVING THE PROBLEM.PLEASE JUST DO IT IN HIS NAME. HOW MANY KILOMETERS AWAY DO U LIVE FROM THE PLANT? REMEMBER WHAT JESUS DID FOR U ON THE CROSS.

My dear in Christ, IF THE ALMIGHTY GOD HAS SHOWN YOU THE WAY OF SOLVING THE PROBLEM.PLEASE JUST DO IT IN HIS NAME. HOW MANY KILOMETERS AWAY DO U LIVE FROM THE PLANT? REMEMBER WHAT JESUS DID FOR U ON THE CROSS.
Interested Party 10 years ago

Sorry, did I hear the Pastor asking for transportation or access? At one service, his congregation could collect several times the money he needs for transport and lodging for the period he would need to pray. Let him come ag ...
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Sorry, did I hear the Pastor asking for transportation or access? At one service, his congregation could collect several times the money he needs for transport and lodging for the period he would need to pray. Let him come again!
Kofi kwame 10 years ago

To those calling for Ghana to go Neuclear energy,hmmmmm.

To those calling for Ghana to go Neuclear energy,hmmmmm.
Nii Oshiki 10 years ago

Some Africans are so stupid I can't help shaking my head when I read about them. Do Europeans pray for their nuclear plants to function properly? We need well trained scientists and not 419 pastors or senile chiefs.

Some Africans are so stupid I can't help shaking my head when I read about them. Do Europeans pray for their nuclear plants to function properly? We need well trained scientists and not 419 pastors or senile chiefs.
EZEKIEL 10 years ago

THIS IDIOT of a pastor thinks prayers can answer all questions! IDIOT, why don't you pray for our GUTTERS to go underground and our power supply CONSTANT ??
Idiot, let's SOLVE OUR TECH.INDUCED probplem by tech. means and pr ...
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THIS IDIOT of a pastor thinks prayers can answer all questions! IDIOT, why don't you pray for our GUTTERS to go underground and our power supply CONSTANT ??
Idiot, let's SOLVE OUR TECH.INDUCED probplem by tech. means and pray AFTERWARDS!!
What is the level of "CIVILISATION" in ghana at all ??? Sometimes, one really feels ashamed to be part of this generation.INSTEAD of ADVANCING spiritually and MORE so Technically,we are MARCHING BACKWARDS on both counts!!!!!!
Big Joe --- Moscow /Kharkov 10 years ago

Over 50 years of independent...Ghanaians pride of....and ...unable to differentiate reason from thinking .What have rituals to do with hi-tech in this century of digits. Ghana today can boost of over 30 Universities..so of ...
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Over 50 years of independent...Ghanaians pride of....and ...unable to differentiate reason from thinking .What have rituals to do with hi-tech in this century of digits. Ghana today can boost of over 30 Universities..so of what value is our technicians,degree holders,policy makers...?No rituals no Aboadze thermal power.?This is pure technical fault luking for tech solutions.. Nananom to hell this means our education system is pseudo
papillon 10 years ago

Trust God

Trust God
Jeff, UK 10 years ago

Stop this propaganda stunt and go ahead to pray. You are not going to do this to attract more worshippers to your church. Enough of this trash. The Chinese just put an unmanned spacecraft on the moon that is where the world i ...
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Stop this propaganda stunt and go ahead to pray. You are not going to do this to attract more worshippers to your church. Enough of this trash. The Chinese just put an unmanned spacecraft on the moon that is where the world is heading. Nobody is going to ask by what means GH got a thermal plant working. They will even laugh at it
ABU 10 years ago

ALWAYS PEDALLING BACKWARDS,AND WITH BRAIN DEAD LEADERS AT THE HELM OF AFFAIRS.HOW AND WHEN IS OUR TAKEOFF COMING?.

ALWAYS PEDALLING BACKWARDS,AND WITH BRAIN DEAD LEADERS AT THE HELM OF AFFAIRS.HOW AND WHEN IS OUR TAKEOFF COMING?.
chokor 10 years ago

Why do people fall for this nonsense. Instead of sending the right maintenance engineers to go and fix the broken plant, the energy minister is so dumb to give compensation to these useless chiefs. A stupid pastor also thinks ...
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Why do people fall for this nonsense. Instead of sending the right maintenance engineers to go and fix the broken plant, the energy minister is so dumb to give compensation to these useless chiefs. A stupid pastor also thinks his prayers will cause the plant to fix itself. When can we learn to take responsibility?
John Morgan 10 years ago

Ask and ask again. Sometimes i wonder what is wrong with the mind of Ghanaians and African people"s"...May be the Europeans shopuld come back and colonise them b'cos Africans are refusing to use their heads, only negative thi ...
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Ask and ask again. Sometimes i wonder what is wrong with the mind of Ghanaians and African people"s"...May be the Europeans shopuld come back and colonise them b'cos Africans are refusing to use their heads, only negative things they can sometimes do better, for example the tradition of trokosi if it's a tradition at all
Hazor 10 years ago

Has the God that annoint President Mahama to be president of Ghana has rejected or abandon him?.Has president Mahama realise gods and ancestors are powerful than the God he claim annoint him to president of GHana or using god ...
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Has the God that annoint President Mahama to be president of Ghana has rejected or abandon him?.Has president Mahama realise gods and ancestors are powerful than the God he claim annoint him to president of GHana or using gods and ancestors pacification to create,loot and share to enrich themselves.Yesterday President Mahama was expose in a ridicuous budget for brand Ghana of Ghc 600,000 without parliament endorsement through the presidency.Alex Mould too pure stealing and Emmanuel armah-Kofi Buah create his own ridiuous stealing in the name of "angry gods and ancestors" how ridicuous is that.Did all industrial accidents cause by gods and ancestrals on the land around the world?

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