Nana Akufo-Addo’s victory speech

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ATIMBILA 9 years ago

OLUMAN PATAPAA, STOP MAKING NOISE. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME AND ENERGY. WE GHANAIANS WILL NEVER VOTE FOR YOU TO BECOME A PRESIDENT PERIOD!!!!!!!

OLUMAN PATAPAA, STOP MAKING NOISE. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME AND ENERGY. WE GHANAIANS WILL NEVER VOTE FOR YOU TO BECOME A PRESIDENT PERIOD!!!!!!!
GHANABA 1 9 years ago

Your mother even voted for your bastard father by opening her legs for him to conceive and give birth to you an idiot who lives in Ghana.
If Nana Addo was to be a member of your family, You would have been the happiest man o ...
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Your mother even voted for your bastard father by opening her legs for him to conceive and give birth to you an idiot who lives in Ghana.
If Nana Addo was to be a member of your family, You would have been the happiest man on earth.
Stop being paid to post silly comments about a respectable person like Nana Addo.
Dr Bawumia 9 years ago

Don't forget he is only respected by backward thinking monkey and bat eaters. Believe it or not , he will never rule Ghana

Don't forget he is only respected by backward thinking monkey and bat eaters. Believe it or not , he will never rule Ghana
William 9 years ago

May all our political parties be strengthened in God's Name and His Only. So that they all understand that GOD's country Ghana, GOD'S people Ghanaians, larger than any political party, ethnic or other interest groups!
LONG L ...
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May all our political parties be strengthened in God's Name and His Only. So that they all understand that GOD's country Ghana, GOD'S people Ghanaians, larger than any political party, ethnic or other interest groups!
LONG LIVE GHANA, LONG LIVE AFRICA. DIFFERENT PARTIES, DIFFERENT IDEAS BUT UNITY OF PURPOSE, FOR GOD AND COUNTRY, AMEN.
NANA KUFUOR 9 years ago

The evil dwarf is back. I am sure he knows in his his heard that he is NOT ordained to be president of Ghana. How can a patapa without certificate be president of Ghana?

The evil dwarf is back. I am sure he knows in his his heard that he is NOT ordained to be president of Ghana. How can a patapa without certificate be president of Ghana?
Jojo 9 years ago

Tribalists, racialists, and ethnically prejudiced people never seem to amaze modern scientific and computer age minds. The common thing amongst these tribalists is flawed judgment, prejudice, malice, extremely biased represen ...
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Tribalists, racialists, and ethnically prejudiced people never seem to amaze modern scientific and computer age minds. The common thing amongst these tribalists is flawed judgment, prejudice, malice, extremely biased representation and outlook of everything around them. Logic eludes their mind, and in the attempt to justify their awkward prejudicial view of life and their environment, they spew lots of untruths. Their weapon is to choose and pick what supports their narrow view, lace it with deceit with no aorta of conscience. Their motivation is to accept, feel and act as a victim, when nobody seems to victimize them.

At the very least thing, they wail and cry. If wailing and crying will make them look stupid to the outside world, they do so in the comfort of their family, the family they’ve poisoned over the years which also think and act like them. Tribalists tell their kids which tribe not to marry or make friends from. The least aggressive ones will tell their children which tribe to only befriend or marry from. Their children have no choice but to listen to them and become like them. They end up with lots of missed opportunities because of the unscientific, flawed, disoriented and inconsistently foolish criteria they use in making decisions.

Research has shown that these tribalists perform very poorly in school, ostensibly due to their narrow view on things that happen around them, their inability to investigate their surrounds thoroughly and objectively and their lazy attitude towards finding causes and solutions to problems, where they attribute the cause of their non-performance, economic condition, predicament, persecution or otherwise to tribe, ethnicity and race. Some of these tribal bigots are big politicians, religious leaders, and celebrated pastors. You have many of them with Bibles under their armpit, purportedly doing God’s work. The Judgment day we await.

I had a friend I’ll call Joe, who seized to be my friend for obvious reasons. Joe went for an interview with 6 other people. He was the only black amongst the interviewees. He was two years short of the experience needed for the job, but was still called up for an interview. He didn’t make it at the interview and attributed the fact that he wasn’t chosen for the job was because he was black. “They didn’t give me the job because I’m black” was the hymn. He tried and did everything within his mental power to put aside the fact that, others he interviewed with had more experience than him, in addition to many erroneous mistakes he made at the interview.

Joe will be pulled over by a cop for speeding. Somehow, Joe will maintain that he was pulled over because he’s black. Joe will apply for a benefit which normally takes a week to process. On the eighth day, he’ll claim his application is being delayed because he’s black, irrespective of the fact that, there’s news about a processing backlog which may add some few days to the processing time. Every time something didn’t go well, or a decision wasn’t made in his favor, it was because he was black. That’s how all kinds of segregators including tribalists, racists and ethnically prejudiced people think.

It’s a shame for the article “Persecution of Ashanti businessmen must stop!” to be given the audience of being published, not because of its bellicose and ethnically inciting posture, but also because of its worthlessness and emptiness.

I will waste a few minutes of my time to address the disgraceful and intellectually defunct tribal allegations espoused in that article. The tribalistic Writer, in one breath talks about a political smear campaign against NPP businessmen, whilst the main focus of his article talks about a smear campaign against Ashanti businessmen. Considering the fact that all the names he mentioned as people whose businesses were allegedly being targeted are NPP party members and financiers, why didn’t he address the issue as a political one, but decided to go tribal? Perhaps it’s because he’s a tribalist with a flawed and skewed mind towards tribal prejudice, for which everything has to be seen through the ethnic eye, even in the presence of better alternatives.

Let’s address some of these allegations. People who call themselves businessmen are more liable for investigation and persecution than working professionals and civil servants, all over the world. That has got nothing to do with tribe. A jailed thief will most likely have the profession of a businessman than a Doctor, or a Lawyer. 17% of businessmen in China end up not just being prosecuted, but end up in jail. And the number cuts across to other developed countries. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with investigating a so-called businessman. Only in Ghana will the IRS or BNI be persecuted and attacked for inviting or investigating someone who lives way beyond his means.

After the 1979 coup, many of these so-called businessmen who owned nothing two years before, but managed to own as much as thirteen houses in Accra and beyond were investigated. Those who couldn’t tell how they managed to come by those properties in that short period of time, together with their links to the perceived corrupt Acheampong Government had their properties confiscated. Those who think there was something wrong with that can live with their conscience. But some of us believe Ghanaians will cry for the same thing to be done today if need be.

If for instance, Mahamas friend who had nothing a year ago, now boasts of many mansions and cars is investigated, and fails to tell Investigators how he came by his money in less than 2 years, common sense should give Investigators an answer to how he came by his booty. This is done in every democratic and serious country. Thievery is not business, that’s not to say businessmen are thieves. There’s nothing wrong with Kessben being investigated for money laundering. Individuals are investigated in Ghana, the US and UK every single day, which is a norm.

Probably because those investigated in Ghana are not politicians or have any political backing, it doesn’t become news. Maybe the Writer should make a check at the BNI for info on which individuals from different tribes and companies were investigated last year alone. Being investigated doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong. It just means something seems not to be done right, for which investigators must avail themselves to. That’s their job. Ghanaians want to live and do whatever they want without regulations and laws, yet they want Ghana to be fully developed and economically sound like the US. It won’t happen.

