Rawlings' probity and accountability failed - Prof. Ocquaye

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OWEN.NEW YORK. 9 years ago

Mahatma will not and can not do anything about corruption because he is deeply corrupt.

Mahatma will not and can not do anything about corruption because he is deeply corrupt.
Close Observer 9 years ago

THAT CLUELESS, VISIONLESS AND USELESS NDC PARTY ONLY CREATES PROBLEMS FOR OTHERS TO SOLVE. UNFORTUNATELY, MOST GHANAIANS DON'T REALISE THAT THEY ARE ONLY GOOD AT SENDING GHANA TO HIPIC. THE CROP OF THEIR CURRENT POLITICIANS A ...
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THAT CLUELESS, VISIONLESS AND USELESS NDC PARTY ONLY CREATES PROBLEMS FOR OTHERS TO SOLVE. UNFORTUNATELY, MOST GHANAIANS DON'T REALISE THAT THEY ARE ONLY GOOD AT SENDING GHANA TO HIPIC. THE CROP OF THEIR CURRENT POLITICIANS ARE VERY CERTAIN OF ONE THING, THEY ARE THERE TO LOOT AND SHARE STATE RESOURCES AND PRACTICE CORRUPTION TO THE MAXIMUM. HENCE, THE REASON WHY THEY HAVE SWEPT THAT 'ANNOYING SLOGAN' UNDER THE CARPET. THEIR CONSCIENCE WILL NOT LET THEM USE THAT SLOGAN ANYMORE, BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE GHANIANS EVEN MORE ANGRY.

WELL, LET ME GO DOWN ON MY KNEES AND SAY A PRAYER FOR GHANA:

O Lord I pray for Mother Ghana, that you reduce the number of FOOLISH VOTERS in 2016. Father the small number that will be left, wash their faces with sea sand so that they would be able to see the predicament they have put Ghana in through their foolish action, and change for the better. I pray that you let them vote this USELESS and CLUELESS GOVERNMENT out. Let those who these FOOLISH VOTERS envy because they are prospering as a result of which they vote foolishly so that they will be equal with them prosper even more. Father let those who are sympathetic to these USELESS VOTERS stop giving them money when they come begging, so that they will realize 'Ghana is hard', and vote wisely this time round. Lord, there are too many office to office beggars in Ghana, that is a sign of poverty, kick those who encourage this out of office. Merciful Father, too many FOOLISH VOTERS who have no sense of dignity are rewarded with trips to soccer matches only to go and sleep on the floor in foreign land, and eventually seek asylum, stamp that disgraceful spirit out of Ghana. Lord, you have blessed us with everything that can make us rich, but you seemed to have forgotten to protect mother Ghana from greedy politicians and thieves; we call on you to rise and let these nation wreakers scatter in 2016. Amen
facts 9 years ago

Rawlings was fighting corruption by words not by deeds. He was himself involved and so were all his cohorts and they kept on deceiving Ghanaians and also themselves. The one who could not pay for yokegari today look at his be ...
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Rawlings was fighting corruption by words not by deeds. He was himself involved and so were all his cohorts and they kept on deceiving Ghanaians and also themselves. The one who could not pay for yokegari today look at his belly,he owes more than 3 houses, 5 cars, educating his children overseas and made the indemnity clause to protect him so he can talk.
BlindMan 9 years ago

And Mike Ocquaye can not be spared either; after his foreign service position from India, he was Red HOT with the distribution of Corn Mills to the small town villagers during the leadership contest. Mike Ocquaye is a CROOCKE ...
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And Mike Ocquaye can not be spared either; after his foreign service position from India, he was Red HOT with the distribution of Corn Mills to the small town villagers during the leadership contest. Mike Ocquaye is a CROOCKED man!
Ghfuo: Be Bad &hang nyantakyi, NOW! 9 years ago

How to stop Corruption
1. Corruption Sensitivity Training: Educate the executives(attorney general, the judges, public officials, immigration, police officers)about the short, long term effects and impacts of corruption. Co ...
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How to stop Corruption
1. Corruption Sensitivity Training: Educate the executives(attorney general, the judges, public officials, immigration, police officers)about the short, long term effects and impacts of corruption. Corruption Sensitivity Training should be a mandatory part of interview process, class, testing requirement for all ministers and public sector officials. Make them aware of the consequences and have them sign off on this. If judges, police officers, employees are educated and made to understand the explicit and implicit impacts of corruption and how it affects their own salaries, bonuses etc. Things will change!
2. Enforce the Law: Offenders must face jail time, tickets/fines, sell assets to payback what has been stolen, name and shame offenders in media
3. Put ethical persons in positions of power,
4. yearly revenue audits brief
5.NPP: Narcotic Peddlers Party, NDC: Niggas Deep in Corruption

NDC: adum a dum dum b3 gyae! Muahahahahaaaaaaa
NDC has ruled ghana more than any political party since 1957.
Yet, look at the economic and infrastructural deprivation in Volta region? Muahahahaaaaaaaaa
Fool me once, Fool me 2wice. Volta region shine ur eye wai muahahahahaaaaaaa!
KWATROKWA SE 9 years ago

TRUTH IS THE KEY TO STOP CORRUPTION. THE FOUNDER OF NDC HIMSELF IS A BIG LIAR, HE TELLS YOU PROBITY AND ACC BUT NEVER ACCOUNTED FOR ANY INCLUDING CASH COLLECTED BY HIS REGIME IN THE AFRC. WHAT HE TELLS YOU IS INVERSELY PRACT ...
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TRUTH IS THE KEY TO STOP CORRUPTION. THE FOUNDER OF NDC HIMSELF IS A BIG LIAR, HE TELLS YOU PROBITY AND ACC BUT NEVER ACCOUNTED FOR ANY INCLUDING CASH COLLECTED BY HIS REGIME IN THE AFRC. WHAT HE TELLS YOU IS INVERSELY PRACTICED BY HIM.
Guv 9 years ago

This professor has no integrity. JJ managed to wipe out kalabule and KU4 is on record to be the most corrupt President Ghana has ever had. What happened to Gold chains and dubious awards? Not mentioning EO.

This professor has no integrity. JJ managed to wipe out kalabule and KU4 is on record to be the most corrupt President Ghana has ever had. What happened to Gold chains and dubious awards? Not mentioning EO.
OSEI 9 years ago

IT IS VERY EASY TO SOLVE CORRUPTION "IF" THEY WANT TO. PROSECUTE THEM, IF THEY ARE GUILTY, CONFISCATE THEIR CORRUPT BOOTY, AND FINALLY JAIL THEM AND THAT WILL FORBID THEM FROM TAKING A GOVT. JOB IN THE FUTURE. IT WILL BE A LE ...
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IT IS VERY EASY TO SOLVE CORRUPTION "IF" THEY WANT TO. PROSECUTE THEM, IF THEY ARE GUILTY, CONFISCATE THEIR CORRUPT BOOTY, AND FINALLY JAIL THEM AND THAT WILL FORBID THEM FROM TAKING A GOVT. JOB IN THE FUTURE. IT WILL BE A LESSON POTENTIAL THIEVES IN THE GOVERNMENT.
shoeshine boys 9 years ago

Decorated chimpanzés the ashanti monkeys were the foolish voters

Decorated chimpanzés the ashanti monkeys were the foolish voters
Mahmoud 9 years ago

I really like what this man has said about our leaders and our young democracy. Please take your time to read the following piece:

What do we have? A democracy that is designed to keep everything about officialdom in the d ...
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I really like what this man has said about our leaders and our young democracy. Please take your time to read the following piece:

What do we have? A democracy that is designed to keep everything about officialdom in the darkest part of the alley. How much is our President paid a month and how much tax does he pay? How about the Vice President and other government officials being supported by the ordinary tax-payer?

