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Soldiers must run NACOB to fight against drugs – Security Analyst

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  • Adjei Koti 9 years ago

    WHO SAYS SOLDIERS DON'T DO DRUG?

  • RR 9 years ago

    For the government to put soldiers in charge of NACOB will be an admission that the present government is unable to deal with corruption in NACOB. If government cannot deal with corruption in NACOB, then where can it deal wit ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK...

    Chief, I agree with you that a new ministry is not required to deal with the energy crisis. Instead, the President should have sacked the minister for Energy who has failed and is incomp ...
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  • Gye Nyame 9 years ago

    Corruption is a Ghanaian problem, the soldiers are even worse because they will in addition use intimidation to demand bribes. The soldiers on JJ's Vetting commission became rich overnight due to bribes they got from business ...
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  • Amegaxoxo 9 years ago

    Which cave did this so-called security expert wake up from? Are the soldiers not Ghanaians? Are they from another planet? Tell us something sensible.Go F..k yourself.

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-Mahmoud...If we may ask, is the NDC new party school another communist ideological institution? The Young Pioneers implanted by Nkrumah in our midst did more harm than good to the development of this country when they ...
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  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    He is a bastard

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    If NDC are not involved in this cocaine
    trafficking in our country, then Dramani Mahama should sack Akrasi Sarpong and order his arrest and prosecuted and be jailed without delay.

    That girl Ruby NDC cocaine carrier
    is Dr ...
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  • ATSU, HO 9 years ago

    IN DEED WE DO NOT NEED SOLDIERS WE NEED JUST THE TRUTH AND ANYBODY CAN RUN THAT

  • Omanba. 9 years ago

    A real Security Expert saying this?.Why not make Ataa Ayi the Governor of Bank of Ghana? Which single group of professionals do drugs most? David, are you on Planet Earth at all?

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    Akufo Addo body organs are weak because of This cocaine

  • Adamu 9 years ago

    We are tracking you, the so-called Uggly Akufo Addo

  • Son Of Man 9 years ago

    HE IS SOMEBODY'S FATHER SO YOU WILL DIE BEFORE THE END OF 2014.

  • GHANANI 9 years ago

    Who is this security analyst? Is he saying that soldiers are less corrupt than civilians? I strongly beg to differ if he thinks soldiers are less corrupt than civilians.If fighting drug travellers in the bush they will be us ...
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  • YB 9 years ago

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  • Lona uk 9 years ago

    this coming from a so called self acclaimed security analyst.Bear in mind this soldiers are not human Angels, what Ghanan is lacking is the institutional and the political will to fight the drugs. There seem to be a direct ...
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  • ISSA ABONGO 9 years ago

    THIS IS A STUPID SUGGESTION. THE SOLDIERS ARE FOR GHANA'S EXTERNAL DEFENCE. IT WILL BE WORSE IF GHANA SOLDIERS ARE MADE TO RUN NACOB.

  • EZEKIEL 9 years ago

    We don't NEED soldiers NECESSARILY to be MORE HONEST and DEDICATED than civilians!! WE NEED SINCERE Ghanaians, be it soldiers, Civilians or whatever.
    THE SOCIETY IS JUST TOO CORRUPT and so long as OFFENDERS ARE NOT SEVERELY ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    A SOLDIER MAN WORKING FOR NACOB DRESSED AS A WOMAN TO ARREST PEOPLE A THE VIP LOUNGE,SADLY HE WAS ARRESTED FOR MAIL FRAUD.

  • MAHAMA 9 years ago

    WE GAVE THEM TO RUN OUR FOREST WE HAVE NO MORE TREES LEFT.

  • king 9 years ago

    u dont know what u are saying my brother, soldiers dont run forestry go n learn more before u put dust in our eyes

  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    What a cockamamie suggestion after all that we experienced with military rule?

    Mr. David Agbee the Executive Director for Ghana Institute of Governance & Security, the so-called Security Analyst himself, must be let go f ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    A SOLDIER DRESSED AS A WOMAN TO SNEAK DRUGS INTO THE VIP LOUNGE,SADLY HE WAS ARRESTED FOR MAIL FRAUD.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    What about if she/he was a transvestite?