The ethnically prejudiced Writer should go to the US and periodically send huge sums of money to foreign accounts and see if the IRS will not come investigating him. He should then accuse the IRS of being investigated because he’s an Ashanti. Even remittance companies like WesternUnion and Moneygram make queries, blocks accounts and request for documents when they realize huge periodic transfers of funds from one person or account to another.

You have people blaming political opponents for the demise of their companies. The question to ask is how many Ashanti businesses have been thriving and still thriving from the 1980s till date? Why didn’t the Writer mention those businesses? Why did Hackman Agyemang of the NPP sell his business after 2 years in opposition? Was it because he was targeted and persecuted too? Or because he received perks when his Government was in power which he didn’t receive in opposition? Was it a persecution by an NDC government of an Ashanti businessman which ended in collapse of his company? Didn’t Kwabena Darko’s farm thrive under Rawlings administration? Was Kwabena Darko a real threat to the NDC for his business to be targeted and collapsed?

Does the Writer realize the fact under Rawlings regime, there was a boost in local production of chicken where 90% of the chicken we consumed were produced locally? Does he realize that more people being urged and supported to go into poultry production had a toll on the profits Darko farms made when his business was more of a monopoly? Did the Writer tell us what exactly was done against Darko farms for his empire to collapse? No. Also, common basic economics should have advised the writer that due to high rates of cheap chicken imports, local chicken production became unprofitable, for which many people lost their businesses, not only Darko farms.
For the writers information, Appiah Menkah was arrested and prosecuted for an alleged coup d’etat against the PNDC Government; just like Rawlings himself was arrested and prosecuted for same, as well as many others from different tribes including Richard Quarshigah and Nyarho Tamakloe. He wasn’t arrested and prosecuted because he was an Ashanti businessman. Was it a persecution of an Ashanti businessman when Appiah Menkahs son Andrew Menkah was investigated by the BNI at the hospital where he was releasing 22 pellets of cocaine he had swallowed? Maybe the BNI shouldn’t have investigated him because he’s an Ashanti and a businessman like his father.

When the EO (from Edusei and Owusu) Group made deals to own 3.5% stake (initially estimated at $200 million) of our oil reserves, did the Writer expect Government to look on whilst Ghanaians protested, even considering the fact that our laws clearly state that every resource found on the land belongs to the state. I can imagine Ghanaians knowing that 3.5% of their oil proceeds from oil goes to 2 individuals, with one of them being a Chairman of the NPP and a former flag-bearer aspirant and Ambassador appointee of H.E. J. A. Kuffuor.

If the EO Group were targeted and persecuted for no tangible reason, why didn’t they go to court to have their grievances addressed, considering the fact NPP members won all their court cases in the first 4 years of the NDC Government. If Tetteh Quarshie’s (who brought cocoa to Ghana) family demands 3.5% stake in all cocoa produced in Ghana, will the Writer protest it?

And maybe the most hardened drug kingpin, George Adu Bonsu’s Benjilo factory shouldn’t have been closed down in 1991 after being caught and jailed for drug trafficking because he’s an Ashanti and his indulgence in drugs should have been pardoned. Funny enough, all his asserts which were confiscated, like is done in every country were returned back to him under the NPP, some with interest. Maybe his asserts shouldn’t have been confiscated in the first place.

These tribalists with twisted logic and a shameful character and thinking shouldn’t be allowed to taint our moral fabric. Their brains are so twisted that they accuse Rawlings of killing Ashantis, without acknowledging the fact that, Boakye Gyan, and Ashanti was the real head of the AFRC, whose signature was a requirement for any execution, and for which reason Boakye Gyan’s date of birth was the date fixed for the 1979 elections.

Businesses all over the world thrive and collapse everyday. Many businesses owned by people from other tribes in Ghana collapse too, but these individuals are matured enough to seek, find and know the cause of the collapse of their business, other than basing it on fruitless and illogical reason of tribal persecution.

Rawlings rule had many Ashantis in powerful positions. High positions like Attorney General, Finance Minister, BOG Governor, Education Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister weren’t occupied by his native Ewe people, like some tribal idiots will like to make us believe. That’s what made him win 9 out of 10 regions in both elections. An Ashanti ruled the national kitty for close to a decade. To claim Ashantis were side-lined in Rawlings administration is not just deceitful, but wicked and evil.

Maybe powerful people under Rawlings administration like P.V. Obeng, Kwabena Duffuor, Lt Col E. K. T. Donkoh, Kwame Peprah, Kwame Danso Boafo, J.H. Owusu Acheampong, Nana Kwasi Agyeman, Colonel Osei-Wusu, Steve Obimpeh, Owuraku Amofa, K.K. Acheampong, Totobi Quakyi, Dr Christine Amoako-Nuamah, Nana Paddy Acheampong, Isaac Adjei-Mensah, Vida Yeboah, Samuel Nuamah Donkor, Ohene Agyekum, Kobena Fosu, Asuanko-Ntomo Atakora, D.S Boateng, Kwabena Fosu, David Amankwaa, Rear Admiral Owusu-Ansah, just to mention very very few, have escaped the Writer. Did the hundreds of Ashantis in Rawlings Government also target and persecute Ashanti businessmen? Or Rawlings did the targeting and persecution alone?

Shameful tribalists will not even want to consider the fact that Rawlings wife is an Ashanti, and Rawlings, at anytime will allow his children to marry from any tribe in Ghana, unlike the tribalists who demand that their kids marry or befriend people from specific tribes. For Christ’s sake, the Bestman at Rawlings wedding was an Ashanti. And Rawlings current and possibly best friend is Herbert Mensah, an Ashanti.

And these tribalists want us to believe Ashanti businesses failed under Rawlings. Worldwide, 8 out of 10 businesses fail, a reason why children are rather advised to go to school than linger around and become so-called “businessmen”. Hundreds of businesses owned by Ashantis triumphed under the Rawlings administration. Considering the fact that 8 out of 10 companies collapse all over the world, narrowly attributing the collapse of a business in Ghana to tribe and ethnicity without looking at the main cause is not only shameful, but extremely backward and colloquial.

Since the Writer likes to indulge in tribal machinations, he should do his own investigations about businesses which started under the PNDC/NDC. He’ll realize that 60% of businesses which triumphed under the NDC belonged to Ashantis. Maybe the Writer will realize his tribal assertions and believe that businesses owned by Ashantis were collapsed are extremely flawed.

Maybe the Writer should also investigate companies which collapsed in the same era, where he’ll also realize that not only Ashanti businesses collapse, but businesses owned by people from different tribes, just likes businesses in America, Russia and Nigeria also collapse. The Writer should also investigate which companies collapsed under his pro-Ashanti NPP. He’ll realize most of the collapsed businesses were also owned by Ashantis.

Finally, the Writer should take a look at the GYEEDA rot, and he’ll find out how an Ashanti businessman Joseph Siaw Agyepong together with Roland Agambire stole and are still keeping over $50 million of tax-payers money. Maybe he’ll demand Agambire’s prosecution but not Agyepong, because Agyepong is an Ashanti and prosecuting him will mean targeting Ashanti businessmen. Maybe that will also inform the Writer that, Ashanti businessmen under President Mahama are also enjoying in business and those who steal in the name of “businessman” are also at it.

