Rawlings also part of Ghana’s economic woes - Boakye Gyan

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Samir 9 years ago

This Osahene has spoken sense to JJ after all he made JJ what he is today the sad part is that JJ was smarter enough to trick them all and only used them as tools so now JJ has all the booties and enjoying with his family jus ...
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This Osahene has spoken sense to JJ after all he made JJ what he is today the sad part is that JJ was smarter enough to trick them all and only used them as tools so now JJ has all the booties and enjoying with his family just tricked Liman.
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!
CARDINAL 9 years ago

This Boakye Gyan idiot should shut up. He is worse than Rawlings and Ghana problems started from him. Without this idiotic fool Boakye Gyan staging the June 4th 'armed robbery' masqueraded as a revolution, Rawlings bones wou ...
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This Boakye Gyan idiot should shut up. He is worse than Rawlings and Ghana problems started from him. Without this idiotic fool Boakye Gyan staging the June 4th 'armed robbery' masqueraded as a revolution, Rawlings bones would have now turned into dirt.

Boakye Gyan gave us the "O" level scholar Rawlings and for that reason alone, he deserves to be arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Agyei Sikapa 9 years ago

Kwadwo Boakye Gyan did not mean evil when he got Rawlings out of jail. He, unfortunately, worked under conditions he did not understand.

Rawlings had Kojo Tsikata, Tsatsu Tsikata, Kofi Awonoo, Brig. Kattah and others advis ...
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Kwadwo Boakye Gyan did not mean evil when he got Rawlings out of jail. He, unfortunately, worked under conditions he did not understand.

Rawlings had Kojo Tsikata, Tsatsu Tsikata, Kofi Awonoo, Brig. Kattah and others advising and coaching him how to outwit lone ranger Boakye Gyan. THEY WERE MANY BUT HE WAS ALONE. What do you expect?

Now Jerry, who strictly speaking has an IQ of a twelve year old has several cars, 3 or 4 big houses (AND WANTS THE STATE HOUSES HE LIVED IN REBUILT TO HIS TASTE FOR HIM), a fast boat and real CASH. Nonetheless, every one in Ghana is corrupt, except Jerry.

If Col Acheampong had "sold" Nsawam Cannery to his wife, one wonders what accountability and pious Jerry would have said.

May God Almighty forgive pot-belly J. J. Rawlings because punishing him for his SINS, it would not be enough to kill him through one year of brutal torture.
We the Children 9 years ago

Who asked this woman boakye djan to talk when men are talking? When men like jj rawlings who can hit their chest are talking.
jj stayed after the coup but poor chicken ran to London with his meager loot. Stayed even when his ...
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Who asked this woman boakye djan to talk when men are talking? When men like jj rawlings who can hit their chest are talking.
jj stayed after the coup but poor chicken ran to London with his meager loot. Stayed even when his blood brother,one father one mother brother was murdered by jj rawlings. Even back to Ghana he can't couldn't ask jj WHY?
To say u r a woman,chicken is understatement
A hen (female chicken) will put on a fierce fight when even its master human being comes near it's chicks (children). Osahen which fools proclaimed him Osahen boakye djan? An idiot,a fool like boakye djan even thinks he is man,a soldier Tweaa scum of the earth. Your parents wasted sleepless nights only to bring something like this into the world? Ur laboured for 9 good months for this thing call boakye djan. Ur mother must envy the Tema prostitute who begotten jj rawlings another scum of the earth but a little stronger. Almighty God what did Oman Ghana do to deserve imbeciles like these 2? boakye djan ASK jj rawlings WHY he KILLED ur younger BROTHER? B4 u can talk in public.
They Say They Say 9 years ago

June 4th itself was a necessary evil. Military personnel overtaking another military junta which was planning to entrench itself deep into politics is definitely not a good idea. It's the second coming.

June 4th itself was a necessary evil. Military personnel overtaking another military junta which was planning to entrench itself deep into politics is definitely not a good idea. It's the second coming.
JP Williamson 9 years ago

That is number one lie. Boakye Gyan was okay until that greedy trait; typical of his crop set in. People like him have no time to sow yet are always in a hurry to reap. That is all there was to it and this is what constitutes ...
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That is number one lie. Boakye Gyan was okay until that greedy trait; typical of his crop set in. People like him have no time to sow yet are always in a hurry to reap. That is all there was to it and this is what constitutes Ghana's perennial problem; - people always eager to reap what does not belong to them.
If only Agya Attah ensured diligent investigation and accountability from Kuffour, things could look markedly different by now.

