No ethnic group is superior to others – Mahama

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summy addo 9 years ago

ILLEGAL SCALE ADJUSTMENT IS KILLING THE MOTIVATION OF GHANA COCOA FARMERS. LBCs TO BLAME. THEY ARE USING PURCHASING CLERKS AS CONDUIT TO CHEAT FARMERS FREELY

ILLEGAL SCALE ADJUSTMENT IS KILLING THE MOTIVATION OF GHANA COCOA FARMERS. LBCs TO BLAME. THEY ARE USING PURCHASING CLERKS AS CONDUIT TO CHEAT FARMERS FREELY
Ghanaman 9 years ago

No govt has performed so abysmally as the mpepefuo govt. Call a spade a spade.

No govt has performed so abysmally as the mpepefuo govt. Call a spade a spade.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

AUTHOR: KOFI ************
hehehehehehee ahahahahahahaaa....ndc filled our governance system with nobodies and non achievers like ablakwah okudzeto the judgement debt negotiator who asked ghana to pay 1.5 billion dollars to a ...
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AUTHOR: KOFI ************
hehehehehehee ahahahahahahaaa....ndc filled our governance system with nobodies and non achievers like ablakwah okudzeto the judgement debt negotiator who asked ghana to pay 1.5 billion dollars to africa auto ltd whilst his people in volta region suffer very disgraceful excruciating poverty.....then felix ofosu kwakye the vuvuzel...the hannah bissiw the braggart and then pig-faced sam george....etc etc.....THESE ARE ALL SMALL KIDS WITHOUT ANY ACHIEVEMENT YET ARE IN GOVT DIRECTING GHANA AND PUSHING US INTO THE ABYSS......ADULTS AMONG THEM LIKE BETTY MOULD AND BARTON ODRO AND ALL THEIR LAWYERS ARE ALSO HIGH CLASS CRIMINALS WHO USED FAKE JDEBTS, GYEEDA, SADA SUBAH ETC TO DESTROY US ALL.....
PHILTY McNASTY 9 years ago

The theme or question said:"Creative Arts and Tourism - A Platform for National Development". And my friend goes off chart talking about tribalism and whatnots. Akoa abon!

The theme or question said:"Creative Arts and Tourism - A Platform for National Development". And my friend goes off chart talking about tribalism and whatnots. Akoa abon!
Mahmoud 9 years ago

Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice communism and one party state, and indulge ...
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Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice communism and one party state, and indulge in Leftist anti-Western propaganda using our country's meager resources to challenge centuries' old, well-established Western countries. They even accepted that he should be a prophet and savior of the Blackman around the world, and yet tyrannize his own Black people at home because they have alternative views for the development of their country.

Those who wanted him to concentrate on the needs of the young nation and tone down his rhetoric to our level were called traitors, nation wreckers, and agents of imperialism and CIA agents that should be liquidated and imprisoned dead or alive. Could you believe that the opposition members he was tyrannizing were the very people who started the struggle for our independence? They employed Nkrumah and paid for his ticket from the UK to come and work as a General Secretary of the group, saving him from the tyranny and indignity of joblessness in London. The independence struggle Vanguards were senior civil servants in the Gold Coast. And as their struggle was gaining momentum and scope of the activities widening, they needed someone to work full time for the group; free from official work constrains to further spread the their message to the people.

Under their responsibility and protection, Nkrumah used the platform to become the public face of the group and his popularity soared. This was because, many people in those days saw him as the person, or the only person that was fighting for our independence. So when he secretly learnt from the Governor General's British female secretary, who was later sacked, that the British were preparing to grant us independence, Nkrumah increasingly used unnecessary militant and unorthodox tactics to annoy the Authority - when it was clear that "the wind of change was blowing"- in order to embarrass the group and outfox them. He then used the opportunity to break away from the group, forming his own party and slapping them from behind to take power.

This might explain the strong partisanship between the two groups, and why Nkrumah didn't want the so-called traitors, or more appropriately, the liberation vanguards to ever come to power in his life time. Maybe he was afraid of his own ghost. And despite all what happened, his supporters still want us to believe that he initiated, spearheaded and single handedly fought for our independence, and therefore name every national project after him as if we were in a kingdom.
JONES 9 years ago

NO TRIBE FEELS SUPERIOR BUT SOME FEEL DEEPLY INFERIOR. THE THIEVING, PROMISCUOUS AND FORNICATING MAHAMA SHOULD NOTE THAT. WHICH TRIBES/ETHNIC GROUPS ARE STEALING GHANA'S MONEY NOW THROUGH 'CREATE LOOT AND SHARE?' IT IS THE TR ...
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NO TRIBE FEELS SUPERIOR BUT SOME FEEL DEEPLY INFERIOR. THE THIEVING, PROMISCUOUS AND FORNICATING MAHAMA SHOULD NOTE THAT. WHICH TRIBES/ETHNIC GROUPS ARE STEALING GHANA'S MONEY NOW THROUGH 'CREATE LOOT AND SHARE?' IT IS THE TRIBES WHICH HAVE THIS INFERIORITY COMPLEX. COUNT THEM AND SEE THE TYPES WHICH HAVE 'PEPENI 1' AS THEIR CARS NUMBER PLATES. STEAL AWAY
Ibrahim Baba 9 years ago

If you a see a good looking Ashanti, then he is a pepeni, otherwise he will be to ugly for your eyes to behold

If you a see a good looking Ashanti, then he is a pepeni, otherwise he will be to ugly for your eyes to behold
$$$ >>> Nigerian Lagos lived in Ghana 9 years ago

>>> Imagine SHIT CARRIER, calling ITSELG "Ibrahim Baba", insulting Asantes

>>> Just Imagine the Tribalistic Hate-Monger with INFERIORITY Complex, calling ITSELF "Ibrahim Baba" insulting Asantes

By Yaro Bababugabuga

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>>> Imagine SHIT CARRIER, calling ITSELG "Ibrahim Baba", insulting Asantes

>>> Just Imagine the Tribalistic Hate-Monger with INFERIORITY Complex, calling ITSELF "Ibrahim Baba" insulting Asantes

By Yaro Bababugabuga

Nigerian who lived in Ghana in 1980s
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, he had the gut to recommend his fellow journalists to be executed by PNDC. Pratt even recommended Baako to be killed by the regime, thank God Baako was instead touchered violently and severely but his life was spared. This is what Kwesi Pratt can do. Now Pratt is a secret agent to NDC and US Embassy in Ghana. May God forgive Pratt and spare him the untold evils that will come upon him and his generations. The souls of those journalist killed through Pratt's recommendations to PNDC will never forgive Pratt. Now Pratt has the guts to take Diplomatic Passport and smuggled his weak-headed children to work at the Ministries under Mills NDC, may God forgive Pratt and his dependance and spare them of the evils ahead of them...
Derrick 9 years ago

Do you need to read every line or nuance in a story to make it understood?
Can we stick the essentials and speak to the well enlightened ghanaian populace.
Why waste time attracting more unpopularity. Mr prez whether ghana ...
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Do you need to read every line or nuance in a story to make it understood?
Can we stick the essentials and speak to the well enlightened ghanaian populace.
Why waste time attracting more unpopularity. Mr prez whether ghanaians like or not, you are the sitting prez. Just get on with your work and leave history to be the judge.No one can fulfil the demands of his calling to the full degree. leave the dregs to the lowly.
The truth has one colour.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

AUTHOR:-PROFESSOR-----------------
In just two years, John Dramani Mahama and the NDC have brought Ghana to its knees economically. Now, after stealing all of Ghana's money, these stupid and low life miscreants from the NDC ...
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AUTHOR:-PROFESSOR-----------------
In just two years, John Dramani Mahama and the NDC have brought Ghana to its knees economically. Now, after stealing all of Ghana's money, these stupid and low life miscreants from the NDC are plotting more of the same misery on Ghanaians in 2016? Ghanaians would be the biggest fools on this planet if they vote for NDC in 2016. And, when will the corrupt Electoral Commissioner be changed? Dr. Afari-Djan has no credibility whatsoever!
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

IS IT BECAUSE OF INFERIORITY COMPLEX? WHICH MEANS AFTER ALL A PEPENI IS RICH? AND CAN BUY A BIG CAR? BLAME YOURSELVES ON YOUR WOES,,, ONCE ASHANTIS TRIED EVER SINCE TO WEAKEN BRONGS, BUT BRONGS GAVE A DEATH EAR TO WHATEVER, ...
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IS IT BECAUSE OF INFERIORITY COMPLEX? WHICH MEANS AFTER ALL A PEPENI IS RICH? AND CAN BUY A BIG CAR? BLAME YOURSELVES ON YOUR WOES,,, ONCE ASHANTIS TRIED EVER SINCE TO WEAKEN BRONGS, BUT BRONGS GAVE A DEATH EAR TO WHATEVER, NOW MANY OF THESE SAME ASHANTIS TURNED TO TELL BRONGS "BRO WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE"
Ghfuo: Be Bad &hang nyantakyi, NOW! 9 years ago

..., jobs, factories, free basic education for the youths, tax breaks for major.companies,private business, rehab infrastructure etc and stop dwelling on such useless topics. Ethnicity we go.chop? Mmmmmccttttteeewwwwwww!

..., jobs, factories, free basic education for the youths, tax breaks for major.companies,private business, rehab infrastructure etc and stop dwelling on such useless topics. Ethnicity we go.chop? Mmmmmccttttteeewwwwwww!
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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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 AFEDE FILLING HIS BANK ACCOUNTS ABROAD< ASIEDU NKETIA SPREADING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER BRONG AHAFO AND BUYING MANSION IN CALGARY CANADA, HANNA BISSIW ,OYI LITHUR ANITA DISOSO SPREADING MONEY AS IF GHANA HAS NO PROBLEM
Better Ghana Agenda 9 years ago

Ahaaah, there we go, is not because some group people in Ghana now want to be seen as superior..... We we do not depart from this thinking, Ghana will always move backwards. People are now stealing state money because they wa ...
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Ahaaah, there we go, is not because some group people in Ghana now want to be seen as superior..... We we do not depart from this thinking, Ghana will always move backwards. People are now stealing state money because they want to superior... what for???? We must learn to be ourslves...why can't we stop looking and thinking about some people?.... Where is President Mahama getting this sentiments from???
moshie 9 years ago

this stupid idiot is messing up our resources. people sleeping on street and they looting gov. funds.

this stupid idiot is messing up our resources. people sleeping on street and they looting gov. funds.
ROYAL AKANLAND 9 years ago

THEY WHITE MAN DID UNDERSTOOD THE TOWER OF BABEL. MAHAMA, YOU DON'T. GOD DID NOT MADE GHANA.IT WAS GOLD COAST RENAME GHANA BY NKRUMAH

THEY WHITE MAN DID UNDERSTOOD THE TOWER OF BABEL. MAHAMA, YOU DON'T. GOD DID NOT MADE GHANA.IT WAS GOLD COAST RENAME GHANA BY NKRUMAH
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author:..Action...
NIA should not abuse the intelligence of Ghanaians. They should back off the proposed exercise. Elsewhere, parliament will be summoning the NIA boss to answer questions on the floor. But what do we see in ...
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Author:..Action...
NIA should not abuse the intelligence of Ghanaians. They should back off the proposed exercise. Elsewhere, parliament will be summoning the NIA boss to answer questions on the floor. But what do we see in Ghana? Hands off until there is a problem and MPs get on their soap boxes. Not too late to act.
... 9 years ago

AFTER CARRYING THE SHIT, GO AND LOOK AFTER THE COWS. PEPENI GOAT.

AFTER CARRYING THE SHIT, GO AND LOOK AFTER THE COWS. PEPENI GOAT.
Mere hatread 9 years ago

U guys can say whatever u like about Ashantis, ugly uneducated , u will continue to be head potters and we will continue to use u in our farms like colonial masters did. I use our various port in the country and u can see the ...
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U guys can say whatever u like about Ashantis, ugly uneducated , u will continue to be head potters and we will continue to use u in our farms like colonial masters did. I use our various port in the country and u can see the envy ness in your eyes , u make things hard for but we always outsmart u ewes and pepefo. Ashanti has more secondary schools than any region yet u called us illiterates . Work hard and learn from us
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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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 incompetent. All what is required is effective and efficient Energy Minister with one deputy who will be responsible for power generation and distribution. How can there be separate ministries for Energy and Power? Is power not part of Energy? Waste of scarce resources.

The President should have sacked the MD of ECG long time ago also for incompetence. Until Mahama takes on incompetent ministers and heads of public institutions, his presidency will fail abysmally.
Ibrahim Baba 9 years ago

Did you say colonial Masters did? Of course it is they who subjected the north to your insults. Ashantis sold more black people into slavery. Look at them in America. Is that where your superiority is? Idiot Kofi

Did you say colonial Masters did? Of course it is they who subjected the north to your insults. Ashantis sold more black people into slavery. Look at them in America. Is that where your superiority is? Idiot Kofi
QUINN 9 years ago

THANKS FOR THIS NICE PIECE OF INFORMATION. NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY THE PREZ MAHAMA FAMILY ARE STEALING STATE FUNDS LEFT AND RIGHT TO EQUAL ASHANTIS WEALTH. THEY SUFFER INFERIORITY COMPLEXES AND THINK MONEY IS THE CURE. 'PEPENI 1 ...
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THANKS FOR THIS NICE PIECE OF INFORMATION. NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY THE PREZ MAHAMA FAMILY ARE STEALING STATE FUNDS LEFT AND RIGHT TO EQUAL ASHANTIS WEALTH. THEY SUFFER INFERIORITY COMPLEXES AND THINK MONEY IS THE CURE. 'PEPENI 1' CAR NUMBER PLATE IS A STRONG REACTION----IT MEANS IF EVEN I AM PEPENI, I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BUY AN EXPENSIVE CAR. NO WONDER THE TROKOSI'S AND MPEPEFO HAVE RUINED THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMY WITH MASSIVE STEALING OF STATE FUNDS.
HAN 9 years ago

GHANAIANS SHOULD STOP INSULTING EACH OTHER LET ALONE INSULTING THE PRESIDENT. FOREIGNERS PERCEIVE US AS MEAN PEOPLE WHEN THEY READ THESE INSULTS.

GHANAIANS SHOULD STOP INSULTING EACH OTHER LET ALONE INSULTING THE PRESIDENT. FOREIGNERS PERCEIVE US AS MEAN PEOPLE WHEN THEY READ THESE INSULTS.
TWEAA 9 years ago

MAHAMA SHOULD CRITICALLY LOOK AT THE DISTRIBUTION OF POSITIONS IN HIS GOVERNMENT AND COME AGAIN. WE HAVE CLEAR EYES TO SEE AND WATCH WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE COUINTRY NOW..MR PRESIDENT MAHAMA.

MAHAMA SHOULD CRITICALLY LOOK AT THE DISTRIBUTION OF POSITIONS IN HIS GOVERNMENT AND COME AGAIN. WE HAVE CLEAR EYES TO SEE AND WATCH WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE COUINTRY NOW..MR PRESIDENT MAHAMA.
Malik 9 years ago

I like the way you are educating the gullible public.

