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Prayer alone won’t take Ghana anywhere – Kwesi Pratt

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  • ghana NE BA 10 years ago

    FOOLISH CUNT

  • Nzema K 10 years ago

    How could you call such a person Buulu. This you read to understand what kwesi said. Don't be silly next time.

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    ANATOMY OF A STOOPID GHANAIAN!
    A BETTER, PROSPEROUS, MODERN, FORWARD THINKING GH STARTS WITH YOU!
    IF YOUR LIVING SITUATION IS GOOD, THEN GHANA WILL BE GOOD.
    IF YOU ARE CONFUSED, DISORIENTED, UNORGANIZED, FEARFUL, IN DEBT/D ...
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  • Kabokabo 10 years ago

    Who turns the factories to churches? Churches has rather taken over some vacant buildings used for factory and as a result paying the rent to support the economy. Is it good for those buildings to be vacant or to be occupied? ...
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  • thuglife 10 years ago

    you are suffering from mental slavery

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    ALL GHPPL KNOW IS TALKING, PRAYING N DISTURBING GOD . THEY SHOULD DISCUSS IDEAS AND PUT THEM INTO PRACTICE

  • Kantanka. HH 10 years ago

    From today I will continue liking you for hitting sense in the brains of Ghanaians. You should however stop being vagabond in the various radio stations to eke a living . Thanks

  • KOJOVIE 10 years ago

    I AM SURE THIS MONEY KWASI PRATT DID NOT SOME. DANGEROUS POLITICIAN LIKE KWASI WOULD HAVE DEFENDED NDC IF HE GOT SOME OF THE MONEY.

  • Kwame Fred 10 years ago

    Some time ago, Ghana was producing its own fridges, shoes, corned beef, Akasanoma radios, batteries,etc and wonders how the country can develop when in recent times, there is no on-going production. Where are d factories? Tho ...
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  • Nii 10 years ago

    Kwasi when the founder of your PNDC/NDC and his gang of envious people went on rampage from 1979 to date destroying the hard toil investment of Ghanaians and foreign owned businesses and even the Kwame Nkrumah and Acheampong ...
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  • manchester 10 years ago

    good point but it is these corrupt npp/ndc who have caused all these problems.

  • Atugabiig 10 years ago

    This time around, I refuse to label Akwesi a buulu. What he is saying is true. Prayer is good, I believe in prayer but prayer does not answer EVERYTHING. Period.
    Why will the Bible admonish us that, "the hand that does not w ...
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  • Kwesi - USA 10 years ago

    Thank you Bro!

  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    ARE THE JAPANESE, GERMANS AND CHINESE PRAYING AND FASTING FOR SOLUTIONS TOT EIR PROBLEMS? NO ! THEY USE THEIR BRAINS. THE MOST PRAYERFUL NATIONS IN THE WORLD ARE GHANA AND NIGERIA, AND THEY ARE ALSO THE MOST CORRUPT. PRAYER S ...
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  • eric london 10 years ago

    Blacks are cursed and had been sold as slaves all over the world and everywhere blacks are spotted they are subjected to slavery. Check the work we blacks are doing in Europe and the rest of the world.The average age of blac ...
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  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    Look at the human development index of Botswana from 1966 to date,now compare it to that of Ghana and the answer will be plain as the NOSE ON YOUR FACE.Nkrumah set us on the right path only for a few selfish bastards to ruin ...
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  • eric london 10 years ago

    Nkrumah is the cause of Ghana and Africa as a whole problems by driving the westerners.Do you know Nkrumah was tricked and dupped by a NIGERIAN named Francis A Izezebe by promising him of a wife.Why did Nkrumah went as fa as ...
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  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    YOU ARE VERY STUPID AND YOUR ILK SHOULD BE BANNED FROM GOING ANYWHERE BLACKS, ESP GH PPL ARE. U THINK BLACKS CAN EVER BE WIPED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH? BY WHO? UR MODA? U ARE A GARGANTUAN FOOL. U THINK NKRUMAH IS THE SOURC ...
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  • Pap 10 years ago

    The Afrocan is notoriously religious but the most corrupt. The question then is how has religion imparted on our lives? The truth is we want everything from God either through miracle, luck or whatever. We even pray that peop ...
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  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    NONSENSE ON STILTS!

  • Mama 10 years ago

    The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom .

  • manchester 10 years ago

    at least those who tok over could still have brought them back. stupid enough, it is these same whites that are lending you money. he drove the whites, yes but he didn't sell those factories he opened

  • Jon Marfo Ziggy 10 years ago

    The downfall of the Black race in the recent times is due to the fact that we cannot think right bcos all our minds are crippled by Religion.Religion has mentally devided us.It has dislocate our mental Focus in the sense tha ...
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  • wise 10 years ago

    thank you bro, you have said it all.

  • wise 10 years ago

    your most stupid human being i have ever hear from.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Yes, Kwasi got it right this time. How can you go to ALL NIGHT prayers on Wednesday and expect to perform well at work. The GOOD BOOK tells us that there is a season for everything. Christians in Ghana do not usually set thei ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD.
    HOW CAN YOU EXPECT A FREE BEE PASTOR TO SHOW YOU HIS WORKS?
    MOSES WENT TO THE MOUNTAIN,THE MOUNTAIN DID NOT GO TO MOSES.
    THE BOOK OF ROMANS SAID HE WHO DOES NOT WORK SHOULD NOT EAT.

  • john throway 10 years ago

    frank, don't you forget of what mr. marcus mosaiah garvey said long time about his kind, yes, the blackman. he said,"if you have no confidence in yourself, you're twice defeated in the race of life." he said further that,"peo ...
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  • Herbert, Sweden 10 years ago

    Thank you Nzema.K a lot these Ghanaians want to sleep and honey will sink into their mouth. I have never seen developed country, which calls for Prayers to develop their country. I do not condemn Prayers, but it si very wrong ...
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  • manchester 10 years ago

    why r u caling him buulu? no doubt fools like u are happy the way the country is being run by thieves. What kwasi is saying is absoulutely right. Common pawpaw is even expensive. All these politicians know is buying houses an ...
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  • K B 10 years ago

    MAHAMA SPENDS XMAS ABROAD. ANY CHANCE THEY GET THEY TRAVEL ABROAD. ITS OBVIOUS TO RUN THE COUNTRY ON IMPORTED GOODS.

  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    Sorry, the buulu named ghanani abua just don't get that if you turned your factories into churches,you gonna be going to countries with factories for loans.
    Common sense is common but not common to the fool.

  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    FASTING AND PRAYING IS NOT THE ANSWER TO GHANA'S PROBLEMS. WE FAST AND PRAY AND SPEAK IN TONGUES ALL THE TIME BUT OUR PROBLEMS REMAIN. AFTER ALL THE PRAYING WE GO TO THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE FOR ASSISTANCE. WE GO BEGGING THE ...
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  • wise 10 years ago

    common sense was common before but not now . now common sense is very scarse that is why africa leaders have no common sense. it is not common again it is very scarse.

  • kojo 10 years ago

    your unfortunate and stupid comment is precisely what Pratt was alluding to, typical Ghanaian trait you are exhibiting here, get some education and help your country develop.

  • Samuel Boakye Asamoah 10 years ago

    Ghanains likes praying without taking action ,God want us to work and feed our self.Some church leaders open their church at working hours why,People who go to church from monday to friday at working hours,what will profit th ...
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  • Omanba, Chicago, IL 10 years ago

    Kwesi Pratt, everything you have written so far is nothing but the truth. The continent has over 50% of our own resources; if this is so, then, where comes our poverty and the 'lalalasulala' we have been doing? Our leaders, a ...
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  • Fo. Kwaku - Tanyingbe 10 years ago

    PRAYER BACKED WITH HARD WORK.

  • CONSTABLE JOE 10 years ago

    When you speak into the thin air, you speak to God then you've got to move on with your plans and you will get an answer but those who take it so hard by fasting, closing their eyes while praying and all that are 'lazy peopl ...
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  • Kwame Rameses 10 years ago

    Ghanaians are stupid pure and simple - the leaders of NDC/NPP are just into petty stupid arguing as to who is more corrupt rather than working together to develop Ghana. Ghanaian leaders are brainwashed by the white man and ...
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  • Jeff, UK 10 years ago

    You may be right this time around. Everything is God. When live their offices during office hours to go to prayer centres what do expect, the angels to come and carry on with the work? African are not born thinkers, simple. I ...
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  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    If you are stupid?