Only fools blame Rawllings. He is in an entirely different class from all these people
GHANAian 9 years ago

I LIKE THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF THIS ARTICLE AND ALSO "THOSE WHO DON'T THINK PROPERLY" (BUT ITS NOT TOO LATE TO THINK)
“I will blame our leaders for not reading through the problem including Mr. Rawlings himself. We should no ...
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I LIKE THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF THIS ARTICLE AND ALSO "THOSE WHO DON'T THINK PROPERLY" (BUT ITS NOT TOO LATE TO THINK)
“I will blame our leaders for not reading through the problem including Mr. Rawlings himself. We should not conclude that a failing nation is as a result of only corruption; it is those who are not thinking properly who will blame it on corruption only...let’s say that nobody is stealing our wealth in this country, the issue is that where is the wealth and who is creating what in this country? This is the fundamental problem and this has got nothing to do with corruption, though corruption is not good; it does not explain why our economy is dwindling…corruption is not responsible for our failure but rather we are not producing as a country, and that is the problem,” he asserted.
Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

jj is being haunted by the ghosts of the soldiers he murdered. He is nuts. PerioD!!

jj is being haunted by the ghosts of the soldiers he murdered. He is nuts. PerioD!!
Close Observer 9 years ago

Members of the MAD MAN'S PARTY, you have heard Boakye DJAN. You know we love you because we are all Ghanaians, but you need to stop following this JJ GUY and have your faces thoroughly, that is how you can then think properly ...
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Members of the MAD MAN'S PARTY, you have heard Boakye DJAN. You know we love you because we are all Ghanaians, but you need to stop following this JJ GUY and have your faces thoroughly, that is how you can then think properly and vote properly. Ghana needs you to move forward. Presently, you are holding all of us back. You have given NDC 25 years out of Ghana's 57 years, and have seen nothing good.
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!
Close Observer 9 years ago

Please do, and thank you for this insight, Prince.

Please do, and thank you for this insight, Prince.
Truth 9 years ago

This Is a good comment every Ghanaian should read.I wish it had been published as an article

This Is a good comment every Ghanaian should read.I wish it had been published as an article
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 9 years ago

AUTHOR: SEE BELOW----------------------------It would be recalled that before Election 2000, the Rawlings's P/NDC had ruled Ghana for 19 solid years. This era, as we all know, was marked by human rights abuses, tribalism, cor ...
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AUTHOR: SEE BELOW----------------------------It would be recalled that before Election 2000, the Rawlings's P/NDC had ruled Ghana for 19 solid years. This era, as we all know, was marked by human rights abuses, tribalism, corruption, economic hardship, cash and carry system, and more seriously, serial killings of women.

What then did President John Agyekum Kufuor and his NPP do with the power given him between 2001 and 2009? This write-up seeks to find the answer under social infrastructure, policies & programmes, and good governance.

ON SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE • Kufuor's tenure witnessed the construction of two new sports stadia at Essipong and Tamale; the rehabilitation of both Accra and Kumasi sports stadia, and another sports complex in Cape Coast.

• Under Kufuor, a new Presidential Palace was built to house the president and his family; the Accra-Tema commuter railway line was constructed, and the Keta Sea Defence wall was built to protect the people of Keta.

• A $622m loan was secured for the construction of the Bui Dam & Bui City Project; the Boankra Inland Port was started (now abandoned); major feeder and trunk roads (Accra-Kumasi-Aflao-Kasoa-Cape Coast, Aburi), several by-passes in Accra and Kumasi including the Sofoline and Asafo interchange, and George Walker Bush 14km High Way were all constructed.

• The Peduase Lodge, which had been abandoned was restored; several boreholes were drilled to end the perennial water problems in Cape Coast and Tamale; the Aboadze Thermal Plant was expanded; the Kofi Annan ICT Centre for Excellence, and state-of-the art wood village at Sokoban in Kumasi for Anloga carpenters were all built.

• Another legacy of Kufuor is the construction of the Accident and Emergency Centre with a landing base at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). This has saved several precious lives.

• Besides, 56 existing senior high schools were upgraded as Model Schools; two institutions (University of Education, Winneba, and University of Mines & Technology) were given autonomy to run as public universities, UDS had Campuses at Wa and Bolgatanga, 21 new senior high schools, 1,334 new JHS blocks, 1,331 primary schools, and 5,164 pre-schools were built.

• Also, over 5,000 affordable housing units at various parts of the country were built. A cocoa processing plant was built in Kumasi. The West African Gas Pipe Line was nearly completed. There was expansion of the road network from 39,000 km of accessible roads to 65,000 km by 2008.

• The Ghana @ 50 ‘legacy’ projects like recreational parks, renovation of public buildings, and historical monuments across all the 10 regions and their district capitals were built. The government also built 14 fishing harbours in our fishing communities.