Perhaps he should enquire from Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng , the courtesies and support he received from the then President Rawlings for the establishment of the Cardio Center, considering the fact that he was a founding member of the NPP and an Ashanti. The list could go on and on and on. Ghanaian should close their ears to these tribal bigots who are inclined to read tribal meanings into everything.

Let’s learn to look at the broader picture than to attribute everything to tribe, ethnicity and religion. The beautiful thing is that, whilst the tribalists are bitter and hurting from their artificial and vague reasons, and are praying the world comes to an end, those they fight their non-existent wars with live, laugh, enjoy and work hard amongst each other to make the world a better place for all. God bless you!!!

LONG LIVE GHANA!!! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE OF GHANA!!! LONG LIVE FREEDOM AND JUSTICE!!!

Fred Joojo Yankah
New York
Aden 9 years ago

Ghanaba 1 grow up

Ghanaba 1 grow up
BOSOMPEM 9 years ago

IF IT GOES WELL WITH NANA ADDO THEN ALL IS AT PEACE BUT IF OTHERWISE HEAVEN LOOSES.TODAY HE IS SPEAKING WITH HUMBLE VOICE AS IF HE IS A PEACE MAKER FORGETTING HIS RECRUITED MAFIA GANG STARS WHO HAVE GULGE ANYONE IN THE PARTY ...
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IF IT GOES WELL WITH NANA ADDO THEN ALL IS AT PEACE BUT IF OTHERWISE HEAVEN LOOSES.TODAY HE IS SPEAKING WITH HUMBLE VOICE AS IF HE IS A PEACE MAKER FORGETTING HIS RECRUITED MAFIA GANG STARS WHO HAVE GULGE ANYONE IN THE PARTY WHO DARE TO TALK OPOSITE OF HIS BELIEVES AND SELFISH PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION.
WE SHALL SEE; THIS IS JUST THE BEGINING HE SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE DIRTY WORK.
GHANABA 1 9 years ago

stop spilling rubbish here.Have you ever heard this respectable man Nana Addo talking anyhow like ur ndc propaganda cohorts?
I think u need some manners to access Nana Addo.

stop spilling rubbish here.Have you ever heard this respectable man Nana Addo talking anyhow like ur ndc propaganda cohorts?
I think u need some manners to access Nana Addo.
DZIGAMAN 9 years ago

I actually think Nana Akuffo will be a very good president for Ghana.The only problem i have with him is that he has too many ignorant and racist spokesmen and foot soldiers who still believe being Akan means you are more imp ...
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I actually think Nana Akuffo will be a very good president for Ghana.The only problem i have with him is that he has too many ignorant and racist spokesmen and foot soldiers who still believe being Akan means you are more important than the other tribes in the country.
Being Akan myself, i sometimes have a chill from some of the racist utterance that comes out of their mouths when they have a little to drink.
One thing i know for sure is that Nana will not allow himself to be bullied into submission by all the donor agencies and investors when it comes to what is good for Ghana.
DKB 9 years ago

Not a lot of people on this forum can use their brains and talk sense like the way you have. Well done. Frankly a lot of NDC people know deep down Nana will do far better than Mahama but for their selfishness they will keep f ...
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Not a lot of people on this forum can use their brains and talk sense like the way you have. Well done. Frankly a lot of NDC people know deep down Nana will do far better than Mahama but for their selfishness they will keep fighting to keep him in power. I'm not an NPP member but I am beginning to see the hope Nana inspires in the NPP supporters and why they believe in him. I see this man putting Ghana back on track if given the nod in 2016. As for the likes of Sir John etc, I now see why the delegates kicked them out of office.
Oburonewewu 9 years ago

i have also been thinking along the same lines as Dzigaman. Nana will be a very good leader but he needs to get rid of all those cantankerous, ignorant,tribalistic and crude people that are beating his drums for him .Nana wil ...
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i have also been thinking along the same lines as Dzigaman. Nana will be a very good leader but he needs to get rid of all those cantankerous, ignorant,tribalistic and crude people that are beating his drums for him .Nana will know best how to fight for our country than all those other candidates who will just be wiping the ass of the Americans and the Europeans.
I will be voting for Nana this time around if he puts are good team of people together who are not just coming to fill their pockets with our money and also look down on other tribes.
Ghana is a graet and peaceful because most of the tribes get along very well and we want to keep it that way.
Oshishiblishi 9 years ago

Dzigaman,
You and I think alike. I am not Akan: I am a Ganyobi. However I am not an NDC man (contrary to what many people may think). I hope Nana wins, and I hope that he rids himself of the kind of people you made mention ...
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Dzigaman,
You and I think alike. I am not Akan: I am a Ganyobi. However I am not an NDC man (contrary to what many people may think). I hope Nana wins, and I hope that he rids himself of the kind of people you made mention of. In fact I stayed in the USA for quite a while, and it was not uncommon to hear some Akan tribes(I wont mention which particular ones) refer to themselves as the "Jews" of Ghana: having all the wits and brains, and the other tribes having nothing at all. I am not sure what they mean by the "Jew" thing, but I leave it to everyone to interpret.
kwabena kusi .London 9 years ago

You have to say I will not vote for you not we Ghanaians.We don't need your vote.

You have to say I will not vote for you not we Ghanaians.We don't need your vote.
Dr Bawumia 9 years ago

U and ur father can go vote for him

U and ur father can go vote for him
Ghana 5 lady 9 years ago

OLDMAN NOT OLUMAN

OLDMAN NOT OLUMAN
NDC chief 9 years ago

But we foolish NDC people brought to government a person like Mahama to be president. There should be a change

But we foolish NDC people brought to government a person like Mahama to be president. There should be a change
sir 9 years ago

stop making foolish Statements. "WE" Ghanaians, who are you to put all of us in your foolish Statement? maybe you dont have a vote or due to your foolishness your vote shall not be counted. Idiot atimbila

stop making foolish Statements. "WE" Ghanaians, who are you to put all of us in your foolish Statement? maybe you dont have a vote or due to your foolishness your vote shall not be counted. Idiot atimbila
NANAO!! MOTHER 9 years ago

You and who? say you and your corrupt NDC will not but not Ghanaians.Old man is better than a theif and corrupt Mahama. JDM ..John dangerous Mahama.

