NPP MP: Changing Castle in Coat of Arms is needless

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Whatever 10 years ago

Some in Ghana loves debating trivial issues

Some in Ghana loves debating trivial issues
Kondendiara Kakraba 10 years ago

It isn't just about discussion, it is finding every available loop-hole to milk the country dry. Wont it involve spending? Oyiwa!!

It isn't just about discussion, it is finding every available loop-hole to milk the country dry. Wont it involve spending? Oyiwa!!
Repugnant. 10 years ago

Are they going to change 'freedom and Justice' too, since there is none to senseless self government and corruption which is now the norm?

"The mind is a terrible thing to waste indeed."

Are they going to change 'freedom and Justice' too, since there is none to senseless self government and corruption which is now the norm?

"The mind is a terrible thing to waste indeed."
Ama Ghana 10 years ago

MP,well written.The castle is a historical building not only as a seat of government.The Coat of Arms should remain unaltered.

MP,well written.The castle is a historical building not only as a seat of government.The Coat of Arms should remain unaltered.
Good servant 10 years ago

I would say to politicians---do not destroy history let our children and their children know the history of the country

I would say to politicians---do not destroy history let our children and their children know the history of the country
IBM 10 years ago

If we want the future generation to learn about our sad history in order for them to know our stupidity that has made us the inferior race and also encourage them on how to rebuild the African pride then put these stuff in th ...
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If we want the future generation to learn about our sad history in order for them to know our stupidity that has made us the inferior race and also encourage them on how to rebuild the African pride then put these stuff in the text books and make that course compulsory to all Ghanaian student. How many people think about the content and implication of the coat of arm. We must be realistic!!!
Dhuruwah 10 years ago

The mothers (mother effers) changed the words to our National Anthem (Lift high the flag of Ghana) What a bunch. I have never a country in the whole world that changed the words to their national anthem but Ghana. It is no wo ...
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The mothers (mother effers) changed the words to our National Anthem (Lift high the flag of Ghana) What a bunch. I have never a country in the whole world that changed the words to their national anthem but Ghana. It is no wonder we are suffering. Now they talking changing the coat of arms?.
oppong london 10 years ago

ndc is visionless and useless,the only thing they can do is change of names,Rawlings the useless president stayed in the slave castle for 19 years without thinking of leaving there for a better place,because he has had no ide ...
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ndc is visionless and useless,the only thing they can do is change of names,Rawlings the useless president stayed in the slave castle for 19 years without thinking of leaving there for a better place,because he has had no idea of building even his own house.i pity for those who recognize rawlings as a thinkable being.ndc is full of idiots.
Dhuruwah 10 years ago

Oppong, so now the castle is a slave castle, so be it. Our own forefathers and chiefs sold our people to the white men, my friend. The NPP is full of Dwarf worshippers

Oppong, so now the castle is a slave castle, so be it. Our own forefathers and chiefs sold our people to the white men, my friend. The NPP is full of Dwarf worshippers
KnYc (USMC) 10 years ago

The NPP to you are full of Dwarf, but they were wiser than your jj the MORON,the Killer, Raw sh.it who spend 19 years without thinking of building a better house for the gov't. Until the NPP came to build a New building, and ...
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The NPP to you are full of Dwarf, but they were wiser than your jj the MORON,the Killer, Raw sh.it who spend 19 years without thinking of building a better house for the gov't. Until the NPP came to build a New building, and your NDC president corrupt mahama is enjoying it now.
UNMISGUIDED AFRICAN CHILD... 10 years ago

...nothing better to do?they should have a forum on why we are so far behind as a Race?.....and,if time permits:Discuss why Corruption appears
to be the only institution that works in Ghana.That will be time well spent than ...
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...nothing better to do?they should have a forum on why we are so far behind as a Race?.....and,if time permits:Discuss why Corruption appears
to be the only institution that works in Ghana.That will be time well spent than the castle debate.
GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

Especially as both NPP and NDC officials are both bedfellows in the most despicable corruption scandal the country has ever witnessed. 2.5% of the concession in the West Cape Three Points oil concession to the EO group, then ...
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Especially as both NPP and NDC officials are both bedfellows in the most despicable corruption scandal the country has ever witnessed. 2.5% of the concession in the West Cape Three Points oil concession to the EO group, then a registered company in Ghana. After much huffing and puffing from the NDC and the general outrage from the public, both the NPP and NDC played a cunning conjuring trick on the unsuspecting public.
The Mills administration and GNPC both consented to a Deed of Assignment for EO Group to assign its interest to the KG Group, a Cayman Islands exempted company. Incidentally the same George Owusu is the signatory for EO Group and KG Group. The end result is whereas we would have been able to track any funds going into a company registered in Ghana, no one will ever know what funds flow into the Cayman Island account. This is the loot bag that those NPP , NDC and GNPC officials stand to siphon off revenue from the nation's oil. And our so called Dr. Osei Akoto having shepherded the dodgy Petroleum Agreement through Parliament thinks the matter will never be resurrected. The day of reckoning is approaching. We have important matters to address indeed.
Ghana boy 10 years ago

this is sheer STUPIDNESS
we should be able to jail all those who had this idea.
there are far serious issues to think about and see what mediocrity is telling us

this is sheer STUPIDNESS
we should be able to jail all those who had this idea.
there are far serious issues to think about and see what mediocrity is telling us
Shabi 10 years ago

Yes there are other equally serious issues that need attention in this country and I think that the national coat of arms is certainly one of them.