ON POLICIES & PROGRAMMES • The Kufuor government introduced free basic education through the capitation grant (fee- free). There was school feeding programme where pupils from some selected public basic schools were given one hot meal a day.

• The National Health Insurance Scheme was introduced to replace the cash and carry system and make health care affordable. There was also the introduction of free maternal care to reduce child mortality.

• The government frequently released brand new buses to GPRTU, and introduced the metro mass transit, replaced the Ghana Airways with Ghana International Airlines (all meant to improve the transportation system.

• The NPP introduced the Northern Development Fund with a US$25m seed fund to reduce the North-South poverty gap; free bus ride for school kids, brought Zoom Lion Company Limited to rid our cities of filth, created Youth Fund with a $50m seed money and instituted the National Youth Employment Programme, which rolled out seven programmes including community police, teaching assistance, health care, agric extension, etc to reduce the country’s high unemployment.

• Kufuor also introduced the mass cocoa spraying exercise, frequently increased the producer price of cocoa; subsidised fertilizer, and made prompt payment of bonuses to cocoa farmers.

• In his quest to mechanise agriculture, the Kufuor government imported 3,331 brand new tractors, but unfortunately, Mahama Ayariga, and Alban Bagbin used their positions in government to buy some at only GHC1,000.

• The annual cocoa yield increased from 350 metric tonnes in 2000 to 750 metric tonnes in 2006 with an income of US$1bn to the economy. By 2010, Ghana had hit 1m cocoa production. This feat alone moved Ghana from the 4th position to the 2nd position in terms of the world’s leading producers of the product.

• The size of the Ghana's economy quadrupled from US$3.9m in 2008 to US$16.3m in 2008, thus ending the year with GDP growth rate of 8.4%.

• Whilst inflation was reduced from 40% in 2000 to 9.8% in 2006 (single digit) and later 18% in 2008, interest rate fell from 50% to 25% during the period under consideration. The daily minimum wage was increased from 42Gp (4,200 old cedis) in 2000 to GHC2.25 (22,500 old cedis) in 2009.

• A New Education Reform was put in place in 2007 with special emphasis on Maths, Science, Vocational and ICT. Kindergarten education officially became part of our basic education system.

• The admission of JHS graduates into SHS was computerised to reduce corruption and hassle of parents; there was Baah-Wiredu Laptop project aimed at giving one laptop to every school child.

• All the 38 Teacher Training Colleges were upgraded into tertiary status (Colleges of Education); Distance education programme was introduced for teachers and workers.

• The government also introduced Untrained Teacher Education Programme for Pupil Teachers to become trained teachers, Access Course to Teacher Training Colleges for SHS graduates who could not do well in Maths and English. The purpose was to upgrade the knowledge of the teacher, beef up the teacher population, and subsequently help to address the falling educational standards in the country.

• Private universities sprung from 4 to over 50, whilst existing infrastructure in the public universities and other public tertiary institutions were expanded through the GETFund.

• The SSNIT Loan Scheme was restructured for students to take more loans. Plans were far advanced to start not only Single Spine Salary Structure for public sector workers, but also a new 3-tier pension scheme for both private and public sector workers.

ON GOOD GOVERNANCE • His Excellency, President J. A. Kufuor tolerated all shades of opinion and verbal abused from ‘Dr.’ Asemfoforo, an NDC paid serial caller, and J. J. Rawlings, who at one time referred to the then sitting President as ‘Ataa Ayi’ - a notorious armed robber.

• Ghanaians witnessed the National Reconciliation; the reburial of three former heads of state namely; Okatakyie Afrifa, Gen. I.K. Acheampong and Gen. F.W.K Akufo and five senior military officers, who were executed in 1979 by J. J. Rawlings.

• In addition, over 100 assets of noble and hard working citizens seized by J.J. Rawlings were deconfiscated to their owners.

• The criminal libel and seditious laws which had provided 10 years’ maximum imprisonment for offenders was repealed. The People’s Assembly concept which made it possible for Ghanaians to interact with the President and his Ministers on yearly basis was instituted.

• There was all-inclusive governance with the likes of Mallam Issah (PNC), Dr. Paa Nduom, Prof. Badu Akosah, Prof. Hagan - all CPP leading members, working under the NPP administration. Kufuor also facilitated the appointments of Dr. Ibn Chambas as the Secretary General of ECOWAS, and Ekwow Spio-Garbrah as Chief Executive Officer of CTO.

• Kufuor created 60 additional districts and raised some of them to municipal & metropolitan status to facilitate local governance. The District Assembly Common Fund was increased from 5% to 7.5%.

• There was a plethora of FM Radio stations, regular media encounters with the President, broadcasting of news in the major local dialects on the Ghana Television (GTV), which hitherto had been in English and Akan.