I like the way you are educating the gullible public.
Odikr@ 9 years ago

It is relevant...National Cohesion.

It is relevant...National Cohesion.
Adanko 9 years ago

You talk nice but your deeds see like snake bites. Why have u surrounded your gvt. with only northerners?

You talk nice but your deeds see like snake bites. Why have u surrounded your gvt. with only northerners?
Odikr@ 9 years ago

In my area of residence,most people who realize my heritage,make this comment....."Asante Kotoko". One can interpret this "quip" in various ways....they have never met anyone else from Ghana in their "neck of the woods" ;)))

In my area of residence,most people who realize my heritage,make this comment....."Asante Kotoko". One can interpret this "quip" in various ways....they have never met anyone else from Ghana in their "neck of the woods" ;)))
Nii 9 years ago

So you want Akufo Addo instead? Why don't you go the whole way and vote for a real monkey instead?

So you want Akufo Addo instead? Why don't you go the whole way and vote for a real monkey instead?
NO NONSENSE TAKER 9 years ago

Check out all Pepeni's communities and you will find out common ardent atrocities and all kind of insidious practices just because the value of "pepeni born ayigbe's" common sense contradict with any rule of law. We thought t ...
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Check out all Pepeni's communities and you will find out common ardent atrocities and all kind of insidious practices just because the value of "pepeni born ayigbe's" common sense contradict with any rule of law. We thought that when Mahama would become president, he would apply the law and also improve Zongo’s understanding of the law but like father like son: Zongo’s are wayward when it comes to law abiding. To apply the law means we are confined with the rules and the youths learn the law to become good citizens. The unabated calamities and the youths unspeakable criminal activities tell us that pepeni cannot rule
Ghfuo: Be Bad &hang nyantakyi, NOW! 9 years ago

Why Nyantakyi must leave, NOW!
Nyantakyi, do you have the power to let go off power?
If not, then you are weak, very weak!
1. Lack of transparency in financials
2. No security, first aid/ambulance for players and fans and ...
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Why Nyantakyi must leave, NOW!
Nyantakyi, do you have the power to let go off power?
If not, then you are weak, very weak!
1. Lack of transparency in financials
2. No security, first aid/ambulance for players and fans and referees of our local leagues!
3. Deplorable stadiums, soccer pitches, no bathrooms, no floodlights, etc
4. No fine for premier lg clubs who flout mandatory pre and post game interviews
5. Inactive Premier League
6. No more colts, why?
7. Where is gfa tv/radio to create jobs?
8. U 17 banned for age cheating
9. No Afcon trophy since nyantakyi took over 10yrs ago!
10. No caf club trophy for Ghana since 2000. Brazil of africa? Apuu!
11. Abhorrent string of performances for Ghanaian clubs in caf champsleague
12. Ghana player exodus oh lord!
13. Player salary in premier lg is trash! No league minimum, no salary cap, no regulation
14. No kit sponsor for the league
15. Brasil wcup2014 disaster and disgrace!
Look, the longer nyantakyi stays, the worse things are going to get. This is what why i like the naija people. If nyantakyi was in naija. His car,.offices would have already been shot up, bombed or terrorized. His car would have been set on fire, kids kidnapped or.some shit. Ghanaians are all talk, talk, talking nkoaa, Niggeritis dull tings nkoaa. . Look, If nyantakyi is age cheating with u17. Wat else has he swerved and will continue to steal from gfa?
Afcon Squad
1. Kwarasay, brimah, adams/dauda
2. Afful, ainooson/painstil
3. Rahman, Nana asare/dave addy
4. Mensah, sumaila/gyimah
5. Awal, adusei
6. Essien, rabiu/badu
7. Asante, manu/adomah
8. Muntari, jordan
9. Gyan, yiadom
10. Antwi, warris
11. Dede, wakaso

Ghana for Afcon
Ghana can qualify easily. We have the experience the other teams don't have. All we need to do is prepare well in the dark, be disciplined and have attention to detail. If we
a)train and prepare well in less light conditions.
b)disciplined players who pay attention to detail in scoring, converting freekicks, corners, convert set-pieces, defending.
c)experienced players. All these teams in the group are good but compared to Ghana. They are relatively young, inexperienced and lack tournament experience
Yankee 9 years ago

Your Akan people are blood suckers who behead humanbeings for quick ruches rituals. Kufuor killed so many innocent people just to win public sympathy to win elections. Cocaine, Armed robbery are all masterminded by Akans. Ewe ...
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Your Akan people are blood suckers who behead humanbeings for quick ruches rituals. Kufuor killed so many innocent people just to win public sympathy to win elections. Cocaine, Armed robbery are all masterminded by Akans. Ewes and Northerners are God fearing people, unlike your greedy Akans. You are rhe worse tribe in Ghana.
prince. Massachusetts 9 years ago

Go ask Rawlings who gave firing squad first in the history of Ghana.fuck u

Go ask Rawlings who gave firing squad first in the history of Ghana.fuck u
... 9 years ago

GO FORM YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND LET THE AKANS FORM THEIR OWN. THEN WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE SUCCEEDS. YOU FUCKERS HAVE RECEIVED FREE HANDOUTS SINCE NKRUMAH'S DAYS, YET YOU ARE STILL BACKWARD.

GO FORM YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND LET THE AKANS FORM THEIR OWN. THEN WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE SUCCEEDS. YOU FUCKERS HAVE RECEIVED FREE HANDOUTS SINCE NKRUMAH'S DAYS, YET YOU ARE STILL BACKWARD.
have you seen the devil 9 years ago

Eiii my brother you are a liar. What is rituals? Everybody does ritual's and you better crosscheck it. If the fingers on the same hand is never equal then how can all tribe be equal.can you compare our northern brothers who c ...
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Eiii my brother you are a liar. What is rituals? Everybody does ritual's and you better crosscheck it. If the fingers on the same hand is never equal then how can all tribe be equal.can you compare our northern brothers who can't dress decently when going to their home town because of juju the southerners? For Ewes i better keep mute cos i am one. Walking Satan's
Nii 9 years ago

I concur

I concur
BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

Thank you Mr. President Mahama, this speech is far better than Nana binladdo All die be die. Four more years for you.

Thank you Mr. President Mahama, this speech is far better than Nana binladdo All die be die. Four more years for you.
BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

Thank you Mr. President Mahama, this speech is far better than Nana binladdo All die be die. Four more years for you.

Thank you Mr. President Mahama, this speech is far better than Nana binladdo All die be die. Four more years for you.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

ISN'T IT WONDERFUL? THAT THE TWI PEOPLE HAS OVERTAKEN ACCRA FROM FAR AWAY? THEY HAVE BOUGHT ALL YOUR LANDS AND TAKEN YOU AS LABOURERS,, YOU ARE NOW FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM? IT'S TOO LATE, HAHAHAHA

ISN'T IT WONDERFUL? THAT THE TWI PEOPLE HAS OVERTAKEN ACCRA FROM FAR AWAY? THEY HAVE BOUGHT ALL YOUR LANDS AND TAKEN YOU AS LABOURERS,, YOU ARE NOW FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM? IT'S TOO LATE, HAHAHAHA
AGYABA. 9 years ago

BRAVO FOR YOUR INSPIRING SPEECH MR PRESIDENT.INDEED THATS VERY TRUE AS THE ALMIGHTY CREATED US IN DIFFERENT ETHNICS BUT TO HIM REST THE FINALITY.SO DO THE SIMILITUDE IN WEAVING THE BEAUTIFUL FABRICS, COLOURS PRODUCE BEAUTY, S ...
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BRAVO FOR YOUR INSPIRING SPEECH MR PRESIDENT.INDEED THATS VERY TRUE AS THE ALMIGHTY CREATED US IN DIFFERENT ETHNICS BUT TO HIM REST THE FINALITY.SO DO THE SIMILITUDE IN WEAVING THE BEAUTIFUL FABRICS, COLOURS PRODUCE BEAUTY, SO SHOULD OUR DIFFERENT ETHNICITY BEAUTIFY OUR NATIONALITY AS GHANIANS. NO ETHNIC GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE SUPERIOR THAN OTHER. GOD BLESS YOU JOHN FOR YOU SPEECH.
moshie 9 years ago

some are superior, they used to wash us before they allow us into their cities. they used their resources to give us free education and now your are saying stupid things to them. shut up and save others in the north. you thin ...
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some are superior, they used to wash us before they allow us into their cities. they used their resources to give us free education and now your are saying stupid things to them. shut up and save others in the north. you think youe are ok but look opportunity come at ones, from from ente ho daaa.iodit
Kofi Nyame 9 years ago

This what our Bishops and the our learned people should also preach and emphasize. Ghana is now so divided for political reasons but we should see ourselves as one and the same people with a common destiny

This what our Bishops and the our learned people should also preach and emphasize. Ghana is now so divided for political reasons but we should see ourselves as one and the same people with a common destiny
Kofi Chatmon 9 years ago

I sincerely hope that My Beloved Ghana will be ONE Nation and not like the USA.

I sincerely hope that My Beloved Ghana will be ONE Nation and not like the USA.
justice 9 years ago

The ashantes b'cos they can't speak english well, they have a hiding agenda trying to make ghanaians speak that useless twi language with the excuse of being cultural.Ghana has adopted english as our national and so shall it ...
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The ashantes b'cos they can't speak english well, they have a hiding agenda trying to make ghanaians speak that useless twi language with the excuse of being cultural.Ghana has adopted english as our national and so shall it be. If you can't speak english,the solution is to learn to speak it. I will rather learn and speak english than speak this village language.If you care to know i'm a proud Ga.
Akwasi Owusu 9 years ago

I am an Ashanti. I speak and write better English than you.

I would rather speak Twi than speak English. English is the colonial masters language.

Grow up. Stop the hate. This is just inferiority complex on your part.

I am an Ashanti. I speak and write better English than you.

I would rather speak Twi than speak English. English is the colonial masters language.

Grow up. Stop the hate. This is just inferiority complex on your part.
justice 9 years ago

Americans speak english.It was adopted.Canada speaks english it was adopted.Australia speaks english it was adopted.If it was not english you will not be civilized mr Akwasi Owusu.
Ghana and you is better of speaking english ...
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Americans speak english.It was adopted.Canada speaks english it was adopted.Australia speaks english it was adopted.If it was not english you will not be civilized mr Akwasi Owusu.
Ghana and you is better of speaking english.
Nii 9 years ago

Justice I concur. Ashantis have dominated Ghana politics since independence and look at the mess. The have made Accra filthy. They look like monkeys reigning down Accra. If I have my wish I will repatriate them to the farms. ...
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Justice I concur. Ashantis have dominated Ghana politics since independence and look at the mess. The have made Accra filthy. They look like monkeys reigning down Accra. If I have my wish I will repatriate them to the farms. Even those with PhD or doctorate degrees when they open their mouth to speak then you see their low life education. It is time all the other tribes come together to create a better Ghana. Ashantis we have had enough of you move over. I am also a proud Ga whose town has been damaged by your presence in Ga. Long Live Ghana
Nii 9 years ago

Justice I concur. Ga (Accra) was a beautiful city until the Twi speaking people descended on it and brought all their filth from Kumasi to destroy the place. There should be a law to repatriate all of them back to where they ...
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Justice I concur. Ga (Accra) was a beautiful city until the Twi speaking people descended on it and brought all their filth from Kumasi to destroy the place. There should be a law to repatriate all of them back to where they came from. They have dominated Ghana politics for 50 years and look at the mess we are in. They are the most inferior in Ghana so I do not agree with Mahama. Let's keep them out of Ghana politics for the next 50 years and then Ghana will have a better future. Justice I am also a proud Ga. Tswa Omanye Aba.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

CAN YOU IMAGINE WHERE THE REAL GA PEOPLE LIVE IN A ACCRA? CHORkOR, JAMES TOWN, LARTEBIOKOSHIE, BUKOM ETC, THANK GOD TWI PEOPLE CAME TO ACCRA ELSE YOU PEOPLE HAS BY NOW TURNED INTO ANIMALS

CAN YOU IMAGINE WHERE THE REAL GA PEOPLE LIVE IN A ACCRA? CHORkOR, JAMES TOWN, LARTEBIOKOSHIE, BUKOM ETC, THANK GOD TWI PEOPLE CAME TO ACCRA ELSE YOU PEOPLE HAS BY NOW TURNED INTO ANIMALS
Nii 9 years ago

Kwashia why did you come to Ga (Accra) You were swinging on trees in Kumasi. If your Kumasi is that good why did you come to Ga. You look like monkeys in suit. You have dominated Ghana politics for 50 years yet you have messe ...
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Kwashia why did you come to Ga (Accra) You were swinging on trees in Kumasi. If your Kumasi is that good why did you come to Ga. You look like monkeys in suit. You have dominated Ghana politics for 50 years yet you have messed up everybodys life and livelyhood.Smelly ugly looking monkeys. I'd rather vote for a real monkey than vote for a fake one called Akuffo Addo> Yo parade around with fake degrees. You are the cause of the economic mess and social deprevation we are in and the rest of Ghana will not forgive you. NPP will never win again ever
Kojo Smith 9 years ago

Justice, funny you can't write English well. So are you an Ashanti now. The word is "hidden" and not hiding agenda. Another idiotic Ga!

Justice, funny you can't write English well. So are you an Ashanti now. The word is "hidden" and not hiding agenda. Another idiotic Ga!
Nii 9 years ago

Typical Ashanti who wallow in delusion of grandeur. Next you will tell me you possess a doctorate degree in Economics. We all know you with your fake degrees. We all know you here in the UK cleaning toilets and washing plate ...
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Typical Ashanti who wallow in delusion of grandeur. Next you will tell me you possess a doctorate degree in Economics. We all know you with your fake degrees. We all know you here in the UK cleaning toilets and washing plates. You have destroyed millions of lives in Ghana. Not any more. You will never come to power again. Kooloi.
atd 9 years ago

Aboa funu

Aboa funu
Cannot Be Cheated 9 years ago

Agyaba thank you for your positive and sensible comments. What a change from the filth one reads on this page. I hope all the tribal bigots on Ghanaweb will learn from you.

Agyaba thank you for your positive and sensible comments. What a change from the filth one reads on this page. I hope all the tribal bigots on Ghanaweb will learn from you.
ama 9 years ago

I think the President gave an excellent speech. I think policy makers and social commentators must take the Presidents speech and disseminate into political campaigns and our schools. The true northerners, Ashanti, fante, a ...
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I think the President gave an excellent speech. I think policy makers and social commentators must take the Presidents speech and disseminate into political campaigns and our schools. The true northerners, Ashanti, fante, and all others are not those who write and insult on Ghanaweb. They are those we work with, Are friends with, married to, been to school with.
Kofi 9 years ago

The number of Ewe"s in the armed forces is not proportionate to other tribes.How are you going to rectify that? prez. It should be evenly distributed amongst us.