  • zomabi 10 years ago

    CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM HAVE DESTROYED AFRICA. AFRICANS ARE NOW IGNORANTLY DRUNK ON RELIGION.THE PRESIDENT INSTEAD OF DEVELOPING A VISION FOR GHANA AND SELLING IT TO THE PEOPLE FOR RAPID DEVELOPMENT JUMPS FROM ONE CHURCH TO MO ...
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  • Mike 10 years ago

    If the western world always depend on god to solve their problems, i am sure no african will ever dream of queuing for a visa to migrate there.
    Putting hardwork after anything is chaos and mayham for every nation and we have ...
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  • thuglife 10 years ago

    am proud of you

  • When Will They Ever Learn 10 years ago

    AMEN AND AMEN BROTHER. UNTILL THE VEIL OF THIS ABRAHAMIC RELIGION IS REMOVED FROM O
    R MINDS, AFRICA AND AFRICANS WILL FOREVER REMAIN AS WE ARE. "I CAN NOT ASK FOR NOTHING LESS THAN KNOWLEDGE OF ALL NATURES LAWS, THAT KEEP A ...
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  • RastafaraI 10 years ago

    Pratt shutting up will go further than a prayer!!!

  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    THERE ARE MORE PROPHETS IN GHANA AND NIGERIA THAN IN THE ENTIRE BIBLE. WHY? THERE ARE MORE PROPHETS IN GHANA THAN ALL OF CANADA, ISRAEL, GERMANY, ITALY AND BRITAIN.
    USA HAS A POPULATION OF 350 MILLION PEOPLE, BUT THERE ARE F ...
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  • eric london 10 years ago

    Apart from food and sex blacks don't have anything to think

  • Rojo 10 years ago

    When this guy Pratt opens his mouth, stipudity follows. He doesn't deserve the platform he's getting.

  • Ceeboy Dangerman 10 years ago

    This is the right sprite in action. For it is said: MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE. After prayer is work and careful thinking then national success then rest of the people. We have to work harder and think better far ahead ...
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  • Dr Robert Glah 10 years ago

    The government should focus on the commodity-based value-added industrialization policy of Ghana to create sustainable jobs and development.

  • When Will They Ever Learn 10 years ago

    I can not ask for nothing less,
    than knowledge of all natures laws,
    that all things in ordinance,in harmony,in perfect peace.
    On Science the solid rock I stand
    All other ground is SINKING Sand

  • Papa Yaw 10 years ago

    True

  • Kwesi - USA 10 years ago

    I have always had issues with Kwesi Pratt's aguments but this time Kwesi got it so right. Ghanaians pray too much which is not backed by action. Bread will not fall from Heaven for us. We need to work so that God blesses the ...
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  • When Will They Ever Learn 10 years ago

    Kwesi Pratt sing along with me.

    I can not ask for nothing less, than knowledge of
    all Natures' Laws, that keep all things in ordinace,
    in harmony, in perfect peace.
    On Science the solid rock I stand,
    All other ground i ...
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  • set ofori kwakuvi 10 years ago

    some time i disagreed with my own brother but this particular statement mr. pratt is hundred percent 100% right former meat marketing board sold look at Industrial area sold to Nigerian churches, prayers alone cannot develop ...
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  • Justin Pwavra Teriwajah 10 years ago

    Pratt does not know how to mince words when he tells the truth and that makes him the best journalist that I have ever known. I wonder why the best journalist of the year does not always go to him to encourage the young or up ...
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  • KING 10 years ago

    KWESI, THE SOOTHSAYER AND POLITICAL PROPHET

  • SAMMY 10 years ago

    PRAYERS DO NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS. GHANA IS FAST BECOMING A GLOBAL LAUGHING STOCK BY RELYING ON PRAYERS TO SOLVE HER PROBLEMS.PROPER STRATEGIC PLANNING AND EFFICIENT UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES ARE THE TOOLS FOR SOLVING OUR SOCIO-EC ...
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  • Kyenky3hene 10 years ago

    Nowadays,you hear about commercials inviting worshippers to prayer sessions,counselling andall-night vigils. You wonder how all these 'poor souls' sustain themselves economically,while being fleeced by these so-called 'Men of ...
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  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Kwesi Pratt is a chatterbox devoid of ideas thats why he only criticises without offering any solutions.

