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Arrogance of power; Ade Coker seizes truck

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  • fredsaid 9 years ago

    Using their position to abuse and usurp the law of the land with impunity; taking the law into their own hands and disrespecting the rights of individuals whether they are at fault or not (which was not established by the tra ...
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  • Union. 9 years ago

    All of these shall come to an end very soon. NDC your cup is full. Keep taking the Law into your own hands and abuse your fellow citizens ! Christ is watching.

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AF ...
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  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    Give power to a fool and full corrupt person like Mahama, he will multiply fools and corruption in the system as we are seeing now. Ade Cooker is now everything in Accra, the BNI, CID and IGP as the sametime, he has the laws ...
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  • ROMANO 9 years ago

    U GIVE A NIGGER A JOB HE THINKS HE GOT THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD.

  • Kitty 9 years ago

    How did dis 9ja primate become a minister of ghana?

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:..Rastafara"I"...

    She just rented a hotel room at market rate!!! People.

    Mahama brother took millions from a bank and said he will not pay because his brother is president...
    Even a Gyan's brother can beat up ...
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  • Only the Truth 9 years ago

    He can only do it to an innocent Ghanaian who doesn't know his right. I wish it was me i would have told him to kiss my fucking ass when he asked for the driving license .

  • Citizen 9 years ago

    That`s the mentality of a black man. When he gets a position, he acts as if the whole world is for him. With his position, he couldn`t call the police to check on him first if he was ok. But he took the advantage of his posit ...
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  • Kankan Nyame 9 years ago

    Is anybody surprised at Ade Coker's behaviour? This has been a daily occurence among by P/NDC stalwarts and some soldiers and Policemen since J. J. Rawlings' came to power in 1979.This has been published because it happened i ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago

    Citizen, I beg to differ with you that this is a black man's issue but rather the mentality in most developing societies where institutions of accountability are weak and power is concentrated in the ruling class. This can ea ...
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  • kay 9 years ago

    HE IS ONE OF THOSE RUNNING GHANA. GOD HAVE MERCY

  • MA 9 years ago

    JM please take steps to holt this abuse of power. They are dragging your name in mud. Say somethig about this for all to know your stand on this power drunk politicians. The longer you keep salince over these the more meaning ...
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  • HIM 9 years ago

    Asked why he did not invite the police to the scene to conduct investigation as the law requires, he said “I was going to call the police and he begged me not to do so… A police car was even passing but he was begging me ...
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  • JANE 9 years ago

    Omg, Ghana is now in the hands of mafia gangs. Even if this man hit your car, what right do you have to impound his vehicle? Are you above the law because you're a politician?

  • mojingles 9 years ago

    A tingod, is precisely the description that fits the behavior of Ade Coker, that corn-fed, bloated headhoncho of the Greater Accra NDC...he is the very reason Ghanaians are outraged at the excesses of his party....

    His uni ...
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  • Union. 9 years ago

    ...And come to think of it , he's not even a Ghanaian. Only in Ghana ...

  • Utopia 9 years ago

    Ah ha, mojingles u bey funny. No politician get punish for their very bad behavior. Nothing will be done to him.

  • ... 9 years ago

    "Coker should, in my opinion, be stripped of his chairmanship of the NDC and compelled to reimburse the poor driver and the owners of the impounded vehicle with its cargo of musical instruments....". IT WON'T HAPPEN. AFTER AL ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    I listened to Mr Ade Coker and the other driver on Captain Smart morning program on Adom FM and Ade was at his histrionic best about the guy trying to kill him.

    But what was strange is that two MP's, all Npp members came t ...
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  • GHANABA 1 9 years ago

    The other guy from Tema is Titus Glover and I never expect Titus to be as stupid as such

  • Kwamina Andrews 9 years ago

    This NDC buffoon should be arrested.He basically intimidated an ordinary Joe Blo who did not know his rights. I believe a good lawyer should adopt the case and fight it pro bono for this poor guy.
    If he felt aggrieved, he sh ...
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  • eugene 9 years ago

    HOPEFULLY EBOLA IS HEADED HIS WAY!

  • Yaro de Mann 9 years ago

    U see this is what is going on here in Ghana, the big men can do any thing and get away with it.

  • mokobi teacher 9 years ago

    the law is the law. if your tundra had hit his truck and he with some macho men had decided to seize your truck to his residence. will you use your chairmanship to address this or call the police? you should be ashamed of thi ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Let even assume the guy was at fault, what power does Ade Coker have to impound somebody's car because he had hit his car?

    I find it difficult to believe Ade Coker. First, he says he can't find some of the parts to repair ...
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  • ... 9 years ago

    Who the hell does this guy (Ade Coker) think he is? What makes him think he is entitled to take the law into his own (filthy) hands? It is only in banana-republic-Ghana that this kind of shitty behaviour can occur (and with i ...
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  • Dzaka K 9 years ago

    It does not matter NDC party was born with violence and it will die a violent death. No decent person will join that filthy/dirty NDC government
    The animal pig like idiot Ademola Coker is not a Ghanaian. Can you imagine anim ...
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  • BAFFOUR -- YAW 9 years ago

    Mutual settlement is common at road accident when there's no injury or death and this appeared understanding of both party,readers should know Ghana identification system were not bond to any law enforcement.