The number of Ewe"s in the armed forces is not proportionate to other tribes.How are you going to rectify that? prez. It should be evenly distributed amongst us.
CORNEY 9 years ago

Do you know any country in the world where people are employed based on just ethnic background to make up the difference irrespective of qualifications,do you want us to go back to what Kufour did by recruiting illiterates i ...
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Do you know any country in the world where people are employed based on just ethnic background to make up the difference irrespective of qualifications,do you want us to go back to what Kufour did by recruiting illiterates into the security services in the name of foolish regional balance with some police ladies going to court to speak Twi compelling judges to sack them from the courtroom?

The president made a lot of sense,we need to be proud of who we are but the same time respect the culture of others.
Francis C. Quainoo 9 years ago

ddo

ddo
... 9 years ago

JOHN MAHAMA IS AN ASSHOLE AND, LIKE YOU, HE IS FULL OF SHIT.

JOHN MAHAMA IS AN ASSHOLE AND, LIKE YOU, HE IS FULL OF SHIT.
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 9 years ago

I could not have said better Corney. illiterates use ethnocentrism and politics against qualified Ghanaians to get what they are not entitled.A case is what you pointed out under KRONFUOR KUFUOR.

I could not have said better Corney. illiterates use ethnocentrism and politics against qualified Ghanaians to get what they are not entitled.A case is what you pointed out under KRONFUOR KUFUOR.
Amenyo 9 years ago

You are not correct, in every country the tribe in majority has majority of unit people in the security service... What we hv here is the opposite... And what is wrong if a police officer goes to court to speak twi? Is twi no ...
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You are not correct, in every country the tribe in majority has majority of unit people in the security service... What we hv here is the opposite... And what is wrong if a police officer goes to court to speak twi? Is twi not a native language? Can u tell me any tribe in Ghana that has English as it mother tongue? Just look at the appointment of Mahama, all northerners and ewes.. The question is...are they the majority ethnic group in Ghana?
KK 9 years ago

Corney you the illiterates that give your dumb ewe people jobs? I will have some respectfor y'all the day you stop paying bribes just to be posted to Akan lands for national service. Kwasiakwa!

Corney you the illiterates that give your dumb ewe people jobs? I will have some respectfor y'all the day you stop paying bribes just to be posted to Akan lands for national service. Kwasiakwa!
CORNEY 9 years ago

Do you know any country in the world where people are employed based on just ethnic background to make up the difference irrespective of qualifications,do you want us to go back to what Kufour did by recruiting illiterates i ...
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Do you know any country in the world where people are employed based on just ethnic background to make up the difference irrespective of qualifications,do you want us to go back to what Kufour did by recruiting illiterates into the security services in the name of foolish regional balance with some police ladies going to court to speak Twi compelling judges to sack them from the courtroom?

The president made a lot of sense,we need to be proud of who we are but the same time respect the culture of others.
KELE WELE 9 years ago

Hmmmmmmmmm

Hmmmmmmmmm
Kwame Rought 9 years ago

Tweaa!

Tweaa!
Kojo Tettey 9 years ago

Idiot what is wrong for someone to use the mother tongue to express a point in a Court?

Idiot what is wrong for someone to use the mother tongue to express a point in a Court?
KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 9 years ago

It is wrong but what if the judge does not understand and cannot interpret what the person is saying in their language?

even if there is an interpreter, it will not reflect exactly what person meant.

It is wrong but what if the judge does not understand and cannot interpret what the person is saying in their language?

even if there is an interpreter, it will not reflect exactly what person meant.
justice 9 years ago

All our national problems is the cause this useless and uncivilized ashante people.they are backward, primitive and lack common sense. Ghana is better of without them.I just don't like their demeanor and stupid vain pride.

All our national problems is the cause this useless and uncivilized ashante people.they are backward, primitive and lack common sense. Ghana is better of without them.I just don't like their demeanor and stupid vain pride.
KK 9 years ago

Justice then you have to kill urself..you Asantes babe

Justice then you have to kill urself..you Asantes babe
Bob 9 years ago

"....The next thing I noticed wrong was the position of Chief Operation Officer. It was being rotated every three months but when it reached the turn of a certain tribesman of RAWLINGS to be changed, he rather made him perman ...
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"....The next thing I noticed wrong was the position of Chief Operation Officer. It was being rotated every three months but when it reached the turn of a certain tribesman of RAWLINGS to be changed, he rather made him permanent. We were supposed to be practicing participatory democracy involving the grassroot. Now, most soldiers wanted Capt. Baba AWUNI who was a good Jungle Officer to take over as Chief Operations Officer; yet RAWLINGS refused.

Again, when RAWLINGS left for LIBYA for that year’s OAU Conference, instead of handing over to Brig. Nunoo MENSAH who was the most senior member of the Council, he rather chose to hand over to Capt. Kojo TSIKATA who was an advisor simply because he was Ewe. At this stage, it was clear that RAWLINGS had a tribalistic agenda.

The last straw was the killing of the Judges. With the exception of Amartey KWEI who went round to pinpoint the houses of the judges, the actual persons who did the killing were all Ewes - AMEDEKA, DZANDU, SENYA and TEKPOR. To throw dust into peoples eyes, they wore the Northern smock on that fateful day to make it look like it was the Northerners against the Akans. When the Police started the investigations, the culprits panicked and they came to inform me about all what happened. Were they going to be sacrificed? With this information, I went to confront RAWLINGS. Why did he do that? Why only Akan judges were killed? Why did the boys wear Northern smock for the operations? “RAWLINGS replied that the whole thing was a state secret so I should keep it to myself and not discuss it with anybody” Then he added that he would send the boys to BULGARIA and CUBA on courses to enable them escape any consequences. I was disappointed. "

Matthew Adabugah
KELE WELE 9 years ago

WHEN RAWLINGS PLANNED AND EXECUTED THOSE ETHNICITY IN THE MILITARY, POLICE, IMMIGRATION ETC. HE WAS FAIR.
MAHAMA IF YOU HAVE FOUND THIS PROBLEM PLEASE SOLVE IT AND STOP TALKING.

WHEN RAWLINGS PLANNED AND EXECUTED THOSE ETHNICITY IN THE MILITARY, POLICE, IMMIGRATION ETC. HE WAS FAIR.
MAHAMA IF YOU HAVE FOUND THIS PROBLEM PLEASE SOLVE IT AND STOP TALKING.
kkofi 9 years ago

is the parliament seats evenly distributed?

is the parliament seats evenly distributed?
From Dallas Texas 9 years ago

There are some who think that they are better than others mr president you have said it

There are some who think that they are better than others mr president you have said it
Onipa 9 years ago

Mahama should concentrate on fixing the economy. These gimmicks will not take him anywhere.

Mahama should concentrate on fixing the economy. These gimmicks will not take him anywhere.
ogyam 9 years ago

There is no ethnic group in ghana that has proclaimed itself as superior than others. It is only a perception by those who view THEMSELVES as inferior.

There is no ethnic group in ghana that has proclaimed itself as superior than others. It is only a perception by those who view THEMSELVES as inferior.
CAPE COAST BOY 9 years ago

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA
CAPE COAST BOY 9 years ago

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA
CAPE COAST BOY 9 years ago

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA
CAPE COAST BOY 9 years ago

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA
CAPE COAST BOY 9 years ago

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA
CAPE COAST BOY 9 years ago

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA

GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA
KOFI 9 years ago

DOES JOHN MAHAMA HEAR HIMSELF SPEAKING WHEN HE TEAMED UP WITH RLG TO DUPE THE POOR PEOPLE OF THE NORTH THROUGH SADA.....JUST LISTEN TO HIS HYPOCRISY...“No ethnic group is superior to another and government will work to ensu ...
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DOES JOHN MAHAMA HEAR HIMSELF SPEAKING WHEN HE TEAMED UP WITH RLG TO DUPE THE POOR PEOPLE OF THE NORTH THROUGH SADA.....JUST LISTEN TO HIS HYPOCRISY...“No ethnic group is superior to another and government will work to ensure the balance development of our nation as provided for by the directive principles of state policy,” he said.
Osofo 9 years ago

If so, why are there a disproportionate number of northerners in government?

If so, why are there a disproportionate number of northerners in government?
major 9 years ago

you are a stupid , village thief .you are not qualify to use the name OSOFO .you are the kind of people who go to church to rob innocent people.

you are a stupid , village thief .you are not qualify to use the name OSOFO .you are the kind of people who go to church to rob innocent people.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

President John Mahama,

You have spoken well.

I have not heard such beautiful words spoken by any of our African leaders in a long time. Great wisdom indeed.

Oh the great Kwame Nkrumah should be proud of you wherever ...
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President John Mahama,

You have spoken well.

I have not heard such beautiful words spoken by any of our African leaders in a long time. Great wisdom indeed.

Oh the great Kwame Nkrumah should be proud of you wherever he is!

God bless!
Military Man 9 years ago

Don't even mention these two names in the same sentence. I'm really appalled.

Mahama's words are just empty words without any practical backing and you know that.

Nkrumah's words, on the other hand, were practically loa ...
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Don't even mention these two names in the same sentence. I'm really appalled.

Mahama's words are just empty words without any practical backing and you know that.

Nkrumah's words, on the other hand, were practically loaded and there are signs in every corner of our country to back that up even after all these years, even though Mahama and those leaders before him let Nkrumah's hard work go to rot from lack of maintenance and upkeep of all those world class infrastructures.

You are talking like the great man will admire mediocrity which is Mahama's stock in trade.

Words.... just words!!!!

Don't cheapen yourself with these kinds of comments, Francis.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Military Man,

Of course, I agree with you but he has said something useful we can all learn from, even if we disagree that those beautiful words should not have come from him.

I am surprised that some of my ethnoce ...
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Dear Military Man,

Of course, I agree with you but he has said something useful we can all learn from, even if we disagree that those beautiful words should not have come from him.

I am surprised that some of my ethnocentric friends with whom I discussed these beautiful words with think President Mahama has made a powerful statement.

You should therefore not be surprised, Military Man, that I am looking at the harmonizing philosophy behind the beautiful words and their positive social impact on individuals.

At least some of those closest to me, my ethnocentric friends, think the words are heavy on their souls and ears! As for President Mahama, his government, and the NDC (as well as the NPP), you know my position on them.

Thanks.
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago

I rather wish the president was smart enough to have tackle the issue of observing mutual respect among ourselves than to talk about superiority, a canker bequeath on us by nature and which cannot be whisked away by such cri ...
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I rather wish the president was smart enough to have tackle the issue of observing mutual respect among ourselves than to talk about superiority, a canker bequeath on us by nature and which cannot be whisked away by such criminally inherent rhetorics. Sense of superiority, a concomitant effect of believing in oneself, is earned through the dynamics of nature . It usually breeds competition and hard work among equal classes and success is a likely byproduct. The idea of superiority exist in every fabric of human endeavor and it is even more pronounced in the kingdom animalia. The rich class assume such status by default and so do the developed nations everywhere across the globe. Mahama was being mischief and trying to make some political capital out of this talk since the majority of Asante-Akyims who are perceived to be superior belong to an opposing party.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Mr. Figure-Out,

How can you talk about "equal classes" and "superiority" in the same breadth? Don't you see the contradiction?

Mind you, it is not a question of nature. Nature did not make one human being "superior" to ...
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Mr. Figure-Out,

How can you talk about "equal classes" and "superiority" in the same breadth? Don't you see the contradiction?

Mind you, it is not a question of nature. Nature did not make one human being "superior" to another.

It is all born of scientific racism and other such ideas of human origination. You need a firm grasp of human history to understand this.

And don't put words into President Mahama's mouth. You are providing a political context to his words which the peace here does not explicitly say. I also hope you understand what the phrase "status by default" means? It destroys your arguments in their entirety.

And also get your biology right, human beings are part of what you call "the kingdom anamalia." Human beings are animals in the right sense of the word. Comaparative study of "Anatomy and Phisiology" should have taught you better.

Is Ebola virus superior to a tiger or a cobra? Is human intelligence superior to Ebola virus, common cold, HIV/AIDs, cancer, celebral amyloid angiopathy, schizophrenia, all of which do not have cures?

And do you call members of the rich class, including druc dealers such as Eric Amoateng and David Anim, superior? What moral logic is this? Is illicit drug pedding a measure of superiority? This is just by the way!

You need some lessons in evolutionary theory as well (unless you don't appreciate the theory of evolution). Finally, you need some hard lessons in the evolution of nation-states to appreciate associating "developed" with "superiority."
major 9 years ago

you are very stupid military man . fool like you

you are very stupid military man . fool like you
Military Man 9 years ago

A foot soldier with a bird brain and rightly behaving like the proverbial ostrich burying its head in the sand like nothing is happening around him.

A pity we have moronic imbeciles like you masquerading as citizens of Gha ...
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A foot soldier with a bird brain and rightly behaving like the proverbial ostrich burying its head in the sand like nothing is happening around him.

A pity we have moronic imbeciles like you masquerading as citizens of Ghana.

No wonder Ghana is in this mess... visionless fools describing themselves as leaders lording it over cretins like you.

DIMWIT!!!
Nii 9 years ago

I am not sure of your convoluted assertions. Are you saying you are superior?

I am not sure of your convoluted assertions. Are you saying you are superior?
Military Man 9 years ago

I'm not sure you can comprehend the English language, Nii.

Where in my piece did I say I was superior?

I was stating a fact and if by doing that you understood it as me being 'superior', then so be it. It's your mind. Y ...
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I'm not sure you can comprehend the English language, Nii.

Where in my piece did I say I was superior?

I was stating a fact and if by doing that you understood it as me being 'superior', then so be it. It's your mind. You have control over that...I don't.

I'm neither superior or inferior to anyone. I just like stating facts. I call a spade a spade and not an "instrument for digging or shoveling". I say it as it is. I don't like bullshitting... and by the way, Francis knows I'm one of his admirers. He and I share the same views on a lot of issues.. so don't get your silly nuts in a vice, ok?
Military Man 9 years ago

First sentence of first paragraph should have read:

"I'm neither superior NOR inferior to anyone."

First sentence of first paragraph should have read:

"I'm neither superior NOR inferior to anyone."
prince. Massachusetts 9 years ago

Listening to urself. OMG. R u really serious,Rawlings and his ndc brought tribalism and stupid shit. Mahama is full of it. Fuckers

Listening to urself. OMG. R u really serious,Rawlings and his ndc brought tribalism and stupid shit. Mahama is full of it. Fuckers
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Mahama has spoken well.

Is his statement not better than "All die be die"?

What about Ken's call to Akans to kill Ewes and Gas?

I try as much as possible to think in comparative terms.

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Mahama has spoken well.

Is his statement not better than "All die be die"?

What about Ken's call to Akans to kill Ewes and Gas?

I try as much as possible to think in comparative terms.

And while you talk about the brutality of the PNDC, don't forget about the terrorism of the NLM, the precursor of the NPP!

Always remember that, unlike the PNDC which had the support of Ghanaians, the NLM did not!

I hate both the NPP and the NDC with passion, but given the choice between the two I will always go along with the NDC! The NPP folks are thieves and ethnocentric. The NDC folks are merely thieves. Two against one. Get it?