  • Ayeboafo NkwantaBisa 10 years ago

    Anytime I read a comment from Mr. Pratt, I do ask my self "why all ghanains are not like master Pratt and why cann't we make Pratt President of Ghana?

    This is a man can identify sickness of the nation and at the sametime h ...
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  • Kyenky3hene 10 years ago

    Down this offer because he is very much aware of the Ghanaian`s penchant for instant prosperity without having to break a sweat! If Pres JDM and his team listened to many of his free advice,he would been well on his way to de ...
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  • Prosper Mensah.UK 10 years ago

    Kwesi you have made very good points for them to follow.I believe the country need a leader who can come and make use of our resources.A minister or president

  • GHANA FIRST 10 years ago

    WHERE IS GIHOC
    Recently i was thinking about graduate unemployment and numerous secondary students coming out of school every year
    In the past we used to have farms that were run to feed factories
    Now neither the factories ...
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  • nana osei 10 years ago

    this man should be voted president
    of Ghana these current leaders are
    dozing to be honest they don't know
    their left from right what they know is greed thumbs up mr Pratt

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    The temporary Sunday School teacher was struggling to open a combination lock on the supply cabinet. She had been told the combination, but couldn't quite remember it.

    Finally she went to the pastor's study a ...
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  • kofi 10 years ago

    WEAKLING AND HYPOCRITES LIKE KWASI PRATT CANT ADVICE ANYONE TO DO GOOD EXCEPT PLAY THE HYPOCRISY CARD SO NO WONDER ATTAMILLS FAILED WOEFULLY AND NOW JDM IS ALSO FAILING CRIMINALLY....

  • NANA BAAH 10 years ago

    IT IS TRUE,AFRICA SHOULD GET MORE PAYMENT FOR ITS EXPORTS!!
    WHY IS COCOA PRICE SO CHEAP??
    WE MUST PRODUCE MORE AND DEMAND BETTER PAYMENT- WE HAVE BEEN CHEATED FOR LONG!!

  • GHANA FIRST 10 years ago

    It is time the churches also acquire land to farm as well
    Spirituality is good but the bible says in ecclesiates that there is time for everything Many of our churches spend too much time.Almost everyday in the church house. ...
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  • Tawiah 10 years ago

    Our leaders are visionless and we the people too are brainless otherwise why these lingering stinking poverty and insecurity all round?

  • usa 10 years ago

    YOU 100 % RIGHT

  • boka 10 years ago

    Amen, amen and amen

  • ATO 10 years ago

    THIS MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH. WE ARE VERY LAZY PEOPLE. THATS WHY THE FAKE PASTORS ARE MAKING MONEY. LAZY GHANAIANS.

  • boka 10 years ago

    can you form a new party? i will support you everything i have,please

  • PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 10 years ago

    Uni OF KNOWLEDGE TO BE ESTABLISHED==
    FOR ALL THE 10 REGIONAL Unis
    KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
    WWW.CUSTOMERMETRO.COM
    PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI(FOUNDER )
    GHANA INSTITUTE OF MARKETING
    AFRIKA MARKETING COUNCIL ...
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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    If we continue to shun the path of self-help and self-reliance, no amount of prayer will change our fate as a consequence of what the bible says and that is 'heaven help those who help themselves' Our leaders must think. Stop ...
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  • Floater 10 years ago

    Three great points, but he left out the biggest drawback to our underdevelopment; corruption at high places. Second in rank to corruption is religion. Nothing takes more away from productivity than religion.

  • truth 10 years ago

    Of course prayers alone won't take the nation anywhere for Ghanaians are still big sinners despite flocking to churches 24 hours a day.Look,they go to church and the next they go to work and steal monies belonging to the stat ...
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  • oppong london 10 years ago

    obedience of the constitution,abiding by the laws implemented and respecting elders and refraining from corruption is the same as worshipping God.praying constantly without doing the above things is satanic.

  • Oheneba, USA 10 years ago

    Mr Pratt, thank you vey much. Ghana is not a country our leaders should go round the world asking for alms, because they don't have any vision and lack of managing its resources.