Information about such issues is regarded as top secret!! Why should it be so? Just because it is not what our democracy is designed to help the people know so they can appreciate governance as responsible citizens. The lid is kept tight on such issues because nobody in authority wants the citizens to be well-informed so as to do critical assessment of issues. Keeping them in the dark is good for those who profit from this kind of democracy. That is why passing the Right to Information bill into law is dragging on.

As I have kept saying all this while, no democracy can endure without public funds; and those who have access to such funds are required to account for their stewardship so the citizens whose sweat, blood, and tears feed the national coffers can monitor how public funds are spent. Anything short of that will demoralize the citizens and spawn rebellion.

Why is it that nothing is told the citizens about how much money is being spent on all the foreign engagements of the President and high-ranking government officials? Of course, they don’t bear the cost. It is the citizens who do so. Thus, why not tell them how much money goes where at which time so they can become informed to act responsibly? Nobody in authority will do so because much water has to pass under the bridge for them to live their lives in comfort. That is what our kind of democracy offers them.
And this kind of democracy being practised in Ghana cannot help us develop our country. It will only provide a safe haven for self-seekers to be cushioned while the millions of citizens killing themselves to sustain the democracy sink further down into narrow circumstances. Pathetic.

That is why they are not bothered about the weakening of our institutions of state because they profit from such inadequacies. If they didn’t, they would gear up to retool those institutions for them to perform their legitimate functions to keep them on their toes. They know how to keep those institutions on their leash for personal comfort. That is why despite being practised for 22 years now, our democracy is still wobbling and hobbling.
Let nobody tell me that there is stability and that general elections have been conducted for governments to be changed. This kind of ritual is sterile and dangerous because it misrepresents reality. The citizens are compelled to exercise their franchise because they are still not sure whether abandoning this democracy will be a better solution to the country’s problems of under-development. They won’t certainly welcome the military toads; thus, why not stick to the devil that they know and damn the angel lurking at the fringes? But this situation itself is dangerous.

When the citizens seek only the political kingdom and nothing is added to it, they become disaffected for the devil to give jobs to. Such jobs include anti-social activities such as selective sabotage, plain criminal activities like armed robbery, murder, and what-have-you? Is that what we are nurturing our democracy to produce?
Can our leaders ever learn to do the right thing so we can all work together to grow our democracy for it to serve our collective purposes? I wonder; I really wonder!
I shall return…
• E-mail: mjbokor@yahoo.com
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!!!
baby luv 9 years ago

Mr no nonsense taker,
don't you see by using such foul words you continue to show to the world how small African brain is. thw west will continue to look down on the Blacks.the blacks amongst them will continue to suffer bec ...
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Mr no nonsense taker,
don't you see by using such foul words you continue to show to the world how small African brain is. thw west will continue to look down on the Blacks.the blacks amongst them will continue to suffer because they will continue to see the black man as the monkey from the jungle and that includes You. so I'll suggest those who think they have all the knowledge to turn the country round better start
Its a big shame that an educated person like you cannot indulge in a civilized dialogue
KWATROKWA SE 9 years ago

PROF FORGETS TO MENTION THE WHISTLE BLOWING ACT WHICH THIS ADMINISTRATION IS MAKING NONSENSE OF AND RATHER PUNISHING THOSE REVEILING THE TRUTH.

PROF FORGETS TO MENTION THE WHISTLE BLOWING ACT WHICH THIS ADMINISTRATION IS MAKING NONSENSE OF AND RATHER PUNISHING THOSE REVEILING THE TRUTH.
Close Observer 9 years ago

HORRIBLE INDEED! TODAY, PEOPLE OPENLY MENTION TRIBES AND INSULT THEM, HAVING NO SENSE WHAT TRIBAL DISCRIMINATION DOES TO THE UNITY OF A COUNTRY. Until people like you, 'SHOESHINE BOYS', (you seem to reason like one) stop open ...
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HORRIBLE INDEED! TODAY, PEOPLE OPENLY MENTION TRIBES AND INSULT THEM, HAVING NO SENSE WHAT TRIBAL DISCRIMINATION DOES TO THE UNITY OF A COUNTRY. Until people like you, 'SHOESHINE BOYS', (you seem to reason like one) stop openly discriminating against other tribes, I will not stop tagging you as FOOLISH VOTERS AND FOLLOWERS. Unfortunately, there seemed to be NO SENSIBLE POLITICIAN TO DISCOURAGE THIS EVIL PRACTICE, THEY ARE HAPPY ABOUT IT RATHER, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THEY RIDE ON TO POWER. PITCH ON ONE TRIBE AGAINST THE OTHER. FOOLISH NDC PARTY. Since they are not there for the interest of Ghana but themselves.

ASIEDU NKETIA HAS ADVISED NDC DELEGATES NOT TO DEMAND MONEY FROM CANDIDATES ASPIRING FOR POSITIONS TO COVER EXPENSES BEFORE VOTING FOR THEM. DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE? EVEN PARTY DELEGATES?

Pause and reflect on what influence your decision on who you vote for. If your decision is influenced by the APPEARANCE of a candidate and not his/her COMPETENCE, you are a FOOLISH VOTER. If you are someone who is fond of exchanging your VOTE for a GIFT, you are a FOOLISH VOTER. If you don't care about who you vote for, all that matters is that he belongs to the party you like, you are also a FOOLISH VOTER. Finally, if your vote is influence by TRIBAL AFFILIATION, you are a VERY FOOLISH VOTER. Remember, your action affects all of us. THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE
Ghanaba 9 years ago

THANKS, MY BROTHER YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY. LET THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE ON TOP OF THE WORLD TODAY REALISE THAT even KING SOLOMON SAID IT ALL IN HIS !SONGS OF SOLOMON". WITH ALL THE WEALTH HE WAS CHASING THE WIND".

THANKS, MY BROTHER YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY. LET THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE ON TOP OF THE WORLD TODAY REALISE THAT even KING SOLOMON SAID IT ALL IN HIS !SONGS OF SOLOMON". WITH ALL THE WEALTH HE WAS CHASING THE WIND".
ICONIC-07 9 years ago

RAWLING NEVER HAD ANY VISION TO START WITH OTHER THAN EMPTY RHETORICS TO REVAMP THE ECONOMY HE HAS NO UNDERSTANDING OF MANAGING.

AKUFO ADDO HAD NO VISION OTHER THAN TEALING OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH'S BABY, "COMPULSORY FR ...
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RAWLING NEVER HAD ANY VISION TO START WITH OTHER THAN EMPTY RHETORICS TO REVAMP THE ECONOMY HE HAS NO UNDERSTANDING OF MANAGING.