Thanks.
Ghana 9 years ago

Kwarteng today you have shown me that you can read I in-between the lines.
Thank you!!!

Kwarteng today you have shown me that you can read I in-between the lines.
Thank you!!!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Ghana,

Don't mind the ethnocentric charlatans in this forum.

I still insist this is one of the powerful words I heard a leader say in a long time!

Let's praise President Mahama for his wisdom.

Let's not we ...
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Dear Ghana,

Don't mind the ethnocentric charlatans in this forum.

I still insist this is one of the powerful words I heard a leader say in a long time!

Let's praise President Mahama for his wisdom.

Let's not weight these rich words in the company of what he has done for Ghana. We shall criticize President Mahama on that when the need arises. For now let's embrace his calls for ethnic unity.

Thanks.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Brother Ghana,

Good day.

Don't mind the ethnocentric charlatans in this forum.

I still insist this is one of the powerful words I heard a leader say in a long time!

Let's praise President Mahama for his wis ...
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Dear Brother Ghana,

Good day.

Don't mind the ethnocentric charlatans in this forum.

I still insist this is one of the powerful words I heard a leader say in a long time!

Let's praise President Mahama for his wisdom.

Let's not weight these rich words in the company of what he has done for Ghana. We shall criticize President Mahama on that when the need arises. For now let's embrace his calls for ethnic unity.

Thanks.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

Mahama was just stating a truism and are you really saying these words are really refreshing? Mahama is tribal baiting and that is pathetic. Who ever preaches tribal superiority these days? I thought that that has been settl ...
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Mahama was just stating a truism and are you really saying these words are really refreshing? Mahama is tribal baiting and that is pathetic. Who ever preaches tribal superiority these days? I thought that that has been settled long ago unless he feels insecure. That is sad.
Oteng 9 years ago

Amen

Amen
... 9 years ago

HE PLAYS THE TRIBAL CARD WHENEVER POSSIBLE. HE TRIES TO WHIP UP RESENTMENT AGAINST ASANTES AND OTHER AKANS. REMEMBER THE STUPID COMMENTS HE MADE IN KUMASI RECENTLY? THE GUY IS AN ASSHOLE; I AM AMAZED THAT YOU, KWARTENG, SEES ...
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HE PLAYS THE TRIBAL CARD WHENEVER POSSIBLE. HE TRIES TO WHIP UP RESENTMENT AGAINST ASANTES AND OTHER AKANS. REMEMBER THE STUPID COMMENTS HE MADE IN KUMASI RECENTLY? THE GUY IS AN ASSHOLE; I AM AMAZED THAT YOU, KWARTENG, SEES HIM AS SOME SORT OF SAINT. I THOUGHT YOU WERE BRIGHT!
BERNARD 9 years ago

And he has vindicated what you've saying/writing about all this while. I'm proud of you too. Many thanks

And he has vindicated what you've saying/writing about all this while. I'm proud of you too. Many thanks
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Brother Bernard,

Good day.

I am proud of you you.

President John Mahama has just said all that I have been trying to say in a million essays.

He even says it better than I have done. I am so happy for this p ...
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Dear Brother Bernard,

Good day.

I am proud of you you.

President John Mahama has just said all that I have been trying to say in a million essays.

He even says it better than I have done. I am so happy for this president of ours.

Thanks, Brother Bernard.
Joseph Ganyobi 9 years ago

The monkey and the mirror

The monkey and the mirror
ZABS BOY 9 years ago

these ugly and dirty looking Ashantes think there're superior than others. who would have known these guys if not for their stealing and sikaduro. in fact, killing their wives and children for money.

these ugly and dirty looking Ashantes think there're superior than others. who would have known these guys if not for their stealing and sikaduro. in fact, killing their wives and children for money.
Canada 9 years ago

Fuck you.

Fuck you.
Sam 9 years ago

You see your problem? Even your english gives you out. Don't write 'Ashantes think there're', it's rather 'Ashantes think they're... By the way call them Asantes or Ashantis.

You see your problem? Even your english gives you out. Don't write 'Ashantes think there're', it's rather 'Ashantes think they're... By the way call them Asantes or Ashantis.
ZABS BOY 9 years ago

I used the word 'think' which is the right word to use in that sentence. you rather need to correct your grammar "your English gives you out" gives you what? BANZA go to bed

I used the word 'think' which is the right word to use in that sentence. you rather need to correct your grammar "your English gives you out" gives you what? BANZA go to bed
Nii 9 years ago

Who cares what you call yourselves Asantes, Ashantis etc etc who cares. Zabs main assertion is correct. Rather than Akufo Addo I prefer the real thing a monkey as a president

Who cares what you call yourselves Asantes, Ashantis etc etc who cares. Zabs main assertion is correct. Rather than Akufo Addo I prefer the real thing a monkey as a president
Efo Kwaku Canada 9 years ago

You see yourself as mediocre among others and low self-esteem among the Ashanti , Came to Canada here even a child seen themselves at the top , take those low self-esteem ideas away and you will be able to associate with othe ...
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You see yourself as mediocre among others and low self-esteem among the Ashanti , Came to Canada here even a child seen themselves at the top , take those low self-esteem ideas away and you will be able to associate with other ethnic groups , l like foods and Ashanti like their food but the difference between us is language
ZABS BOY 9 years ago

come to Canada here even children see themselves

come to Canada here even children see themselves
Nii 9 years ago

You said it "they think they are" but we know otherwise. I personally have not met any Ashanti who looks superior in any remote sense. They suffer from delusion of grandeur. They think they are but I can assure you they are n ...
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You said it "they think they are" but we know otherwise. I personally have not met any Ashanti who looks superior in any remote sense. They suffer from delusion of grandeur. They think they are but I can assure you they are not. Just look at their chief and also Kuffour and Akufo Ado.
yoofi 9 years ago

You are either a Togolese or Dahomean in our midst. Your French books spell Ashantees. English have it as Ashanti's. You have been exposed so go back to your beyond KOkpe enclaves

You are either a Togolese or Dahomean in our midst. Your French books spell Ashantees. English have it as Ashanti's. You have been exposed so go back to your beyond KOkpe enclaves
Shortman 9 years ago

Please stop showing your ignorance.Every English word can be found a dictionary. Can we find Ashanti in any dictionary to show that it is an English word or English spelling ?

Please stop showing your ignorance.Every English word can be found a dictionary. Can we find Ashanti in any dictionary to show that it is an English word or English spelling ?
yoofi 9 years ago

You are the ignorant one. Name any English textbook with Ashantee spelling. And BTW Merriam on line dictionary has the Ashanti spelling and never the Togolese version, Ashantee

You are the ignorant one. Name any English textbook with Ashantee spelling. And BTW Merriam on line dictionary has the Ashanti spelling and never the Togolese version, Ashantee
TOFE 9 years ago

Who forced you to use this platform? You publicly dis- grace yourself with this horrible language. Is it because you were so angry that you wanted to kill all the Ashantes that was why you used the bullets rather to spoil the ...
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Who forced you to use this platform? You publicly dis- grace yourself with this horrible language. Is it because you were so angry that you wanted to kill all the Ashantes that was why you used the bullets rather to spoil the English language? Many people use the
platform so be careful with the language you use.
BANANIIBA 9 years ago

DON'T YOU WISH YOU WERE BORN ASHANTI? I'D KILLED MYSELF IF I WAS NOT BORN ASHANTI. WE DON'T SAY WE ARE SUPERIOR, WE FEEL SUPERIOR AND WE CARRY OURSELVES AS THE SUPERIOR ETHNIC GROUP. PERIOD. THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT ...
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DON'T YOU WISH YOU WERE BORN ASHANTI? I'D KILLED MYSELF IF I WAS NOT BORN ASHANTI. WE DON'T SAY WE ARE SUPERIOR, WE FEEL SUPERIOR AND WE CARRY OURSELVES AS THE SUPERIOR ETHNIC GROUP. PERIOD. THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT THAT.
Me 9 years ago

I agree with you in this aspect. Ashantis feel proud but don't say they are the best or superior. In fact they are proud of their language, their cities,towns and villages , they are proud of their food and most importantly t ...
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I agree with you in this aspect. Ashantis feel proud but don't say they are the best or superior. In fact they are proud of their language, their cities,towns and villages , they are proud of their food and most importantly they are proud of their culture. Same cannot be said of the northerners. Yes I have personally had problems with my fellow northern brothers over this . Why would two northern brethren from the same tribe and sometimes from the same family speak twi or Asante to themselves instead of their language ? Some shameless ones even go to the extent of saying that 'as for me I was born in the south so I can't speak my language'. Absolutely disgusting ! I'm yet to see a typical Asante who says he cannot speak twi because he wasn't born in Kunasi or in the Ashanti region. So why do we blame others for feeling proud and superior? Even the president and his Gonja folks speak twi more than their own dialect, can you imagine this ?
... 9 years ago

ASANTES, AKYEMS, KWAHUS, BONOS, FANTES AND OTHER AKANS are SUPERIOR TO THE PEPEFOS/NTAFOS. IF THEY CAN'T HANDLE THAT FACT, THEN THEY CAN GO FUCK YOURSELVES. FOOLS!

ASANTES, AKYEMS, KWAHUS, BONOS, FANTES AND OTHER AKANS are SUPERIOR TO THE PEPEFOS/NTAFOS. IF THEY CAN'T HANDLE THAT FACT, THEN THEY CAN GO FUCK YOURSELVES. FOOLS!
Nii 9 years ago

You are rather jealous and greedy. If you are proud why don't you go back to Ashante lands rather than stealing the Ga State lands. I was born a Ga and will die a Ga and will never to go Kunasi for anything. You look like mon ...
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You are rather jealous and greedy. If you are proud why don't you go back to Ashante lands rather than stealing the Ga State lands. I was born a Ga and will die a Ga and will never to go Kunasi for anything. You look like monkeys parading as human beings. Go back to the jungle where you belong.
Kwame Rought 9 years ago

You are undeniably inferior when you allow yourself t be defined buy someone's perception

You are undeniably inferior when you allow yourself t be defined buy someone's perception
... 9 years ago

DAY IN DAY OUT, YOU SECRETLY WISH YOU HAD BEEN BORN ASANTE, EH? STUPID FOOL, YOU CAN NEVER BE LIKE AN ASANTE (OR ANY OTHER AKAN, FOR THAT MATTER). MAY YOUR UNJUSTIFIED RESENTMENT AND HATRED BURN A HOLE IN YOUR TWISTED HEART.

DAY IN DAY OUT, YOU SECRETLY WISH YOU HAD BEEN BORN ASANTE, EH? STUPID FOOL, YOU CAN NEVER BE LIKE AN ASANTE (OR ANY OTHER AKAN, FOR THAT MATTER). MAY YOUR UNJUSTIFIED RESENTMENT AND HATRED BURN A HOLE IN YOUR TWISTED HEART.
Nii 9 years ago

If you are that proud why don't you go back to where you come from. Ga ( Accra ) was beautiful until you descended on it like a bunch of monkeys. Now look at the filth you have made and your backward language. I will rather d ...
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If you are that proud why don't you go back to where you come from. Ga ( Accra ) was beautiful until you descended on it like a bunch of monkeys. Now look at the filth you have made and your backward language. I will rather die than born Ashanti. Filthy smelly ugly looking baboons. Go to Circle and you will see what I mean. Ghana will be better off without you.
Sam 9 years ago

Ideally yes, but practically, no. Unfortunately, tribalism and racism are everywhere all over the world. Sometimes we need to let go or get used to it and live our lives.

Ideally yes, but practically, no. Unfortunately, tribalism and racism are everywhere all over the world. Sometimes we need to let go or get used to it and live our lives.
AKOKO DARKO (U.S.A.) 9 years ago

Do you see and do the same when appointing your ministers and choosing your cabinet ? A hypocrite.
Ghanaians are not stupid. You are always preaching virtue and practicing vice.
On hindsight you are cunningly introducing ...
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Do you see and do the same when appointing your ministers and choosing your cabinet ? A hypocrite.
Ghanaians are not stupid. You are always preaching virtue and practicing vice.
On hindsight you are cunningly introducing into the already volatile situation going on in the cunningly division based on ethnic and tribal lines. Shame on you. We the people of Ghana do not need a leader who will divide us pretentiously in order to continue to hegemously rule us. We are smarter than that.
AT 9 years ago

The President will be credible if he acts consistent with his preaching. His appointments betray him!!! Oh God, when will we get someone who truly believes this?

The President will be credible if he acts consistent with his preaching. His appointments betray him!!! Oh God, when will we get someone who truly believes this?
KAYBEE@ 9 years ago

What a difference a day makes!! Was it not this same Mahama who said it was about time for a 'Northerner'to now take 'the Driver's seat' as they have been 'co-piloting' for too long during his campaigning days? Politricksters ...
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What a difference a day makes!! Was it not this same Mahama who said it was about time for a 'Northerner'to now take 'the Driver's seat' as they have been 'co-piloting' for too long during his campaigning days? Politricksters are funny,indeed!
Time Will Tell 9 years ago

Foolish Mahama will always say stupid things...your campaign was full of ethnic sentiments...your appointments are on tribal lines...what again are you talking about...God will punish you, Mahama for who you are...

Foolish Mahama will always say stupid things...your campaign was full of ethnic sentiments...your appointments are on tribal lines...what again are you talking about...God will punish you, Mahama for who you are...
Criminal mahama. 9 years ago

U whent to the north and said vote for me cos am norther. Idiot

U whent to the north and said vote for me cos am norther. Idiot
Abena 9 years ago

I'm surprised by the President 's speech, because its his party under the leadership of Jerry Rawling who created this ethnic division in this beautiful country of Ghana. Mahama should go to the Volta region to give such a sp ...
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I'm surprised by the President 's speech, because its his party under the leadership of Jerry Rawling who created this ethnic division in this beautiful country of Ghana. Mahama should go to the Volta region to give such a speech not in Brong Ahafo.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?

I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to br ...
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WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?

I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to brush this issue under the carpet by some linked to the NPP as just a one off aberration. These people pretend or do not seem to know that Agyapong’s threats were not the first admonishing the killing of Ewes, something the readily available facts testify to. Facts I have been referring to from 1994 in cyberspace, recounting my own personal experiences with some of those advocates of Ewe killers in Nigeria during the early years of the PNDC. Of course, I have not as yet told the full story. But as Fela said, “I no kpata de finish!”