You and who? say you and your corrupt NDC will not but not Ghanaians.Old man is better than a theif and corrupt Mahama. JDM ..John dangerous Mahama.
Kwame 9 years ago

Olu Nana is that why you are learning from Wattara what to do in 2016?. Then God save Ghana

Olu Nana is that why you are learning from Wattara what to do in 2016?. Then God save Ghana
adwoa smart 9 years ago

Aaba, akufo addo, do you know any other words apart from incompetent and corrupt? You keep describing these guys as incompetent and yet they keep defeating you in elections. In 2008 you described Mills as Rawlings' incompeten ...
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Aaba, akufo addo, do you know any other words apart from incompetent and corrupt? You keep describing these guys as incompetent and yet they keep defeating you in elections. In 2008 you described Mills as Rawlings' incompetent vice president. He defeated you. As soon as Mills was sworn in you started calling his government 'corrupt and incompetent Mills-Mahama administration'. You went ahead to call the late president Professor dolittle etc, etc. In 2012, you changed the chorus and started calling Mahama an incompetent, inexperienced corrupt etc, etc vice president of an equally inexperienced and incompetent late president Mills. Mahama (Mills' deputy) used 3 MONTHS to campaign and defeated you. Now, you've started all over again, calling Mahama corrupt and incompetent Mahama etc, etc. This makes me think you are not smart at all. You are using the same formula and expecting different results. It will not happen! Can't you see it? Tell us how competent you've been in your previous political assignments. How effective were you as am MP, minister of foreign affairs, attorney general etc etc. Tell us about allegations of drug use/abuse ( we need to know the truth). Tell us the law school you attended and show us your law certificate. Clearly all allegations of missing diplomatic passports, vote buying, bribery etc. Then we will consider voting for you. Until then, you are an NPP Flagbearer one more time, waiting to get your nose bloodied by Mahama in 2016.
Francis C. Quainoo 9 years ago

What a bitchy BITCH you are, calling yourself Adjoa, Heeeeheeee.
Just try to be as human enough to understand the script of our President-In-Waiting, Nana Akufo-Addo before you allow the ants into your enclosed legs, YOU BIT ...
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What a bitchy BITCH you are, calling yourself Adjoa, Heeeeheeee.
Just try to be as human enough to understand the script of our President-In-Waiting, Nana Akufo-Addo before you allow the ants into your enclosed legs, YOU BITCH!!!

If you are enjoying the largesse of this THIEVERY DULLARD MAHAMA GOVERNMENT then be prepared to face the consequences come 2017.

It is when your PROSTITUTION would be repatriated to TOGO, YOU BITCH!!!

Best Regards,

Francis C. Quainoo
Western Australia
sulemana 9 years ago

the truth is i feel guilty to join de npp bcos loved ndc. but i av no choice to vote fr nana to save de economy fr my business is dying under de government of my own beloved prez mahama.

the truth is i feel guilty to join de npp bcos loved ndc. but i av no choice to vote fr nana to save de economy fr my business is dying under de government of my own beloved prez mahama.
Kwasi Akuffu 9 years ago

don't talk like ndc man you are definatly an npp we in the ndc knows all this proprganda tricks.

don't talk like ndc man you are definatly an npp we in the ndc knows all this proprganda tricks.
Efo Kwaku Canada 9 years ago

A speech of a president , it cut across boarder the man is great with vision
God blessed Ghana God blessed NPP

A speech of a president , it cut across boarder the man is great with vision
God blessed Ghana God blessed NPP
nana 9 years ago

NPP has already lose 2016 election

NPP has already lose 2016 election
Ama London 9 years ago

Is it because NDC is going to do what they did last time, my friend forget it Ghanians have learnt their lesson in a hard way.

Is it because NDC is going to do what they did last time, my friend forget it Ghanians have learnt their lesson in a hard way.
Nii Sackey of Agona Nsaba,Salem 9 years ago

His excellency President John Dramani Mahama and National Democratic Congress is going to retire Akufo Addo from politics permanently because the victory of Nana Addo is much ado about nothing.I can say with my utmost author ...
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His excellency President John Dramani Mahama and National Democratic Congress is going to retire Akufo Addo from politics permanently because the victory of Nana Addo is much ado about nothing.I can say with my utmost authority that the NPP and Nana Addo will be the easiest battle for the NDC.Long live the NDC long live President John Dramani Mahama
Ama Serwah 9 years ago

Nana Addo: will he be alive in 2016?

Nana Addo: will he be alive in 2016?
seaman15 9 years ago

YOU ARE VERY ILL I SUPPOSED

YOU ARE VERY ILL I SUPPOSED
Eshun 9 years ago

Let's get to work

Let's get to work
ONIPANUA 9 years ago

Akuffo-Addo is a living cadavre and he knows it.I hope his coffin has already been bought.Like Moses he will see the promised land but will never set his foot there.He will always see the presidential chair but will never sit ...
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Akuffo-Addo is a living cadavre and he knows it.I hope his coffin has already been bought.Like Moses he will see the promised land but will never set his foot there.He will always see the presidential chair but will never sit on it.AMEN!!!!!!!
DKB 9 years ago

Why are you cursing yourself? Every bad thing you wish for this man will come back to you.

Why are you cursing yourself? Every bad thing you wish for this man will come back to you.
NANAO!! MOTHER 9 years ago

Yes he will be alive by the grace of GOD and see your father and mother dead.

Yes he will be alive by the grace of GOD and see your father and mother dead.
Akoto 9 years ago

Age does not determine when one is going to die, else how do you explain why Kwabena Dumour died and Akufo Ado is still living?

Age does not determine when one is going to die, else how do you explain why Kwabena Dumour died and Akufo Ado is still living?
seaman15 9 years ago

NDC FOREVER, NDC ALL THE WAY, VOTE FOR YOU TWEEEAAAH YOU WILL NEVER BE A PRESIDENT OF GHANA TWEEEEEEAH

NDC FOREVER, NDC ALL THE WAY, VOTE FOR YOU TWEEEAAAH YOU WILL NEVER BE A PRESIDENT OF GHANA TWEEEEEEAH
Dr Bawumia 9 years ago

3rd lose will help him get a cleare picture

3rd lose will help him get a cleare picture
Third Force 9 years ago

Your tone is like having the power to decide for Ghana who becomes president, meanwhile you have lost the power to save Ghana from decadence.

Your tone is like having the power to decide for Ghana who becomes president, meanwhile you have lost the power to save Ghana from decadence.
BYRCE 9 years ago

The speech made me cry. It's a speech from his heart.

The speech made me cry. It's a speech from his heart.
BAAFOUR 9 years ago

Mahama has international support so much that it is troubling. He is getting lots of money from the international world to build facilities for the citizens of Ghana but everyone knows all the money is going in to NDC for the ...
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Mahama has international support so much that it is troubling. He is getting lots of money from the international world to build facilities for the citizens of Ghana but everyone knows all the money is going in to NDC for the election. How is NPP GOING to win? NDC is rich!
GoodNigerian 9 years ago

A man so much loved by one party will also have the same measure of dislike in the other party and certainly Nana needs some NDC voters to win , at least 10% of the Ewe votes and others, surely you cannot win elections with o ...
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A man so much loved by one party will also have the same measure of dislike in the other party and certainly Nana needs some NDC voters to win , at least 10% of the Ewe votes and others, surely you cannot win elections with only 2 regions but 2016 will tell.
MAURICE 9 years ago

"na true talk,VOLTA holds the keys to NPP's voctory 2016.

"na true talk,VOLTA holds the keys to NPP's voctory 2016.
GHANANI 9 years ago

Now that the buyer of votes Nana Akuffo-Addo has used inferior tactics to win the NPP flagbearership elections I have started my electoral campaign against him and it is going to be ceaseless and brutal.I am going to play my ...
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Now that the buyer of votes Nana Akuffo-Addo has used inferior tactics to win the NPP flagbearership elections I have started my electoral campaign against him and it is going to be ceaseless and brutal.I am going to play my part to ensure that this counterfeit is not imposed on Ghanaians.Ghanaians will not be foolish to elect him as the president of Ghana.My pen will do the job.
Skains 9 years ago

Stop your profane nonsense via insults. Atimbila spoke his mind. If you don't, for some reasons, like what he said, it's a matter of arguing why instead of insulting him. I for one don't understand why the NPP, with its we ...
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Stop your profane nonsense via insults. Atimbila spoke his mind. If you don't, for some reasons, like what he said, it's a matter of arguing why instead of insulting him. I for one don't understand why the NPP, with its wealth of smart, young individuals, still prefer Nana to all others. Is the Party bereft of ideas?
Kojo kojo uk 9 years ago

Mind your own business okay.