• The Kufuor government passed the Representation of the People Amendment act (ROPAA) into law to enfranchise Ghanaians in the diaspora, though Afari Gyan failed to make it operational.

• Kufuor should also be commended for the expansion of mobile phone network across the length and breadth of the country as he removed tariffs on mobile phone importation.

• Kufuor created a Ministry for Public Sector Reform with the view to developing a new and positive mindset for public sector workers; Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs to empower women and improve their lot; and the Ministry of Chieftaincy Affairs to tap the rich expertise of our noble traditional leaders.

• Also, June 4 and the 31st December were removed from the statute books as public holidays. The 64th Infantry Regiment were disbanded to other units to ensure discipline in the Armed Forces.

• Kufuor featured regularly at all G-8 Summits. His excellent diplomatic relations with world leaders enabled Ghana not only to attract attention and investment worldwide, but also he was unanimously elected to chair both the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Under his leadership, Ghana had the opportunity to assume the rotational presidency of the UN Security Council.

• President Kufuor also won several international awards including the Chatham House Prize Award in 2008 as a result of peace and economic growth which characterised his two terms in office. No wonder he was given a rousing welcome by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II of England.

• Again, President Kufuor took a leading role in mediating in regional conflicts including those in Liberia, La Cote D’Ivoire, Kenya, Sudan, and Zimbabwe.

• As a true democrat, he was even criticised by his own party members and sympathisers for not hanging onto power before the Tain by-elections when the NPP’s Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo was leading in the 2008 Presidential elections.

• Kufuor is on record as the only President who left office in the peaceful manner in which he entered it. This is indeed a lasting legacy because all his predecessors were either overthrown by the military or metamorphosed themselves into civilian presidents.

• Kufuor introduced the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme, where the aged and other vulnerable people in Ghana were paid monthly allowances of between 8 and 15 Ghana cedis.

• Under President Kufuor's leadership, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African country to cut in half the proportion of its people who suffer from hunger. He and LUIZ DA SILVA of Brazil jointly received the 2011 World Food Prize.

• He introduced micro finance loans to help small and medium-scale businesses, the Export Development Fund (EDIF), the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which makes it possible for local producers to access the US market, as well as, the Ghana Poverty Reduction Programmes I & II were all aimed at improving the lot of Ghanaians.

• The Kufuor-led NPP administration purchased VALCO from the Americans at a cosmic sum of US$20m.

• On corruption, a minister of state under his administration was charged for wilfully causing financial loss to the state and together with other members of the previous government, was sentenced to a prison term.

• Ghana was the first country in Africa to submit herself to the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). It would also interest readers to note that for the first time in 50 years, Ghana under the leadership of Kufuor earned a respectable B+ rating on the international financial scene in 2006 and this indeed, facilitated the country’s successful bid to access over US$ 750m from the Eurobond market.

• The passage of the Public Procurement Act, Financial Administration Act, Internal Audit Agency Act, which made the agency exceed its revenue target every year, the Office of Accountability Act, the Whistle Blowers Act, the importation of new police uniforms and over 1000 police vehicles to combat crime, the Right to Information bill, the establishment of Fast Track High Courts, the strengthening of state institutions like the SFO, CHRAJ, among others, were all geared towards the eradication of this social evil in the Ghanaian society.

• Last but not the least, Ghana under Kufuor’s reign became the largest recipient of Millennium Challenge Account funds of US$547m to combat poverty in Ghana. The bilateral and multilateral debt cancellations as a result of Ghana joining the Heavily Indebted and Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and the UN's and World Bank’s lucrative jobs for His Excellency, J. A. Kufuor even before the 2008 general elections make him stand tall among his contemporaries. He made Ghana, an oil producing country as oil was struck in commercial quantities in 2010.

How could the excellent record enumerated above be a factor to the NPP's electoral defeat? I leave it for the judgement of the Ghanaian voter in 2016.

God bless Ghana! God bless the NPP!! God bless Kufuor!!!

Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang, Asante Bekwai-Asakyiri (Free SHS Ambassador) Official blog: (www.katakyie.com) katakyienpp@yahoo.co.uk 0202471070 : 0264931361 : 0547851100
facts 9 years ago

Rawlings is the main problem of ghana's economic woes . He came to steal. kill,and destroy. His face represents evil , That man shed too much blood so he is a curse,

Rawlings is the main problem of ghana's economic woes . He came to steal. kill,and destroy. His face represents evil , That man shed too much blood so he is a curse,
Kojo T 9 years ago

Part of The problem is NPP . When will it become part of the solution

Part of The problem is NPP . When will it become part of the solution
TEE 9 years ago

