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Political prostitutes stand for only their stomachs – Otabil

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  • Komla Agbeshie (Ho) 10 years ago

    You are right Pastor especially that idiot president calll Mahama

  • KAY 10 years ago

    YOU ARE A CAPITAL FOOL WITH YOUR BRAINS IN YOUR ANUS. KOMLA DUMOR WILL WEEP IN HIS GRAVE FOR YOU ALSO BEING CALLED BY HIS NOBLE NAME.

  • Tampa 10 years ago

    Why is he a disgrace? Is the president intelligent? Why are we suffering then? Is it not because of his stupidity? Call a spade a spade and not otherwise

  • ATSU, HO 10 years ago

    THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO NEED FOR INSULTS IN A MATTER LIKE THIS. IT ONLY CALLS FOR A SOBER REFLECTION.

  • Daavi 10 years ago

    "NO NEED FOR INSULTS IN A MATTER LIKE THIS. IT ONLY CALLS FOR A SOBER REFLECTION"

  • JUSTICE LEADER 10 years ago

    Hmm

  • Julor Agyekum Kwakwe ( JAK ) 10 years ago

    Human beings are born to understand that change is permanent that is why the world has reached where is now. He Otabil was with Action church, because of money he left to form his own church and a lot have also left his churc ...
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  • Atugabiig 10 years ago

    THAT IS A BIG LIE. MENSAH HAS NEVER BEEN A PART OF "ACTION", NEVER.
    WHO TOLD YOU THAT LIE.
    WHEN DUNCAN STARTED HIS "ACTION", MENSAH, OBENG DARKO, ERIC KWARPONG, ABAKAH JOHNSON AND SOMETIMES FEATURING AMPIAH COFFIE WERE HOLD ...
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  • George 10 years ago

    Thank you for the education. even if they dont know it, they will say it. Here is your education.

  • Julor Agyekum Kwakwe ( JAK ) 10 years ago

    Go and do your search well, Otabil left Action because of the church money. Let me tell you something my son, Baden Powell site was formerly part of Action which Otabil took away with him left Action and change the name to th ...
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  • George 10 years ago

    Your facts are rather full of extreme dislike of him or hate. You sound like an intellectual elderly but what you are doing here is a pity. This kind of behavior is to your own detriment.You also sound like a struggling old m ...
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  • atugabiig 10 years ago

    I KNOW HIM TOO . AND I'M TELLING YOU THAT IS NOT THE TRUTH. WHAT WAS ACTION DOING AT BAIDEN POWELL? ACTION NEVER USED BAIDEN.
    ACTION WAS STARTED IN AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AT AIRPORT RESIDENTIAL AREA.IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, I ...
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  • atugabiig 10 years ago

    CORRECTION:
    BROTHER AGBOZO'S G.E.S WAS MEETING EVERY FRIDAY AT BAIDEN POWELL FOR ALL - NIGHT PRAYER MEETINGS.

  • mesh 10 years ago

    it seems all of us including some of our pastors are forgetting what the bible said, that when the end time is near, there will be economic hardships, famine, disasters, and so on. All what is happening is for the bible to be ...
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  • Peace 10 years ago

    My brother, you are right. Most of the writers on this forum do not have or know the facts. Mensah Otabil did not attend Action Chapel. He started from the classroom in community 2, preaching to workers and students.
    Before ...
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  • atugabiig 10 years ago

    Point of correction, Mensah never attended All Nations For Christ at Benin City. He's self tutored.
    Most of his preachings before he got into ministry, was at the conference hall of the Ministry of Information, Accra where ...
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  • donking 10 years ago

    u are a big lair and i dont think u have know clue where he started.....all he is trying to say is we shd be convicted with our believe and stick with it even if its difficult..

  • dan 10 years ago

    MAHAMA ALREADY STOLE EVERYTHING WE HAD BY HIS HIGER VAT , FEES AND TAXES
    WE GOT NO MONEY FOR YOU TO STEAL GO AND WORK FOR A LIVING YOU LAZY MAN

  • atugabiig 10 years ago

    Man, I know what I'm talking about. You may not like Otabil, but you can't call him a USELESS man.
    How we all wish that all "useless' men in life were like Otabil. How wonderful that world will be.
    You can hate him as much ...
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  • NA 10 years ago

    Some people are relying on gov't to solve their problems. You as an individua, what are you doing to solve your own problem. Always internalize your problems. Unfortunately many externalized their problems just to blame other ...
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  • Kwame Asante 10 years ago

    Waaahwe, Tampa, wo ye nipa aboa paaa. where on earth does the president has to micro manage every individual in the state. Even the almighty US one has to move and work to make ends means or be thrown in the street. Fa wonsa ...
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  • Komla Agbeshie (Ho) 10 years ago

    y brains is in your mothers virgina.Who is Komla Dumor? was he the most wise among we the Ewes? An idiot like you dont want to speak the truth.