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Mr Baffour, you are right, it is not only inGhana where people settle accidents that does not involve injury.

    At the city I live in, if you are involved in an accident and there is no injury or your cars are not impeding t ...
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  • BAFFOUR -- YAW 9 years ago

    Absolutely right Sarpong,my point here is even happen to exchange particulars and left at the scene the case will be strange afterwards,yes the car insurance company can determine the fault with excellent control system when ...
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  • Owusu Sintim 9 years ago

    "In any civilized country, Ademola Coker can be criminally charged for carjacking or stealing a car."

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    Ghana is not a civilize country.

  • Kay 9 years ago

    Ade is broke and really need that money. He needs money to campaign for NDC post. This action does not show humility at all. This action would have not been accepted even way back 1750. Why are people so power drunk. If this ...
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  • KWAME, BELGIUM 9 years ago

    The problem here is that you and I were not there. Were there witnesses of this accident?

  • The mask 9 years ago

    Rape cases are on the increase in Ghana. Judges and WAJU of the Ghana police force must do more to protect our society. Some people have become so notorious of raping and getting away with it. Many believe that it is a weapon ...
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  • eugene 9 years ago

    IN gHANA...GOD FEARING COUNTRY?????? NOT IF ALL THE BOSS'S REQUIRE SEX WITH APPLICANTS AS PART OF THE INTERVIEW PROCESS

  • SAMBRO 9 years ago

    THIS IS ABSOLUTE NONSENSE.
    ANY ACCIDENT INVOLVING NDC OFFICIALS RESULTS IN THE LAW BEING BENT.
    ANY ROAD TRAFFIC INCIDENT MUST BE REPORTED TO THE POLICE FOR REDRESS WHERE THERE IS SUSPICION OF FALSE REPRESENTATION. THIS WILL ...
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  • eugene 9 years ago

    SAME AS USA THEN YOU FILE A POLICE REPORT,GET A COPY AND CALL YOUR INSURANCE COMPANY, WHILE AT THE ACCIDENT SITE EXCHANGE INSURANCE COMPANY NAMES AND PROBABLY EVEN AGENT AND POLICY NUMBERS...POLICE REPORT SHOULD INCLUDE TYPE ...
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  • Amponsah Kofi 9 years ago

    I'm highly disappointed in Ade Coker. He has really acted immaturely. He has disclosed to us, his impatience and power-drunk. Although his side of the story might be right, yet as a Leader, he ought to had settle the issue g ...
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  • Jerry 9 years ago

    So these are the men running Ghana? The guy hit your car and he beg you not to report to the police and u agree? So, u think corruption is only stealing money. He corrupted you not to report the incident and you agree? You wa ...
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  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 9 years ago

    Waaaa! look, a person of this caliber is a Chairman of a major political party and on top of that a Minister of what-State in Ghana? God have Mercy on our country GHANA. A Nigerian running the affairs of our capital city Acc ...
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  • kotoo 9 years ago

    these stupid rich men in ghana are always above the law

  • Kokuvi 9 years ago

    Ghana rots in lawlessness

  • Olad 9 years ago

    Ugh... Ade Coker! These Nigerians! First they invade us, then take our names, now they are misbehaving here! (Cue to "All Nigerians must go!)... Oh, he is not a Nigerian? Just of Nigerian descent? My bad!

  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    A BNI officer stopped at a ranch in Kintampo , and talked with an old rancher.
    He told the rancher, "I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs."
    The rancher said, "Okay , but don't go in that field over there.. ...
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  • Alhaji A Brutus Germany 9 years ago

    GHANIANS YOU SEE THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE THEY TOOK OVER SO THINK TWICE NEXT TIME AND VOTE THESE NOTORIOUS AND DEMONIC CRIMINALS OUT:

  • Lawyer 9 years ago

    Fellow Ghanaians this is criminality and not arrogance at all. Who says an armed robber cannot drive a tundra vehicle, carjacked this innocent guy on the highway and seize his his car as he has done? What if this man goes to ...
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  • nana bee 9 years ago

    I believe there is a reason why we insure our cars. It indemnifies us in cases as these in which Mr. Ade Coker was involved. Mr. Coker by his own words 'mutual consent' has acted in connivance with the other party to breach ...
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  • STAFFORD 9 years ago

    Who are you, finally? Too much trust, and too much flattering/pampering of people in higher positions ? The result is that they become too much big/swollen-headed, pompous and bullies.
    We SPOIL them to abuse us and they negl ...
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  • STAFFORD 9 years ago

    Bullying at work, and in schools is a quiet killer, preventing numerous cases of being reported for justice to be exercised.Reporting is the best manner getting these bullies and their acts
    checked and controlled.