Hmm! As I found out when I was insulted “basabasa” by a man who turned out to be one of my many uncles, when I apparently misspoke on the hike in petrol prices in the 1993 budget, (on a bus from Anloga to Dzelukope in 1993), for being mistaken for a Quashiga hireling who had joined the “Eblutorwo” (Akans) preparing to come and kill them, my people back home were fully prepared and waiting for us quislings to start the attacks; I was assured. That was long before anyone heard of Justice Kpega as a political pundit! Phew! Me, a die-hard Nkrumaist in league with NPP assassins, to go and kill my fellow Anlos over whom my own forebears had ruled for centuries? Well, after all, it was in Lome, an Ewe centrepiece city even if many are of Ga-Anyi extraction, that they first congregated and started those lose talks against Ewes, thus forcing most Ewes in exile opposed to the PNDC to abandon the opposition to the PNDC and the anti-Ewe bent it had taken. So, many of us Ewes knew about their evil intents a long time ago, as they were eating our akple and fetridetsi and planning it in our kinsmen homes! Hardly any of them knew that much of the land of Lome is owned by people from Aflao and environs. Ignorant morons come in all shapes, you know. They were lucky no one poisoned them in Lome.:-)

Equally, I have read opponents to Agyapong’s utterances, including some Ewes, made some false and misleading statements, which shows that they are ignorant of the facts of the origins of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana, despite my persistent efforts and write-ups sketching that sordid history, from the pre-colonial to the post-independence era. I read someone situated in the 1979 elections period Victor Owusu’s scathing attacks on Ewes as “inward-looking” during the exchanges with Dr Agama in Parliament after the Apollo 586 sacking of mostly Ewes by the Busia regime which was overthrown in Jan. 1972!

Ignorance and superstition are recognised as key cogs in the vicious cycle of backwardness that is our lot as developing people but the extent most so-called educated Ghanaians wallow in these two inhibiting traits is just stupendous and disheartening!

Many try to claim that Rawlings introduced tribalism into Ghana by employing predominantly Ewes into sensitive public posts, especially the security sector; whereas the same claims of Ewe domination of posts had already been used effectively against Gbedema’s NAL by Busia’s Progress Party during the 1969 General Elections, as I had quoted from Dennis Austin’s book “Ghana Observed,” but something all grown-ups at the time knew about. It was therefore unfortunate that the late Prof Adu Boahen, as a historian who knew or ought to know better, fed into these fabrications of Ewe dominance, creating his own when he reportedly claimed in a British Council lecture in the 1980s that Prof. Akilagpa Sawyerr, a Ga who was given the VC post which he thought he deserved at the time, was an Ewe, and promised in his interview granted to Mahoney and his Africa Watch magazine to redress the presumed ethnic disparity when the NPP was elected into office. To me and many discerning Ewes, especially the Ewe elite, it was all déjà vu. But I was still surprised to find out that some decade long Ewe opponents of the PNDC voted for the NDC in 1992! It would not even surprise me if someone who knew Justice Kpegah’s political views very well in the 1980s came out to say that he was an arch-enemy of the PNDC in the Bar Association. I was visiting Ho in 1990 when the people of the VR angrily rejected the no party idea that the PNDC was then lobbying for, effectively halting the campaign for it. Those in B/A had already voted yes.

Yes! The NPP had itself to blame for their dismal reception in the VR, as they lost the plot with their tribal agenda reminiscent of the 1969 campaign. In Accra, they lost a lot of Ga support when the same Prof Adu Boahen at a rally, in trying to whip the anti-Ewe venom made that gaffe about Gas being pushed by the PNDC to be sleeping 10 persons to a room, after many of the main speakers had spoken in Twi which pissed them off! In 2000, they (NPP) won simply because of JJ’s unwholesome Swedru Declaration and the disrespectful Obed Asamoah led attempts to impose sitting candidates on their constituents, which nearly got him beaten at Dzelukope/Keta. Even my own Anlo Constituency voted for an independent linked to the NDC but not the NDC official candidate who was the re-imposed incumbent!

Fact is, I have been aware, just as many other people, since the early 1980s of various threats by some Akans opposed to the PNDC to have Ewes killed and had written about that many, many times on Okyeame and SIL. Perhaps, adding Gas to those to be killed is just the new dimension added by Agyapong, since it appeared, this time, the Gas, in Agyapong's warped mind, had acted in prosecuting the "Ewe agenda" by beating up Ursula on behalf of the Ewes! Well, warped minds think in strange, circular terms!

After all, the threats were so opened and so rampant that one Ewe, the late Dr Kodzi who died in exile here in London, pointed out the "Anlo-Ewes” in his own virulently anti-Rawlings PNDC book, "Ghana: Worse than Apartheid S. Africa," as the Ewes to be killed, for being the culprits of the complaints and angst of the Akans! That was long before anyone heard of Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe and his renewed “war” on “Anlo-Ewes,” a war his ancestor joined the Akyem Gen. Dompey to fight in "Krepi" against the Asantes and their allies and lost way back in the 1860s and got stranded there, lucky enough not to have been killed like others. That’s another story I had re-told elsewhere and needs a re-visit soon in order to let the populace know what makes bozos like Ahoofe tick. For a man, (I mean Dr Kodzi, not the jerk Ahoofe) who, due to his sterling stewardship when in charge of the Keta Govt Hospital, was much beloved by Anlos, regarded as an hononary Anlo and entrusted with pouring the libation at the Hogbeza celebration of the Noviha group here in London, that was something to write! How could he be sure that the would-be killers would not mistake him for an Anlo man, in spite of the pain he took to identify the other Ewe groups in his book? Well, the failure of the so-called Ewe elite - academic and traditional and the political - to deal rationally with this animus against Ewes is itself an intra-Ewe shambolic intellectual failure I shall deal with by and by. I have right here on my table the rantings of some other Ewes from northern Eweland, or Ewedome, as we Anlos refer to the area referred to by Europeans as Krepi, against the PNDC and Anlos in particular which I have not even as yet dealt with in my writings.

I must, however, make exception here, as Prof. Kofi Awoonor’s much distorted and maligned prison book (in league with Soyinka’s The Man Died) is probably the first book by a Ghanaian which tried to explain the tribal imbroglio and to point the way forward. His only mistake was that he fell prey to the standard Western simplistic, linear and reductionist methodology of reducing what is without doubt a complex articulation of interests and forces which cut across the ethnic divide with people from all ethnic groups found in both or all contesting camps for political ascendancy, or “hegemony”, as he put it, in Ghana. So, for instance, those who imprisoned him for helping Brig. Kattah to escape to Togo were not only “Akans/Asantes” but included Ewes, Gas, Gonjas, etc., as Kutu’s NRC comprised a cross-section of Ghanaian ethnic groups. And some members of other ethnic groups supported Busia and the demonization of the Ewes, not only Asantes or Akans alone.

You have to be wilfully blind or totally ignorant of what has been happening in the opposition to the P/NDC camp in order to claim today that you are not aware of talk of and even attempts to foment what would have become an ethnic war in Ghana prior to 1992. I personally had to intervene and quelled a serious fracas on Okyeame between two well known non-Ewes when the “brave Asantes” were queried again by a non-Asante why they could not deal with the apparently Ewe P/NDC which allegedly committed atrocities on they Akans only, I suppose. I bet many can remember J.H Mensah's arrest in America for allegedly attempting to buy weapons to prosecute their “liberation war” to get their country back. It is no wonder the NPP gurus, many of whom shared in those nefarious ideas, talked about it, plotted to carry it out, etc., are finding it very hard to distance themselves from this public utterance of it again. How can they desert their fellow journey man, without being double hypocrites? At least, there must be some honour among thieves!

There are many questions to ask and many issues to take up. Had my PC not kaput and eventually leading to the loss of a huge part of what I had painstakingly written with references while in Norway with additions in London, my intended book taking up those issues would have been out years ago.

Incidentally, my next intended article after writing "How Some "Ewes" Became a Part of Ghana" is titled "Who Are the Ewes". It is just a revisit to my first ever post to a cyber forum in early 1994, Okyeame precisely, which Azar should remember so well as, in spite of my providing a reference, he still challenged me to give that! It was sent as my contribution, incidentally, to another NPP instigated scare against poor but hard working Ewe and Ada fishing cum farming pioneers (won't call them settlers) displaced by the effects of the Akosombo Dam on the neglected downstream people who opened up the mosquito infested and disease-ridden Afram Plains. The claim was that the NDC wanted to carve a district for them there and thereby claim the land for them! Wives and children were hastily sent home in order to keep them out of harm’s way in the event of attacks on the communities. That was when I decided not to sit any longer on the fence, just like the majority of my fellow educated Ewes, who think responding to such attacks on Ewes is beneath them, since madmen, "dzimakplawo" and "gbemelawo" were responsible! That was the common “wisdom” repeated by Rawlings at Tsiame, when he was queried by the worried chiefs and people about the ongoing Ewe demonization in the opposition media and on political platforms in the ‘90s.

Gratuitous counter abuse, especially directed at Asantes ad nauseam, is not the way to tackle the issues, as some are presently doing on Ghanaweb. In the ‘90s, the Ghanaian stage was left to a novice like Komla Dumor to deal with on Myjoyonline with his “Ayigbe Jokes” series., which horrified and mortified me when I first listened to it online in 1997 or so. A programme like that would have found him and Myjoyonline foul of the Anti-Vilification Laws of any of the Western European countries and sanctioned appropriately. I doubt though whether half of our “honourable” MPs have heard of such a law, but that is the way we must go, and huge revision of the school curricula. But that calls for another article.

Well, simply, many do not know how to deal with the madmen who repeatedly take their loins cloth while in the bath house! I know how! After all, I know the story of how the Anloga man dealt with the mad man of Tegbi and remained sane; the mad man who used to way lay the “asisiawo” - the market women - from the Keta market with a club and the question: axor a ava lo, alo axor ekpo?, i.e., do you want penis or do you want the club? And one day he raped and killed the heavily pregnant wife of the Anloga man. Of course, it is a taboo to deal with mad men in our society but the Anloga man dealt with the mad man and nothing happened to him.

Ahoofe and his ilk’s tribalistic insults directed at Anlo-Ewes in particular and Agyapong's call to mayhem can be placed in perspective if you are informed about their origins. They used the tribal card so well in 1969 and think they can continue using it forever. No! Some of us decided long ago that ourselves and children shall not remain objects of demonization and vilification for the political objectives of some people who are still suffering from the mental warpedness that the slave trade had foisted on our ancestors. We shall therefore make sure that these appeal to ethnic differences backfire big time on their stupid faces!

I am therefore re-sending and shall continue re-posting this short piece I had put together especially for the readership of Ghanaweb and shall continue with my series on the Ethnic imbroglio in Ghana. Agyapong's outburst is simply the tip of the canker that permeates our body politic that must be dealt with at its roots. They are not the only Akans who suffer from what I have dubbed “Ewe angst and fears”, which afflict the generality of Akans due to how they are weaned and socialised. What do you expect from people who, as kids, are frightened to drink their Mist Alba, behave themselves or go to bed early with the Ewe bogeyman imagery?

Andy C. Y. Kwawukume
Kwadwo 9 years ago

What a wasted intellect. An Akan person does not spend his life in fear of an ewe. This is all in your insecure dream wish. By the way, how many of us live in your ewe 'poor land, Andy?

What a wasted intellect. An Akan person does not spend his life in fear of an ewe. This is all in your insecure dream wish. By the way, how many of us live in your ewe 'poor land, Andy?
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

No, my intellect is not wasted. I am not yet dead! I am using it to expose the rot of ethnocentric bigotry in our midst, which I hate very much.

Did I write that an Akan person spend his/her life in fear of an Ewe? What no ...
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No, my intellect is not wasted. I am not yet dead! I am using it to expose the rot of ethnocentric bigotry in our midst, which I hate very much.

Did I write that an Akan person spend his/her life in fear of an Ewe? What nonsense is that?! Not all Akans harbour at this moment the ethnocentric images of Ewes. I know an Asante here in London who regaled me with his exploits in the Anlo area in the '80s, going around to buy old going jewellery for his goldsmith father. "Even the fetish houses they said you can't enter with your shirt, as for me, I removed my shirt and entered!" In short, he knew the area better than a majority of Anlos, including myself.

Another, an elderly man, surprised me by speaking Ewe to me, after a long time of relating to him and the wife. That's another story of someone who is shorn of the usual Akan prejudices and negative images of Ewes, as he emphasised apologetically.

As for Akans in the VR, I guess you are among the ignoramuses who are not aware that they form a significant proportion of the pop. in the VR.
Military Man 9 years ago

Kojo T.. a hardcore enthnocentric advocate of Rawlings' tribalististic approach to issues in Ghana should be hanging his head in shame.

All those fake Pan Africanists who call themselves Nkrumahists but only use that as fr ...
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Kojo T.. a hardcore enthnocentric advocate of Rawlings' tribalististic approach to issues in Ghana should be hanging his head in shame.

All those fake Pan Africanists who call themselves Nkrumahists but only use that as fronts to hide their true ethnocentric beliefs are the actual 'human hyenas' who pepertuate this kind of bigotry in our otherwise beautiful country and they are all ewes.
Kojo Tamakloe can attest to this assertion because he's in the forefront of what I call "the fakers brigade" under Rawlings' tutelage.
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 9 years ago

Politics of enthicization and tribal exploits was given birth and life by P/NDC.

Politics of enthicization and tribal exploits was given birth and life by P/NDC.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Now, read this and tell us whether the PNDC was in existence in the 1960s to start the tribal politics. In fact, take it back to the 1950s, when it all started, with the NLM. The Ewe/Akan schism only started in the '60s, afte ...
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Now, read this and tell us whether the PNDC was in existence in the 1960s to start the tribal politics. In fact, take it back to the 1950s, when it all started, with the NLM. The Ewe/Akan schism only started in the '60s, after the coup, thanks to the usual ungratefulness of some particular Akans. Not only would they cheat of your fair share of captives and plunder but you'd be lucky if you yourself is not tricked and made captive too! You blokes wait until I begin my offensive. This is just defensive in preparation to the real counter-attack.

THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
Dza le le leeeeeee!
Me zu kluvi
The road to Kontsiabu
Strewn with gold dusts.
Only those without
in their eyes gold dusts
felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…

then you’d know that the time to narrate the doleful tales of the pre-colonial era, where it all began, has arrived; but you’d get a glimpse now.

Not to waste time apportioning blame, the Akans (and Gas, if I may add them), started these tribal abuse and attacks on Ewes many decades ago; nay, centuries back, as I said earlier. But as mentioned above, I won't delve as yet into the pre-colonial times when it was free for all, with even some Ewe states joining in marauding and plundering other Ewe states for the slave markets of the Gold Coast. I had indeed provided a write up on that sordid era on Ghanaweb’s SIL in the 1990s, which is available. One German businessman with biz connections to Ghana who used to read the nonsense on SIL wrote a private mail to me saying that he was always wondering why Africans sold each other into slavery to Europeans and Arabs; reading my detailed historical account enlightened him on how and why it happened for the first time. That story must be re-told all over Africa in other to understand the roots of the conflicts that bedevilled the continent after independence.

In Ghana, the colonial times modern version started after the WW1 when Anlo, Tongu and Peki migrants from within the Gold Coast and those from the newly acquired TVT from the Germans started moving to the Akan and Ga areas to either fish, farm or seek paid employment. Ewes from Togo and Benin Republic (Dahomey) escaping from French repressive rule came later. Some Ewes, esp. the educated ones, also got jobs with the commercial houses and the colonial administration. Some, such as Gbedema and Nkulenu, started their own private businesses. Soon, they were becoming prosperous in their chosen fields and/or rising up in the ranks wherever they were employed due to the usual hard working nature of most migrants. After all, the far superior German missionary vocational educational set up, compared to the British, had equipped them much better with skills in the crafts and building, such as carpentry and masonry, which were in much demand by the colonial authority and the other natives of the Gold Coast and Asante. That was when trouble began and the attacks started, as far back as the 1930s.

