Boakye Gyan defends June 4 uprising

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coolman 9 years ago

the revolution must repeat it self again,because corruption is back in Ghana again

the revolution must repeat it self again,because corruption is back in Ghana again
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 9 years ago

AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am c ...
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AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am compelled to do this expose on the former junta head for those who do not know his role in promoting corruption as a national concept. Read on!
In June 1979, eight top military officers, including three former heads of state, were lined up and executed at the Teshie Military Firing range in two batches. Gen. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Gen. Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo, Gen. Robert Kotei, Lt-Gen. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa, Rear Admiral Joy Amedume, Air Vice-Marshall George Yaw Boakye, Emmanuel K. Utuka and Colonel Roger Felli were accused of corrupting the body politic.
In an interview with New Nation, a monthly magazine circulating in Nigeria and now defunct, the Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which supervised over the most famous case of extra-judicial killings in the history of the political evolution of Ghana, justified the action of his military junta as a necessary action to rid the body politic of corruption.
“They were jumbo-sized armed robbers whose killings left the world smelling nicer,” Flt-Lt. Rawlings was quoted by the magazine as saying in explanation.
Jerry Rawlings said the officers had to be killed, “because Ghana was faced with their type of thievery breed of criminals who were worse than Nigeria’s armed robbers” in the 1970s.
“Now, I’ll tell you what we have here. We have a breed that is, perhaps, worse than your armed robbers,” he told reporters of the New Nation in an exclusive interview. “They are the pen robbers. These species of vermin have for long perpetrated corruption with impunity.
“They have not only bled the nation white, but as a result of their thievery, Ghana has suffered hunger, loss of national spirit, loss of pride and respect in the military uniform. So, as you can see, while Nigerians have perceived their main social problems to be the proliferation of six Naira armed robbers, we, in Ghana, think that our problem is that of people who take widow’s mite from a bankrupt nation.”
In the words of the ex-junta head: “While you (Nigeria) content yourself at the Bar Beach by watching the executions of mal-adjusted labourers, mechanics or clerks, we in Ghana, have killed the jumbo armed robbers, call them generals or brigadiers – whose going to leave the world smelling sweeter.”
One interesting thing about this claim is that Jerry Rawlings and his righteous AFRC members could not account for monies lodged in AFRC Account 48, which was specially created to lodge huge monies paid by businessmen and other persons and institutions found guilty by a so-called people court to have corrupted the system. Monies from seized goods auctioned to the public at so-called control prices were also lodged in the account.
When President Hilla Limann took power after the AFRC had left the scene on September 24, 1979, the new Head of State complained that there was nothing in the coffers, insinuating that the famous Account 48 could not be traced.
When Flt-Lt. Rawlings, who had refused to accept the new government’s offer to go on course abroad, was questioned on the disappearance of the huge lodgings in the account, he replied that he was not an accountant. Incidentally, the fate of PNDC Account 48, established by the second junta led by the same person, has not been accounted for as you read this piece.
One of the most interesting developments in Ghana’s political evolution was the decision to abolish the General Certificate of Examinations -Ordinary and Advanced levels- by the Provisional National Defence Council. The main reason given was that the old educational system had favoured only the children of the elite class.
At a time ordinary folks of the land were enrolling their children in what became known as the Junior and Senior Secondary schools, whose certificates -BECE and SCCE- were not recognised beyond the four corners of the country, Jerry Rawlings enrolled his children at the expensive Ghana International School in Accra to read subjects that qualified them to sit for the GCE Ordinary and the Advanced levels his PNDC administration had prohibited the mass of Ghanaian children from.
I do not believe corruption is only putting state money in one’s pocket. Exploiting state resources for one’s advantage could even be a worse form of corruption. That is why I have an axe to grind with Jerry Rawlings for enrolling all his children abroad to study with the GCE Ordinary and Advanced levels, acquired outside the formal sector in the country.
What I call Jerry’s Stupid Schools has debased education up to the tertiary level, where lottery numbers, other than real academic work, determines qualification at the first degree level.
To add insult to injury, when asked to tell Ghanaians how he was funding the education of all the three children -Ezanator, YaaAsantewaa and Kimathi- in expensive universities in Britain and Ireland, Jerry Rawlings looked at Ghanaians in the face and answered that unknown benefactors were picking up the bills for their fees.
The Almighty is a kind Lord. It emerged that companies the state of Ghana was dealing with and which were milking Ghana dry, were picking up the bills of Jerry Rawlings’ children. And such a person has the audacity to complain about leaders being corrupt.
I dare state that corruption was elevated into an art under Jerry Rawlings. The circumstances under which he transformed himself from a military dictator into a civil constitutional President smells of corruption all the way to the Castle.
After eleven and a half years of the ‘Gospel According to Jerry Rawlings,’ a period he himself identified as the ‘culture of silence’, Jerry Rawlings and those who claim to believe in him used the resources of state to convert his military oligarchy and the entire governance system into a political party. With the Electoral Commission and the entire process under his thumb, Jerry Rawlings exchanged his military garb for a description as Constitutional President of the Republic of Ghana. God Almighty should remain where he is.
The eight year administration he led, as Constitutional President of this Republic, eulogised corruption as a state-sponsored event. State asserts were transferred to cronies under the guise of divestiture. As you read this piece, Nsawam Cannery, one of the flagship projects of the now defunct Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation, belongs to Caridem, a company floated by Mrs. Rawlings’ 31st December Women’s Movement, in a purchasing agreement that parceled the company to Caridem for a pittance.
Under the Government of the National Democratic Congress Mark One, corruption festered on a large scale. It would take volumes to chronicle corruption under the NDC. But four prominent issues stand out. Getting to the end of the first term of office, newspapers that had been freed from the bondage of the culture of silence began chronicling evidence of corrupt deals by leading members of the regime.
In 1996, the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice investigated one matter and established massive corrupt deals against Ibrahim Adam, then Minister of Agriculture, Colonel E.M. Osei Owusu, a former Minister of the Interior, P.V. Obeng, a Presidential Staffer, and Dr. Adjei Marfo, a Chief Executive Officer of a state-run company.
Instead of prosecuting them, the Government of Saint Rawlings rather issued a While Paper exonerating the corrupt elements, and rather indicted the media for highlighting the issue.
In Britain, Mabey and Johnson was prosecuted not too long ago for corruptly influencing Ghanaian politicians between 1994 and 1999 to gain bridge contracts, The news in these contracts is that barely one year after completing two bridges in Ghana, including one over River Oti, the Ghana Government had to contract experts from Britain to repair them as they threatened to cave in.
In 2002, the former Managing Director of Ghana Rubber Estates Limited, Mr. Etienne Arthur Marie Popeler, told an Accra Fast Track High Court that he gave millions of dollars to Mr. Dan Abodakpi, then Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Shirley Ayittey, then Treasurer of the 31st December Women’s Movement, in bribes before his French company, SIPH, could secure GREL.
The case of Ms. Cotton, an unemployed American, secured $20 million of scarce state cash from compromised state officials, ostensibly to grow rice for Ghanaians at Aveyime in the Battor area of the Volta Region. Even when Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States had sent a warning letter about the background of Ms. Cotton, and intimating that she was incapable of undertaking the task, state officials paid the money. As it turned out, the main motivating factor was the cut they all stood to make.
If corruption is endemic in the body politic after the so-called June 4, uprising, the genesis could be traced to Jerry Rawlings who executed eight Ghanaians officials on unproven trivial charges, and out-doored full- blown corruption as a state policy.
In other exposé next week, I intend to draw the link between the free for all looting that assails the body politic in the Mills-Mahama regime, and the adventure of Jerry John Rawlings as Head of State of this Republic. I shall return!
Amega 9 years ago