  • Anonymous Coward 10 years ago

    The president has surrounded himself with brainless idiots. Look at Ofosu Kwakye and his stupid logic when explaining issues.

  • KU4 TOT THEM HOW TO STEAL 10 years ago

    NKRUMAH MOVED FRM UGCC TO CPP AND MADE GHANA A BETTER PLACE. HE WAS DEMOTED IN THE UGCC TO A MERE TREASURER. HE LEFT THOSE CROOKS AND MADE GHANA A BETTER ONE.

  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    What do you Otabil and your cohorts of self anointed armpit pastors stand for? You awam pators also stand for your stomachs by collecting tithes to live your lavish lives. Friendly reminder: Jesus died penniless. And for your ...
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  • Kofi Mensah 10 years ago

    OTABIL wanted to say that he is a KOTEBOTO (UN-CIRCUCISED)but he just held it back.

  • Kofi Boakye 10 years ago

    GO BACK AND READ YOUR HISTORY BOOK. KWAME NKRUMAH DID NOT MAKE GHANA A BETTER PLACE. HE RATHER DESTROYED AND DEPLETED OUR RESOURCES AND I THINK IT TAKES IDIOTS LIKE YOU TO GIVE HIM ANY CREDIT

  • BETTY 10 years ago

    ITS ONLY A FOOL WHO DOES NOT CHANGE WHEN HE SEES HE IS ON A WRONG PATH

  • NICHOLAS 10 years ago

    Some of you have developed this bad habit of insulting the President at the least opportunity.Partisan politics has blinded some people to the extend that they don't realize that the president belongs to the whole country c ...
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  • mugu1 10 years ago

    why insult the very decent president like prez,mahama?you did not insult k4 the raptilian lizard and his dirty crooks who has loot ghana ever like any other looters.infact it will be hard to build ghana with such mentallity

  • martin 10 years ago

    I think sekou Nkrumah shd have been listening.

  • Kwesi Chris 10 years ago

    If I were Pastor Mensah Otabil, I would never venture into topics that portray me in a very bad light. Does this man look at himself in the mirror at all? If he did, then he should be seeing the perfect reflection of a true h ...
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  • Daavi 10 years ago

    MAKING A SHOW OF...

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    Well said Kwesi Chris

  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    We have changed a lot from birth to now.
    God himself changed lots of things:
    When he created the world,it was without shape nor form and without any light.
    He changed it:Darkness to light.
    Jesus changed water into wine(Jo ...
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  • Kwesi Chris 10 years ago

    Whilst I completely agree with you, what I am also saying is that Pastor Mensa Otabil has shown by his very conduct in the latter part of 2012 that when it comes to politics, he is also ready to bend his principles or what he ...
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  • Kwesi Chris 10 years ago

    Pastor Mensa Otabil is supposed to stand by the gospel of Jesus Chris which he himself called the "living word" but when his own words were played back to show that a certain politician's words were irresponsible and could no ...
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  • Kofican 10 years ago

    Well said, Kwesi.

  • TUTU 10 years ago

    I BELIEVE DR OTABIL WAS NOT BORN INTO ICGC.HE LEFT A CHURCH TO ESTABLISH HIS OWN.AND TODAY HE IS SUCCESSFUL."Y3YI WO BEBIA KOR BEBI"

  • yaw paul 10 years ago

    you hit the nail right on tha head

  • Sipole 10 years ago

    The description fits the so-called men of God (Otabil included) more than the politicians.

  • GOODMAN 10 years ago

    Are you 45- 55yrs? Check it. This is a generation that lost out on good teachers to the Nigeria bandwagon of late 1970S to early 1980S.
    No good foundation and the get quick mentality inculcated in them. These are the ones i ...
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  • KOLIKO 10 years ago

    YOU RUN AWAY FROM YOUR OWN WORDS

  • oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana! 10 years ago

    The most greedy bastards party is NDC, the national destroyer congress founded by that evil and satanist JJ Rawlings.