Mind your own business okay.
nana 9 years ago

NPP has done a mistake again

NPP has done a mistake again
Kojo kojo uk 9 years ago

Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber n.d.n man of evil.

Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber n.d.n man of evil.
nana 9 years ago

NPP HAS DONE MISTAKE FOR ELLECTING NANA AGAIN.

NPP HAS DONE MISTAKE FOR ELLECTING NANA AGAIN.
Chairman ,CPP info HOUSE 9 years ago

2016 is the day the lord has made that you will loose and REGRET again and be glad with it and no supreme court nonsense...God bless Ghana.God bless CPP.God bless mother africa...

2016 is the day the lord has made that you will loose and REGRET again and be glad with it and no supreme court nonsense...God bless Ghana.God bless CPP.God bless mother africa...
AG 9 years ago

NDC Have started rejoicing already. God has listened to their prayers with the election of Nana Addo

NDC Have started rejoicing already. God has listened to their prayers with the election of Nana Addo
Third Force 9 years ago

Rather NDC have started mourning already. God does not listen to prayers of pretentious people. God exposes their insincere and dirty tricks. They fail in every endearvour with disgrace. Every figure they put out comes out fa ...
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Rather NDC have started mourning already. God does not listen to prayers of pretentious people. God exposes their insincere and dirty tricks. They fail in every endearvour with disgrace. Every figure they put out comes out false even before IMF. Yet, the fickle minded will want to defend for fear for the havoc and curse they have brought upon themselves.
Iddrisu 9 years ago

Nana Addo is our next president whether u like it or not

Nana Addo is our next president whether u like it or not
Kojo kojo uk 9 years ago

Point of correction all N.D.C who comments on Nana Addo,should stop jabbering nonessential talks about the man with vision,integrity,competent ,and the choosen one from God who has ordained Nana Addo to relief Ghanaian from t ...
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Point of correction all N.D.C who comments on Nana Addo,should stop jabbering nonessential talks about the man with vision,integrity,competent ,and the choosen one from God who has ordained Nana Addo to relief Ghanaian from this hardship of economy crises from incompetent n.d.c. Government.
Bite me 9 years ago

Kojo kojo uk... U r a fool

Kojo kojo uk... U r a fool
Kay.ITALY. 9 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!NANA.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!NANA.
Kojo kojo uk 9 years ago

This is what reactional human being should do!.to congratulates him.peace be with u all.

This is what reactional human being should do!.to congratulates him.peace be with u all.
Kojo kojo uk 9 years ago

This is what human being should do!.to congratulates him.peace be with u all.

This is what human being should do!.to congratulates him.peace be with u all.
233245869204 9 years ago

I thank God almighty for a successful election. I am happy that at last the we are all victorious people who are aiming to deliver the best for our country.

I thank God almighty for a successful election. I am happy that at last the we are all victorious people who are aiming to deliver the best for our country.
JH New York 9 years ago

A presidential material speech !
May God bless you to make it happen to relieve the ordinary Ghanaian from the clutches of post independence incompetent Mahama and his inexperienced embarrassing Ministerial Kids.

A presidential material speech !
May God bless you to make it happen to relieve the ordinary Ghanaian from the clutches of post independence incompetent Mahama and his inexperienced embarrassing Ministerial Kids.
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

The short man is stupid n idiots oldman

The short man is stupid n idiots oldman
Kwasi USA 9 years ago

Are you insulting him because he is seeking the highest office of the land or what? Even if you do not like him there is no need of insulting him. I think you are not brought up from a god home. Please learn some manners if y ...
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Are you insulting him because he is seeking the highest office of the land or what? Even if you do not like him there is no need of insulting him. I think you are not brought up from a god home. Please learn some manners if you have elders in your house.
Kojo kojo uk 9 years ago

U evil man from evil family.don't insults nana Addo the one God has ordained.

U evil man from evil family.don't insults nana Addo the one God has ordained.
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

Is the fact that this idiots short man is a failure

Is the fact that this idiots short man is a failure
Obiri Yeboah. Lond 9 years ago

May all your dreams come true in Jesus name.We ask God's blessing and favour upon you and all your family,friends,and well wishes .

May all your dreams come true in Jesus name.We ask God's blessing and favour upon you and all your family,friends,and well wishes .
Obiri Yeboah. Lond 9 years ago

I don't think you are a normal humanbeing ,If you get some one like Nana Addo in your family ,you would have been the best family in the whole northern region.Even your father and mother who sleep in the same room with cows a ...
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I don't think you are a normal humanbeing ,If you get some one like Nana Addo in your family ,you would have been the best family in the whole northern region.Even your father and mother who sleep in the same room with cows and goats you are proud of them and respect them.Therefore do the same to all elderly people.Even you respect your president ,The man who encourage corruption and corrupt.
Mr.Ghana 9 years ago

You old fool after buying votes with Ghc10.00 you think you can rule us with this from beginning. God bless Ghana and God bless John Mahama and his government. Please forget dreaming of becoming Ghana president. A word to the ...
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You old fool after buying votes with Ghc10.00 you think you can rule us with this from beginning. God bless Ghana and God bless John Mahama and his government. Please forget dreaming of becoming Ghana president. A word to the wise ...........,...
Kojo kojo uk 9 years ago

Useless man of evil look at him.God has ordained nana Addo to rule us.

Useless man of evil look at him.God has ordained nana Addo to rule us.
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

N she gave birth to this Nana Addo

N she gave birth to this Nana Addo
Kojo kojo uk 9 years ago

What a fucking talks from some people behave like they are not human beings may God punish u by insulting nana Addo.

What a fucking talks from some people behave like they are not human beings may God punish u by insulting nana Addo.
Asona Ba Asa Bekoe Atuo - USA 9 years ago

The hour is dawned and pray for God's Blessings on Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, as he gave to Moses to deliver his people. Amen and Amen.

The hour is dawned and pray for God's Blessings on Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, as he gave to Moses to deliver his people. Amen and Amen.
Walter 9 years ago

The NDC worse fear is realized. Nana will kick their butts.Even Atuguba will not be able to save them.

The NDC worse fear is realized. Nana will kick their butts.Even Atuguba will not be able to save them.
Kojo kojo uk 9 years ago

U are right bro.thanks

U are right bro.thanks
Landito 9 years ago

Then you should be quiet and suffer. The reason why this man still look healthy is that God has something in this man not to give to Ghana alone but has antidote for Africa as well but the evil. Afari Gyan thought, 2012 was h ...
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Then you should be quiet and suffer. The reason why this man still look healthy is that God has something in this man not to give to Ghana alone but has antidote for Africa as well but the evil. Afari Gyan thought, 2012 was his last chance but man ways are not His. Now Afari Gyan Will be retired and see the work of God through Nana Addo with realisation that He who Jah has blessed cabnng be cursed. Long live Nana Addo long live Ghana and Africa. Time will tell.
Victoria 9 years ago

I thank the Almighty God for this peaceful election. My advice to Nana Akuffo Addo and the NPP is to put aside every differences among them and stand as one family to deliver the loving people of Ghana from hardship in the ha ...
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I thank the Almighty God for this peaceful election. My advice to Nana Akuffo Addo and the NPP is to put aside every differences among them and stand as one family to deliver the loving people of Ghana from hardship in the hands of greedy and useless NDC government. God bless Nana and the people of Ghana. Amen
agbesi francis 9 years ago

You can't keep a good man down!
Have the heart to repent or else
You will perish with your lies and fabrications
Fighting against the chosen one of the Lord God Most High.