AKUFO ADDO HAD NO VISION OTHER THAN TEALING OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH'S BABY, "COMPULSORY FREE EDUCATION" FOR ALL CITIZENS, JUST TO WIN VOTE TO SATISFY HIM IRRESISTIBLE DREAM OF BECOMING PRESIDENT TO PLUNDER THE STATE TREASURY AS HIS SHORTISH FATHER AND UP-PP DID TO THE COUNTRY AND COVERED IT. "NKRUMAH LIVES"

THE SHAMEFUL PART OF AKUFO ADDO STEALING OSAGYEFO DR. NKRUMAH'S VISION IF BLATANTLY REFUSING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FREE EDUCATION WAS OSAGYEFO'S GLAND VISION FOR GHANA.

LIKE BASTARD RAWLING, AKUFO ADDO CLAIMS THE ONLY VISIONARY GHANA HAD EVER HAD WAS EDUCATED ILLITERATE BUSIA. FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL !

THOSE WHO IDOLIZE RAWLINGS AND AKUFO ADDO ARE AS SICK AS THESE TWO VISIONLESS AND CLUELESS ELEMENTS.

ALUTA CONTINUA !!!!!!!
MENSA 9 years ago

THIS MAN IS NOT SCARED OF ANYONE IN GHANA NOT THE POLICE OR ARMY OR ANY GOVT OFFICEL IF ANYTHING THEY ALL SCARED TO DEATH FROM RAWLINGS AND THT IS THE TRUTH AND WE ALL KNOW IT

THIS MAN IS NOT SCARED OF ANYONE IN GHANA NOT THE POLICE OR ARMY OR ANY GOVT OFFICEL IF ANYTHING THEY ALL SCARED TO DEATH FROM RAWLINGS AND THT IS THE TRUTH AND WE ALL KNOW IT
They Say They Say 9 years ago

There's so much to gain in search of good legacy just by building more jails, setting up more fast track courts in every community, incarcerate people as many as possible and let them feed themselves by operating their own fa ...
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There's so much to gain in search of good legacy just by building more jails, setting up more fast track courts in every community, incarcerate people as many as possible and let them feed themselves by operating their own farms. We need a government who would come in day one, declare an anti corruption day, grant amnesty to those who would come forward voluntarily , apologize to the state and pay back and deal ruthlessly with those the state go out and prosecute. We need a leader who can take up this crusade.
Mahmoud 9 years ago

The president has said many times that he had tried to introduce electronic payment and acquisition systems into the public sector {to reduce human contact with cash} in his effort to fighting corruption, but lamented that th ...
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The president has said many times that he had tried to introduce electronic payment and acquisition systems into the public sector {to reduce human contact with cash} in his effort to fighting corruption, but lamented that the systems were often resisted.

This has become so monotonous that Ghanaians are beginning to wonder whether the president is actually serious and interested in fighting corruption as he claims, or it's just another crocodile's tears to deceive Ghanaians into believing that he is making an effort, while the government and its cronies amass billions of dollars at the expense of this struggling nation.
Why would Ghanaians hire a president that can't even introduce an electronic system successfully into the public sector to save us from criminals masquerading as civil servants? Mr. Mahama must be seen to be fighting corruption with all his might rather than go on lamenting helplessly like the rest of us who hired him to do the job.
They Say They Say 9 years ago

You are absolutely right on point. It seems all the successive gov'ts have done little but cosmetic gestures to show how serious they are dealing with corruption ,while turning blind eye on what's actually going on. It's not ...
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You are absolutely right on point. It seems all the successive gov'ts have done little but cosmetic gestures to show how serious they are dealing with corruption ,while turning blind eye on what's actually going on. It's not even fair to blame Mahama for what looks more institutional based on the history of Ghana but how he's failed to ride this tidal wave of anti corruption sentiments blowing across the country. I would like to see these journalists grille these presidential candidates on how they'll specifically deal with this fight rather than allow them to go round making these sound bites here and there.
adamu (damango in the north) 9 years ago

Do not use this opportunity to expose the way you were br. Up.

Do not use this opportunity to expose the way you were br. Up.
Watch Tower. 9 years ago

I was young but now I am old, I have seen few presidents in my time, and in my humble opinion, Kufour tops them all. Where Kufour failed is that he was not able to keep the prisidency for Nana Akufour-Addo, because he had his ...
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I was young but now I am old, I have seen few presidents in my time, and in my humble opinion, Kufour tops them all. Where Kufour failed is that he was not able to keep the prisidency for Nana Akufour-Addo, because he had his backing on someone else. So now the people are paying the price for sin.
As a leader of a house, or a home, we will do well to trust the home to not our will,but the will of the people of the home.
As far as Rawlings, he may have had good intentions to correct the wrong,but in the end he could only establish fear in the citizen. He was no president but in my books a class bully.
Watch Tower. 9 years ago

As far as Mahama goes, he is a president by default. Mahama is weak,incompetent,visionless and above all corrupt. Under Mahama's presidency Ghana has oil in commercial quantities, and yet know Ghanaian will ever know it. Befo ...
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As far as Mahama goes, he is a president by default. Mahama is weak,incompetent,visionless and above all corrupt. Under Mahama's presidency Ghana has oil in commercial quantities, and yet know Ghanaian will ever know it. Before Mahama leaves office he will successfully bring Ghana under HIPC once again.
Under Mahama Ghana will be tainted with drugs. There will be schemes after schemes all designed to siphon money from the people. They took 200million under GYEEDA only for government to retrieve 14million for the people. Is this a responsible government that cares about the people? Now there is SADA, SUBAH, NSS and look at the world cup fiasco.
There is also Woyome gate saga, Akomfem and dumsor dumsor.
Mahama is big on talk, but little on delivering. He has started many uncompleted projects.
I want to know this: Which is the second largest international airport in Ghana? Tamale or Kumasi?
Ghanaba 9 years ago

YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE. HE FEELS HE IS SHOWING THE ASHANTIS WITHJ HIS TRIBALISM. HE HAS SEEN ON THE WALL THAT BY HIS PERFORMANCE NO NORTHERN MAN MAY PERHAPS ASCEND THE PRESIDENCY, HENCE HE IS DOING ALL THAT WITHIN THIS ...
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YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE. HE FEELS HE IS SHOWING THE ASHANTIS WITHJ HIS TRIBALISM. HE HAS SEEN ON THE WALL THAT BY HIS PERFORMANCE NO NORTHERN MAN MAY PERHAPS ASCEND THE PRESIDENCY, HENCE HE IS DOING ALL THAT WITHIN THIS POWER THAT HE HAS GOT TO SHOW THE ASHANTIS. NO WHERE IN THIS WORLD IS THE 2ND CITY OF ANY COUNTRY NEGLECTED AS FAR AS AIRPORTS ARE CONCERNED. LET HIM CONTINUE TO SHOW BIAS, TRIBALISM,HATRED ETC AGAINST THE AKANS.
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 9 years ago

This man Ocquaye should be stripped of his professor title as he has disgraced all professors with this rhetoric that the most highes thief, Kufuor was more potent in dealing with corruption than past and present leaders.

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This man Ocquaye should be stripped of his professor title as he has disgraced all professors with this rhetoric that the most highes thief, Kufuor was more potent in dealing with corruption than past and present leaders.

Mike Ocquaye has limited himself to thievery.
Oman Ba 9 years ago

There are a lot of idiots like KOLA LONDON PROPER WHO CAN'T READ AND UNDERSTAND.

Professor Ocquaye has worked meritoriously to earn professorial title which nobody can strip him of it.

When intelligent and brainy peop ...
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There are a lot of idiots like KOLA LONDON PROPER WHO CAN'T READ AND UNDERSTAND.