Below is a brief quote from S. Greene about how the Fantes started perceiving Anlo-Ewe fisher folk; a perception or prejudice which is not much different from what permeates the Akan ethnic group as a whole up to today (not only a few bigots on Ghanaweb). Ewes find out to our chagrin or amusement, often as a kid, that that was how our fellow country men and women perceive us. The encounter is therefore a personal story too.

Not much has changed in the prejudiced minds of too many Akans, as we daily witness on Ghanaweb, even though many too have developed over the years an obsession or desire to marry Ewe girls, failure which often brought in its wake stories of tribalism heaped against Ewes. As I told some Akan teacher colleagues in Nigeria, it was the scary and “irrational” Akan “wofa” (uncle) inheritance system, stupid! Horrible stories of how Ewe widows were in particular dispossessed and treated shabbily were enough to dissuade any idea of marriage to even a most love besotted Akan man! It is no wonder that, with the interstate law of inheritance in place, marriage to Akan men has been on the increase.

I know an Ewe from the Peki area who swore that it’d never be possible to change the jaundiced perception of Akans of Ewes from his own experiences attending Mpraeso Teacher Training College, and then teaching at Mpraeso and in Kumasi. He said one particular woman - a cook in the school - they used to go to church with wouldn’t believe that he did not have any “ekpelekpedzi” under their bed! I said it was possible and gave an example of my own experiences in Nigeria. I managed to convince my fellow Akan teachers that I don’t indulge nor believe in those things - juju or voodoo or even any god (white or black), and wouldn’t drink “ogogoro” with them – when there is original Gordon’s gin and lime cordiale to have – and they somehow lost some “respect”, (or was it fear?) for me. They’d say I wasn’t a proper Anloman and fool around with me!

Between 1982-4, when their Anti-Ewe diatribes had reached fever point and they were advocating massacring Ewes as done to the Ibos in Nigeria who they claimed were also allegedly dominating Nigeria in the 1960s, I thought of putting some fear into them by creating some “kporsi” (“see-and-run”) to scare them. Fact is, practically every smart Ewe knows how to scare Akans and Gas even though they don’t have “foko” (anything), as we say in Anlo but I will keep that out of this write up. Good I didn’t do so, otherwise they’d be giving testimonies up to today about what an Anlo teacher did to them in Nigeria – they’d have packed out and run from their rooms on the ground floor of the storey building we were hiring. I “protected” myself practically by chocking the door handle with a chair, as I had seen in movies, before I went to bed, in order to prevent them from making me the first casualty of their let-us-kill-Ewes mania! Funny some of them even became staunch PNDC supporters, only to change their minds again years later when I met some on a visit to Ghana.

Anyway, enough with the digression into the personal narrative and to Sandra Greene.

From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:

"Increased Anlo identification with their northern Ewe-speaking neighbours may have also been enhanced by the experience many had while participating in migrant fishing. After World War I, numerous groups of Anlo men and women traveled to other coastal areas, including the Fante area of the Gold Coast, in order to pursue their commercial fishing activities. For many, this was probably the first time they had traveled outside their home area, and/or to a district where they were a distinct linguistic minority. In these locations, they conducted themselves as they had in their own home villages, but those among whom they come to live - often temporarily, just for the fishing season - came to view the Anlos' prosperity with jealousy and suspicion. Stories circulated that associated the Anlo with "blood-curdling" crimes. R.W. Wyllie indicates, for example, that from at least the 1930s "Fanti [children] learned to view the Anlos as thieves, kidnappers, sorcerers, and ritual murderers." The social tensions that accompany these beliefs - and the very fact that these beliefs were held by a non-Ewe speaking people - must have heightened the Anlo's awareness of their linguistic and cultural background and generated some sense of identification with their Ewe-speaking peoples whom they would have encountered in the Gold Coast."

The encounter with the Gold Coasters was enough to turn any Ewe into a paranoid schizophrenic, developed a siege mentality (become “inward-looking”?) and very resentful towards any idea of union with the Gold Coast, not to mention marry an Akan.

As some of you know, the Anlo area through Tongu to the Peki area had been part of the Gold Coast colony proper, effectively from 1874 though the British “bought” and claimed the area from the Danes in 1850; hence the freedom to move to other parts of the Gold Coast and Asante later. Besides, many southern Ewes are descendants of Ga-Adangbe, Elmina and Denkyira fugitives dating back respectively to 1687 when the Akwamus first thrashed the Gas for cutting the “bolobolo” (foreskin) of their prince sent to the Ga Mantse Okai Koi’s court to understudy courtship, and 1700, when the Asantes defeated the Denkyiras and took over Elmina from the Denkyiras. Going back to Ge (Accra) and Sima (Shama) with their new kinsmen was just like returning to the ancestors' land. In fact, it was the descendants of those fugitives who were the first migrants, having maintained links with their ancestral lands during their long period in exile. Reindorf had written about that back and forth movement among the Ga fugitives long ago. That’s how Osu-Anecho came to be founded and how all Ewes got the derogatory epithet “Ayigbe” (Ayi refuse), whether they were descendants of fugitives or not. The “dzulor” bit the Gas added originally referred to the Okai Koi stool regalia which the Ga-Ewes in Togo refused to return to Accra and still claim to be its protectors. Remember the trips with pre-colonial undertones their chiefs made to Ghana when the NPP took over power in 2000?

We read from the December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine a letter sent to the colonial government of the Gold Coast:
“We PEOPLE of Togoland, descended from two principal countries, Elmina
(Ane) and Accra (Ge), both of the Gold Coast Colony, ask to have British government because it is the government of our fathers, whose customs are our customs, and a British Colony is half-an-hour distant from us.
We ask to have British government because it is the government of our kith and kin, our race and our tribe.
We ask for British government because of our relationship with our people on the west, which must assert itself...” (culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994).

And so on it went. I can make long comments on the above quotes but suffice it to say that it was the beginning and end of the love affair which started as unification with the Gold Coast movement ending up as the drive to secede from the Gold Coast.

One may wonder why the petitioners did not even acknowledge the Ewes, Dagombas, Konkombas, Akans and the host of other ethnic and tribal groups in Togo who also have their “kith and kin” within the Gold Coast and the Northern Territories. I guess this piece of history may come as a surprise to the ingrates who make a living of always reminding us that Ewes come from Togo, some of whom carried a video to Lome to trace the roots of Fiifii Kwetey there, instead of doing so in Accra; better still, Ayawaso! Well, he said he was from Nogokpo, which rubbed a sore spot for me, but that’s another story.

THE EWE BACKLASH

By the 1940s, Ewes, Anlos in particular, in the Gold Coast had had enough of the vilification and undeserved demonisation their successes were arousing. The returnee Anes (Anyis) and Ges (Gas), now fused as the “Genyis,” as Anlos refer to them, through intermarriages, also soon discovered that they were not welcome, or often welcomed with shouts of “Ayigbe dzulor”! Disenchantment set in and secession from Ghana became a far better option. The result was the 1956 plebiscite and the rest is history.

Then came the post Feb 24 1966 coup era, when Busia and his PP turned this traditional vilification of Ewes into a political tool to win the 1969 general elections. It was preceded by an internal struggle within the NLC to share the spoils of office after the coup, which increasingly took an ethnic tone. My own father was a sacrificial victim. An extended quote from Dennis Austin, that great chronicler of Ghana history, captures the gist of it, so here we go:

“A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was express1ed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema’s reappearance in political life but in relations to events after the 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone burst out singing, but when the music died down away it was noticed that the NLC (it seemed) was commanded by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankrah (a Ga), was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of Defence Staff, Michael Otu, the evidence to many was overwhelming. It was all an Ewe plot. Soon Ghana would be run for the benefit of an energetic minority, operating first within the armed forces, and now behind Gbedemah. ‘Appoint an Ewe to a public corporation or to a government department and within a year the entire hierarchy down to the messenger will be an Ewe.’ So the argument ran. And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their own barren region, have been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and the police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government department and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be in view of their number. But a belief does not, of course, have to be true before people hold it fervently.
Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable chance of fate, leader of the governing party I would be much less apprehensive of my Ewe opponents in front than of the large and expectant following behind. I would be fearful too of the ambitions of those now excluded from power, remembering the Songs of Innocence that:
The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caeser’s laurel crown” (D. Austin 1976:125)

Austin was writing with hindsight about what befell Busia’s regime, overthrown in a coup led by an Asante.

The interested reader is referred to the link on the Internet to read an extended abstract of the book in order to get a fuller understanding of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana and so be able to compare events from then and now and subsequent analysis.

Dennis Austin - 1976 - Political Science - 199 pages
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=084190278X...

In Part 2, I intend to examine the hate campaign against the Ewes and the consequences or reactions from the 1970s which led to Kofi Awoonor’s infamous prison book, The Ghana Revolution, which he claimed he wrote in prison when gaoled for helping Brig. Kattah to escape from Ghana. It’d be necessary to focus on the Ghana Army, from its origins and recruitment trends since it is at the crux of the matter.

Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, better known as C.Y. Andy-K, is a freethinker, Pan-Africanist and an ardent Nkrumaist.
cyandyk@ymail.com

References:

Dennis Austin (1976): Ghana Observed: Essays on the Politics of a W. African Republic.
Manchester Univ. Press.
Sandra E. Greene (1995): Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave
Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Heinemann and James Currey
Robert W. Wyllie. “Migrant Anlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A
Comparative Study.” Africa, XXXIX, 4 (1969), 396-410.
Kwame Rought 9 years ago

Selective use of dead whites' neocolonialist works.

Selective use of dead whites' neocolonialist works.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Please quote from the African patriots and nationalists to debunk the "white neo-colonialists.

Maybe you were just a baby or not even born by the coup time and so didn't have a clue about what happened. I was grown up and ...
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Please quote from the African patriots and nationalists to debunk the "white neo-colonialists.

Maybe you were just a baby or not even born by the coup time and so didn't have a clue about what happened. I was grown up and positioned enough to know the truthfulness or otherwise of what happened.

Andy-K
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago

Bravo! Infamous history brewed in Anlo-Trokosi pot. I don't want to sound judgemental but having been consumed curiosity I would want to know the intent and purpose of these installments that you intend to work on under th ...
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Bravo! Infamous history brewed in Anlo-Trokosi pot. I don't want to sound judgemental but having been consumed curiosity I would want to know the intent and purpose of these installments that you intend to work on under this very topic. If the intention to provide this history lesson is to educate your readers then I am afraid you are woefully gonna fail since the undertones have some inherent bitterness which is likely to be transferred to other Trokosi readers and their allies. The end result would be abject hatred towards the perceived Trokosi oppressors, a development which will erode or override whatever good intention you have to pen down this essay . Systems have changed, Ghana is moving on and you must do well to get out of your inward looking self and follow the flow. If today a Notrhner can get over all the inferiority complexities and boldly write " Tanii 1 or Pepenii 1" on his car number plate then what are you Trokosis waiting for? BTW, I didn't know the Gas has another sobriquet for Ewes. Ayigbe Julor. Haaa!
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Oh! Jerks like you want to be loved? Anyway, why on earth should something I have to say make people hate you and your ilk, if they are false things?

Indeed, I have declared a war - an intellectual war for that matter. It ...
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Oh! Jerks like you want to be loved? Anyway, why on earth should something I have to say make people hate you and your ilk, if they are false things?

Indeed, I have declared a war - an intellectual war for that matter. It is better than the tribal war of killing and destruction your ilk in the NPP advocate loudly on even radio stations and on political platforms. There are no holy cows in my stable, and you can detect that from my writings, if you were a discerning reader, which you are not.

Whether you like it or not, I shall return with my intellectual ballistic missiles. My intention is to annihilate the likes of you. Go to the library and armed yourself, just as I advised Kofi Ellison and HKP before and come and face me, sooner than later.

Andy-K
NOBODY 9 years ago

You seem to be forgetful of the NLC, a military junta headed by Afrifa that predate the P/NDC. Most of the military and police officers serving in the NLC had no idea that Busia and his dankwa group ochestrated the NLC coup ...
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You seem to be forgetful of the NLC, a military junta headed by Afrifa that predate the P/NDC. Most of the military and police officers serving in the NLC had no idea that Busia and his dankwa group ochestrated the NLC coup that was aided by the CIA, and that it's leader was actually Afrifa and not General Ankrah. Afrifa then used his position in the NLC to ensure that only Busia would criss-cross the nation campaigning politically under the veil of Centre for Civic Education while NLC barred Busia's political opponents from actively participating in politics or running for political office against Busia. Point the finger to the right culprit, Busia.
MISTY 9 years ago

Mahama yoy are just a fooooool can you compare you pepe tribe with akan or ashantis. animguasie na enka wo stupit foooooool like you opepeni

Mahama yoy are just a fooooool can you compare you pepe tribe with akan or ashantis. animguasie na enka wo stupit foooooool like you opepeni
Ibrahim Baba 9 years ago

Any good looking Ashanti is a pepeni otherwise he will be too ugly to let your eyes behold

Any good looking Ashanti is a pepeni otherwise he will be too ugly to let your eyes behold
... 9 years ago

BAD NEWS, MY FRIEND: YOU WILL REMAIN A PEPENI FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIVE. GET USED TO THAT, FOOL.

BAD NEWS, MY FRIEND: YOU WILL REMAIN A PEPENI FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIVE. GET USED TO THAT, FOOL.
kusal 9 years ago

you are a stupid gorilla .fool like you .ashantis were living in holes like rats if you don't know . it was pepe people who used sugar to deceive and brought you out .ugly apes like you (Ashantis).

you are a stupid gorilla .fool like you .ashantis were living in holes like rats if you don't know . it was pepe people who used sugar to deceive and brought you out .ugly apes like you (Ashantis).
MISTY 9 years ago

stupid foooool Mahama

stupid foooool Mahama
Efo Kwaku Canada 9 years ago

NDC stupid talking Ghana is not for ethnic groups but we're looking for leaders with vision and wisdom to implement good policies to help poor Ghanaians

NDC stupid talking Ghana is not for ethnic groups but we're looking for leaders with vision and wisdom to implement good policies to help poor Ghanaians
Kofi-USA 9 years ago

If that is the case why is it that your ministers is 80 to 90% Ewes and Northerners? Mr. Prez you are very diversive and tribalistic.

If that is the case why is it that your ministers is 80 to 90% Ewes and Northerners? Mr. Prez you are very diversive and tribalistic.
Yaw Poku, USA 9 years ago

No wonder he is called tanii or pepenii. He has hanged himself with his own rope.

No wonder he is called tanii or pepenii. He has hanged himself with his own rope.
BAFFOUR -- YAW 9 years ago

Mr president should accepted who he is and live people alone,our KINGS see it different from generations and why Mahama is missing the fact.