  • THE PROPHET 10 years ago

    How can Ghana develop when the majority of Ghanaians think prayers will solve all their problems? And even God does not listen to the prayers of serial sinners.And the majority of Ghanaians are serial sinners who go to church ...
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  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    The old established churches eg catholic,presby,methodist, built schools, clinics,hospitals etc for human development.Nobody can dispute that! now the new breed of fake GHANAIAN/NIGERIAN pastors,Prophets and whatnots are jus ...
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  • nii 10 years ago

    Kwesi,the last time I told you the b ible was fake and you gave me the impression you sided with me.Today you are quoting the same rubbish, preaching the same liar of jesus Christ.The bible is fake.Any prayer should come from ...
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  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    Kwesi you may not know,that prayers are helping Ghana.If our leaders in Government are GOD fearing I hope Ghana will be like USA. Since nil God love in them that make them to loot Ghana & selling drill ship etc.In America any ...
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  • kwabena ohemeng,london 10 years ago

    How do you compare Ghana to America.Ghana is just like a state in the US and let me remind you that the economy of California alone is bigger than the whole of Africa.Ghanaians need to know that only honesty and hardwork will ...
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  • thuglife 10 years ago

    am very proud of this man religion is slavery

  • K Appiah 10 years ago

    Kwasi you are right, but if you also stop your bias commentary and criticize every government equally will also help

  • Nicholas Osei Kyeretwie-Chicago 10 years ago

    WELL SAID AKWASI PRATT.WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE WE,AND WHAT KIND OF LEADERS DO WE HAVE?TO IMPORT KONTOMIRE AND TOMATOES,GOD HELP GHANA.THE AFRICAN ALWAYS THINKS IT IS BETTER WITH THE WHITEMAN.WE NEVER ASK OURSELVES WHY SO IF I ...
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  • Afr Amer Male-born-on-Thursday 10 years ago

    I am a Chicago Afr Amer man training GH locals now on how to recruit new students online for a US-based, adult school. I pay less than $150 a year for a license to recruit globally. The 1st student I recruit the school pays m ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    I personally think churches should be start paying tax, because it seems to be only profitable business in the country, all the big and stylish structures in ghana are churches , their leaders live like kings at expense of t ...
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  • thuglife 10 years ago

    everybody should go on youtube and type ray hagins

  • Daros UK 10 years ago

    I like this guy he talk true

  • sasa 10 years ago

    Most Ghanaians are mentally handicapped. They have very low intelligent quotient and easily deceived. Keep sleeping in the churches and your dirty country will be like Germany. Dirty smelly Ghanaians.

  • Nyansa 10 years ago

    You must be mentally handicapped and filthy. Ghanaians are not.

  • John Smith 10 years ago

    That is logic you go every develop country the people work hard to bring food to the table not in Africa we believe in miracles wake up my. people going to church 24 hrs a day will never help God help those who help themselv ...
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  • blackman 10 years ago

    kwesi u are right all warehouses has being used as church building.prayer without action does not work.stay bless.

  • Paul 10 years ago

    Sad to say that my good friend Kwesi talk good about things,but he has forgotten that we are not in the Nkrumah era any more.Things have changed so much that even Cuba has started introducing capitalism.Where is the Soviet Un ...
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  • Wizzy 10 years ago

    Kwesi is right,our leaders should WAKE UP and stop the so-called trade liberation and set the country on a good stand.

  • iPad 10 years ago

    If I become the president of Ghana, I will imprison all church leaders for 30 years and jail anyone who steal from the public purse 30 years. By the time they are all released Ghana will be a well developed country beating th ...
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  • coolman 10 years ago

    African leaders are sooooo many years asleep,they only know how to get credit from there masters.what is all???LONG LIVE GHANA

  • AMSTERDAMMERS POORT 10 years ago

    Kwesi you made a nice point.Unless we become productivity than importers our economy will never make u turn.The import is too much. Why??

  • Benjamin Nii Abbey:-London 10 years ago

    Thank you Kwesi, tell them, Ghanaians are too lazy and yes most of the past Governments has no direction and focus.The saying is that god help those who help themselves

  • Ama 10 years ago

    Akoa wayi

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A cab driver reaches the pearly gates. St. Peter looks him up in his Big Book and tells him to pick up a gold staff and a silk robe and proceed into Heaven.

    Next in line is a preacher. St. Peter looks him up in his Big Boo ...
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  • NANA YAW 10 years ago

    First, we need a strong leader with a foresight and vision.
    Second, we need to be educated.
    And our Creator will definitely take care of our needs.

  • R.S. 10 years ago

    Please, put politics away and stop insulting the man.Such will send us no where.