You can't keep a good man down!
Have the heart to repent or else
You will perish with your lies and fabrications
Fighting against the chosen one of the Lord God Most High.
Isaac Agyeman - A , Australia. 9 years ago

My fellow Ghanaians could we be little polite in our comments on media. World, nations and people are reading what we publish on our media front. Let's show maturity in politics and respect to our Elderly. It would be very ...
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My fellow Ghanaians could we be little polite in our comments on media. World, nations and people are reading what we publish on our media front. Let's show maturity in politics and respect to our Elderly. It would be very sad and uncultured to stand in front of one of our fathers to throw such comments
I am very disappointed on some of these commence .
Be respectful to yourself, parents, mother Ghana and your party.
MOMMA YENNI YEN HO NI.
Aseda o.
BOY KOFI 9 years ago

Becoming a flagbearer does not mean you are competent more than Mahama else you should have been in govt by now.If Nana Addo does not stop calling the president corrupt and incompetent his dream of leading this country will b ...
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Becoming a flagbearer does not mean you are competent more than Mahama else you should have been in govt by now.If Nana Addo does not stop calling the president corrupt and incompetent his dream of leading this country will be a mirage.I have always said NPP lost 2008 and 2012 general elections because of ineffective campaign strategy.Now listen carefully,as opposition leader you must challenge the president on policies but not makola politics.Tell Ghanaians what you can do for the country with some detailed explanation.We have more than 2 years to go into elections,take your time and plan your policies well before asking the electorate to vote for you.Don't make mistake that Ghanaians will vote for you because you are called Nana Addo.Thank you.
2 MANY PASTORS - NO SCIENTIST 9 years ago

POLITIC IS A GAME , SO YOU ARE EXPECTING NANA ADDO TO SAY GOOD THINGS ABOUT MAHAMA ADMINISTRATION ? WISE UP .

POLITIC IS A GAME , SO YOU ARE EXPECTING NANA ADDO TO SAY GOOD THINGS ABOUT MAHAMA ADMINISTRATION ? WISE UP .
Kusi. Appiah. Toronto. Canada 9 years ago

Nana. God. Bless you with. Wisdom and. Long. Life. Amen

Nana. God. Bless you with. Wisdom and. Long. Life. Amen
Ike 9 years ago

thank u Lord for Nana's victory

thank u Lord for Nana's victory
papa kweku 9 years ago

Nana, I hope you will live by your speech in which I find the solutions to the present problems in Ghana

Nana, I hope you will live by your speech in which I find the solutions to the present problems in Ghana
princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

One day, Little Alan saw his grandpa Nana Addo smoking his cigarettes. Little Alan asked, "Grandpa, can I smoke some of your cigarettes?" His grandpa replied, "Can your penis reach your asshole?" "No", said Little Alan. His g ...
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One day, Little Alan saw his grandpa Nana Addo smoking his cigarettes. Little Alan asked, "Grandpa, can I smoke some of your cigarettes?" His grandpa replied, "Can your penis reach your asshole?" "No", said Little Alan. His grandpa replied, "Then you're not old enough."

The next day, Little Alan saw his grandpa drinking beer. He asked, "Grandpa, can I drink some of your beer?" His grandpa replied, "Can your penis reach your asshole?" "No" said Little Alan. "Then you're not old enough." his grandpa replied.

The next day, Little Alan was eating cookies. His grandpa asked, "Can I have some of your cookies?" Little Alan replied, "Can your penis reach your asshole?" His grandpa Nana replied, "It most certainly can!" Little Alan replied, "Then go fuck yourself. These are my cookies!"
ffonky 9 years ago

Congratulations to Nana and the NPP.
Please don´t relax and get all hands on board- From the grass root to the big wings then now gegins the real race.

Congratulations to Nana and the NPP.
Please don´t relax and get all hands on board- From the grass root to the big wings then now gegins the real race.
Rafat Chicago U S A 9 years ago

Nana will win come 2016 elections we know how hard it is in Ghana and we will vote for Change.May Allah see u through Nana and Inshallah u will b our President a most deserving one.

Nana will win come 2016 elections we know how hard it is in Ghana and we will vote for Change.May Allah see u through Nana and Inshallah u will b our President a most deserving one.
Kwabena 9 years ago

So for how long will people from African will stop insulting elderly and made sensible contribution which will enhance development.
We are in the 21st century and this kind of behaviour needs to stop.Try as much as possible ...
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So for how long will people from African will stop insulting elderly and made sensible contribution which will enhance development.
We are in the 21st century and this kind of behaviour needs to stop.Try as much as possible to use this mode of media effectively to put across a very useful contribution that will enhance or promote healthy development. I hope everyone there will adhere to this. Your political opponent should not be your enemy. Please try and learn big lesson from the West
Regards.
ODEHYEEBA KAAKYIRE. 9 years ago

So when would some the youth in Ghana learn how to talk to older people. Stop insulting our leaders, being Prez. Mahama or Nana Addo. I have to stop reading comments.

So when would some the youth in Ghana learn how to talk to older people. Stop insulting our leaders, being Prez. Mahama or Nana Addo. I have to stop reading comments.
Kwabena 9 years ago

Haahahahahahaha, if you don't change your mind and you think that NDC is the best party for Ghana, all Ghanaians will die of hunger. I am here enjoying life without any economic hardship.
If NDC rules Ghana for another four ...
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Haahahahahahaha, if you don't change your mind and you think that NDC is the best party for Ghana, all Ghanaians will die of hunger. I am here enjoying life without any economic hardship.
If NDC rules Ghana for another four years, hahahahaha Ghanaians will kill each other to survive. Please think twice. My children are enjoying free education, benefits and free healthcare. What about yours? hmmmmmm that is the difference.
Mohammed Ibrahim 9 years ago

If God say Akufo-Addo will be President of Ghana,he will be President.But if God says Akufo-Addo can't be President of Ghana,he can never be President of Ghana.

If God say Akufo-Addo will be President of Ghana,he will be President.But if God says Akufo-Addo can't be President of Ghana,he can never be President of Ghana.
2 MANY PASTORS - NO SCIENTIST 9 years ago

TEAM WORK IS THE ONLY THING NPP NEEDS TO DEFEAT INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT NDC 2016 ELECTION . VICTORY IS YOURS NANA IN 2016.