The national coat of arms depicts the spirit, the substance and the histo ...
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Yes there are other equally serious issues that need attention in this country and I think that the national coat of arms is certainly one of them.

The national coat of arms depicts the spirit, the substance and the history that eventually evolved and shaped our national identity. It is not a trivial matter and even though I am not surprised, I am shocked that even an MP in the Parliament of Ghana thinks that a debate on the national coat of arms should be abandoned to the futile domains of academia.

To think that a whole director of the School of Marketing in Legon, the so-called premiere university of Ghana, cannot understand the intellectual and historical import of the icons in the national coat of arms and further proceeds to make silly, childish and daft propositions for alteration of this vital national emblem, only goes to prove how low we have sadly sunk as a country.
Independent 10 years ago

See how useless some in power can be. They want to be seen as doing something but they misfired on this trivial and non important issue. Our smart kindergarten kids are smarter than these wasted idiots.

See how useless some in power can be. They want to be seen as doing something but they misfired on this trivial and non important issue. Our smart kindergarten kids are smarter than these wasted idiots.
Opinionated 10 years ago

It is not the Castle folks.it is just symbolic.
WISE UP and think of important issues.

It is not the Castle folks.it is just symbolic.
WISE UP and think of important issues.
MARY 10 years ago

LOOK AT THIS STUPID DR OSEI AKOTO WHO
WENT AND BORROW MONEY FROM SALON SHOP WHEN HE WAS THE FINANCE MINISTER.HE IS NOW MAKING NOISE IN THE COUNTRY. HE SHOULD BE A ASHAMED OF HIMSELF AND THE NPP PARTY. HE THINKS GHANAIANS HAV ...
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LOOK AT THIS STUPID DR OSEI AKOTO WHO
WENT AND BORROW MONEY FROM SALON SHOP WHEN HE WAS THE FINANCE MINISTER.HE IS NOW MAKING NOISE IN THE COUNTRY. HE SHOULD BE A ASHAMED OF HIMSELF AND THE NPP PARTY. HE THINKS GHANAIANS HAVE GOTTEN
Shabi 10 years ago

Much as it is doubtless that the national coat of arms should remain as it is, Osei Akoto's suggestion that the debate should be left to academics is a most preposterous and dangerous suggestion.

When and where has academi ...
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Much as it is doubtless that the national coat of arms should remain as it is, Osei Akoto's suggestion that the debate should be left to academics is a most preposterous and dangerous suggestion.

When and where has academia in Ghana produced anything useful or sensible in this country? They cannot even produce useful, productive and employable graduates. It is not surprising that this debate, as senseless and as illiterate as it sounds and appears, came from those we erroneously refer to as academics.

The national coat of arms which, not surprisingly, was designed by a non-academic, gave us our national identity and we thank Amon Kotei for this wonderful,gift of life.

As intelligent as both Amon Kotei and Kwame Nkrumah, the then Prime Minister and a leading Pan Africanist, who approved and accepted the national coat of arms were, they obviously considered the insertion of an icon depicting a castle - note that I did not say 'THE' castle, as a reference to the painful reminder of long periods of our history of slavery and tyrannical colonial domination. And if Ghanaians were to take due note of this fact, we would not be in the mess that we find ourselves today.

The day when academics in Ghana will begin to make sensible interventions in the public domain, we will begin to respect and ask for their advice. Until then, they should just shut up and continue to day-dream in their ivory-tower.
Kobena 10 years ago

Another one of the dubious schemes to siphon off more of the taxpayer's money! Don't these clueless rogues have anything sensible to show for their miserable existence?

Another one of the dubious schemes to siphon off more of the taxpayer's money! Don't these clueless rogues have anything sensible to show for their miserable existence?
coolman 10 years ago

we are just out of our senses,look at makola and the street,Ghanaians shine your eyes

we are just out of our senses,look at makola and the street,Ghanaians shine your eyes
eofjfjnf 10 years ago

This guy should run for president. He is a smart NPP.

This guy should run for president. He is a smart NPP.
Kweku Ananse 10 years ago

Don´t we have better things to discuss than the Coat of Arms. When People are struggling to feed their families and others finding it tough to pay their children`s School fees U are talking about Coet of Arms, Nonsense, talk ...
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Don´t we have better things to discuss than the Coat of Arms. When People are struggling to feed their families and others finding it tough to pay their children`s School fees U are talking about Coet of Arms, Nonsense, talk about things that makes sense.
Sundiate Kurumanguru 10 years ago

Clean the Kole Lagoon. Accra stinks!!

Clean the Kole Lagoon. Accra stinks!!
Asante Kwame 10 years ago

What do you want from Ghanaians? To spoil the good work done by NDC and tell them NDC has done nothing, Oh! this matemeho party. Mind you, Anyone who voted for NDC in 2012 will still vote for NDC.