  • YE GYIMI 10 years ago

    YE GYIMI

  • peace 10 years ago

    pratt u right we was one time produce our own corned beef sardine tinapa now look at Ghana

  • Concerned citizen 10 years ago

    that is the damm truth , we ghanians should finally wake up, the religion brought to us by the obibini was just ment to keep us under control, we should believe in ourselfs and let our country grow

  • Jacob-London 10 years ago

    I AGREE ENTIRELY WITH KOFI PRATT ON ALL ISSUES STATED. THE FACT REMAINS THAT ALL LEADERS IN AFRICA LACKS WISDOM THINKING BOOK KNOWLEDGE IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE THINGS WRITE

  • zimgbra 10 years ago

    i mean dead thinkers are our leaders,both our ministers and co weak brains just for thier belly.GHANAIANS will wake one day and hunte all of then and it will be peacefull.i concluded here,GOD bless our founding father nkuruma ...
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  • Adorkenu 10 years ago

    I came across a large plot of land with an uncompleted building my enquires reaveld that it is a Church building.After reading Mr.Pratt`S article,i came to the conclusion that since the Church has money,they should rather use ...
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  • nnana 10 years ago

    THE SECRET IS SIMPLE
    First we should do away with things which are against DIVINE LAW and therefore does not honor GOD.
    We are to worship GOD only...anything contrary to that is idol worship... Things that GOD has made we u ...
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  • SHOOTER 10 years ago

    Ben Kunbour a few weeks back actually had cause to admonish his NDC party to think and stop talking.
    Akwasi Pratt is indirectly posing the question to John Mahama if he is actually thinking and exercising his brain cells to ...
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  • GHANA IS MESS 10 years ago

    KWASI, I AGREE WITH 100 PERCENT,WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE WORSHIP,NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON CHURCH ACTIVITIES THAN GHANA,ENOUGH OF THIS POSTERS,GHANAIANS ARE LAZY WE ALWAYS EXPECT MIRACLES,MANNA WILL ...
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  • Tex 10 years ago

    Kwasi you are 100% right we spend time praying instead of working

  • *** 10 years ago

    PLUS OBEDIENCE,WORK & FAITH IN GOD ALONE = ANSWERS!!! JUST TRY IT,COUNTRYMEN.BLESSINGS!!!

  • ATTA 10 years ago

    FASTING AND PRAYING IS NOT THE ANSWER TO GHANA'S PROBLEMS. WE FAST AND PRAY AND SPEAK IN TONGUES ALL THE TIME BUT OUR PROBLEMS REMAIN. AFTER ALL THE PRAYING WE GO TO THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE FOR ASSISTANCE. WE GO BEGGING THE ...
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  • *** 10 years ago

    REPENT & GIVE your life to JESUS CHRIST.HE IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE MAKER!!!Go back and study the history of America and compare it to the now.HUMILITY HELPS NOT pride and arrogance.REPENT NOW.JESUS CHRIST STILL SAVES!!!

  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    Go back and study the history of America and compare it to the now

    I HAVE READ EVERY ASPECT OF AMERICAN HISTORY. IT IS A VERY EVIL AND DEVILISH ONE. THEY KILLED ALL THE NATIVE AMERICANS AND STOLE THEIR LAND. THEY THEN ENS ...
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  • *** 10 years ago

    SPEAK THE TRUTH TO VICTORY and NOT to death.Defending mental mediocrity can REALLY BE SOMETIMES EXHAUSTING.Pls,learn to combine the two,how they started and what crept in afterwards.AIM FOR EXCELLENCE TO BE BLESSED!!!

  • Dr Cyril Williams 10 years ago

    I am American and Kanawu speaks the complete truth. I am not proud of what the founding fathers of my country did. They were Christians only in name. Cotton was the backward of the young American economy supported by slave la ...
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  • *** 10 years ago

    Pls,try to perceive the other side of the coin for the absolute truth.In 1962,the US Supreme Court took PRAYER & BIBLE out of their schools.Before then,31 million students and 2 million teachers used to offer moment of PRAYER ...
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  • Dr Cyril Williams 10 years ago

    In 1962,the US Supreme Court took PRAYER & BIBLE out of their schools.