Professor Ocquaye has worked meritoriously to earn professorial title which nobody can strip him of it.

When intelligent and brainy people speak everybody gets the understanding. What did Prof. Ocquaye say that makes him blind?
JACK 9 years ago

Ghanians are the problem. Rawlings did his best to make things better. It's sad an foolish old man who is supposed to know better is pointing fingers at Rawlings.

Ghanians are the problem. Rawlings did his best to make things better. It's sad an foolish old man who is supposed to know better is pointing fingers at Rawlings.
Joe Moore 9 years ago

what are you talking about? president kufour said corruption started from garden of Adam and so he would not or can't fight corruption because its started before he was born. lets be real for once. rawlings time we see more ...
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what are you talking about? president kufour said corruption started from garden of Adam and so he would not or can't fight corruption because its started before he was born. lets be real for once. rawlings time we see more disciplined and there is corruption too but mr. kufour times was worst,
Odikr@ 9 years ago

Ghanaians are very adept at "squeezing water out of a stone".
I believe School Admission staff are asking unsuspecting parents to follow "protocol" before their wards are considered.

Ghanaians are very adept at "squeezing water out of a stone".
I believe School Admission staff are asking unsuspecting parents to follow "protocol" before their wards are considered.
Sgt Ahmed Aadams 9 years ago

This old man should be honest to the youth of this country by being truthful all the time. My heart bleeds any time I hear old people of his age spewing lies every now and then. Have they forgotten that their advanced age is ...
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This old man should be honest to the youth of this country by being truthful all the time. My heart bleeds any time I hear old people of his age spewing lies every now and then. Have they forgotten that their advanced age is a sign that they are very close to their graves hence, it is better for them to be truthful before their dying day. Mr old prof, Ghanaians never see or hear kufour fighting corruption between 2001 and 2008. Instead he seriously institutionalized CORRUPTION in Ghana. Kufour and his friends and cronies including prof Quaye, bullshitted and overturned the gains of 4th June revolution. Infact they worshipped and adored CORRUPTION in Ghana. Prof Quaye should spare us his lies and behave as a senior citizen.
EFO KOKU 9 years ago

What gains are u talking about under Rawlings? Mention just one. You people are the reason why this country is still where it is. Or you are talking of the HIPC Rawlings took us to? Plsssssss! Or the cash & carry?

What gains are u talking about under Rawlings? Mention just one. You people are the reason why this country is still where it is. Or you are talking of the HIPC Rawlings took us to? Plsssssss! Or the cash & carry?
yaw 9 years ago

@ joe moore if he kuffour said corruption started the time of adam it doesnt mean he said he cant fight against it... At his time measures were placed to help reduced or eliminate it. eg the procrument act etc. Rawlings in hi ...
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@ joe moore if he kuffour said corruption started the time of adam it doesnt mean he said he cant fight against it... At his time measures were placed to help reduced or eliminate it. eg the procrument act etc. Rawlings in his time frm 1979 -1992-2000 never accounted for he spent the nation money.. There was nothing audit during the regime of Rawlings... BUT kuffours govt accounted for their expenditure and revenue yearly by the auditor general report..
Concerned 9 years ago

Garage full of dollars was found in a rawlings minister's house, account 48 vanished under his leadership and he is refusing to talk about it. When an ugly woman like Nana konadu shouts more times than any woman that she is t ...
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Garage full of dollars was found in a rawlings minister's house, account 48 vanished under his leadership and he is refusing to talk about it. When an ugly woman like Nana konadu shouts more times than any woman that she is the prettiest, that won't make her pretty, she would remain as ugly as ever. A corrupt leader like rawlings under normal circumstances shouldn't fool people into thinking he is not corrupt but unfortunately, some people are not normal.
KnYc(USMC) 9 years ago

Why is he sitting there ,were by the country is going ashtray? What has ndc done? Maybe I do not know but tell me.The probability of him saying the positive is negative.

Why is he sitting there ,were by the country is going ashtray? What has ndc done? Maybe I do not know but tell me.The probability of him saying the positive is negative.
Nana kanawu,Amsterdam 9 years ago

Hey Prof,when at all in Kuffour,s time did he fight corruption?shame unto you.

Hey Prof,when at all in Kuffour,s time did he fight corruption?shame unto you.
KENNEDY 9 years ago

JJ ONLY SUCCEEDED IN LAUNCHING A PACK OF THIEVES ON THE GHANAIAN POLITICAL SCENE....JJ KNOWS THIS TOO WELL BUT HIS IMMENSE HATRED FOR AKANS WONT LET HIM ADMIT HIS FAILURE AND REALIZATION THAT THE OTHER NON-AKAN TRIBES ARE SO ...
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JJ ONLY SUCCEEDED IN LAUNCHING A PACK OF THIEVES ON THE GHANAIAN POLITICAL SCENE....JJ KNOWS THIS TOO WELL BUT HIS IMMENSE HATRED FOR AKANS WONT LET HIM ADMIT HIS FAILURE AND REALIZATION THAT THE OTHER NON-AKAN TRIBES ARE SO MUCH WORSE THAN AKANS WHEN IT COMES TO CORRUPTION.....INDEED, NDC ARE NOT JUST CORRUPT BUT ARE REAL THIEVES, FROM WOYOME, BETTYMOULD, BARTON ODRO, TONY LITHUR, ASIEDU NKETIA, JOHN MAHAMA, ETC ETC....THEY ARE ALL PLAIN OLD THIEVES LED BY THAT HYPOCRITE CALLED ATTA MILLS THE SO CALLED ASOMDWEHENE.....SO NO WONDER THEY HATED MARTIN AMIDU WITH SUCH VENOMOUS HATRED.....REAL THIEVES IN NDC......WITH YOUNG THIEVES BEING BRED BUT GHANA WILL KEEP THEM OFF OUR GOVNCE IN THE FUTURE, YOUNG THIEVES LIKE ABLAKWAH OKUDZETO THE JUDGEMENT DEBTS NEGOTIATOR...
Kpenyigba Kwesi 9 years ago

Please do not join our dear beloved Prof Atta Mills for he is not corrupt. He was not a hypocrite. He was kind and straightforward President. He cannot be compared with any other Ghanaian President. Let His Soul Rest in Peace ...
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Please do not join our dear beloved Prof Atta Mills for he is not corrupt. He was not a hypocrite. He was kind and straightforward President. He cannot be compared with any other Ghanaian President. Let His Soul Rest in Peace. He did a lot for Ghana, so let's praise him.
FINN 9 years ago

this wicked man who had no guts to fight corruption was ABLE TO SACK MARTIN AMIDU WITH THE STUPIDEST EXCUSE EVER.............this was despite the fact that WOYOME had duped poor Ghanaians of 45 million dollars.......STUPID AT ...
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this wicked man who had no guts to fight corruption was ABLE TO SACK MARTIN AMIDU WITH THE STUPIDEST EXCUSE EVER.............this was despite the fact that WOYOME had duped poor Ghanaians of 45 million dollars.......STUPID ATTAMILLS COULDN'T EVEN SUMMON NPP TO SHED LIGHT ON WOYOME CLAIMS......HE FOOLISHLY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY FOR BETTYMOULD TO DUPE GHANA.....meanwhile go and look at his poor village OTUAM......the MAN ATTAMILLS was stupid and wicked......what did he do for Ghana?.......HE HAD THE NERVES AND STUPIDITY TO SACK A VIRTUOUS MAN LIKE MARTIN AMIDU......HE KNEW HIS CONSCIENCE WILL NEVER GIVE HIM PEACE OF MIND AFTER DUPING POOR GHANAIANS.....
Kpenyigba Kwesi 9 years ago