RAWLINGS PERIOD

RAWLINGS PERIOD
Close Observer 9 years ago

Members of the MAD MAN'S PARTY, you have heard Boakye DJAN. You know we love you because we are all Ghanaians, but you need to stop following this JJ GUY and have your faces thoroughly washed, that is how you can then think p ...
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Members of the MAD MAN'S PARTY, you have heard Boakye DJAN. You know we love you because we are all Ghanaians, but you need to stop following this JJ GUY and have your faces thoroughly washed, that is how you can then think properly and vote properly. Ghana needs you to move forward. Presently, you are holding all of us back. You have given NDC 25 years out of Ghana's 57 years, and have seen nothing good.
Effah 9 years ago

oh Boakye-Gyan, give us space. You were an active participant of the woes in this country.
Do not ever think that you will get a State burial on your death. The Nation hates you and your arch murdrers.

oh Boakye-Gyan, give us space. You were an active participant of the woes in this country.
Do not ever think that you will get a State burial on your death. The Nation hates you and your arch murdrers.
Concerned 9 years ago

Djan has got a face like the monkey with the red bottom. was he not part of the group which destroyed ghana's business in the 3 months that the afrc was in power? markola was razed to the ground for no reason. he should keep ...
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Djan has got a face like the monkey with the red bottom. was he not part of the group which destroyed ghana's business in the 3 months that the afrc was in power? markola was razed to the ground for no reason. he should keep his sad face away from us. he has nothing to offer.
KKK USA 9 years ago

JJ IS MAID LETS FORGET ABOUT HIM I PETTY HIS WIFE STILL LIVES WITH A MAIDMAN

JJ IS MAID LETS FORGET ABOUT HIM I PETTY HIS WIFE STILL LIVES WITH A MAIDMAN
BARIMAH KAKAHINI 9 years ago

WHO MADE THIS IDIOT ASAHENE,THE PATH YOU CONSTRUCTED HAS BROUGHT US THIS CALAMITY.YOU BROUGHT RAWLINGS TO THE HIGHLIGHTS NOW HE IS NO MORE NEEDED SO YOU BETTER TAKE THE IDIOT FROM OUR SIGHT.YOUR IDIOT CAME WITH LIES AND LOOTI ...
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WHO MADE THIS IDIOT ASAHENE,THE PATH YOU CONSTRUCTED HAS BROUGHT US THIS CALAMITY.YOU BROUGHT RAWLINGS TO THE HIGHLIGHTS NOW HE IS NO MORE NEEDED SO YOU BETTER TAKE THE IDIOT FROM OUR SIGHT.YOUR IDIOT CAME WITH LIES AND LOOTING AND AFTER LOOTING ALL OUR RESOUCES,THEN TURNS TO POINT HIS UGLY HANDS TO INNOCENT PEOPLE.HE NEEDS TO BE LIQUIDATED FOR THE EVILS HE HAD COMMITED AGAINST GHANAIANS.HE HAS TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT BECAUSE HIS COMMENTS ARE VERY IRRITATING AND IAM SURE SOMEONE WILL DO IT FOR HIM AS IT HAPPENED TO THAT TRIBAL IDIOT AWONNOR.
Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

You hide in Eagan,USA and make noise!!jj will come and get you, because his daughter knows your house!!

You hide in Eagan,USA and make noise!!jj will come and get you, because his daughter knows your house!!
Old CPPist 9 years ago

The criminal, ex-master thug of the AFRC believes no government created wealth "beside the existing ones the country inherited from its colonial masters."

What wealth did the colonialists leave us after over 200 years of ...
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The criminal, ex-master thug of the AFRC believes no government created wealth "beside the existing ones the country inherited from its colonial masters."

What wealth did the colonialists leave us after over 200 years of occupation and exploitation? Did they build hundreds of schools, hospitals and factories as NKRUMAH DID in less than a decade? What did the colonialists TAKE OUT of our country? Did they leave any accounting of that?

Only a retard with an incurrable belief in the superiority of the colonialists will utter the sheer nonsense that "started from the era of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah" and that corruption was not responsible for the countries economic decline and woes.
OBIBINI 9 years ago

What do you expect Boakye Gyan to say.It was the colonialist who sheltered and took care of him during his self-imposed exile days in London.He is just being grateful to them.