Let us see whether or not the revolution/uprising will be celebrated when Rawlings is no more. That is when we shall the real worth of that event.

Let us see whether or not the revolution/uprising will be celebrated when Rawlings is no more. That is when we shall the real worth of that event.
Pelicles 9 years ago

The most commonsensical comment so far.

The most commonsensical comment so far.
ROYAL AKANLAND 9 years ago

ANOTHER FOOL. CAN SOMEONE KILL THAT ASS

ANOTHER FOOL. CAN SOMEONE KILL THAT ASS
Tilapia 9 years ago

After successfully completing the failed coup, Boakye Djan handed over power on a silver platter to an obroni boy who had made a mess of his own badly organized attempted coup, and who, in a cowardly and un-soldierly manner, ...
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After successfully completing the failed coup, Boakye Djan handed over power on a silver platter to an obroni boy who had made a mess of his own badly organized attempted coup, and who, in a cowardly and un-soldierly manner, had run away to hide in the Achimota forest.

It seems to me that Boakye Gyan has not got over from the trauma of shame of that misdeed that continues to haunt him. The only alternative left for for him therefore, is to live in self-denial by justifying that despicable stain in our history.

Whether Boakye Djan likes it or not, the sum total of that event and the repercussions thereof, amounted to a negative-plus and history will not treat him and his disoriented mentor kindly.