Please live that gentleman alone

Please live that gentleman alone
FINN 9 years ago

look it's only a fool who will exonerate ATTAMILLS from the thievery that happened under his regime.......HE WAS EXPOSED BY GOD FOR HIS THIEVERY ON POOR GHANAIANS SO HE COULDN'T LIVE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE ANYMORE.....ONLY A FOO ...
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look it's only a fool who will exonerate ATTAMILLS from the thievery that happened under his regime.......HE WAS EXPOSED BY GOD FOR HIS THIEVERY ON POOR GHANAIANS SO HE COULDN'T LIVE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE ANYMORE.....ONLY A FOOL WON'T SEE THE COMPLICITY OF ATTAMILLS IN ALL THIS....
KnYc(USMC) 9 years ago

Successfully in what? Tell me.

Successfully in what? Tell me.
Odikr@ 9 years ago

"Whether you are rich or poor;it's nice to have money"
However; not by any means necessary.
Some of the "haves" in Ghana are mainly the ones prone to "giving and taking"in this corruption saga.

"Whether you are rich or poor;it's nice to have money"
However; not by any means necessary.
Some of the "haves" in Ghana are mainly the ones prone to "giving and taking"in this corruption saga.
Pelicles 9 years ago

Every human can use his or her mouth to build a mansion but not in reality. JJ's probity and accountability was a sham and he knew it else, why did he smuggle the "Indemnity clause" into the constitution to protect himself?

Every human can use his or her mouth to build a mansion but not in reality. JJ's probity and accountability was a sham and he knew it else, why did he smuggle the "Indemnity clause" into the constitution to protect himself?
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

The indemnity clause was not for only Rawlings. It was for all who might have been part of the many Military Coups and could have been tried for all kinds of excesses.

More, it was supposed to be a compromising feature to ...
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The indemnity clause was not for only Rawlings. It was for all who might have been part of the many Military Coups and could have been tried for all kinds of excesses.

More, it was supposed to be a compromising feature to prevent future vengeful schemes by others who may be in Power.

We must also not overlook the significance of the acts of those who opposed Rawlings to have his programs fail.

Honestly, it is wrong for us to think that our recalcitrant opposition to change that makes us go back to our corrupt behaviors necessarily renders any past anti-corrupt programs a failure. If the same program had still been in force and people then boldly and insensitively went back to that practice, then could we say the program did not work.

The program under Rawlings was effective but only for the period that that program was in force. It was not the only way for us to change. It was only one way. But it did lack the attribute of continuity which subsequent Governments which were Democratic could not endorse for its harsh nature.

It failed because folks that thought of that Rawlings program as unacceptable were only waiting for the opportunity to return to Corruption. The subsequent Governments did not provide any effective alternative and allowed the corruption to return.

So, let us give credit where due. People stopped corruption under AFRC because they feared the harsh and swift repercussions. Therefore the program worked, then. It did not have a staying power because of its endemic human rights concerns that offered the later Governments excuse for totally discontinuing it and any other serious program to stop the corruption.

The fact that some people would always repeat some crime does not mean we should stop regulating to stop crimes. We must be serious about corruption. We may even have to stretch the human rights compliance further to the brink to control it.

We often cite Singapore for its Economic success to bring our failure into focus. What we fail to do is acknowledge that it has one of the most stringent Law enforcement with regard to Corruption. The penalty for that is one of the harshest in the World. Singapore never had a Military dictatorship. But its Civilian Dictatorship did all it could to keep the people in line, except using the guns to threaten them. Singapore has one of the swift Capital punishment program still in use. Many people still get the death penalty for drug crimes, for instance.

To sum up, we need harsh penal measures to effectively combat corruption. Period!!

Long Live Ghana!!!
Kwadwo 9 years ago

Except the senseless killing of people perceived to be corrupt, name one anti corruption policy he initiated? In end, did he not even sell state industries to his wife and cronies at bargain prices?

Except the senseless killing of people perceived to be corrupt, name one anti corruption policy he initiated? In end, did he not even sell state industries to his wife and cronies at bargain prices?
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

Ocquaye's piece provides the answer to your question as to whether J. J. had any anti-corruption program or not. I need not answer that.

However, you seem to have overlooked the fact that I mentioned that subsequent Regim ...
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Ocquaye's piece provides the answer to your question as to whether J. J. had any anti-corruption program or not. I need not answer that.

However, you seem to have overlooked the fact that I mentioned that subsequent Regimes following the inception of the "Probity and Accountability" principle as an anti-corruption tool all failed to continue it for one reason or another, and that would include Rawling's own Regime that came later.

You should not forget that it was the AFRC that emerged upon the scene with that mantra for a reason to take over Power. The AFRC era, albeit the horrors of excesses, saw a curtailing in corruption, even though transiently matching its tenure. We cannot deny that. Neither can we deny the atrocities of needless killings and corporal punishment without due process. While I am not for undue process and executions for perceived corruption, I strongly favor maximum legal penalty that effectively deters potential culprits and sufficiently punishes the guilty.

Now, after moving away from that AFRC era, could our subsequent Regimes learn anything from the practice the AFRC subjected us to for ensuring Corruption stayed abated? I think the answer is 'Yes'. But the Regimes dwelled solely on the excesses of the AFRC methodologies to totally ignore the whole exercise against Corruption, conveniently citing only any breach of Civil or Human Rights.

Well, the Regimes could have come out with alternative effective solutions but they never did. Ocquaye was part of the System and one of the Regimes that could have seriously researched what worked on the AFRC era to offer the transient compliance to order needed to curb corruption at that time.

The sale of State Assets, including Industries, to cronies was done under the guise of the Divestiture prescription by the IMF/World Bank that we privatize all Government Businesses. All the Regimes could be cited to have committed that crime against us, not only Rawlings's, even though his is most conspicuous because of the attention he had led to bring to the "Probity and Accountability" principle.

What I attempted to portray in my earlier comment was not to exonerate Rawlings but to show that even if he did hypocritically perpetrate the very crime we heard him preach against, the other Regimes did not do much differently to nudge us into the proper, orderly groove where Corruption could have been minimized.

That is why I cited Singapore's experience with curbing corruption for an example that our subsequent Civilian Regimes could have learnt from, vis-à-vis the often-cited comparison of our two Economies.

I wish you had read my piece well enough and not let your pent-up negative emotions against Rawlings to impede your further analysis of what I wrote. We cannot always dump all our current failures on just that one errant leader. Nothing prohibits us from correcting ourselves now or any point after his era. What I detest, also, is the fact that some Politicians, like Ocquaye, simply invoke the pains of the past to drive some portions of the Population, who might not have access to the pertinent facts, against their opponents but fail to provide any constructive alternative to solving our Corruption crisis. Ocquaye had his chance under the Kufuor Administration to make permanent inroads into the corruption canker that was still around but only thinly covered with faux-legalities but he did nothing significant to help. He should check with Haruna Esseku to have a first-hand information of that fact, if he would play blind to the existence of corruption in his Regime, as well. Talk about Vodafone, the overnight emergence of some shady Businesses that won no-bidding contracts, the instantaneous transformation of raggedly bankrupt family members of high-ups into multi-millionaires, etc. And now, the idiotic flagrant show-offs of opulence by Mahama's brother as in his purchase of a private Jet, while still owing the Merchant Bank that was going bankrupt. Woyomegate, SADA, GYEEDA, ISOFOTON, etc.!! The list is endless. If Rawlings' efforts at curbing corruption failed, it was partly due to his hypocrisy and partly due to the passivity, if not similar connivance, of the likes of Ocquaye.