  • wazzup 9 years ago

    If you are NDC chairman who are you?aren't you going to die one day? No one is perfect, and even if the man is at fault, ls your house a police station? Why didn't you call the police? In fact you are stupid and senseless ...
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  • CHAIRMAN 9 years ago

    What if this Coker Man were Kwabena Adjei, the National Chairman of NDC. Just a chairman of a small region of a political party. Ghana belongs to a few minority. This thief will not keep quiet

  • Benny 9 years ago

    Ade koker. Where is power, Power lies in the hands of god. Where is Rawlings now. The economi is in jeopardy now and Jerry is not dead. He looks on. Where is Jerry. He should had even been invited to sit in the IMF panel but ...
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  • ghana ay3 fo 9 years ago

    Ade Coker said, 'Somebody was going to kill me and you should have told him to go and burn the sea'. Errh? So if someone tries to kill you it is painful? oh this world and yet Ade Coker is happily enjoying from and always def ...
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  • CHAIRMAN 9 years ago

    Who does not know this Coker man? Arrogant, rogue, mafia and all you can think off. He is above President Mahama and even Ghana. No law can catch him oo

  • Guzu 9 years ago

    Stupid man you think you own Ghana. Abi? you take the law in your arms and act sheepishly. kobina ade coker you fool waaaaa. No wonder you are ndc regional chairman.

  • gravr 9 years ago

    From the analysis of the incident if the big man has insurance, why should he traumatise the poor driver?
    But I'm not surprised; the big man before him did the same to poor drivers, the unfortunate ones had their cars overtu ...
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  • felix 9 years ago

    Ade Coker womaame twe kwaasia you still our money to go buy a car and turned around treating as like shit. God will punished you and your house hold. Folish man.

  • TEECAN MAHAMA CHALLENGE ME HE IS NOT 9 years ago

    THIEF

  • TEE 9 years ago

    MAHAMA EXPERT IN STEALING

  • oldman 9 years ago

    Hooooooooo what a disgrace shameless

  • Barima Yaw 9 years ago

    It is really a shame that in Ghana people in positions of authority with the ruling party see themselves as above the law. By virtue of his position as chairman, he takes the law into his own hands. The police should have d ...
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  • Salis Nkpazama 9 years ago

    What city is that

  • Effah 9 years ago

    I felt sick after reading this unsavoury story. This Ade Coker thinks he is more powerful than even the President. Stupid bastard. Does he think he is above the law? Why should such an illiterate fool be given such an importa ...
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  • Ataa Joe 9 years ago

    this is completely out of order. who does Ade coker thinks he is. this is what happens when people without brains are given power. God have mercy upon mother Ghana. When we are given a chance to vote on issues and we do the o ...
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  • truth 9 years ago

    I thought Rawlings revolution era is over. And they pride themselves Ghana is a democratic country? Not correct mindset.

  • George 9 years ago

    You are a disgrace to all Nigerians !

  • harrison amuzu 9 years ago

    stupid man who the fuck you are to take the law into your hand stipid

  • oor 9 years ago

    As if the time will never come but make sure it is

  • Effah 9 years ago

    After all HE IS A NIGERIAN. An uncultured, uncouth foreigner.

  • JAMES 9 years ago

    Hey,,,,,Ade Coker, i have never knew you could be one of the biggest fool in our party,,,,,let us know where you are coming from,,,,First of all, are you a Ghanaian or a Nigerian? let us know who mandated you in such idiot a ...
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  • mia mo nduna 9 years ago

    This is the most stupid excuse given to impound a truck.

  • paapapi 9 years ago

    N D C Chairman is broke

  • paapapi 9 years ago

    Ade coker is broke

  • YAWLUI AWUSA 9 years ago

    THIS COMPLETE ARROGANCE, TOO KNOWN AND POWER DRANK. A REGIONAL CHAIRMAN OF PARTY IN POWER. SHAME UNTO YOU, HOOOOOOOOO

  • Monkey dey Chop 9 years ago

    Ade(Ademola) Cooker you are a liar and a thief, you know the law, why didn't you call the Police, and you took the law into your own hands?

  • concerned citizen 9 years ago

    And these are the bozos running Ghana?GOD save us all, GOD save Mother Ghana. This has to stop! Too much power in the hands of a few.

  • concerned citizen 9 years ago

    NDC must discipline him immediately! Remove him from his so called Chairmanship... this is a disgrace!

  • maame 9 years ago

    Who the hell is Ade comer doesn't he shit. Foolish man is not his fault but rather who made him dat.

  • maame 9 years ago

    Who the hell is Ade comer doesn't he shit. Foolish man is not his fault but rather who made him dat.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    I had same problem in Tema in the glare view of the Police. The Police only collected the driving license of the offending drive and told us to mutually settle the repair cost. I paid for the repair but the police kept the l ...
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  • Lorgo Ligri 9 years ago

    Do you all want to stop all this bullshit? Very easy and simple. We all common folks got to stick together the next time we see or witness the so-called BIG SHOTS intimidating and cursing one of our own in public places. Just ...
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  • Maame Abena 9 years ago

    Is every NDC person a bully?

  • Lord Tennison 9 years ago

    You have soften the blow for him.Call a spade,a spade.THE GUY IS JUST AN IDIOT(numkoff)!Considering the uncountable road accidents,if the innocent parties were to confiscate vehicles,there would not be any vehicles plying our ...
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  • Johnson 9 years ago

    Do you remember Isaac Edumadze?