Is it any wonder that the inheritance of that event is what now seems to be one of the most inept and corrupt govts in Africa?
BIG NAME 9 years ago

Boakye Gyan,the most idiot, stupid and unthinkable person on this globe. Why doesn't this idiot called Boakye Gyan feel pain for his brother's murder. I can not believe that Boakye Gyan still follows this Togolese bastard who ...
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Boakye Gyan,the most idiot, stupid and unthinkable person on this globe. Why doesn't this idiot called Boakye Gyan feel pain for his brother's murder. I can not believe that Boakye Gyan still follows this Togolese bastard who has destroyed our country.

This bastard and idiot called Rawlings murdered your brother Kyereme Gyan just because he hates you. Your own brother's blood was sacrificed for Ewes satanic revolution for no purpose. Boakye Gyan still defends June 4th uprising? I can not believe it. What did June 4th hooliganism produce for Ghana? It bred indisciple and ethnic segmentation in Ghana. It brought unprecedented crruption on the part these satanic revolution engineers.

Look at how P/NDC officials have looted Ghana. Ghana is plunging down the hills. And this idiot called Boakye Gyan still defends June 4th hooliganism. Boakye Gyan is indeed stupid for even joining Rawlings party. He makes Rawlings feel good for murdering Kyereme Gyana. Boakye Gyan's family should throw this fool out of the family. Boakye Gyan does not see what is going on in Ghana. He is blindand has no feelings. I think all his five senses are dead.
insight to the bone 9 years ago

Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the ...
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Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the Israelis we are the chosen people of God and he in his great design has made us diverse but unified in spirit. the ashantis like the tribe of Judah are and will remain an integral part of our being to to attack any one part we all end up feeling it sooner or later. they have succeed in turning some of our chiefs and kings against us and work for their evil ungodly agenda but we still see clearly . God has brought us into the 21st century and with that a new system of governance and state of mind based on democracy since it is HE alone who blesses the individuals with the gift of leadership wisdom and justice irrespective of status at birth. he has shown us the blue print of the way forward in the bible and other holy books and the time has come to free ourselves from this man made bondage called Ghana. just as in the Ukraine we must fight so the truth will come out , fear not the battle as they will crumble like the walls of Jericho . cast away our so called fake leaders and politicians who are nothing but cowards and like our enemies fear even their own shadows . yes God has put a million fears in their empty bodies as he who does not fear the Lord , the Lord will ensure all fears of the world will reside in him. They threaten us with superstition , juju and what have you and we say fuck you and go to hell as the divine power is with us . Yes all the tribes of Akan are fingers on the same hands and God has ordained we remain united so our strength and light will be visible throughout the whole world and universe , our time has come . everyday its becoming clearer and clearer to all children of Akan that we must prepare mentally for a battle of freedom . they come with tricks that say we must take a non Akan as our leader because its nice ? do they not think that out of 30 million Akans we can not find sensible down to earth leaders and warriors to lead our own people to our own destiny? a govt of the people and by the people is what the 21st century democracy is all about . let them continue to play with the consensus and other figures that justify their fantasy and enable them to marginalize the participation of the Akan majority in the Affairs of their own land , to marginalize us thus preventing us to afford a better standard for our people . The had of God has given them pestilence after pestilence but they refuse to let our people go , soon they will be swept away like chaff in the hurricane of fury . Long live the republic of Akan and don't you forget it as now the Fanti speakers, Twi speakers, Ashantis and other tribes of Akan are now one .
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

If the Akans were one pple, can you tell us why they used to raid and sell each other as slaves? Yes, your Asantes in particular, can you tell us why they used to raid the Fantes, Akyems, Bonos and others to sell and kill in ...
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If the Akans were one pple, can you tell us why they used to raid and sell each other as slaves? Yes, your Asantes in particular, can you tell us why they used to raid the Fantes, Akyems, Bonos and others to sell and kill in grissly rituals? Since you are clearly a very foolish and ignorant person, ask someone to recommend to you some proper history books to read.

Dzimakplavi! Leave Ewes alone.

Andy-K
NANA 9 years ago

BOAKYE GYAN AND JJ RAWLLINGS MUST DIE FOR THE BLOOD OF AKUFFO, ACHEAMPONG, AND AMEDUMEH. RAWLLINGS AND CO WILL NEVER HAVE PEACE TILL THEY KICK THE BUCKET. THEY HAVE TOO MUCH BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. NOTHING CAN SAVE THEM FROM TH ...
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BOAKYE GYAN AND JJ RAWLLINGS MUST DIE FOR THE BLOOD OF AKUFFO, ACHEAMPONG, AND AMEDUMEH. RAWLLINGS AND CO WILL NEVER HAVE PEACE TILL THEY KICK THE BUCKET. THEY HAVE TOO MUCH BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. NOTHING CAN SAVE THEM FROM THEIR DOOM. YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.
KOTOO 9 years ago

Why should you insult "insight to the bone"? Somewhere last year, didn't you Ewes tell the whole world that you are Israelis? Ewes, who worship and serve man made gods empowered by demons even claim to be Jews.