  • Dr. Ezanator Rawlings 9 years ago

    just look at my father.he was a soldier.when he barks like a dog majority of ghanaians who are illiterates believes him but he is the most corrupt con man ever to rule ghana. still people call him JJJJJJ. funny.how did he ge ...
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  • pkirks 9 years ago

    Why are you too stupid to impersonate . Why uses someone's name. Do you think people over here are as dumb as you are.

  • KOMLA AGBEVE 9 years ago

    IN AS MUCH AS I AGREE WITH U THAT THE NACOB BOSS MUST BE SACKED IMMEDIATELY AND THE WHOLE ORGANISATION OVERHAULED I TOTALLY DISAGREE THAT SOLDIERS HAVE MORE INTEGRITY THAN CIVILIANS. HOW CAN U MAKE SUCH A SWEEPING STATEMENT? ...
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  • Kay 9 years ago

    Is this a quack security expert? Is he saying that in this 21st century we still have people who think that the best brains are in the barracks?
    Please tell me, which category of persons in Ghana engage in substance abuse mo ...
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  • yesu anti 9 years ago

    Oh god we return to military ru again because of on sensible president we have

  • Annorwuo 9 years ago

    And I bet,that would be the quickest way of sending this country back to military rule! If you need the 'Abongo boys' to undertake a limited 'surgical operation',such as cutting down illicit 'wee plantation',then yes;but get ...
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  • Osei Yao 9 years ago

    IS THIS MAN AN EX-SOLDIER OR A FOOL? CORRUPTION WAS NEVER HIGHER IN ALL THE REGIMES OVERTHROWN BY SOLDIERS THAN IN THE SUCCEEDING MILITARY REGIMES. NO SOLDIERS ARE MORE CORRUPT THAN THEIR CIVILIAN COUNTERPARTS.

  • AFEDO 9 years ago

    PREZ PLEASE APPOINT MAJ GEN OB AKWA COMDT KAIPTC AS NACOB BOSS. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT

  • joe! 9 years ago

    Is even better for
    the military rule
    The whole ghana then this corrupt democracy Government

  • KWAME 9 years ago

    oh mine how can a security analyst think that the mere donning of military uniform prevent people from being corrupt. Travel with them to Peacekeeping or visit them at the FPO and see corruption at it best

  • mickey darl 9 years ago

    Kwame, is gud u r civilian employee cox u can never b a uniform personel cox u fink like a sheep. Understand wat d analyst said dat they r less prone to corruption. Which other institution is more disciplined Dan d military. ...
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  • KWAME 9 years ago

    mickey its unfortunate that people like you have access to the net and will leave the issues and attack personalities As I said in my submission travel with them for peacekeeping duties or conduct a forensic audit at pay o ...
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  • HAMAMA 9 years ago

    If this NDC government is replacing the entire NACOB with Solders then this is an admission of failure.
    As for me I think the failure rest on Mahama. The corruption is not only at KIA. The corruption is at GYEEDA,SUBAH,SADA, ...
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  • KWAME 9 years ago

    This analyst does not know the levels of corruption in the GAF. travel with them to Peacekeeping Duties or visit the FPO and you will be shaken to the bone marrow to see how corrupt they are. In any case the mere wearing o ...
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  • Ben 9 years ago

    Have civilians manage the board with lots of oversights to probe every slip through that occurs.

  • Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

    What is it about Ghana's dime a dozen think thanks that enable people to make infantile assertions that is beneath even Ghana’s primary school level intelligence?
    I will urge David Agbee to read the constitutions of the ve ...
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  • king 9 years ago

    soldiers dont run forestry go n learn n come again dont put dust in our eyes

  • lone prophet of Jehovah 9 years ago

    We need integrity and discipline in our society or men and women with biblical values void of corruption.

  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    Are Ghanaian soldiers from the planet Jupiter and who told this guy that they are not corrupt?

  • SMART 9 years ago

    If this analyst should be taken serioudly, then we might as well appoint soldiers to head all our public institutions. Wait a minute. We have already had too much of the military. Prof Atta Mills visited Tema Harbour and saw ...
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  • wofa 9 years ago

    Soldiers for where?
    Tweaaaa!
    Soldiers have been arrested in this country for grave armed robbing.