What I was eluding to in my comment was that we should be thinking of how to legally mete out the harshest penalty for Corruption in Ghana. I had, in a previous comment, suggested that our Corrupt leaders ought to be sent to the Hague for committing crimes against our Humanity. That is because the corruption that they are suspected of being part of has led to the irreversible destruction and even deaths of many of our fellow Citizens. Additionally, I did suggest in the same breath that the indemnity offered J. J. and his bunch and all subsequent Heads of State should have been limited to the time of the Coups, if we really wanted to even the field and offer a blank, clean sheet for fairness in instilling accountability and probity in the Nation. We should have only forgiven whatever heinous atrocities of the Coup era by any one involved in that system. But we should have been prosecuting, to the fullest extent of the Law, any such person, if he or she broke our Laws after that period. That means, Rawlings could have been paraded before the Courts for any crimes, including corruption, that he might have committed after the cyclical Coup era.

Right now, our Presidents, enjoying that indemnity seem to have free, open-ended course to loot us, if they so desire, without any legal consequence other than being voted out of Office. That, to me, is insufficient deterrent or Justice for the crimes they would be committing to decimate our lives.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Concerned 9 years ago

Did you say people stopped corruption under afrc? Burma camp account was stolen under afrc not by the others but by rawlings himself. That's one of the main reasons for the indemnity clause. Please put your brain in gear befo ...
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Did you say people stopped corruption under afrc? Burma camp account was stolen under afrc not by the others but by rawlings himself. That's one of the main reasons for the indemnity clause. Please put your brain in gear before commenting. To follow a fool will only make you look like one . Whilst you wrote a lot of stupid things, I could still see the intelligence underneath all that foolishness. Please make good use of your intelligence. Don't follow that man fucking rawlings
Aduanaba 9 years ago

Berko I have read many a post by you, and this is definitely unlike you. Say you don't mean what you wrote or it ain't so. If you actually believe Rawlings' so-called anti-corruption rhetoric, which really meant corruption by ...
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Berko I have read many a post by you, and this is definitely unlike you. Say you don't mean what you wrote or it ain't so. If you actually believe Rawlings' so-called anti-corruption rhetoric, which really meant corruption by a few insiders was good for us then I have no choice but to align you with the frustrated academics who provided a pseudo intellectual basis for his unfortunate rule.

Have you soon forgotten the Kangaroo courts set up to expedite riddance of perceived enemies of the revolution ? How come Rawlings, a leader buttressed by the goodwill of the populace, gifted with charisma, eloquence and steadfastness to iron fist rule, could not eliminate corruption ? The reason is, he and his cohorts morphed into the criminals they claimed to be after. Since they were the judge and jury, checks and balances were literally thrown out the door. Does "Animal Farm" ring a bell ? Nothing can convince me that Rawlings and his cronies did not become corrupt in the end. We are aware of his financial position before and after his rule, and his salary alone during his almost 20 year rule cannot support the lifestyle he leads today.

If Rawlings finds it hard to move past his anti-corruption ideas, in the early days of his so-called revolution, I wish to make it clear to anyone who cares to listen that Ghanaians have come to realize that he who shouts the loudest in the game of politics almost always has a hidden agenda.Put simply the Ghanaian "pull him down" attitude kicks in when they want a piece of the action.

In the end we-the electorate, must demand accountability of our elected officials because they work for us and not the other way round.
mensah abrampa 9 years ago

You're entitled to your opinion but you sure do sound like you're just waking up from a 35 year long slumber.

You're entitled to your opinion but you sure do sound like you're just waking up from a 35 year long slumber.
Obournana 9 years ago

This prof is intellectually dishonest because of politics. Has he forgotten the 3-5% of oil shares by his corrupt Kuffour and cronies with a fake company in a dubious manner? What about the sales of government lands? Useless ...
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This prof is intellectually dishonest because of politics. Has he forgotten the 3-5% of oil shares by his corrupt Kuffour and cronies with a fake company in a dubious manner? What about the sales of government lands? Useless man. Did Kuffour ever arrest any of his corrupt staff including Dr. Anane using Ghana dues to pay his child support in the US? What is this oldman talking about? It seems prof. Ocquaye is demented.
Naaba kugri 9 years ago

Let them tickle them selfs and laugh. The day of reckoning will some day get up with them. They think we will be fools all the time. We always remember the lnternational student hostel land at airport they shere with friends ...
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Let them tickle them selfs and laugh. The day of reckoning will some day get up with them. They think we will be fools all the time. We always remember the lnternational student hostel land at airport they shere with friends and cronies including the citing Chief Justice. Thanks to NDC today a ministry is siting on that land . What about our oil find the whole Ghana have only 13 percent and kuffour and his cronies own all that remains. And mike oqoue have the oddasity of telling us they fight corruption more. God will surely curse them. They can fool some people some time but can not fool all the people all the time.God bless our homeland ghana
MM 9 years ago

NPP is it not prof mike Ocquaye who was dubiously collecting salary in Ghana and the same time collecting his salary as an ambassador this people God will punish them for how corrupt they were. They even want to come back to ...
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NPP is it not prof mike Ocquaye who was dubiously collecting salary in Ghana and the same time collecting his salary as an ambassador this people God will punish them for how corrupt they were. They even want to come back to power .God have mercy
Kwame Appiah 9 years ago

Mike Ocquaye is sick.Kuffuor and his cronies Wereko Brobbey,Mpiani etc are the worst.

Mike Ocquaye is sick.Kuffuor and his cronies Wereko Brobbey,Mpiani etc are the worst.
Chief amankwa 9 years ago

Ok after Ndc showing in go tv..it means all the talk he manage to produce a more corrupt political party ...all amt to nothing ..then u ask why did people die ..business as usual

Ok after Ndc showing in go tv..it means all the talk he manage to produce a more corrupt political party ...all amt to nothing ..then u ask why did people die ..business as usual
kawsi 9 years ago

MR RAWLING IS A DNGERUES MAN HE WILL COME AFTER FOR THIS REMARKS THE MAN GOS AFTER ANYONE THAT MESS WITH HIM WITH VENGES HE ALWAS GET EVEN THIS RAWLINGS IS A FEARLESS MAN LOOKING FOR CONFORTATIONS ALL THE TIME

MR RAWLING IS A DNGERUES MAN HE WILL COME AFTER FOR THIS REMARKS THE MAN GOS AFTER ANYONE THAT MESS WITH HIM WITH VENGES HE ALWAS GET EVEN THIS RAWLINGS IS A FEARLESS MAN LOOKING FOR CONFORTATIONS ALL THE TIME
Joe Turkey 9 years ago