Mr president should accepted who he is and live people alone,our KINGS see it different from generations and why Mahama is missing the fact.
Waah 9 years ago

Blah blah blah... Why did you give rubbish awards to farmers in the eastern region on farmer's day?

Blah blah blah... Why did you give rubbish awards to farmers in the eastern region on farmer's day?
Leo R. Sam 9 years ago

All progressive and patriotic Ghanaians should read the article entitled: TRIBALISM IS A DISASE.
The excellent article was published on Ghanaweb on Saturday, 19 May 2007.
Do you know that there are at least 55 ethnic( "Tri ...
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All progressive and patriotic Ghanaians should read the article entitled: TRIBALISM IS A DISASE.
The excellent article was published on Ghanaweb on Saturday, 19 May 2007.
Do you know that there are at least 55 ethnic( "Tribal")groups in Ghana?My personal experience as a high school teacher in Ghana and Canada has convinced me that no ethnic group in any part of the world can claim to be superior to any other. Children are indoctrinated to believe that they are superior to others. Good education will help Ghanaian children to realize that TRIBALISM IS A DISEASE, which must be avoided!!!

lsam@interbaun.com
# 1 PEPENI @USA 9 years ago

AND I HAVE SOME 40 KIDS OUT THERE IN GHANA MASQUERADING AS ASHANTIS!! I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO TRACE THEM!! WE ARE TALKING KIDS THAT WERE BORN IN THE 1970 AND 80s!!

AND I HAVE SOME 40 KIDS OUT THERE IN GHANA MASQUERADING AS ASHANTIS!! I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO TRACE THEM!! WE ARE TALKING KIDS THAT WERE BORN IN THE 1970 AND 80s!!
# 1 PEPENI @USA 9 years ago

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY RESEMBLANCE TO YOUR FATHER AND YOU ARE ASHANTI, GET IN TOUCH I MAY BE YOUR DADDY!!

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY RESEMBLANCE TO YOUR FATHER AND YOU ARE ASHANTI, GET IN TOUCH I MAY BE YOUR DADDY!!
yoofi 9 years ago

Hey Yaro, stop hallucinating.

Hey Yaro, stop hallucinating.
prince. Massachusetts 9 years ago

U coward and ignorance.talk sense and stop ur fucking bullshit

U coward and ignorance.talk sense and stop ur fucking bullshit
Kwame Rought 9 years ago

With all your noise, you work for and rent from Asantes. Look at your Zongos and Anlo-Town

With all your noise, you work for and rent from Asantes. Look at your Zongos and Anlo-Town
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

I fucked 108 girls in Kumasi from 2007 to 2013 before i came to Accra

I fucked 108 girls in Kumasi from 2007 to 2013 before i came to Accra
Nii 9 years ago

You were very brave. But why so many? May be you loved the smell?!!! I will never have it with ashanti woman if she is the last on the planet!

You were very brave. But why so many? May be you loved the smell?!!! I will never have it with ashanti woman if she is the last on the planet!
... 9 years ago

YOU HAVEN'T FUCKED ANYONE! YOUR DIRTY DICK DOESN'T STAND UP. IF YOU STOP DRINKING SO MUCH APIO, YOUR DICK MIGHT WORK AGAIN. FOOL.

YOU HAVEN'T FUCKED ANYONE! YOUR DIRTY DICK DOESN'T STAND UP. IF YOU STOP DRINKING SO MUCH APIO, YOUR DICK MIGHT WORK AGAIN. FOOL.
old monk 9 years ago

JDM 4 MORE YEARS FOR YOU.YOUR ENEMIES WHO THINK THYEY ARE SUPIRIOR THAN OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS CAN GO SWIM IN THE KORLEY LAGON.

JDM 4 MORE YEARS FOR YOU.YOUR ENEMIES WHO THINK THYEY ARE SUPIRIOR THAN OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS CAN GO SWIM IN THE KORLEY LAGON.
Military Man 9 years ago

Kojo T.. a hardcore enthnocentric advocate of Rawlings' tribalististic approach to issues in Ghana should be hanging his head in shame.

All those fake Pan Africanists who call themselves Nkrumahists but only use that as f ...
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Kojo T.. a hardcore enthnocentric advocate of Rawlings' tribalististic approach to issues in Ghana should be hanging his head in shame.

All those fake Pan Africanists who call themselves Nkrumahists but only use that as fronts to hide their true ethnocentric beliefs are the actual 'human hyenas' who pepertuate this kind of bigotry in our otherwise beautiful country and they are all ewes.
Kojo Tamakloe can attest to this assertion because he's in the forefront of what I call "the fakers brigade" under Rawlings' tutelage
William Goku. U.S.A 9 years ago

What a beautiful speech. I am very proud of u at least for this speech which is full or wisdom.

What a beautiful speech. I am very proud of u at least for this speech which is full or wisdom.
Counselor 9 years ago

Well said President Mahama. No tribe is superior to another!

Well said President Mahama. No tribe is superior to another!
Victor A. Young 9 years ago

If what you're saying is true, then why did AFRC/P-NDC led by Rawlings target Akans, by killing many, dismissing from public offices, while he confiscated factories and businesses belonging to this ethnic people? NDC is a bun ...
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If what you're saying is true, then why did AFRC/P-NDC led by Rawlings target Akans, by killing many, dismissing from public offices, while he confiscated factories and businesses belonging to this ethnic people? NDC is a bunch of hypocrites and liars; no-one believes what they say.
ademimomo 9 years ago

Where is Mensah otabil and the against so called men of God. God is watching them.Thieir dirty plans to use ethnicity and their churches to divide ghana will not work.

Where is Mensah otabil and the against so called men of God. God is watching them.Thieir dirty plans to use ethnicity and their churches to divide ghana will not work.
Oheneba osei Yaw Akoto 9 years ago

A TANI IS NEVER THE EQUAL OF AN AKAN.

A TANI IS NEVER THE EQUAL OF AN AKAN.
Ghana 9 years ago

Oheneba Osier Yaw Akoto!!!

I completely agree that Ashanti is and will never be equal to an Ashanti.

The reason is because, most Ashanti's are BASTARDS whiles Pepefuo are legitimate people who always live with their fa ...
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Oheneba Osier Yaw Akoto!!!

I completely agree that Ashanti is and will never be equal to an Ashanti.

The reason is because, most Ashanti's are BASTARDS whiles Pepefuo are legitimate people who always live with their fathers and so, knows something called ethics.

Most Ashanti's grow up with their mothers only. Most Ashanti's don't know their fathers and that's the reason why you can easily identify them here on Ghanaweb.

You can imagine such Short Black Ugly Lilliputs who can easily insult anybody who doesn't agree with them. No fathers at their homes to give them proper upbringing.

So what you said is true we can never be the same.

One day a Chinese Man is going to be the Otumfuo at the Manshia Palace. Think about that!!!
Northerners will never compete with you at any level of your vice activities!!!!

Lastly if you'er HANDSOME and more than 4ft you should consider yourself Pepeni!!!

Real Ashantis the Ugly Short Dark and isn't more than 4ft in height.
... 9 years ago

TANII BOY, WHEN YOU FINISH LOOKING AFTER THE COWS, GO AND CARRY A PAN OF LATRINE. YOU ARE FUCKING INFERIOR TO AN ASANTE OR ANY OTHER AKAN. GET THAT FACT INTO YOUR THICK SKULL, MORON!

TANII BOY, WHEN YOU FINISH LOOKING AFTER THE COWS, GO AND CARRY A PAN OF LATRINE. YOU ARE FUCKING INFERIOR TO AN ASANTE OR ANY OTHER AKAN. GET THAT FACT INTO YOUR THICK SKULL, MORON!
Ghana 9 years ago

I completely agree with you Ashanti is and will never be equal to a Pepeni.

I completely agree with you Ashanti is and will never be equal to a Pepeni.
VOICE OF REASON 9 years ago

Who is talking about a superior tribe or ethnic group for Dumb Mahama to make an issue of it for the time in as many months.He did not become president to come and lecture us on ethnicity while the economy and living standar ...
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Who is talking about a superior tribe or ethnic group for Dumb Mahama to make an issue of it for the time in as many months.He did not become president to come and lecture us on ethnicity while the economy and living standard are worsening
Obibs 9 years ago

Boy oh boy. Has our president got an inferiority complex ?

Boy oh boy. Has our president got an inferiority complex ?
Franco 9 years ago

how many Ashanti's are in your government? what was your comments about Ashanti's when u visited Ashanti region in 2013? what was your campaign message in the northern region when' you realised that it was going to be difficu ...
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how many Ashanti's are in your government? what was your comments about Ashanti's when u visited Ashanti region in 2013? what was your campaign message in the northern region when' you realised that it was going to be difficult for you to win. hypocrite mahama.
BANANIIBA 9 years ago

THAT IS WAHT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT ASHANTIS ARE FAR MORE SUPERIOR TO YOU AND YOUR "PEPEFOO". IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, ALL HUMAN ARE CREATED EQUAL. BUT IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STANDARDS, ASHANTIS ARE WISE ...
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THAT IS WAHT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT ASHANTIS ARE FAR MORE SUPERIOR TO YOU AND YOUR "PEPEFOO". IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, ALL HUMAN ARE CREATED EQUAL. BUT IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STANDARDS, ASHANTIS ARE WISER, SECURED AND SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER ETHNIC GROUP IN GHANA. PERIOD. DON'T EVEN TRY TO THINK OTHERWISE.
mr amin 9 years ago

its the ndc who is fueling the ethnic sentiments by labeling your opponents with paticular ethnic group as propagander tool. ghana pls vote ndc out if u love this country.

its the ndc who is fueling the ethnic sentiments by labeling your opponents with paticular ethnic group as propagander tool. ghana pls vote ndc out if u love this country.
mr amin 9 years ago

NDC is 100% guity of this. those writing on this forum using word like PEPEFOU or PEPENII are ndc propagandist n now we know. no good surporter of npp will say this cos we need their vote.

NDC is 100% guity of this. those writing on this forum using word like PEPEFOU or PEPENII are ndc propagandist n now we know. no good surporter of npp will say this cos we need their vote.
Dr. DIASEMPA 9 years ago

This statement is grossly unnecessary if Pepeni Mahama has nothing reasonable to say. Mahama himself knows deeply well and it is not a secrete that Pepefuo as Latrine Carriers, Watchmen, Laborers and carcass eaters are the lo ...
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This statement is grossly unnecessary if Pepeni Mahama has nothing reasonable to say. Mahama himself knows deeply well and it is not a secrete that Pepefuo as Latrine Carriers, Watchmen, Laborers and carcass eaters are the lowest ranked tribe in Ghana.
... 9 years ago

LOOK AT ALL THE MONEY THAT HAS BEEN SPENT (SINCE NKRUMAH'S DAYS) TO TRY TO HELP THESE PEPEFO! THESE BASTARDS GET EVERYTHING FOR FREE YET ARE UNGRATEFUL FOR THIS LARGESSE FUNDED MOSTLY BY US SOUTHERNERS. FUNDS ALLOCATED TO SAD ...
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LOOK AT ALL THE MONEY THAT HAS BEEN SPENT (SINCE NKRUMAH'S DAYS) TO TRY TO HELP THESE PEPEFO! THESE BASTARDS GET EVERYTHING FOR FREE YET ARE UNGRATEFUL FOR THIS LARGESSE FUNDED MOSTLY BY US SOUTHERNERS. FUNDS ALLOCATED TO SADA (AND THE OTHER NUMEROUS INTERVENTIONIST SCHEMES SET UP BY VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN THE NORTH)HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY THESE NORTHERN CROOKS (TYPIFIED BY THAT OAF JOHN MAHAMA). YOU NORTHERNERS SHOULD JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP. WE (SOUTHERNERS) ARE FED UP WITH YOUR NONSENSE. WHY DON'T YOU FUCKERS GO FORM YOUR OWN COUNTRY?
Gen.Mosquito 9 years ago

The Guans who are the second largest ethnic group in Ghana are never mentioned when it comes to tribes in Ghana.is Even Mahama ignorant if this?

The Guans who are the second largest ethnic group in Ghana are never mentioned when it comes to tribes in Ghana.is Even Mahama ignorant if this?
Kwame Rought 9 years ago

Stop lying! Why is your govt made up of only Pepefo? Making up for their internalized inferiority?

Stop lying! Why is your govt made up of only Pepefo? Making up for their internalized inferiority?
gloria usa 9 years ago

Well said president

Well said president
Gen.Mosquito 9 years ago

Wait guys.feeling either inferior or superior is up to the individual.how do others sit down and accept an ugly,short illiterate who's L and R are his "plobrem" to lord it over the rest is attitudinal short and simple

Wait guys.feeling either inferior or superior is up to the individual.how do others sit down and accept an ugly,short illiterate who's L and R are his "plobrem" to lord it over the rest is attitudinal short and simple
Ebola Dramani 9 years ago

Over 90% of your appointees are of Northern Extraction.What is the Ebola man talking about?

Over 90% of your appointees are of Northern Extraction.What is the Ebola man talking about?
xeth 9 years ago

Whenever the issue of tribalism is mentioned on any online news portal, The exchange of words start btn ashantis n Ewes.. I've been observing this for abt 8yrs now .... hmm .. My question is.. why r the rest of the akans not ...
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Whenever the issue of tribalism is mentioned on any online news portal, The exchange of words start btn ashantis n Ewes.. I've been observing this for abt 8yrs now .... hmm .. My question is.. why r the rest of the akans not heard making this tribal remarks likewise the many other tribes ... Always Ewes & Ashantis will take center stage in the comments.
They shud let we the others think wai
True 9 years ago

Am not Ashanti but I'll always back Ashanti's against these Ewe's who have nothing in their land.

Am not Ashanti but I'll always back Ashanti's against these Ewe's who have nothing in their land.
Samansaman 9 years ago

VERY SIMPLE,De NPP has A/R as strong hold. NDC has de No9.Think of de outcome-ENEMIES.OTHER AKANS-FANTIs seem to be HIGHLY WELL EDUCATED & as REFEREs-SWING STATEs has NO TIME for such FOOLISH TALKs & TRIBAL INSULTS. WHY SHLD ...
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VERY SIMPLE,De NPP has A/R as strong hold. NDC has de No9.Think of de outcome-ENEMIES.OTHER AKANS-FANTIs seem to be HIGHLY WELL EDUCATED & as REFEREs-SWING STATEs has NO TIME for such FOOLISH TALKs & TRIBAL INSULTS. WHY SHLD THE PRESIDENT of de WHOLE NATION talk about SUPERIORITY of an ETHNIC GROUP AT A TIME TO FIX de ECONOMY.DOESNT HE KOWN WE ARE ONE NATION,ONE PEOPLE OF ONE DESTINY? HE IS JUST FRUSTRATED AFTER SURRONDING HIMSELF WITH INCOMPETENT NORTHNERS & EWES.HE NEEDS HELP OR MUST QUIT 2016.
ProudAshanti 9 years ago

Yes no tribe is superior but thank God am an Ashanti else would have killed myself..It feels so good to wake up as an Ashanti boy. I love when my ewe friends see me and start speaking my language even though I can't speak the ...
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Yes no tribe is superior but thank God am an Ashanti else would have killed myself..It feels so good to wake up as an Ashanti boy. I love when my ewe friends see me and start speaking my language even though I can't speak theirs..It makes me so proud
Abban 9 years ago

Kwasia proud Ashanti ,you're not Ashanti and you're not proud at all.