What do you want from Ghanaians? To spoil the good work done by NDC and tell them NDC has done nothing, Oh! this matemeho party. Mind you, Anyone who voted for NDC in 2012 will still vote for NDC.
EZEKIEL 10 years ago

This is a SOUND argument. There's NOTHING to change! Debate about the BEST APPROACH to solving the water supply,Stable electricity and cleaning our Capital of FILTH.....better than Coa-of-Arms talk!!!!
Akoto, this time you'r ...
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This is a SOUND argument. There's NOTHING to change! Debate about the BEST APPROACH to solving the water supply,Stable electricity and cleaning our Capital of FILTH.....better than Coa-of-Arms talk!!!!
Akoto, this time you're NOT talking like an NPP nation-destroyer BUT as a Ghanaian CITIZEN!!!THIS IS how it should be!
Johnny USA 10 years ago

WE HAVE A LOT TO THINK ABOUT .WHY NPP NOW PLAMMING NDC GOV FOR EVERYTHING.? COAT OF ARMS IS IT SO IMPORTANT NOW. ARE THE LAW MAKERS NOT THERE TO SEE TO THAT IN THE FURE.? PREZ MAHAMA IS ALSO TO BE BLAME FOR THAT?OH HOOOO!!! N ...
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WE HAVE A LOT TO THINK ABOUT .WHY NPP NOW PLAMMING NDC GOV FOR EVERYTHING.? COAT OF ARMS IS IT SO IMPORTANT NOW. ARE THE LAW MAKERS NOT THERE TO SEE TO THAT IN THE FURE.? PREZ MAHAMA IS ALSO TO BE BLAME FOR THAT?OH HOOOO!!! NPP WHAT A SHAME?YOU LOOSE ELECTION IN COURT AND CANT SLEEP MAKING YOU GUYS SO SICK TO DIE SOON. NPP LOOTERS WHERE IS THE DRILL SHIP? GOD WILL PERISH YOU NPP GUYS SURE.HATETRATE FOR NDC IS TOO MUCH.
ABONGOLAPUTA 10 years ago

I agree with Dr. Osei Akoto. Students are eating on the floor, lack of accommodation in our institutions, bad roads, lack of medicines in our hospitals, people are struggling to get employment etc, etc, these are pressing iss ...
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I agree with Dr. Osei Akoto. Students are eating on the floor, lack of accommodation in our institutions, bad roads, lack of medicines in our hospitals, people are struggling to get employment etc, etc, these are pressing issues which need attention instead of changing coat of arms. This will not solve our electricity situation in the country, the castle should be there, tomorrow will take care of itself.
J Ananga 10 years ago

Well spoken Mr MP. There are many issues to grapple with than this trivial issue. Whether it is on letter heads or not will that change the food I eat? Will that change my earning?

Well spoken Mr MP. There are many issues to grapple with than this trivial issue. Whether it is on letter heads or not will that change the food I eat? Will that change my earning?
Tawiah 10 years ago

Why are Ghanaians so ignorant and stupid to the extent that they will waste precious resources to discourse issues that has no bearing at all on our stupid poor selves. ANIMALS !GROW UP!

Why are Ghanaians so ignorant and stupid to the extent that they will waste precious resources to discourse issues that has no bearing at all on our stupid poor selves. ANIMALS !GROW UP!
Mensha 10 years ago

Part of the castle should be turned into a museum to raise some money for development.

Part of the castle should be turned into a museum to raise some money for development.
cobra 10 years ago

THIS IS A SENSIBLE ADVICE

THIS IS A SENSIBLE ADVICE
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

I whole-heartedly agree with Dr. Anthony OseI Akoto that changing the Castle in the Coat of Arms of Ghana is needless. It is extremely needless. The suggestion for the change apparently came from scholars who know very little ...
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I whole-heartedly agree with Dr. Anthony OseI Akoto that changing the Castle in the Coat of Arms of Ghana is needless. It is extremely needless. The suggestion for the change apparently came from scholars who know very little about our unique "collective historical monument". I challenge Drs. Bossman Asare
Margaret Amoakohene , and Dominic Fobih to read Albert van Danzig's Fort and Castles of Ghana. In the introduction, Prof. van Danzig writes "....a collective historical monument unique in the world: the ancient shopping street of West Africa". Stretched for about 300 miles along the coast were these these structures -historical monuments showing what the Europeans did to us. When are we going to teach our young ones about our holocaust?
Shame on Asare, Amoakohene and Fobih.
ALEENO 10 years ago

SHAME ON U NDC. PREPAID ELECTRICITY,PREPAID WATER WHAT WORLD. EVEN TOGO WE SUPPLY THEM ELECTRICITY NO PREPAID OVER THERE. SOON GHANAIANS U WILL SOON PREPAID TOILET TRUST ME.

SHAME ON U NDC. PREPAID ELECTRICITY,PREPAID WATER WHAT WORLD. EVEN TOGO WE SUPPLY THEM ELECTRICITY NO PREPAID OVER THERE. SOON GHANAIANS U WILL SOON PREPAID TOILET TRUST ME.

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