What do you expect Boakye Gyan to say.It was the colonialist who sheltered and took care of him during his self-imposed exile days in London.He is just being grateful to them.
GHANANI 9 years ago

Rawlings is a perfect example of how bad our past leaders have been.He blames only corruption for our economic woes and blames only Kuffuor for them.He has forgotten that whilst in power some of his ministers and followers am ...
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Rawlings is a perfect example of how bad our past leaders have been.He blames only corruption for our economic woes and blames only Kuffuor for them.He has forgotten that whilst in power some of his ministers and followers amassed wealth through corruption.He should also accept that he is richer now than before he became the president of Ghana.His government{s} also failed to put in place policies to put the economy on an even keel.What measures did he put in place to solve the country's economic problems;especially to create jobs? His best economic achievement was selling Osagyefo's factories to his wife and friends.Well done,JJ!!
TEE 9 years ago

WE WANT TO KNOW WHO WILL ALSO KILL RAWLINGS PERIOD

WE WANT TO KNOW WHO WILL ALSO KILL RAWLINGS PERIOD
Al-HAJJ 9 years ago

you can also do it,are you not a man?

you can also do it,are you not a man?
CUDJOE 9 years ago

IS THE WHITE MAN WISER THAN THE BLACK MAN? NO! THE ALMIGHTY GOD HAS GIVEN BOTH THE SAME AND EQUAL WISDOM.IF IT IS SO THEN WHY CAN'T WE CREAT OUR OWN WEALTH i.e. PRODUCE OUR GOODS-Food, Bicycles, clothing, cars, electrical gud ...
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IS THE WHITE MAN WISER THAN THE BLACK MAN? NO! THE ALMIGHTY GOD HAS GIVEN BOTH THE SAME AND EQUAL WISDOM.IF IT IS SO THEN WHY CAN'T WE CREAT OUR OWN WEALTH i.e. PRODUCE OUR GOODS-Food, Bicycles, clothing, cars, electrical gudget etc. for our consumption and exportation. LET US ALL THINK ABOUT THIS! GOD BLESS GHANA AND BLESS US ALL.
Cudjoe 9 years ago

Every institution will functions properly and effectively if the head is knowledgeable, has foresight, is capable and has the appropriate management skills and ability to implement the institutions policies and regulations an ...
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Every institution will functions properly and effectively if the head is knowledgeable, has foresight, is capable and has the appropriate management skills and ability to implement the institutions policies and regulations and reprimand when necessary. The arms of government is not functioning due to nepotism, bribery, corruption not punishing culprits/perpetrators and living belong our means has caused us as a nation. Mahama must be able to punished ALL heads of institutions, MDCE, ministers of states who are incapable/incompetent and there are too many of them but it appears party politics comes first and he is unable to remove non performing officers. The other problem is some party God fathers lobbying on behalf of people for ministerial positions leading to having square pegs in round wholes. Some of state officers, presidential staffers, party gurus have formed business which are operated by their front men winning very huge government contacts such as GYEEDA SABA, SUBA, We need an effective complaint institution which will work, we are fed up, let us not allow a boko harm otherwise we will pay dearly as a state,because people are hungry and angry.
princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

Little Johnny sees his Daddy's car passing the playground and going into the woods.

Curious, he follows the car and sees Daddy and Aunt Jane kissing.

Johnny finds this so exciting and can barely contain himself as he ru ...
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Little Johnny sees his Daddy's car passing the playground and going into the woods.

Curious, he follows the car and sees Daddy and Aunt Jane kissing.

Johnny finds this so exciting and can barely contain himself as he runs home and starts to tell his mother excitedly.

"MOMMY, MOMMY, I WAS AT THE PLAYGROUND AND DADDY AND...."

Mommy tells him to slow down, but that she wants to hear the story.

So Johnny tells her. "I was at the playground and I saw Daddy's car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went to look and Daddy was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, then he helped her take off her shirt, then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane laid down on the seat, then Daddy...."

At this point, Mommy cut him off and said, "Johnny, this is such an interesting story, suppose you save the rest of it for supper time. I want to see the look on Daddy's face when you tell it tonight."

At the dinner table, Mommy asks Johnny to tell his story.

He describes the car into the woods, the undressing, laying down on the seat, and, "Then Daddy and Aunt Jane did that same thing Mommy and Uncle Jeff used to do when Daddy was in the Army in Cambodia"
Balawo President 9 years ago

Rawlings stole more than any head of state and he deflects this by accusing others especially K4. He typifies the legendary ALI BABA AND THE FORTY TTHIEVES.

Rawlings stole more than any head of state and he deflects this by accusing others especially K4. He typifies the legendary ALI BABA AND THE FORTY TTHIEVES.
Joshua Mensah usa 9 years ago

Yes To you Boakye Gyan. For the first time you have told the TRUTH. YOU ARE RIGHT RAWLINGS pushing economic decline of the nation on Jak is BULL. HE is the main person responsible for Ghana's economic decline. For 20 yrs ...
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Yes To you Boakye Gyan. For the first time you have told the TRUTH. YOU ARE RIGHT RAWLINGS pushing economic decline of the nation on Jak is BULL. HE is the main person responsible for Ghana's economic decline. For 20 yrs he was in power he did not create any jobs and stole from the country by selling GHANA's Companies to himself. Where are the jobs he created NONE. He should shut the F--ck up. Just a terrorist
Braimah Issah 9 years ago