Your way of ...
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Why should you insult "insight to the bone"? Somewhere last year, didn't you Ewes tell the whole world that you are Israelis? Ewes, who worship and serve man made gods empowered by demons even claim to be Jews.

Your way of life your jealous nature, your murderous nature, your hatred towards people who are prosperous than you do not come close to even a heathen Israeli. I don't know where you got those boring stories one of your kind was posting on Ghanaweb last year.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Only crooks, some relations, friends and supporters of crookish kalabule people and the corrupt generals are opposed to June 4th!

June 4th was more than a revolt of the Other Ranks against the rampant corruption and moral ...
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Only crooks, some relations, friends and supporters of crookish kalabule people and the corrupt generals are opposed to June 4th!

June 4th was more than a revolt of the Other Ranks against the rampant corruption and moral turpitude which had gripped Ghana under military rule. Only few people in Ghana were not in support of it. One student colleague in Legon said he regretted his own corrupt uncle wasn't caught in the dragnet and dealt with.

As for Osahene Boakye Djan, I am aware that he always supports June 4th but was one of the most vocal and active opponent of 31st Dec coup from its very inception while these very NPP supporters had chosen Kufuor to represent them in the PNDC. That was even b4 his own brother was caught with Mawuli Goka and co. for plotting a coup and executed. NPP hate and sidelined him when his role in the execution of Afrifa was revealed by Osei Poku and others.

Whether corruption has returned to Ghana with a vengeance or not is not the doing of June 4th. It is more the failure of the PNDC to revolutionise the institutions of state to subscribe to the principles of June 4th, choosing to rule through parallel insts., which were all closed down with return to civilian rule rule in 1993 and return to the old corrupt systems: the bureaucracy, the judiciary and the Police.

Andy-K
DJAN 9 years ago

IDIOT BOAKYE GYAN, YOU HAVE TO BE KILL TOO

IDIOT BOAKYE GYAN, YOU HAVE TO BE KILL TOO
Tiffiny Ablorh 9 years ago

Another animal is talking!!!

Another animal is talking!!!
Atinga Kobla Atongo 9 years ago

Boakye Gyan is a donkey, a coward, and an idiot.
Such an undisciplined Soldier, so miss guided and a greedy fool.
Why did he leave Ghana? Parading on London Streets doing odd jobs?
June 4th today is meaningless.
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Boakye Gyan is a donkey, a coward, and an idiot.
Such an undisciplined Soldier, so miss guided and a greedy fool.
Why did he leave Ghana? Parading on London Streets doing odd jobs?
June 4th today is meaningless.
We shall see at the end.
Go to sleep, and keep dreaming. he stood and lost at the last election.
Your time will come as well.
ASOMDWIEHENE 9 years ago

Is this fool saying he is happy for the murder of his brother by Rawlings and his tribesmen when he had run away to live in democratic and peaceful England? Is this part of the peace and stability he is talking about? The blo ...
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Is this fool saying he is happy for the murder of his brother by Rawlings and his tribesmen when he had run away to live in democratic and peaceful England? Is this part of the peace and stability he is talking about? The blood of the innocent people this mule killed is a heavy load on his head and his punishment is yet to come. I blame the foolish chief who honoured him with "Osahene". Osahene does not kill innocent people and runs away. Neither does he conspire with another tribe against his own. He is a traitor not Osahene. Ghanaian chiefs must stop honouring criminals just because they are from their tribe.
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Asem Beba Dabi 9 years ago

The corruption in Ghana todayis worse than pre 1979 uprising but you stupidly said that Ghanaians should resist any uprising. Do you really have brains? If your uprising was good, why do you discourage military takeover. Ghan ...
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The corruption in Ghana todayis worse than pre 1979 uprising but you stupidly said that Ghanaians should resist any uprising. Do you really have brains? If your uprising was good, why do you discourage military takeover. Ghana is rotten under NDC government.
Adam 9 years ago

Boakye-Gyan another empty headed-man is talking about june4th.

Boakye-Gyan another empty headed-man is talking about june4th.
SEIDU JOHNSON 9 years ago

WHY YOU RUN AWAY FROM THE COUNTRY IF EVERYTHING WAS OK?

WHY YOU RUN AWAY FROM THE COUNTRY IF EVERYTHING WAS OK?
KANAWU 9 years ago

AT THE AGE OF 15, RAWLINGS LOST HIS GIRLFRIEND TO PRESIDENT KUFFUOR,THE GENTLE GIANT. THAT IS WHY RAWLINGS WENT ON TO MARRY AN ASHANTI LADY DESPITE HIS STRONG AND EVIL HATRED FOR THE ASHANTIS.