  • gyan 10 years ago

    No other party will come to power in Ghana. NDC is the best among the parties in the country. We tested NPP led by K4 and the result is there.

  • oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana! 10 years ago

    Look at yourself in a mirror how do you see yourself? Come back again.

  • Aaron 10 years ago

    Papa, how can we reconcile this 'taking of a stand' with voting for different presidential aspirants depending on their policies. You are on record to have said you never voted for only one party presidential hopeful since a ...
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  • Kwesi Chris 10 years ago

    Aaron, it is often said that it is easier said than done. I used to hook unto the sensible preachings or teachings of Pastor Mensa Otabil until I realized that he himself did not live up to his teachings and preachings. At th ...
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  • CriticalThinking 10 years ago

    Aaron, there is no reconciliation needed here. You are comparing apples to oranges. As a good citizen of Ghana, it is your responsibility to vote for the presidential candidate that who represents the issues that are importan ...
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  • Cantankerous 10 years ago

    He talks sense.The man talks sense when he opens his mouth.Some cedi-worshipping "men of God" could learn from his example.

  • Kofican 10 years ago

    Are you sure he is also not 'a cedi-worshipping' man of god?

    Every Ghanaian pastor worships the cedi in one way or another. So don't be fooled by the "wolf in a sheep's skin.

  • Cantankerous 10 years ago

    He talks sense when he opens his mouth

  • still rastafari 10 years ago

    politicians,chiefs are a bane to Ghana

  • JAMES 10 years ago

    I would have been very happy to see Dr. Otabil admonishing his fellow so called men of God as well. I have no problems with him saying his mind, regardless of his position. But is that the only problems bothering him? What ab ...
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  • KWESI 10 years ago

    HELLO WE ARE LOOKING FOR 5 PEOPLE TO TRAVEL TO THE UK.PAYMENT WILL BE MADE AFTER VISA IS OUT WITHING 3 WEEKS.BUT APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO PAY FOR THEIR VISA FEES AND STUFF.WITH THE SCHENGEN YOU ONLY PAY GH 200 ONLY. ACTUA ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    try Mahamah

  • joe 10 years ago

    otabil is sending himself again o

  • Better Ghana 10 years ago

    Appiah stadium and Kakra Essamuah are in the group the pastor is talking about.

  • SHITO 10 years ago

    THIS NDUOM MAN TOOK PART IN SUCCESSIVE GHANA GOVERNMENTS' INDISCRIMINATE DIVESTMENT OF GHANA'S JOB-CREATING AND REVENUE GENERATING INDUSTRIES FOR THEIR 10% KICKBACKS AND LOOTING OF THE PROCEEDS FROM DIVESTMENT, MUCH OF WHICH ...
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  • Agya 10 years ago

    It is not only Politicians but Pastors as well.Because he was not recognised he lives to form his own church.This has accounted for thousands of churches in Ghana today.Think about it.

  • Gbagbladza 10 years ago

    Hmm. Look at who is talking. Anywsy we have to examine which is better. A political sycophant or a prostitute. Otabil cannot talk about building name for oneself because if he has any name at all, he has long time ago sacri ...
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  • Alex Otchere 10 years ago

    As a pastor to me what I know is that Jesus runway from the people because they wanted to make him a king why did he runaway from them because his ministry was not where they want him to be so as a pastor you should know wher ...
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  • mawutor 10 years ago

    The judgement of God will start in the house of the Lord.

  • Isaac Switzerland 10 years ago

    Thanks pastor really most of the politicians don't even know what they are saying or doing all that they want is to get food and drinks nothing else. May the good Lord have mercy on them, ghana needs such a great man like you ...
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  • Isaac Switzerland 10 years ago

    Thanks pastor really ghana needs someone like you to be comes a leader they are all about their own gains not for the mother land shame onto them

  • ab 10 years ago

    You are one of them please.

  • mozo 10 years ago

    I agree n support u 100% pastor !!!

  • mahama tuo zaafi,said ndc 10 years ago

    GOOD TOUCH PASTOR

  • SUNFLOWER-BOGOSO 10 years ago

    ARE YOU A PASTOR OR POLITICIAN?

  • atugabiig 10 years ago

    Were Martin Luther King Jr and Archbishop Desmond Tutu pastors or politicians?