Jerry Rawlings himself and his wife are thieves. All he did was to use the resources in his care to protect the country to get access to the Ghana's cash vault. Then he produced a network of thieves and murderers - Tsatsu Tsi ...
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Jerry Rawlings himself and his wife are thieves. All he did was to use the resources in his care to protect the country to get access to the Ghana's cash vault. Then he produced a network of thieves and murderers - Tsatsu Tsikana, the Ahwois, PV Obeng, and a bunch of others. How did he make the $50 million dollars he retired with. It said to have all come from government operations.
DAILY GUDIE 9 years ago

PROBITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY WAS JUST A FRONT FOR STEALING STATE FUNDS IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO MAKE INDIVIDUALS LIKE RAWLINGS, THE TSIKATAS, AHWOIS ETC. RICH OVERNIGHT, WITHOUT WORKING FOR IT. THE WHOLE THING WAS A GREAT FUNC ...
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PROBITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY WAS JUST A FRONT FOR STEALING STATE FUNDS IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO MAKE INDIVIDUALS LIKE RAWLINGS, THE TSIKATAS, AHWOIS ETC. RICH OVERNIGHT, WITHOUT WORKING FOR IT. THE WHOLE THING WAS A GREAT FUNCTION OF ROBBERY, WHICH HAS ENDED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CRIMINAL ORGANISATION CALLED NDC PARTY WHICH CONTINUES TO ROB THE NATION WRECK.
FA 9 years ago

ONLY FOOLS AND THE FOREIGNERS IN GHANA BELIEVE IN NDC .

ONLY FOOLS AND THE FOREIGNERS IN GHANA BELIEVE IN NDC .
truth 9 years ago

Kuffour's retirement package to ex ministers like yourself was totally WRONG. Yes accountability was a lip service.

Kuffour's retirement package to ex ministers like yourself was totally WRONG. Yes accountability was a lip service.
princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

An old preacher was dying. He sent a message for his IRS agent and his Lawyer (both church members), to come to his home. When they arrived, they were ushered up to his bedroom. As they entered the room, the preacher held out ...
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An old preacher was dying. He sent a message for his IRS agent and his Lawyer (both church members), to come to his home. When they arrived, they were ushered up to his bedroom. As they entered the room, the preacher held out his hands and motioned for them to sit on each side of the bed. The preacher grasped their hands, sighed contentedly, smiled and stared at the ceiling. For a time, no one said anything. Both the IRS agent and Lawyer were touched and flattered that the old preacher would ask them to be with him during his final moment.They were also puzzled because the preacher had never given any indication that he particularly liked either one of them.Finally, the Lawyer asked, "Preacher, why did you ask the two of us to come?"
The old preacher mustered up some strength, then said weakly, "Jesus died between two thieves, and that's how I want to go, too.
Sgt Ahmed Aadams 9 years ago

Surely Prof Oquaye wants to die in between Kufour and one other looting brigade hence his whitewashing of the stinking deals of his master and tin god Kufour today. Shameful and a very bad senior citizen who is delighted in s ...
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Surely Prof Oquaye wants to die in between Kufour and one other looting brigade hence his whitewashing of the stinking deals of his master and tin god Kufour today. Shameful and a very bad senior citizen who is delighted in spewing lies. Old man do the right thing for the youth of Ghana to remember you when you are dead and gone!
Sgt Ahmed Aadams 9 years ago

This bad oldman is only saying this to please his master and tin god who made him an ambassador to Indian only to come back to Ghana and built an empire for himself and family. He also surprisingly calls himself a pastor. A p ...
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This bad oldman is only saying this to please his master and tin god who made him an ambassador to Indian only to come back to Ghana and built an empire for himself and family. He also surprisingly calls himself a pastor. A pastor who will not speak the truth for the youth of Ghana to follow. I don't see any difference between him and the fake sheik of alajo another master sycophant in the elephant kingdom.
Yaw Adu-Asare 9 years ago

Mike Ocquaye is lying about Kufuor's record. Shame on him.

Mike Ocquaye is lying about Kufuor's record. Shame on him.
Alhassan Panini 9 years ago

You are right professor, Rawlings himself became a bandit and looted state assets for himself, his family and his cronies. NDC today under Pres.Mahama is repeating the same canker under the schematic "create, loot and share t ...
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You are right professor, Rawlings himself became a bandit and looted state assets for himself, his family and his cronies. NDC today under Pres.Mahama is repeating the same canker under the schematic "create, loot and share to a point of no return.
If a country like Zimbabwe can poke fun at the economic crimes being committed by This illegitimate NDC govt. imposed on the people by Afari Gyan and judge Atuguba, So that propaganda of "probity and accountability' was empty and shallow, Just like a ghost shallow of Rawlings himself, a fraud.
KWAME-BELGIUM 9 years ago

This learned man is always with the history of Ghana. J.. was able to clean kalabule from the Ghanian society. so what is he speaking about ?

This learned man is always with the history of Ghana. J.. was able to clean kalabule from the Ghanian society. so what is he speaking about ?
KnYc(USMC) 9 years ago

so now ndc is doing a better job. Enjoy your electricity and your water, with good roads.

so now ndc is doing a better job. Enjoy your electricity and your water, with good roads.
Concerned 9 years ago

Yes we don't use the word kalabule anymore but corruption is more rampant

Yes we don't use the word kalabule anymore but corruption is more rampant
Nana Kwame Atta iii 9 years ago

Come to Eastern Region u will see the most useless voters in Ghana they voted 4 NPP and Kufuor for 12 years he did nothing 4 them

Come to Eastern Region u will see the most useless voters in Ghana they voted 4 NPP and Kufuor for 12 years he did nothing 4 them
Victor A. Young 9 years ago

My first time observing Rawlings' AFRC/P-NDC gov't was a big shock to me. Just new from school and teaching, I saw how Rawlings' Commandos would take out people in the middle of the night and send them to the Castle and Gonda ...
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My first time observing Rawlings' AFRC/P-NDC gov't was a big shock to me. Just new from school and teaching, I saw how Rawlings' Commandos would take out people in the middle of the night and send them to the Castle and Gonda Barracks, some never to be seen again.

There was so much cruelty and hate in Ghana that one had to thank the Lord each day for being alive and seeing a new day. PDCs, WDCs and CDRs were given authority to break into people's homes, shops and businesses; they were ruthless---they didn't respect authority---molesting people, slapping and beating up everyone who dared to demand answers to their dirty operations. Rawlings' PDCs CDRs seized Gas Stations and commanded the sale of petroleum products making sure they profited their operations, as they would keep most of the fuel in the tanks and sell them at exorbitant prices, although they preached about selling fuel and related products at "control prices" beating drivers, some whom had been in a long queue for many days and nights. Rawlings always commended them for a good job done!

God only knows what went on at the Castle as many people arrest and sent there were shaved with broken glasses, tortured and brutalized by Rawlings' personal security. They would come to homes asking for the where-about of their target people, and when asked why they're being wanted their reply was always: "it's order from above" or meaning the Castle demands their arrest.

Rawlings asked why some Ghanaians---probably the Kuffour and Akufo-Addo families---could send their children abroad to study, while others could not. It turned out he sent children too to study in the UK. Such is a covetous and envious man who led a gang of military-cum civilians to rule Ghana in the name of a "revolution" killing innocent Ghanaians arresting and chasing some out of the country, into exile.
pin 9 years ago

THIS PROF HAS DEMENTIA.