AT THE AGE OF 15, RAWLINGS LOST HIS GIRLFRIEND TO PRESIDENT KUFFUOR,THE GENTLE GIANT. THAT IS WHY RAWLINGS WENT ON TO MARRY AN ASHANTI LADY DESPITE HIS STRONG AND EVIL HATRED FOR THE ASHANTIS.
NOKWARE 9 years ago

Are you serious Boakye Gyan?June 4th gave Rawlings the chance to kill your brother Kyeremeh Gyan and made you a fugitive in London for years.With regard to fighting corruption it was a total failure.It brutalized Ghanaians an ...
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Are you serious Boakye Gyan?June 4th gave Rawlings the chance to kill your brother Kyeremeh Gyan and made you a fugitive in London for years.With regard to fighting corruption it was a total failure.It brutalized Ghanaians and took the lives of so many innocent Ghanaians.June 4th ushered in a period of brutal human rights violations in Ghana.It will be more prudent for you to keep your silence about June 4th.
Joe Canada 9 years ago

I hate this moron, idiot,mental retarded, motherfucker, asshole, dickhead more than I hate jerry. listen to this fool. justifying actions that eventually killed you brother and rob Ghana many years of development?., this fool ...
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I hate this moron, idiot,mental retarded, motherfucker, asshole, dickhead more than I hate jerry. listen to this fool. justifying actions that eventually killed you brother and rob Ghana many years of development?., this fool can only say such nonsense in a country call Ghana. anywhere else, he would have get a bullet in his numb skull. IDIOT.
OHENEBA 9 years ago

stupid

stupid
BUGA BUGA ATUGUBA 9 years ago

After 28 years of the June 4 Revolution, the question to ask is who was the victor and who was the loser? In my view, Ghana has been the loser and Corruption has been the triumphant victor. Today, Ghana is brimful of corrupti ...
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After 28 years of the June 4 Revolution, the question to ask is who was the victor and who was the loser? In my view, Ghana has been the loser and Corruption has been the triumphant victor. Today, Ghana is brimful of corruption. Ghana has turned into a nation of thieves. Everybody is stealing from the presidency to the smallest hamlet in Ghana. All those who were executed f
corruption died in vain. Amedume was executed for borrowing fifty million old cedis from his bank. Paradoxically, Ibrahim Mahama(President Mahama's brother) borrowed massively from Merchant Bank and caused the collapse. Nothing has happened to him. Interestingly, he was allowed to buy the same bank under very mysterious circumstances Open and obscene stealing from the national coffers. All these malfeseance are happing under the administration of the offshoot of the June 4 revolution, that is the NDC. Probity, Accountability, and Probity have been reduced to convenient political slogans. So what is Rawlings and Boakye Djan saying? Rawlings preached "one man one toilet". How many toilets are in his house. He is living obscene opulence. Where did he get his wealth. We plead with these two latter day revolutionaires to spare us the agony of reminding us about the unjustified murder of our sons and daughters.
Sly 9 years ago

Ugly man with evil intensions wgich had led the country in a mess with evil characters

Ugly man with evil intensions wgich had led the country in a mess with evil characters
Sly 9 years ago

Ugly man with evil intensions which had led the country in a mess with evil characters in power with the only aim at amassing wealth at the expense of the state. Lazy entities feeding and as parasites on the state. Murderer ...
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Ugly man with evil intensions which had led the country in a mess with evil characters in power with the only aim at amassing wealth at the expense of the state. Lazy entities feeding and as parasites on the state. Murderers and haters of people who sweat for their wealth
me 9 years ago

I thought this was an intelligent man but little did I know that B Gyan was a coward and a big fool.

I thought this was an intelligent man but little did I know that B Gyan was a coward and a big fool.
KOMOO FRANCE. 9 years ago

Boakye gyan,you have no brain ln your head.This rawlings killed your brother kyreme gyan and you still support him

Boakye gyan,you have no brain ln your head.This rawlings killed your brother kyreme gyan and you still support him
Mr. Objective 9 years ago

So you wise man KOMOO you cannot differentiate between the support for a CAUSE and an INDIVIDUAL. Don't you know that Boakye Djan was the main architect of J4? What has J4 got to do with Rawlings killing Boakye's brother?

So you wise man KOMOO you cannot differentiate between the support for a CAUSE and an INDIVIDUAL. Don't you know that Boakye Djan was the main architect of J4? What has J4 got to do with Rawlings killing Boakye's brother?
Yaw 9 years ago

Sure June 4 had everything to do with the brutal murder of Kyeremeh Djan. June 4 was the day the gates of hell were opened. It paved the way for 19 years of sheer banditry.