    I AM AN AFICAN AMERICAN SO THIS IS VERY OFFENSIVE TO ME. THERE WAS OPPRESSIVE RACISM AND JIM CROW AND SEGREGATION ALL THESE TIME THAT THE BIBLE WAS IN ...
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  • *** 10 years ago

    if l touched a raw nerve.Just trying to explain the importance of PRAYER & HOW IT WORKS.In any field,there's always the GOOD & the bad,in which the latter oftentimes tends to overshadow the former.Let us learn to forgive in h ...
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  • Araba 10 years ago

    I believe prayer is everything ,that is what we grew up with and without prayer the Ghana will turn to idols and we don't want that to happen.

  • dennis awah 10 years ago

    araba, you grew up with institutionalized fear from the era of the slave trade when Christian protestant and Orthodox Missions were comfortably dealing in the slave trade, buying and enslaving your forefathers. Please researc ...
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  • *** 10 years ago

    and every man a liar.It is my PRAYER that you meet JESUS CHRIST like Saul did on the road to Damascus,henceforth,we shall all hear from a different Dennis Awah.GIVE your life to JESUS CHRIST NOW!!!

  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    KEEP PRAYING AND THEN GO BEG THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE FOR AID. ARE WE IDIOTS OT WHAT? WHAT HAS THIS PRAYING AND FASTING DONE FOR GHANA? NOTHING.
    WE SHOULD LEARN FROM THE NATIONS WE BEG FROM- JAPAN, CHINA, NORWAY, GERMANY, S ...
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  • GHANA IS MESS 10 years ago

    Here we go again ,prayers will never grow our economy , how many years we been praying,there is no country in the world that waisted so much time and energy on prayers than ghanaians and yet we are still poor and jobless coun ...
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  • *** 10 years ago

    WE ARE BLESSED BY GOD TOO!!!Have you ever considered the killer earthquakes,tsunamiis,hurricanes and some of their laws in these countries???Some of these would send you packing if not for GOD & PRAYERS.REJOICE IN GHANA 4EVER ...
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  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    Have you ever considered the killer earthquakes,tsunamiis,hurricanes and some of their laws in these countries???

    THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THE USA SINCE TIME IMMERIAL. WHEN THE USA HAD PRAYER IN SCHOOLD THERE WERE HURICA ...
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  • *** 10 years ago

    This day receive your new name-MR. LIFE.Pls,don't speak yourself to death.JESUS STILL LIVES & SAVES.

  • Pratt 10 years ago

    Great revelation

  • dennis awah 10 years ago

    It is a fact that the poorest state in the USA - Mississippi- is also the most conservatively christian and religious of the Bible Belt States in the USA. Google and find out.

    also in Western Europe the poorest financiall ...
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  • When Will They Ever Learn 10 years ago

    AMEN AND AMEN. UNTILL THE VEIL OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGION IS REMOVED FROM OUR OUR MIND,AFRICANS WILL FOREVER REMAIN AS WE ARE.

  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    We don't need civilization. We don't need offices, cars, factories etc.unless we produce more food than we need and our minds can invent necessary technology to store excess food. TECHNOLOGY IS NOT NEW TO US AND TECHNOLOGY IS ...
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  • Abigi 10 years ago

    Get a life and stop your nonsense. Do you understand God and Religion? God created man in his own image, meaning we have the brain to think and improve ourselves. God is a creator the best scientist ever, and we his image sho ...
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  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    Don't confuse Genesis chapter 1 and Genesis chapter 4. By the way, I am not against technology,what I decry is putting the cart before the horse as in acquiring knowledge and practices that are not relevant to our particular ...
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  • Abigi 10 years ago

    We are not living in isolation, we are not the only people on earth with a religion. We have to work and make a living to fulfil our usefulness. our situation is hopeless as we have abandoned work for entitlements and impress ...
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  • kk 10 years ago

    I don't like Kwasi but for this I agree with hlm. Say it once more.

  • wise 10 years ago

    well done kwasi. everywhere in ghana there is a church but liars everywhere. ghana is number one lairs in the world if you take nigeria out but we have church in every house.

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    TOO TRUE Mr. Pratt. You speak the TRUTH most of the time!!!. We ...our leaders... ARE JUST NOT THINKING ABOUT Ghana, rather only of themselves and IMMEDIATE FAMILY!! WHAT is our National Development Plan ????