Is it attention that this useless and coward soldier wants or what? Why can´t this idiot of a useless man shut up once and for all? Has he finished choping the money he took from Limann´s government? Boakye-Gyan, spare us y ...
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Is it attention that this useless and coward soldier wants or what? Why can´t this idiot of a useless man shut up once and for all? Has he finished choping the money he took from Limann´s government? Boakye-Gyan, spare us your stupidity and foolishness! Go bring the money you took from Dr. Limann! Mother fucker foolish idiot.When men are talking, you coward donkey too want to talk.Shit!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

Let Boakye Gyan be as quiet as he wants his nemesis, Rawlings to be because he does not seem to fully grasp the extent to which corruption straps all our efforts to increase productivity.

If we contract Loans for investme ...
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Let Boakye Gyan be as quiet as he wants his nemesis, Rawlings to be because he does not seem to fully grasp the extent to which corruption straps all our efforts to increase productivity.

If we contract Loans for investment and the funds are shared into the private pockets of individuals without every putting them work, how do we create wealth?

Wealth is not supposed to be created by the Government, necessarily. But the Government must enable private Enterprise to create wealth. Meanwhile, whatever Wealth the private sector creates, is absorbed by the corruption that plagues the Government and its associated Public sector. As Corruption sucks up all Funds to improve, expand and maintain Infrastructure, the private Sector then gets restricted by the lack of Infrastructural services it might depend on to create its wealth.

Like now that we have "Dumsor, Dumsor" almost every week, all across the Nation, how do Businesses that need Electricity continue to produce or expand? If these Businesses collapse or dwindle, they do not employ any more hands and the wealth creation is hampered. Our Water situation is another area that one can point to for how infrastructural deficiency hurts private wealth creation.

Meanwhile, one might think that the monies stolen via Corruption would even be used to build private Businesses to create employment and expand the Economy. Instead, the thieving entities either hide the stolen Funds outside the Nation, or sits on them to enjoy narrowly by their Families, slowing down the wealth creation those Funds could have helped to bring about.

Besides, Corruption may as well occur in Private Businesses as well. But the difference is that any serious Business would find out and take necessary measures to eliminate the source of that Corruption. The Government of Ghana does not pursue culprits to retrieve stolen Funds because almost all Officials do it and the lower ranked ones are scared to expose the higher Officials.

President Mahama has failed to adequately deter Officials from the vice, even if he himself is clean. He is either afraid his own close associates might be caught in the dragnet, or believes the problem would somehow miraculously vanish. Now, the Nation is suffering for his inactivity to propel the Economy forward. The Cedi is dropping fast, too, because no adequate new investments are flowing into the system.

Long Live Ghana!!!
KWAA 9 years ago

But corruption is hampering our ability to creat wealth for our people.
Every year budgets read in Ghana lays out Government plans for devolopement,which can creat jobs,thereby creating wealth for the people.But if corrupt o ...
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But corruption is hampering our ability to creat wealth for our people.
Every year budgets read in Ghana lays out Government plans for devolopement,which can creat jobs,thereby creating wealth for the people.But if corrupt officals using the amount meant for that programme as their own,and the programme fails to matirialize,how do we creat wealth then for the people?
Corruption in a society is the number on creator of poverty.
TT 9 years ago

COULDN'T ABIDE BY THE PRINCIPLE THEY SETUP AM SUPRISE A UNEDUCATED GUY LIKE RAWLINGS GO OUT THERE TO SPEAK. IT A SHAME AFTER 20YRS COULDN' DO NOTHING FOR GHANA EXCEPT SOLD GHANAIAN GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISE ONE OF THEM TO HIS WIF ...
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COULDN'T ABIDE BY THE PRINCIPLE THEY SETUP AM SUPRISE A UNEDUCATED GUY LIKE RAWLINGS GO OUT THERE TO SPEAK. IT A SHAME AFTER 20YRS COULDN' DO NOTHING FOR GHANA EXCEPT SOLD GHANAIAN GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISE ONE OF THEM TO HIS WIFE. SHAME TO HIM AFTER ALL THE KILLINGS NOTHING COULD HAVE JUSTIFIED HIS GREED, CORRUPT AND CROOK MENTALITY
KOFI AFRIFA 9 years ago