In any case what "cause" did 4 June serve?
Did ...
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Sure June 4 had everything to do with the brutal murder of Kyeremeh Djan. June 4 was the day the gates of hell were opened. It paved the way for 19 years of sheer banditry.

In any case what "cause" did 4 June serve?
Did it deter military adventurism in our politics? No! Those who pontificated that June 4 was a punishment for coup makers were the same people who overthrew the Liman Administration.

Did it stop corruption? No. Witness Mabey & Johnson, Juliet Cotton (Aveyime Rice), Woyome, Subah, Isofotun. Gyeeda.

Boakye-Gyan and his ilk can go fuck their mums and stop pissing on our heads.
CNN News 9 years ago

People change through evolution not through revolution. Who were the true benificiaries of the June 4th revolution : Mr & Mrs Rawlings

People change through evolution not through revolution. Who were the true benificiaries of the June 4th revolution : Mr & Mrs Rawlings
akua kuako 9 years ago

If the revolution did not happened, Ghana would have been something else,offcouse, it restored political stability, Ghana would have been like Guinea bissau. It is true some countries like russia,Morroco,Ghana nad some few mo ...
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If the revolution did not happened, Ghana would have been something else,offcouse, it restored political stability, Ghana would have been like Guinea bissau. It is true some countries like russia,Morroco,Ghana nad some few more countries needed leaders who will stamp their legs on the ground or the stupidity of the people will always retreat the country back.
john throway 9 years ago

before the so-called revolution, were ghanaians at each others throat?
judging from what is currently happening in ghana, would you say the ndc government the brainchild of the so-called revolution has been corrupt free than ...
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before the so-called revolution, were ghanaians at each others throat?
judging from what is currently happening in ghana, would you say the ndc government the brainchild of the so-called revolution has been corrupt free than those killed in the process?
THOMAS 9 years ago

U don't know what you are talking about. Let me tell u , as corrupt as those generals murdered by jj aboabiba rawlings were, the country wsa on the path of returning to a constitutional rule,so stop thinking as if be4 jj ghan ...
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U don't know what you are talking about. Let me tell u , as corrupt as those generals murdered by jj aboabiba rawlings were, the country wsa on the path of returning to a constitutional rule,so stop thinking as if be4 jj ghanians did not know what was good.
Kofi Abraham 9 years ago

He fled this country and was running errands for Scottish Life in London for little commissions, started some tabloid which failed miserably and went underground driving taxis. He lost his brother through the so called revolu ...
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He fled this country and was running errands for Scottish Life in London for little commissions, started some tabloid which failed miserably and went underground driving taxis. He lost his brother through the so called revolution, came back thanks to Kufour and engaged in some silly politics , first as an independent key holder and when he got broke allowed himself to be lured by the likes of Asiedu Nketia to stand as a candidate with the promise that win or lose he was going to be the Minister of Defence. When they "won" they threw him away like a pariah. Sadly he is now being chased for a pick up he stole from the NDC constituency. He has no shame this lousy moron. Any decent person would keep quiet and lick his wounds as JJ has effectively wiped out of what happened in 1979. How sad and what a horrible denouement!
NANAKATA 9 years ago

NO ONE DEFENDS A GOOD DEED.
IT IS WHEN AN ACT/ACTION BECOMES UNPOPULAR THAT SOME WILL FIND IT NECESSARY TO DEFEND IT,OTHERWISE IT HAS TO EARN PRAISES!

NO ONE DEFENDS A GOOD DEED.
IT IS WHEN AN ACT/ACTION BECOMES UNPOPULAR THAT SOME WILL FIND IT NECESSARY TO DEFEND IT,OTHERWISE IT HAS TO EARN PRAISES!
AGBEVE.... 9 years ago

Mmmmmmmm

Mmmmmmmm
Amalia 9 years ago

"Mr Boakye Gyan said the revolution created the institutions to handle cases of corruption."
Wow Boakye Gyan there was corruption before June 4th, 1979 and there will be corruption after.
Why don't you go and shoot Rawlings ...
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"Mr Boakye Gyan said the revolution created the institutions to handle cases of corruption."
Wow Boakye Gyan there was corruption before June 4th, 1979 and there will be corruption after.
Why don't you go and shoot Rawlings for he is the most corrupted Ghanaian walking today.
ANOMASHIE BEN 9 years ago

Boakye Gyan says his treason restored constitutional rule. Bollocks. The Akuffo regime had announced a programme for returning the country to civilian rule, beginning with a Transitional |National Government (TINAGOV). Wouldn ...
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Boakye Gyan says his treason restored constitutional rule. Bollocks. The Akuffo regime had announced a programme for returning the country to civilian rule, beginning with a Transitional |National Government (TINAGOV). Wouldn't a National Government have been more stable than the PNP Govt (CPP-dominated) that Boakye Gyan and Mensah Poku brought into being, which made Rawlings overthrow it on 31 December 1981?