TEAM WORK IS THE ONLY THING NPP NEEDS TO DEFEAT INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT NDC 2016 ELECTION . VICTORY IS YOURS NANA IN 2016.
Kwabena S. Akosah, Brooklyn, NY 9 years ago

Great speech! Tone uplifting and reconciliatory. It must be sustained and improved. Leadership is already under scrutiny. Genuine spirit of reconciliation, humility and inclusiveness must be at work. NDC is a formidable oppon ...
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Great speech! Tone uplifting and reconciliatory. It must be sustained and improved. Leadership is already under scrutiny. Genuine spirit of reconciliation, humility and inclusiveness must be at work. NDC is a formidable opponent! It is only united front and a broad appeal that transcends the confines of KUMASI and KYEBI that could break its (NDC) stranglehold on the country. Thank you and Good luck!
Jojo 9 years ago

.REJOINDER - Persecution of Ashanti Businessmen Must Stop!

Tribalists, racialists, and ethnically prejudiced people never seem to amaze modern scientific and computer age minds. The common thing amongst these tribalists is ...
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.REJOINDER - Persecution of Ashanti Businessmen Must Stop!

Tribalists, racialists, and ethnically prejudiced people never seem to amaze modern scientific and computer age minds. The common thing amongst these tribalists is flawed judgment, prejudice, malice, extremely biased representation and outlook of everything around them. Logic eludes their mind, and in the attempt to justify their awkward prejudicial view of life and their environment, they spew lots of untruths. Their weapon is to choose and pick what supports their narrow view, lace it with deceit with no aorta of conscience. Their motivation is to accept, feel and act as a victim, when nobody seems to victimize them.

At the very least thing, they wail and cry. If wailing and crying will make them look stupid to the outside world, they do so in the comfort of their family, the family they’ve poisoned over the years which also think and act like them. Tribalists tell their kids which tribe not to marry or make friends from. The least aggressive ones will tell their children which tribe to only befriend or marry from. Their children have no choice but to listen to them and become like them. They end up with lots of missed opportunities because of the unscientific, flawed, disoriented and inconsistently foolish criteria they use in making decisions.

Research has shown that these tribalists perform very poorly in school, ostensibly due to their narrow view on things that happen around them, their inability to investigate their surrounds thoroughly and objectively and their lazy attitude towards finding causes and solutions to problems, where they attribute the cause of their non-performance, economic condition, predicament, persecution or otherwise to tribe, ethnicity and race. Some of these tribal bigots are big politicians, religious leaders, and celebrated pastors. You have many of them with Bibles under their armpit, purportedly doing God’s work. The Judgment day we await.

I had a friend I’ll call Joe, who seized to be my friend for obvious reasons. Joe went for an interview with 6 other people. He was the only black amongst the interviewees. He was two years short of the experience needed for the job, but was still called up for an interview. He didn’t make it at the interview and attributed the fact that he wasn’t chosen for the job was because he was black. “They didn’t give me the job because I’m black” was the hymn. He tried and did everything within his mental power to put aside the fact that, others he interviewed with had more experience than him, in addition to many erroneous mistakes he made at the interview.

Joe will be pulled over by a cop for speeding. Somehow, Joe will maintain that he was pulled over because he’s black. Joe will apply for a benefit which normally takes a week to process. On the eighth day, he’ll claim his application is being delayed because he’s black, irrespective of the fact that, there’s news about a processing backlog which may add some few days to the processing time. Every time something didn’t go well, or a decision wasn’t made in his favor, it was because he was black. That’s how all kinds of segregators including tribalists, racists and ethnically prejudiced people think.

It’s a shame for the article “Persecution of Ashanti businessmen must stop!” to be given the audience of being published, not because of its bellicose and ethnically inciting posture, but also because of its worthlessness and emptiness.

I will waste a few minutes of my time to address the disgraceful and intellectually defunct tribal allegations espoused in that article. The tribalistic Writer, in one breath talks about a political smear campaign against NPP businessmen, whilst the main focus of his article talks about a smear campaign against Ashanti businessmen. Considering the fact that all the names he mentioned as people whose businesses were allegedly being targeted are NPP party members and financiers, why didn’t he address the issue as a political one, but decided to go tribal? Perhaps it’s because he’s a tribalist with a flawed and skewed mind towards tribal prejudice, for which everything has to be seen through the ethnic eye, even in the presence of better alternatives.

Let’s address some of these allegations. People who call themselves businessmen are more liable for investigation and persecution than working professionals and civil servants, all over the world. That has got nothing to do with tribe. A jailed thief will most likely have the profession of a businessman than a Doctor, or a Lawyer. 17% of businessmen in China end up not just being prosecuted, but end up in jail. And the number cuts across to other developed countries. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with investigating a so-called businessman. Only in Ghana will the IRS or BNI be persecuted and attacked for inviting or investigating someone who lives way beyond his means.

After the 1979 coup, many of these so-called businessmen who owned nothing two years before, but managed to own as much as thirteen houses in Accra and beyond were investigated. Those who couldn’t tell how they managed to come by those properties in that short period of time, together with their links to the perceived corrupt Acheampong Government had their properties confiscated. Those who think there was something wrong with that can live with their conscience. But some of us believe Ghanaians will cry for the same thing to be done today if need be.

If for instance, Mahamas friend who had nothing a year ago, now boasts of many mansions and cars is investigated, and fails to tell Investigators how he came by his money in less than 2 years, common sense should give Investigators an answer to how he came by his booty. This is done in every democratic and serious country. Thievery is not business, that’s not to say businessmen are thieves. There’s nothing wrong with Kessben being investigated for money laundering. Individuals are investigated in Ghana, the US and UK every single day, which is a norm.

Probably because those investigated in Ghana are not politicians or have any political backing, it doesn’t become news. Maybe the Writer should make a check at the BNI for info on which individuals from different tribes and companies were investigated last year alone. Being investigated doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong. It just means something seems not to be done right, for which investigators must avail themselves to. That’s their job. Ghanaians want to live and do whatever they want without regulations and laws, yet they want Ghana to be fully developed and economically sound like the US. It won’t happen.

The ethnically prejudiced Writer should go to the US and periodically send huge sums of money to foreign accounts and see if the IRS will not come investigating him. He should then accuse the IRS of being investigated because he’s an Ashanti. Even remittance companies like WesternUnion and Moneygram make queries, blocks accounts and request for documents when they realize huge periodic transfers of funds from one person or account to another.

You have people blaming political opponents for the demise of their companies. The question to ask is how many Ashanti businesses have been thriving and still thriving from the 1980s till date? Why didn’t the Writer mention those businesses? Why did Hackman Agyemang of the NPP sell his business after 2 years in opposition? Was it because he was targeted and persecuted too? Or because he received perks when his Government was in power which he didn’t receive in opposition? Was it a persecution by an NDC government of an Ashanti businessman which ended in collapse of his company? Didn’t Kwabena Darko’s farm thrive under Rawlings administration? Was Kwabena Darko a real threat to the NDC for his business to be targeted and collapsed?