  • Tieh 10 years ago

    BETTER, PASTOR! Some of us are convinced that our socio-economic problems are self inflicted. If we have so many stomach politicians and boot lickers among prominent people in our country, our problems will always be diagnose ...
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  • BANKER 10 years ago

    THE MOTIVATIONAL TALK OF THE AGES IS THAT ONLY A FOOL WOULD NOT CHANGE HIS MIND. IT IS ALSO SAID THAT IF YOU KEEP DOING WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING OVER THE YEARS STAYING AT ONE PLACE ALL THE TIME, YOU END UP GETTING WHAT YOU GE ...
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  • TWEAAAAAAA 10 years ago

    Frances Essiam on my mind.

  • FREIDY BLAY THE CHIEF STOMACH KOFI 10 years ago

    FREDY BLAY FORMERLY OF CPP AND NOW NPP IS THE CHIEF STOMACH POLITICIAN OF THE CENTURY.HOW COULD HE ABANDON THE PARTY THAT GAVE U THE LIMELIGHT TO JOINT THE NPP BECOS U LOST AN ELECTION.

  • jake 10 years ago

    I am totaly in support. that is what is actually killy this nation.

  • Afia Oforiwaa . 10 years ago

    Ghana politicians are a curse to our Nation.

  • Kofican 10 years ago

    Afia,

    I hear you!

    The problem is these political curses to our nation are propped up by these so-callled "men of God", most of whom are cheats, fraudsters,scammers and boastful loudmouths.

    So in my view, they are cu ...
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  • Akua Korkoe 10 years ago

    what have the "new" churches done for Ghana apart from exploiting 10% from the poor to enrich themselves. All the schools and colleges they have established are among the most expensive in the country... So Pastor, let's wait ...
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  • abongo 10 years ago

    josiah ayerh!

  • MAWUDEKA 10 years ago

    PASTOR OTABIL HAS JUST HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD

  • Kwame Asante 10 years ago

    Oh Osofo! Is you again? What is your stand on free education? Have you change your mind?. Then understand that only two entities do not change their minds. God and a FOOL. God's plan for the world would not change and the foo ...
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  • Akufo Addo, Abr3 10 years ago

    You are truly a disgrace to ur Nation and ur family as a whole, u are stupid, an illiterate and a fool just like ur siblings, I know for sure ur parents will regret giving birth u, ohhhhh!! Who knows if u were indeed born by ...
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  • Cynthia 10 years ago

    If heaven is nice drop dead. Why hospitals for Christians

  • Osei Yao 10 years ago

    These preachers know nothing but to preach. Rev Otabil is a leader of a religion that prays for "BREAD" and nothing else, from God always. Yet he has the bad manners to accuse others of standing for nothing other than their ...
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  • kodjo 10 years ago

    When did you get this sudden enlightenment, Mr Otabil. Why didn't you say all these things when Mr Kuffour and his cohorts where the masters of all the surveyed?? By the way do you still believe that anybody who says "ALL DIE ...
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  • Kwesi Chris 10 years ago

    Kodjo, ask Otabil this question again. Otabil's living word preached from the gospel of Christ is that anybody who says "ALL DIE BE DIE" is BAD COMPANY!!! Then someone who did not care to heed this gospel truth went wild and ...
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  • NANAKATA 10 years ago

    WHY DID JESUS' OWN PEOPLE DECIDE TO GET RID OF HIM?
    READ THE BOOK-"THOSE WHO DESTROYED JESUS OF NAZARETH;AN ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS TO THE (EMERITUS)HOLY FATHER'S" PUBLISHED BY AMAZON.

  • Tema Comm.12 10 years ago

    Dear All, please allow me to use your medium to announce a missing Miniature Aeroplane (Controlled by a remote) about 1.5 metres wing span and 1 metre in lentgh. I live in Tema Comm.12 and i tested this plane last saturday an ...
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  • KK 10 years ago

    Mr Mahama how low can you and your ministers sink to rob ghana international passengers after disappointing them.

  • kwamina 10 years ago

    That is why our nation is the way it is right now, no body stand for anything,In America within the parties we have small groups that stand for something,example:everomental,Chritian groups, social groups and so on.But in Gha ...
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  • Balderash 10 years ago

    Most Ghanaians only stand for their stomachs. Stupid negroes!