Boakye Gyan is an opportunistic person completely devoid of any principles. It is amazing that Ghanaian journalists continue to demonstrate empty-headedness by giving him publicity. At least, with Rawlings, you know he will give you his true opinion, whether it is trash or not. Boakye Gyan is a calculating
agent provocateur trained in deception by the Ghana Military Intelligence department. He is so morally bankrupt that he was working for the apartheid South African racist regime, and was exposed by the London newspapers when he tried to crash an ANC meeting in Tanzania to spy on the ANC for the racists. If you ask Rawlings, I am sure he will tell you that he heard that Boakye Gyan had gone to South Africa to collect money from the racists to go and overthrow Rawlings with it in Ghana!! Tweaaa, when we are speaking of politicians, don't mention Boakye Gyan. Please.
NANA USA 9 years ago

WHAT ELSE CON HE SAY ,SE HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO CHANGE A FOOLISH PERSON

WHAT ELSE CON HE SAY ,SE HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO CHANGE A FOOLISH PERSON
CHIGRI WAGADUGU 9 years ago

During acheampong and akuffo's era
the Whole world was in economic turmoil and the corruption and injustice today far exceeds those days. Please don't think we quick to
forget as said by mahama.

During acheampong and akuffo's era
the Whole world was in economic turmoil and the corruption and injustice today far exceeds those days. Please don't think we quick to
forget as said by mahama.
TWEAA 9 years ago

ACCOUNT NO.48 IS STILL CRYING TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR BY THE SO CALLED INTERGRITY PEOPLE....WHAT DO YOU SAY BOAKYE DJAN.........?

ACCOUNT NO.48 IS STILL CRYING TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR BY THE SO CALLED INTERGRITY PEOPLE....WHAT DO YOU SAY BOAKYE DJAN.........?
Osei Yao 9 years ago

HE WILL SAY SO WOULDN'T HE! THE CROOK RAPED GHANA. THE MONIES COLLECTED VANISHED WHEN EVENTUALLY THEY HANDED OVER. THE TRUCKS THEY SEIZED HAD NO ENGINES. THIS IS WHAT CONFRONTED DR LIMANN. RESERVE FOODSTUFF HAD BEEN LOOTED. I ...
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HE WILL SAY SO WOULDN'T HE! THE CROOK RAPED GHANA. THE MONIES COLLECTED VANISHED WHEN EVENTUALLY THEY HANDED OVER. THE TRUCKS THEY SEIZED HAD NO ENGINES. THIS IS WHAT CONFRONTED DR LIMANN. RESERVE FOODSTUFF HAD BEEN LOOTED. IN SHORT, THEY LEFT CHAOS. THE WHOLE EXERCISE WAS MOTIVATED BY ENVY.
Kwabena Dwomoh. 9 years ago

Boakye Gyan you sick.

Boakye Gyan you sick.
AKWAPIMBA,LAS PALMAS DE G.C.,SPAIN 9 years ago

-MAJ.BOAKYE GYAN,FLED TO LONDON WITH GOOD MONEY,TO MAKE A BETTER LIFE. NOW BACK AGAIN TO JOIN POLITICS AND TO FOOL THE GHANAIAN WITH YOUR SWEET TONGUE.JAJAJAJA---NO-WAY.KILLED INOCENT GENERALS ?

-MAJ.BOAKYE GYAN,FLED TO LONDON WITH GOOD MONEY,TO MAKE A BETTER LIFE. NOW BACK AGAIN TO JOIN POLITICS AND TO FOOL THE GHANAIAN WITH YOUR SWEET TONGUE.JAJAJAJA---NO-WAY.KILLED INOCENT GENERALS ?
Yaro de Mann 9 years ago

Listen to another Idiot of a man.How can any sensible man say this. Nonsense

Listen to another Idiot of a man.How can any sensible man say this. Nonsense
MAHAMA - DOING MY JOB 9 years ago

GHANAIANS STILL FEELING PAIN AND SUFFERING COURSED BY AFRC , PNDC AND NDC .