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    Currently he is the over lord of cocaine

  • N. Kofi 9 years ago

    If 3 women were escorted to the aircraft through the VVIP Lounge then what happened to the other 2 women.
    Maybe they were lucky to escape arrest.
    Who are these women?

  • Boamah Gyamerah 9 years ago

    David Agbee, as Executive Director for Ghana Institute of Governance and Security, I think you should have a good memory or at least a good knowledge of the history of the security of how Ghana`s borders were secured or guard ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    An old man working for NACOB marries a much younger woman. However, no matter what he tries, he can never bring her to heavenly feeling.

    He goes to a sex therapist and tells him his problem.

    "What you've got to do is ...
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  • Kwame 9 years ago

    History of the drug trade and wars waged to sustain it were lead by military men. The British, Dutch, Austrian and U.S. wars to force the people of China to buy opium at gun point were lead by generals. The war to protect Afg ...
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  • Senior citizen Bs Germany. 9 years ago

    Kwame,ayikoo,I support you as soldiers are not Angels.They are human beings like civilians when they undress themselves,whenever they close from work to their various residences they are no more soldiers.They can be more corr ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    Columbia used soldiers to fight the drug war but the Medellin Cartel corrupted them all.
    Pablo Escobar had connections in the Army,

  • Son Of Man 9 years ago

    MAHAMA HIMSELF WILL SOON BE ARRESTED.
    HE HAS A HAND IN IT. HE CANT BE INNOCENT.
    HE IS A DISGRACE TO GHANAIANS.
    A KAYAYIE CAN DO YOUR JOB MUCH BETTER.YOUR ACHIEVEMENT HAS BEEN REVERSING THE PROGRESS OF MOTHER GHANA AND WAST ...
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  • mojingles 9 years ago

    What a ridiculous assertion by this so called security analyst...where in the world do soldiers run security apparati at international airports which are essentially gateways to nations? Soldiers are incorruptible? Where was ...
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  • Pround pepeni. 9 years ago

    LET US JUST MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE PUNISHED FOR DOING WRONG AND THIS CORRUPTION ISSUE WILL BE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL. IF THE PERSONS AT THE AIRPORT KNOW THEY WILL BE PUNISHED FOR SLACKNESS IN THEIR DUTIES THEN THEY ARE MORE ...
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  • chief vandal 9 years ago

    Nonsense. All we need is let be known and manifestly be demonstrated that if you commit a crime there are consequence and they will be applied it does not matter who you are.! Period. Nothing less nothing more.

  • Al Hajj AAA-RASHID(OH.USA) 9 years ago

    I don't know where this guy is coming from, neither do I know how old he is, but I would simply want to ask him where he was from 1966-69 and 1972-78?

    Soldiers are Ghanaians as well, and corruption is a Ghanaian disease, b ...
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  • HUMANISM 9 years ago

    Where do these security analysts come from ? Planet Mars ?

    Soldiers are human beings. If you know any history and you come to know how the JJ PNDC precipitated the downward trend of Ghana, you would not propose soldier ...
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  • John Musah 9 years ago

    Soldiers are also human. We are always looking for cheap sensational options instead of tackling the root cause of the problem.

  • MUMUNI ADAMA 9 years ago

    Am really shocked that you call your self a security analyst and you forgotten drug money is used in facilitating of terrorism in the world. If you think the soldiers can handle NACOB. Give them de chance you will see

  • guy 9 years ago

    you are in deep sleep.what are talking? what good did they bring to this nation during their tenure as our leaders

  • guy 9 years ago

    what are you talking? eiiiibeeei.soldiers you mean? please wise up.

  • DENTE 9 years ago

    I THINK THE BEST SOLUTION TO NARCOTIC SMUGGLING THROUGH KOTOKA IS FOR THE GOVT TO CONTRACT SECURITY AT THE AIRPORT TO FOREIGN FIRM. GHANAIANS ARE TOO CORRUPT FOR THAT JOB

  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    pathetic. That's not what soldiers are trianed to do. Did I hear david Agbee say that military officers are less prone to corruption? What happened when the various military regimes, headed by military officers, run the count ...
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  • Sidney 9 years ago

    What do we see during millitary coupe?