  • Asomma Kubire 10 years ago

    Very true man of God, whiles people go into politics to make a name elsewhere, in our part of the World people go into Politics to enriched their families for generations. God safe our Nation.

  • Voice of Reason 10 years ago

    AND ALWAYS TALKING TRASH ON ASEMPA EKOSII SEN PROGRAMME.....AND INTERESTING ENOUGH HE'S BEEN REWARDED WITH AN APPOINTMENT BY THE CLUELESS AND VISIONLESS MAHAMA AS A THANK YOU GESTURE

  • thinking 10 years ago

    Please clean your house first, your so called university is full of teachers who are sleeping with the girls to give them passing grade, some are also taking money, to do the same. Ghana need collective minds of sincere peop ...
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  • The mask 10 years ago

    We need a code of ethics in government and this must be supplied to government officials as a manual.

    Conflict situation are arising. The following points must be noted.

    1) If you are the head of any organisation you ca ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A chicken farmer went to a local bar sat next to a woman and ordered a glass of champagne. The woman perks up and says "How about that? I just ordered a glass of champagne, too!" "What a coincidence" the farmer says "This is ...
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  • Kalashnikov AK47 10 years ago

    Talk about speaking in parables! Princewilly you are a genius!

  • Iwan 10 years ago

    Now I see why this pastor hangs on to NPP like a leech. Even when his own preaching go against then he blames those whose publicise it.

  • Bob 10 years ago

    Yes, we know them all: They are called Sekou Nkrumah, Kwesi Pratt, Obed Asmmoah, Kakra Essamuah, Guzzi Tandoh, Kyeretwie Opoku, PV Obeng, Alan Kyeremateng, Wereko Brobby, Owusu Akeampong, Saarah Mensah, Kofi Wayo, Nduom, etc. ...
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  • OWUSU 10 years ago

    HELLO WE ARE LOOKING FOR 5 PEOPLE TO TRAVEL TO THE UK.PAYMENT WILL BE MADE AFTER VISA IS OUT WITHING 3 WEEKS.BUT APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO PAY FOR THEIR VISA FEES AND STUFF.WITH THE SCHENGEN YOU ONLY PAY GH 200 ONLY. ACTUA ...
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  • Nii 10 years ago

    They a bunch of bigots

  • asare baako 10 years ago

    So what about you?? Are you Jesus party or NPP? You are NPP, i guest, fuck you.

  • warehouse 10 years ago

    DO YOU KNOW LET LIVE THE SOUP AND EAT
    THE MEAT. ISSUES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PERSONALITIES.OTABIL HAS HIT THE
    NAIL ON THE HEAD. WE ARE ALL IN DIFFICULTIES BECOS OF LIES AND BLAME

    GAMES.

  • clarence 10 years ago

    I think most politicians in Ghana are there for their well being and not to make Ghana any better. They have free cars, free fuel, free accommodation, and a host of allowances and yet they are still corrupt and get away with ...
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  • Bechemniiba(Paris) 10 years ago

    There are also RELIGIOUS prostitious like you and most Ghanaian prophets and their false pastor's who think of your stomach and not in God.The bible also say's that many people followed Jesus not because they Loved Him but be ...
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  • Afua , US 10 years ago

    Rev. you said it all.

  • AccraBoy 10 years ago

    So did Lula da Silva in Brazil have all the so-called book knowledge that you guys seems to be so vested?
    Look around the world and you will realize that for all the "book-lon" their SYCOPHANT admirers and thieves, we cannot ...
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  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    YOU ALSO STAND FOR ? .IF NOT WHY BUILD ONE OF THE EXPENSIVE UNIVERSITY IN GHANA.? POLITICIANS WILL DO SAME BY LOOTING AND FEELING THEIR POCKETS. GHANA HAS COME TOO FAR ,SINCE EVERYONE WANT TO BE RICH OVERNIGHT.THAT IS WHAT NP ...
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  • fantastic boy 10 years ago

    Mr J. Agyekum kwakye where did you get the information that Otabil did not complete secondary form 5 ?
    FOR YOUR INFORMATION OTABIL was my mate at SWESCO and we completed O LEVEL in 1977.Get your facts right please.

  • Bernard 10 years ago

    The truth hurts doesn't it. You Otabil haters can insult him all you want you will never ever be like him. You know that what he says no matter how small carrys a lot of weight otherwise why would you be reacting like this. S ...
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