GHANAIANS STILL FEELING PAIN AND SUFFERING COURSED BY AFRC , PNDC AND NDC .
suprise 9 years ago

peace indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed

peace indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

It is always amusing reading articles and rebuttals from people who loved the 1966 coup that overthrew Nkrumah and his CPP but now have the gull to see if there is any justification for subsequent changes in government by the ...
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It is always amusing reading articles and rebuttals from people who loved the 1966 coup that overthrew Nkrumah and his CPP but now have the gull to see if there is any justification for subsequent changes in government by the military at any other time in our short history of independence.
The very act of using ballot boxes and vote counting to elect leaders every election cycle is the ultimate confirmation that the peoples of those nations do want the chance or option to change their mind about the status quo. Why then did Ghanaians of the pre 1966 era decide to use force instead of the ballot? While there may be a hundred reasons for and against Nkrumah and his bunch the decision to resort to military takeover of civilian governments is , has been and will continue to come from people lacking the capacity for processed thinking, self control and mostly unprincipled. Anyone in Ghana who thinks Ghana’s 1992 constitution baring military intervention of civilian governments is an iron clad agreement is just as foolish as a Gh2 cedi note. Do we know of any government, democratically elected by vote, by theocracy, dictatorship or by the military, by fair or foul means, anywhere that will not eventually be legitimized and accepted by the international community or citizens of the nation? Show me such nation if it exists.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

I am from BA but I can stand this inferior bastard. The crimes he committed are unpardonable and he and Rawlings need to be shot.

I am from BA but I can stand this inferior bastard. The crimes he committed are unpardonable and he and Rawlings need to be shot.
KWAKU KYERETWIE 9 years ago

WHAT IS WRONG WITH GHANA TODAY BOAKYE GYAN? IF THIS GUY CAN GIVE US REASON THEN NO QUESTION ASKED. BUT JUNE 4TH WAS BOGUS, IT WAS AN EVENT TO MURDER PEOPLE.SOLDIERS OR NO SOLDIERS GHANA SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAVED THROUGH SOMETHIN ...
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH GHANA TODAY BOAKYE GYAN? IF THIS GUY CAN GIVE US REASON THEN NO QUESTION ASKED. BUT JUNE 4TH WAS BOGUS, IT WAS AN EVENT TO MURDER PEOPLE.SOLDIERS OR NO SOLDIERS GHANA SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAVED THROUGH SOMETHING ELSE BUT NOT WHAT WE ARE SEEING FROM THIS BOGUS NDC.........
Robin Hood 9 years ago

Majority of BA indigenes are morons.That is why Ashantis do not respect them. Foolish from their mothers' wombs.

Majority of BA indigenes are morons.That is why Ashantis do not respect them. Foolish from their mothers' wombs.
********* 9 years ago

June 4th was nothing more than a day light rape of mother Ghana. Those armed robbers who committed it ought to be ashamed of themselves and shut the fuck up!

June 4th was nothing more than a day light rape of mother Ghana. Those armed robbers who committed it ought to be ashamed of themselves and shut the fuck up!
CAPII 9 years ago

LISTEN TO THE RAN AWAY COWARD,HID IN EXILE WHEN YOUR BROTHER GOT KILLED.GHANA IS IN ECONOMIC MESS DUE TO THE SENSELESS & USELESS MUTINY. BLOOD YOU SPILLED HAS CURSED NDC,MOST CORRUPT PARTY IN GHANA'S HISTORY. IDIOTIC MORON !! ...
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LISTEN TO THE RAN AWAY COWARD,HID IN EXILE WHEN YOUR BROTHER GOT KILLED.GHANA IS IN ECONOMIC MESS DUE TO THE SENSELESS & USELESS MUTINY. BLOOD YOU SPILLED HAS CURSED NDC,MOST CORRUPT PARTY IN GHANA'S HISTORY. IDIOTIC MORON !!!!!!
TEE 9 years ago

THEY ARE SICK MENTALLY PERIOD

THEY ARE SICK MENTALLY PERIOD
TEE 9 years ago

KILLERS WHO ARE PROUD FOR KILLING ONLY IN GHANA THIS WOULD HAPPENED WITHOUT JUSTICES PERIOD

KILLERS WHO ARE PROUD FOR KILLING ONLY IN GHANA THIS WOULD HAPPENED WITHOUT JUSTICES PERIOD
Effah 9 years ago

'Tweaaaaaa,aboa'! The tree is known by its fruits. Look at the product of your violent so called June 4th revolution today. Do you call the current life in Ghana - whether political or spiritual - as peaceful and orderly?
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'Tweaaaaaa,aboa'! The tree is known by its fruits. Look at the product of your violent so called June 4th revolution today. Do you call the current life in Ghana - whether political or spiritual - as peaceful and orderly?
Murderer like Rwalings and Tsikatas,you must walk with your head down.
Your turn is on the way.

Boakye Gyan defends June 4 uprising

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