Does the Writer realize the fact under Rawlings regime, there was a boost in local production of chicken where 90% of the chicken we consumed were produced locally? Does he realize that more people being urged and supported to go into poultry production had a toll on the profits Darko farms made when his business was more of a monopoly? Did the Writer tell us what exactly was done against Darko farms for his empire to collapse? No. Also, common basic economics should have advised the writer that due to high rates of cheap chicken imports, local chicken production became unprofitable, for which many people lost their businesses, not only Darko farms.
For the writers information, Appiah Menkah was arrested and prosecuted for an alleged coup d’etat against the PNDC Government; just like Rawlings himself was arrested and prosecuted for same, as well as many others from different tribes including Richard Quarshigah and Nyarho Tamakloe. He wasn’t arrested and prosecuted because he was an Ashanti businessman. Was it a persecution of an Ashanti businessman when Appiah Menkahs son Andrew Menkah was investigated by the BNI at the hospital where he was releasing 22 pellets of cocaine he had swallowed? Maybe the BNI shouldn’t have investigated him because he’s an Ashanti and a businessman like his father.

When the EO (from Edusei and Owusu) Group made deals to own 3.5% stake (initially estimated at $200 million) of our oil reserves, did the Writer expect Government to look on whilst Ghanaians protested, even considering the fact that our laws clearly state that every resource found on the land belongs to the state. I can imagine Ghanaians knowing that 3.5% of their oil proceeds from oil goes to 2 individuals, with one of them being a Chairman of the NPP and a former flag-bearer aspirant and Ambassador appointee of H.E. J. A. Kuffuor.

If the EO Group were targeted and persecuted for no tangible reason, why didn’t they go to court to have their grievances addressed, considering the fact NPP members won all their court cases in the first 4 years of the NDC Government. If Tetteh Quarshie’s (who brought cocoa to Ghana) family demands 3.5% stake in all cocoa produced in Ghana, will the Writer protest it?

And maybe the most hardened drug kingpin, George Adu Bonsu’s Benjilo factory shouldn’t have been closed down in 1991 after being caught and jailed for drug trafficking because he’s an Ashanti and his indulgence in drugs should have been pardoned. Funny enough, all his asserts which were confiscated, like is done in every country were returned back to him under the NPP, some with interest. Maybe his asserts shouldn’t have been confiscated in the first place.

These tribalists with twisted logic and a shameful character and thinking shouldn’t be allowed to taint our moral fabric. Their brains are so twisted that they accuse Rawlings of killing Ashantis, without acknowledging the fact that, Boakye Gyan, and Ashanti was the real head of the AFRC, whose signature was a requirement for any execution, and for which reason Boakye Gyan’s date of birth was the date fixed for the 1979 elections.

Businesses all over the world thrive and collapse everyday. Many businesses owned by people from other tribes in Ghana collapse too, but these individuals are matured enough to seek, find and know the cause of the collapse of their business, other than basing it on fruitless and illogical reason of tribal persecution.

Rawlings rule had many Ashantis in powerful positions. High positions like Attorney General, Finance Minister, BOG Governor, Education Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister weren’t occupied by his native Ewe people, like some tribal idiots will like to make us believe. That’s what made him win 9 out of 10 regions in both elections. An Ashanti ruled the national kitty for close to a decade. To claim Ashantis were side-lined in Rawlings administration is not just deceitful, but wicked and evil.

Maybe powerful people under Rawlings administration like P.V. Obeng, Kwabena Duffuor, Lt Col E. K. T. Donkoh, Kwame Peprah, Kwame Danso Boafo, J.H. Owusu Acheampong, Nana Kwasi Agyeman, Colonel Osei-Wusu, Steve Obimpeh, Owuraku Amofa, K.K. Acheampong, Totobi Quakyi, Dr Christine Amoako-Nuamah, Nana Paddy Acheampong, Isaac Adjei-Mensah, Vida Yeboah, Samuel Nuamah Donkor, Ohene Agyekum, Kobena Fosu, Asuanko-Ntomo Atakora, D.S Boateng, Kwabena Fosu, David Amankwaa, Rear Admiral Owusu-Ansah, just to mention very very few, have escaped the Writer. Did the hundreds of Ashantis in Rawlings Government also target and persecute Ashanti businessmen? Or Rawlings did the targeting and persecution alone?

Shameful tribalists will not even want to consider the fact that Rawlings wife is an Ashanti, and Rawlings, at anytime will allow his children to marry from any tribe in Ghana, unlike the tribalists who demand that their kids marry or befriend people from specific tribes. For Christ’s sake, the Bestman at Rawlings wedding was an Ashanti. And Rawlings current and possibly best friend is Herbert Mensah, an Ashanti.

And these tribalists want us to believe Ashanti businesses failed under Rawlings. Worldwide, 8 out of 10 businesses fail, a reason why children are rather advised to go to school than linger around and become so-called “businessmen”. Hundreds of businesses owned by Ashantis triumphed under the Rawlings administration. Considering the fact that 8 out of 10 companies collapse all over the world, narrowly attributing the collapse of a business in Ghana to tribe and ethnicity without looking at the main cause is not only shameful, but extremely backward and colloquial.

Since the Writer likes to indulge in tribal machinations, he should do his own investigations about businesses which started under the PNDC/NDC. He’ll realize that 60% of businesses which triumphed under the NDC belonged to Ashantis. Maybe the Writer will realize his tribal assertions and believe that businesses owned by Ashantis were collapsed are extremely flawed.

Maybe the Writer should also investigate companies which collapsed in the same era, where he’ll also realize that not only Ashanti businesses collapse, but businesses owned by people from different tribes, just likes businesses in America, Russia and Nigeria also collapse. The Writer should also investigate which companies collapsed under his pro-Ashanti NPP. He’ll realize most of the collapsed businesses were also owned by Ashantis.

Finally, the Writer should take a look at the GYEEDA rot, and he’ll find out how an Ashanti businessman Joseph Siaw Agyepong together with Roland Agambire stole and are still keeping over $50 million of tax-payers money. Maybe he’ll demand Agambire’s prosecution but not Agyepong, because Agyepong is an Ashanti and prosecuting him will mean targeting Ashanti businessmen. Maybe that will also inform the Writer that, Ashanti businessmen under President Mahama are also enjoying in business and those who steal in the name of “businessman” are also at it.

Perhaps he should enquire from Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng , the courtesies and support he received from the then President Rawlings for the establishment of the Cardio Center, considering the fact that he was a founding member of the NPP and an Ashanti. The list could go on and on and on. Ghanaian should close their ears to these tribal bigots who are inclined to read tribal meanings into everything.

Let’s learn to look at the broader picture than to attribute everything to tribe, ethnicity and religion. The beautiful thing is that, whilst the tribalists are bitter and hurting from their artificial and vague reasons, and are praying the world comes to an end, those they fight their non-existent wars with live, laugh, enjoy and work hard amongst each other to make the world a better place for all. God bless you!!!

LONG LIVE GHANA!!! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE OF GHANA!!! LONG LIVE FREEDOM AND JUSTICE!!!

Fred Joojo Yankah
New York
Aden 9 years ago

Crap, this guy won again? Here goes another victory for stupid NDC, this is sad.

Crap, this guy won again? Here goes another victory for stupid NDC, this is sad.
kk 9 years ago

WHAT!. THIS MAH AGAIN?. NDC WE HAVE A VERY BIG PROBLEM IN 2016 ELECTIONS.

WHAT!. THIS MAH AGAIN?. NDC WE HAVE A VERY BIG PROBLEM IN 2016 ELECTIONS.
kusasi 9 years ago

tell us the law school you attended. akufo addo .you not ashame of yourself

tell us the law school you attended. akufo addo .you not ashame of yourself

Nana Akufo-Addo’s victory speech

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