JJ,PNDC,AND NDC MEMBERS ALWAYS BLAMES OTHER PEOPLE BUT THEMSELVES. MEMBERS OF PNDC ARE ALL RICH NOW, EVEN THOUGH TO THEY`VE PUT THEIR WEALTH IN THE NAMES OF THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS. NDC MEMBERS ARE SOME OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN ...
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JJ,PNDC,AND NDC MEMBERS ALWAYS BLAMES OTHER PEOPLE BUT THEMSELVES. MEMBERS OF PNDC ARE ALL RICH NOW, EVEN THOUGH TO THEY`VE PUT THEIR WEALTH IN THE NAMES OF THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS. NDC MEMBERS ARE SOME OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN GHANA TODAY, CHECK THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS. THEY DONT CARE ABOUT THE COUNTRY BUT THEIR POCKETS. THE ONLY GOOD PERSON IN NDC WAS MILLS. THIS WAS WHY THEY GOT RAID OF HIM.
GYIREMEKUKU 9 years ago

BOAKYE GYAN, THE MOST STUPID HUMAN BIN DEVIL HAVE EVER CRATERED IS YOU BOAKYE GYAN ALL THIS GHANA PROBLEMS CAME FROM YOU GYAN GOD GAVE THE DEVIL TO US TO GET RAID OF HIM AND YOU GYAN WENT AND FREE HIM NOW LOOK YOU ARE A FOOL

BOAKYE GYAN, THE MOST STUPID HUMAN BIN DEVIL HAVE EVER CRATERED IS YOU BOAKYE GYAN ALL THIS GHANA PROBLEMS CAME FROM YOU GYAN GOD GAVE THE DEVIL TO US TO GET RAID OF HIM AND YOU GYAN WENT AND FREE HIM NOW LOOK YOU ARE A FOOL
Kojo Bie 9 years ago

to concentrate on nation building, JJ concentrated rather more on security, don't ask me why!
The ghanaian booklongs failed JJ but JJ as a person was splendid and gallant regarding his execution of his duties as the chairman ...
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to concentrate on nation building, JJ concentrated rather more on security, don't ask me why!
The ghanaian booklongs failed JJ but JJ as a person was splendid and gallant regarding his execution of his duties as the chairman of a revolutionary council. The guy is a patriot more that 99.9% of sootface ghanaians. No braindead idiot would even dream of touching JJ without the country blowing up into smitherens. Me am ready to defend JJ any day any time with all my heart and soul. DARE U!!!
mends YAW 9 years ago

HE THINK HE IS AN ANGEL . A RADICAL LEADER IS COMING VERY SOON TO PROVE HIM WRONG. AND VERY BEST THING FOR HIM TO DO IS TO GO ON EXILE YES I FOREKNEW IT.

HE THINK HE IS AN ANGEL . A RADICAL LEADER IS COMING VERY SOON TO PROVE HIM WRONG. AND VERY BEST THING FOR HIM TO DO IS TO GO ON EXILE YES I FOREKNEW IT.
Coach 9 years ago

The blame game is the cause of all the economic problems the country is facing. All talk and do nothing country that what Ghana is.

The blame game is the cause of all the economic problems the country is facing. All talk and do nothing country that what Ghana is.
BEN BRAKOH 9 years ago

RAWLINGS SHOULD RESPECT HIMSELF

RAWLINGS SHOULD RESPECT HIMSELF
mugu1 9 years ago

mr B Gyan please Ghana is too much divided maintain your silence,the are many people like myself who's thinking so hard to influence ghanaians to move away from this kind of destructive division.

mr B Gyan please Ghana is too much divided maintain your silence,the are many people like myself who's thinking so hard to influence ghanaians to move away from this kind of destructive division.
AKWAPIMBA,LAS PALMAS DE G.C.,SPAIN 9 years ago

-SO J.J.RAWLINGS TOO SHOULD BE BLAMED,IF WE WERE TO USE THAT SAME YARDSTICK OF JUNE 4,1979 FOR J.J.RAWLINGS.AS THE SAYING GOES...THAT YARDSTICK USED TO BEAT TACHIE,THE SAME YARDSTICK WILL BE USED BEAT BAAH "

-SO J.J.RAWLINGS TOO SHOULD BE BLAMED,IF WE WERE TO USE THAT SAME YARDSTICK OF JUNE 4,1979 FOR J.J.RAWLINGS.AS THE SAYING GOES...THAT YARDSTICK USED TO BEAT TACHIE,THE SAME YARDSTICK WILL BE USED BEAT BAAH "
Leslie Barnor USA 9 years ago

Traitor, Boakye Gyan, you can say all what you what against Rawlings but we still believe in him as our most best leader. You don't know where you belong in the history of Ghana. Why did you run away to London at a time when ...
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Traitor, Boakye Gyan, you can say all what you what against Rawlings but we still believe in him as our most best leader. You don't know where you belong in the history of Ghana. Why did you run away to London at a time when men were needed?

Rawlings also part of Ghana’s economic woes - Boakye Gyan

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