Kwasia proud Ashanti ,you're not Ashanti and you're not proud at all.
BANANIIBA 9 years ago

Man, I love what you just wrote. I am also Ashanti and I am as proud as the Peacock bird. I would not want it any other way. Pepefoo, Anlofoo etc. nkawaseafoo. Thanks to Kwame Nkrumah who encourage all the other scum bug trib ...
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Man, I love what you just wrote. I am also Ashanti and I am as proud as the Peacock bird. I would not want it any other way. Pepefoo, Anlofoo etc. nkawaseafoo. Thanks to Kwame Nkrumah who encourage all the other scum bug tribes to go to school. Now, they think they have arrived and can spew nonsense to Ashantis, their masters.
Tony 9 years ago

Y3n Akanfono say's by nana Akufo bin l'addo and we will let Ashanti's to butcher Ewe's and GA'SS also say's by narcotic war lord Kennedy agyapong so you can see that the wisdom of president mahama is very great.

Y3n Akanfono say's by nana Akufo bin l'addo and we will let Ashanti's to butcher Ewe's and GA'SS also say's by narcotic war lord Kennedy agyapong so you can see that the wisdom of president mahama is very great.
Churchill 9 years ago

People discrimination is too much is we stop it to promote one common agenda to move ghana forward

People discrimination is too much is we stop it to promote one common agenda to move ghana forward
nana ns3m 9 years ago

mahama this is not important just concerntrate and let there be peace.. u dnt knw what u re doing just consult Ex. Prez. John Agyekum Kuffour for proper mending of u punchers hahaha

mahama this is not important just concerntrate and let there be peace.. u dnt knw what u re doing just consult Ex. Prez. John Agyekum Kuffour for proper mending of u punchers hahaha
Oteng 9 years ago

God bless our home land Ghana,this is the time our be loving country should unite to bring the development into Ghana the ethnic groups especially our kings should educate our fellow brothers how against others I love this m ...
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God bless our home land Ghana,this is the time our be loving country should unite to bring the development into Ghana the ethnic groups especially our kings should educate our fellow brothers how against others I love this man Osagyefo kwame Mayer I once hear you talk about this issue thank youg
Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

He is a stupid idiots

He is a stupid idiots
Landiz 9 years ago

Ethnicity came as a result of when the total unity compared the humanity to build a useless tower to reach God dwelling place. It initially came to create confusion and divisions amongs the people of the earth. So your presid ...
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Ethnicity came as a result of when the total unity compared the humanity to build a useless tower to reach God dwelling place. It initially came to create confusion and divisions amongs the people of the earth. So your president got it all wrong. The only solution is to obey the laws of the land who h gives freedom to everybody irspectivr of your ethnicity. God help us to only accept the Bible n Quaran as the only good teaching for humanity. Read Heb. 4:12 and 2Tim 3:16-17 for your own understanding.
kusal 9 years ago

All Ashantis are bastards ,very stupid and poor in academics ,arm robbers ,very ugly, cowards, lazy and very very weak

All Ashantis are bastards ,very stupid and poor in academics ,arm robbers ,very ugly, cowards, lazy and very very weak
mensah abrampa 9 years ago

Good speech but I'm afraid you remind me of the "Pulpit Only" Pastor whose sacred responsibility of shepherding flock ends abruptly at the pulpit after the sermon. I'm not being cynical but you don't ever seem to mean what ...
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Good speech but I'm afraid you remind me of the "Pulpit Only" Pastor whose sacred responsibility of shepherding flock ends abruptly at the pulpit after the sermon. I'm not being cynical but you don't ever seem to mean what you say and what you really mean we're never privileged to hear.
I know I'm not just picking on a good gentleman and statesman from the other side of the severely polarized political environment but I'm speaking as a concerned and patriotic citizen because there's enough evidence to prove that your words are at variance with what you really do. Too many of your cabinet members and other high level appointees happen to be northern indigens. This is not a mere coincidence. The practice of pulling the wool over our eyes can no longer be tolerated and justified on your "balancing act platform" after such a "brilliant" performance. What will you do differently going forward to silence your critics and skeptics? Are you going to walk the talk or this is just another deceptive ploy to lure independent voters to your side?
KAAKYIRE BADU 9 years ago

WAS HE JOHN MAHAM DRUNK WHEN HE STOOD ON THE PLATFORM IN THE NORTH 2012 AND SAID NPP SHOULD BRING BAWUMIA TO CHALLENGE HIM !! WAS HE NOT TALKING ABOUT TRIBAL ? WHY DOES 90% OF HIS CABINET AND OTHER APPOINTEES ARE ALL NORTHNER ...
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WAS HE JOHN MAHAM DRUNK WHEN HE STOOD ON THE PLATFORM IN THE NORTH 2012 AND SAID NPP SHOULD BRING BAWUMIA TO CHALLENGE HIM !! WAS HE NOT TALKING ABOUT TRIBAL ? WHY DOES 90% OF HIS CABINET AND OTHER APPOINTEES ARE ALL NORTHNERS ??
jose 9 years ago

What brought about this useless message. Research and find out what previous leaders said on occasion like this,bigot

What brought about this useless message. Research and find out what previous leaders said on occasion like this,bigot
jose 9 years ago

Why this?

Why this?
Nii 9 years ago

It is speech that needs to drummed in the coconut heads of every Ashanti. You wallow in that mistaken belief.
Just look at your stock Kufuor, both junior and senior Akufo Addos.need I go on?

It is speech that needs to drummed in the coconut heads of every Ashanti. You wallow in that mistaken belief.
Just look at your stock Kufuor, both junior and senior Akufo Addos.need I go on?
Papa yaw 9 years ago

No

No
JACOB A 9 years ago

Ghana needs more of this education. Nobody is necessarily superior because of the tribe he or she comes from.

Ghana needs more of this education. Nobody is necessarily superior because of the tribe he or she comes from.
ekac 9 years ago

Mr. President thanx alot 4 ur speech.

Mr. President thanx alot 4 ur speech.
TEE 9 years ago

MAHAMA PEPENI FRAFRA MOSI BURKINA IS FULL OF COMPLEX PERIOD. MAHAMA EXPERT IN THIEVERY DONE

MAHAMA PEPENI FRAFRA MOSI BURKINA IS FULL OF COMPLEX PERIOD. MAHAMA EXPERT IN THIEVERY DONE
kohems 9 years ago

Pepeni or no Pepeni he is your president and will again be your president from 2016. I am an ashanti but will support Mahama to the hilt.No tribe in Ghana is superior than the others.

Pepeni or no Pepeni he is your president and will again be your president from 2016. I am an ashanti but will support Mahama to the hilt.No tribe in Ghana is superior than the others.
TEE 9 years ago

MAHAMA YOU ARE SO USELESS TO BE A PRESIDENT PERIOD

MAHAMA YOU ARE SO USELESS TO BE A PRESIDENT PERIOD
onipanua 9 years ago

Mahama you are indeed a very wise person.Only the primitive minds believe in tribal or ethnic superiority.I am an ashanti but will never feel that I am tribally superior than a Ga,a Frafra,an Ewe or any person from the other ...
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Mahama you are indeed a very wise person.Only the primitive minds believe in tribal or ethnic superiority.I am an ashanti but will never feel that I am tribally superior than a Ga,a Frafra,an Ewe or any person from the other tribes in Ghana.
KWAME BARFI AGYEMANG 9 years ago

better go strait to the subject matter and stop creating divisions and trabalism

better go strait to the subject matter and stop creating divisions and trabalism
Asanteni 9 years ago

Some are superior to others. Why do mpepefuor have free education and Ashantis dont have? It is because mpepefuor say they are poor. You have made yourself poor before the Ashantiman now you are complaining. You said this ...
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Some are superior to others. Why do mpepefuor have free education and Ashantis dont have? It is because mpepefuor say they are poor. You have made yourself poor before the Ashantiman now you are complaining. You said this because of Ashantis. This your comment smacks of mediocrety of northerners to Ashantis, your masters.
TWEAA 9 years ago

MAHAMA, YOU SIT DOWN AND ALLOW YOUR PEOPLE STREAM DOWN TO SOUTHING GHANA TO BECOME KAYOYAS AND YOU SAY WE ARE ALL EQUAL? IS IT BECAUCE FREE EDUCATION HAS PROMOTED YOU TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT? YOU ARE JUST NOT SERIOUS. EVEN YO ...
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MAHAMA, YOU SIT DOWN AND ALLOW YOUR PEOPLE STREAM DOWN TO SOUTHING GHANA TO BECOME KAYOYAS AND YOU SAY WE ARE ALL EQUAL? IS IT BECAUCE FREE EDUCATION HAS PROMOTED YOU TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT? YOU ARE JUST NOT SERIOUS. EVEN YOU YOURSELF FEEL INFERIOR TO SOME TRIBES IN GHANA. YOU SEE THAT YOU ARE LAUGHING AT THIS, BUT THAT IS A FACT YOU CANNOT ACCEPT. TWEAA KAI.
KKO 9 years ago

Except that some have an inferiority complex!

Except that some have an inferiority complex!
RKA 9 years ago

Mr President, you got it right! Cultural diversity should be seen as a blessing rather than a curse!

Mr President, you got it right! Cultural diversity should be seen as a blessing rather than a curse!
atd 9 years ago

Mr president, remember that all persona are born equal but some are more equal than others.

Mr president, remember that all persona are born equal but some are more equal than others.
NOBODY 9 years ago

Some are more equal than others, like Ahoofe, right? How do you define superiority to arrive at the conclusion that some ethnic groups are superior to others? The issue here is not about birth, but rather about ethnicity. hav ...
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Some are more equal than others, like Ahoofe, right? How do you define superiority to arrive at the conclusion that some ethnic groups are superior to others? The issue here is not about birth, but rather about ethnicity. having more than others does not make one superior to others.
kwasi kyei baffour 9 years ago

What the president is saying is true.any person who who wants respect should carry respect along anywhere that person goes.the ethnic group the person is from does not make a difference.nkrumah tried to supress tribalism in g ...
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What the president is saying is true.any person who who wants respect should carry respect along anywhere that person goes.the ethnic group the person is from does not make a difference.nkrumah tried to supress tribalism in ghana.
adanko 9 years ago

NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OR SAY YOUR PRESIDENCY HAS EXPOSED YOUR BACKGROUND OF NOT BEING AN EFFECTIVE LEADER DESPITE ALL THE HELP YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES. LET US GIVE ANOTHER PERSON A CHANCE AND YOU WILL SEE ...
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NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OR SAY YOUR PRESIDENCY HAS EXPOSED YOUR BACKGROUND OF NOT BEING AN EFFECTIVE LEADER DESPITE ALL THE HELP YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES. LET US GIVE ANOTHER PERSON A CHANCE AND YOU WILL SEE THE DFFERENCE
EZEKIEL 9 years ago

The President IS RIGHT! Anybody who thinks his/her tribe is SUPERION than another MUST BE AN I D I O T indeed!
If the cap fits you,wear it!!

The President IS RIGHT! Anybody who thinks his/her tribe is SUPERION than another MUST BE AN I D I O T indeed!
If the cap fits you,wear it!!
mahama most corrupt 9 years ago

I agree, but please tell the other groups to go back and build their cities after Accra that how some other groups that's it .they always to back to Kumasi and their hometowns for developments

I agree, but please tell the other groups to go back and build their cities after Accra that how some other groups that's it .they always to back to Kumasi and their hometowns for developments
Majeed Bimbilla 9 years ago

we the people of Bimbilla thought you never knew that whiles trying to change our traditions and cultural heritage you are really a hypocrite God will punish you for that

we the people of Bimbilla thought you never knew that whiles trying to change our traditions and cultural heritage you are really a hypocrite God will punish you for that
Nana Antwi 9 years ago

Mr. President please Reflect on the ethnicity you used in you used very successfully in your 2012 campaign - saying a Northerner can also be President (as if a Northerner had never been Elected President before). You have no ...
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Mr. President please Reflect on the ethnicity you used in you used very successfully in your 2012 campaign - saying a Northerner can also be President (as if a Northerner had never been Elected President before). You have no moral right to condemn the tribal card in politics since you are a beneficiary of Northerners you can also become a victim of rejection by Sotherners
Nana Antwi 9 years ago

Southerners do not be fooled. JDM has put this out to get you to attack Northerners who he has done nothing at all for, so that he can rally their support again that he is hated because he is one of them instead of blaming hi ...
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Southerners do not be fooled. JDM has put this out to get you to attack Northerners who he has done nothing at all for, so that he can rally their support again that he is hated because he is one of them instead of blaming his abysmal performance
FACT 9 years ago

The P(NDC)party conveniently employs ethnocentrism and tribalism when it suits them, and when backed into a corner and they start feeling the repercussions of such tribalism and ethnocentrism, it becomes an issue.
Ghanaians ...
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The P(NDC)party conveniently employs ethnocentrism and tribalism when it suits them, and when backed into a corner and they start feeling the repercussions of such tribalism and ethnocentrism, it becomes an issue.
Ghanaians as a people do not see one ethnic group as superior to another, although the P(NDC) has fed off on that narrative and exploited it for political expediency.
It is the exploitation of our diversity, for parochial political advantages and expediency on the altar of partisanship as against meritocracy and intelligence, competence, commitment, integrity, incorruptibility, respect, ability and vision in our development agenda, that has served to create the conditions today in Ghana, where Robert Mugabe laughs derisively at the socio-economic state of the country.
Most Ghanaians would rather see competent, intelligent, visionary, incorruptible, committed, and capable men and women driving the Ghana agenda, than a marauding bunch of corrupt, thieving, klpetocratic, non-thinking, unintelligent, visionless, insulting, disrespectful, lying, boastful, arrogant, inept horde of looting brigands burying the nation-state into the ground, indeed, a very chaotic state of affairs for a country that holds so much promise.
The Mahama NDC gov't had the chance to prudently and intelligently use the resources of the state to drive the development agenda of the country, and after employing the issue of tribalism and ethnocentrism in such a quest, they cannot be seen to be denouncing such actions, most especially when the recklessness of such ethnocentrism and tribalism has not inured to the benefit of the socio-economic development of the country.
Ethnocentrism was employed and continues to be employed by the P(NDC)party, and in the final embers of their administration they would need to embrace the folly of such a narrative, and seek to engage in the belief and capability of the intellect and the totality of the strength in the diversity of the Ghanaian people, based on competence to address the developmental morass in which the country finds itself. John Mahama has started well and going forward, he would need to apologize to Ghanaians at every given opportunity, for employing ethnocentrism and tribalism for political expediency and continually advance the notion that, it's intelligence, commitment, integrity and incorruptibility that builds a nation, which has been completely lost in the political sphere of the country, and in the NDC party.

No ethnic group is superior to others – Mahama

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