  • TEE 10 years ago

    WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHILES WE ARE RULED BY PEPEFU BUNCH OF THIEVES UGLY NORTHERNERS DO YOU EVER THINK GHANA WILL BE NORMAL AGAIN NO NO NO

  • TEE 10 years ago

    WHAT DO YOU EXPECT IF YOU ARE RULED BY NORTHERNERS, WELL NEXT TIME YOU THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU VOTE. WELL 50% ILLITERATES IN GHANA IS A BIG PROBLEM BUT NEVER NEVER NEVER AGAIN GHANA WILL BE RULED BY PEPEFU FULANIFU PERIOD

  • Abigi 10 years ago

    evil it was to be productive for working hard and creating wealth was projected to be the most sinful act in the eyes of the Revolutionaries. Fast forward we are 30 years churning along with the same REVOLUTIONARIES turned de ...
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  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    Which gospel have you been reading?

  • wiseman 10 years ago

    only npp supportters hve bruised egos like abigi will still hate Mr Pratt.Massa Kwasi we behind you npp and ndc has failed Ghanaians coz of their selfish.Look at Mahama administration,Ablakwa as mp and Ama Benyiwa Doe am ...
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  • Rara - UK 10 years ago

    This is one of the most sensible, well structured and convincing piece from Kwesi Pratt for a very long time.
    Yes, Kwesi, you are absolutely right!It is a big let down to the whole nation after all these years.
    Go Kwesi Go! ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    How could we think whilst the whole country is always noisy with all nights and so called tongues . Crazy country with crazy people . Wake up Ghana, I don't think even the Israelites will even behave the way we do . Aimless l ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    The only way out for people who are disillusioned and have no hope is prayer. Prayer is not a taxable item and cannot be CONFISCATED and DISTRIBUTED to Kwasi and his cohorts. Maham and Kwasi are from the same school of Rawlin ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    It's true if country is govern by northerners what do u expect, don't forget about our ex president Liman, we will wake up one day and see another JJ coming to take over. If u don't know the north visit zongo

  • Nana Sarpong 10 years ago

    This is the first time Kwesi Pratt made any sense, to me.

  • Cobby 10 years ago

    Accurate Delivery. Spot on.
    You are one kind Ghana needs in government circles.
    Welldone

  • Mr Funkenstein 10 years ago

    Dysfuntional attitudes and thinking have crippled Ghana. Cry my beloved country.

  • Wofa Koo 10 years ago

    Kwesi,Rawlings was the major contributor to this problem in Ghana.He was the one who chased Ghanaian businessmen and women out by seizing their businesses and accounts. Touching,killing and imprisoning them inclusively Mr. Si ...
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  • BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

    BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, REPUTABLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, -WE HAVE EARS TO HEAR THEREFORE MUST WE HEAR. FOR "-'WATCH'-AND PRAY" ARE THE WORDS OF -CHRIST JESUS- HIMSELF TO YOU AND I, THE P ...
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  • Pope 10 years ago

    This message must catch the eyes and minds of all well meaning people of Africa. Go to Elmina and Cape Coast castles and you wonder why rich Africans cannot come together to make lives better for their people. Instead they sa ...
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  • Adom 10 years ago

    African and for this matter Ghanaian Presidents apart from Kwame Nkrumah have no vorsight and vision.Most of them including Military Leaders like Rawlings came to kill and enriched themselves.Where is the Nsawam cannery,Kumas ...
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  • Kwasi Sammy London 10 years ago

    Hes damn right.No country can prosper if factories are turned to churches.There are far too many churches in Ghana than any country in the world.Still we cant run our economy.Bring back the white europeans,pure and simple.

  • Samurai 10 years ago

    Uncle Kwesi, this is why I like you. You've hit the nail right on the head.
    I live in Japan and I can tell you without mincing my words that without a manufacturing base, Ghana will go nowhere in its development. One other t ...
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  • Lazrus Mensah 10 years ago

    Church and funeral indusries have imprisoned the mindset of Ghanaians. We are going nowhere. Aready Angola, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda ans Botswana have overtaken us.

  • Danny 10 years ago

    It's only the ignorant and a senseles being that think that only prayers can bring prosperity,that's fools dream. Plant and plan and then go for ur haverst.What have we as a nation done? that thinking that prayers can water i ...
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  • Rosine 10 years ago

    Yes i think Kwesi Pratt is right because heaven help those who help themselve.