THIS PROF HAS DEMENTIA.
Ras Bo @ London 9 years ago

We have too much old fools in our mist and i pray to God they should die with it and leave generation in peace to govern in decency.
Was the probity and accountabilty good or bad?
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We have too much old fools in our mist and i pray to God they should die with it and leave generation in peace to govern in decency.
Was the probity and accountabilty good or bad?
You were part of the group that introduced "zero tolerance for corruption but ended up in 300% curruptible with no definition.
Your thievery from the construction of the silly jubilee house is very diabolic enough to send you to your grave.

. All they can do is to chirp! chirp !chirp ! talk !talk ! talk !....What kind of human beings are these? They never think positively, always showing to be Dumb, Passive, Pessimistic, Racist and Selfish. They are so myopic to think before acting. Always rushing to comment before analysing. Is this not sickening? Take a glance at their characteristics below:

When we wanted:
Independence they said NO
Republic NO
Atomic Energy NO
Ghana Airways NO
Ghana Telecom NO
Akosombo NO
Thermal Energy NO
Tema Harbour and dry Docks NO
Oil exploration NO
Sugar Factory NO
Constitution NO
Constitutional Reform NO
Economic Forum NO
Ministerial Appointment NO
State Banquet Hall (JOB 600) NO
Accra International Conference Centre NO
National Theatre NO
AKUAFO cheques for farmers NO
Tema Motorway Construction NO
Rural Electrification NO
Tamale Airport NO
VAT NO(KUMI PREKO)

When they came to power what did they do?

Atomic Energy – SOLD
Ghana Airways – SOLD
DC10 AIRCRAFT AKRANTIE CHOP BAR
Ghana Telecom SOLD
OIL Rig SOLD
Merchant Bank SOLD
Tema Harbour and dry Docks ABADORNED
Sugar Factory ABADORNED
Tomato Factory ABADORNED
Avehimeh Rice ABADORNED
Beef Factory ABONDONED
Ghana Railway ABONDONED
OSU lands AUCTIONED
State Lands AUCTIONED
State Bungalows SOLD
All Technocrats PROCEED ON LEAVE

WHEN THEY LEFT POWER

End of Service Benefits
Stealing State Cars
Stealing State Bungalows
Electoral petition- Pink Sheet
Burning Markets Malata, Makola, Agboloshie, Kaneshie, Kumasi, Takoradi and many places.
Ministerial Appointment - BOYCOTT
Presidential Inauguration – BOYCOTT
Parliamentary Debate BOYCOTT
Economic Forum BOYCOTT
Farmers Day BOYCOTT

They pulled down the then Flag staff house because Nkrumah lived there; only to rebuild the same place with a 419 loan from India. These Dankwa/ Busia’s have sold everything we have and have contributed nothing.
When have they said yes or done something which is good to be emulated or beneficial.

What do they say yes?

Per Diem YES
Cocaine Trade YES
Wee Smoking YES
Womanising YES
Insults and Backbiting YES
Shallow Litigation YES
Boycotting YES
Selling state Assets YES
Stealing State assets YES
Demonstration and Protest YES

Their headquarters is an “abattoir” now; where they butcher themselves in the name of power. Ooooh !!! What is wrong with the chemical constituents that form the brain of these Dankwa/ Busia’s? Is there no elderly among them? Or did their fathers died with all the sense which will guide them today? Well a decorated monkey remains a monkey ; like father like son. None have morals .They behave like ostriches pretending all is fine when it is in their favour but cannot stand their opponents when the ball changes hand. How on earth can they end up in a hair dressing salon for a loan? They are so lazy, dull witted and incompetent, majority of them finished school with no certificates and cannot even remember which school they attended. INCREDBLE !!!

Everything they know about economics is buying and selling. Creativity has eluded them; they only result to insult when they are at their wits end. “PATAPAA” is a common characteristics of them to cover their shameful silly behaviour. Their silly self-esteemed and endemic mental slavery, which was handed down to them by their forefathers, is what is still holding this country aback. When thinkers are trying to fix problems, all you can see these sons of anarchist doing is manufacturing how to destroy

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Lance Spear 9 years ago

Good job Ras Bo but you forgot Jizzle Yadji and Hotel WaawaaA

Good job Ras Bo but you forgot Jizzle Yadji and Hotel WaawaaA
jimmy 9 years ago

If Rawlings failed on his part of government to eradicate the canker this doesn't mean we must stop fighting against corruption or Rawlings as now the former president can't speak his mind on corruption in the country.

If Rawlings failed on his part of government to eradicate the canker this doesn't mean we must stop fighting against corruption or Rawlings as now the former president can't speak his mind on corruption in the country.
K. Ackerman 9 years ago

Prof. Quaye sometimes amazes me about the way he sees things, reasons and talks, especially considering the fact that he was a professor and a first deputy speaker of Ghana's Parliament. He reasons and talks as if he's deeply ...
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Prof. Quaye sometimes amazes me about the way he sees things, reasons and talks, especially considering the fact that he was a professor and a first deputy speaker of Ghana's Parliament. He reasons and talks as if he's deeply ignorant about things happening around him and about those going on in the country in general.

Fact is, President Kufuor was the most corrupt president Ghana has so far had. There're numerous instances one can cite about his corrupt practices. For example, as soon as he became president, he used Ghanaian tax payers money to renovate his private house when he became president; just within his first term, a poor ordinary man like him was able to purchase an expensive hotel (Hotel Kufuor) under one of his son's name; he allegedly took a $30 million bribe from Vodafone to whom he cheaply sold GhanaTelecom for $90 million, thus rejecting a bid from South Africa whose offer was more than 300% better than Vodafone's, except that he knew he couldn't get the bribe money---afteer all, how does a country's president go to England to meet with a telecommunication company's executives to personally negotiate the sale of his country's company? (One should recall that upon the assumption of the presidency, the late Prof. Mills appointed a commission to investigate the sale of GhanaTelecom which commission concluded that the sale by the Kufuor administration was indeed tainted with corruption); Kufuor's NPP party and administration were deeply involved in illicit drug trafficking; indeed he and his top party and government officials knew of recent ex-con Eric Amoateng's drug trafficking business, for he was said to be the financier of the NPP party. When a boat carrying loads of cocaine was arrested and the cocaine was deposited at the Police headquarters in Accra, it simply disappeared and some of the missing cocaine were traced to the Asantehene's palace. Then in fooling Ghanaians, Kufuor appointed a so-called commission of inquiry to investigate how the cocaine got missing, making Georgina Wood its chair. This NPP woman then declared the commission's investigation to be inconclusive. Kufuor was so pleased with this lady's work that he immediately promoted her over and above all her seniors at the Supreme Court to the position of Chief Justice, thus saving Kufuor himself, his Asante Inspector-General of Police, the Asantehene and the NPP party as a whole.

One cannot forget that it was Kufuor who had announced that corruption had been in existence since the time of Adam and therefore it couldn't be stopped.

The above are only a few examples of Kufuor's corrupt dealings. Where were you, Prof. Quaye?
Joeman 9 years ago

This man is not serious.

This man is not serious.
Caringson Aklig 9 years ago

I laugh at ur andropausal assertion dat Kufuor fought corruption more dat any leader before and after him.this ur andropausal belief revealed the level of ur sinking intelligence and l dont in anyway blame you.lt is natural. ...
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I laugh at ur andropausal assertion dat Kufuor fought corruption more dat any leader before and after him.this ur andropausal belief revealed the level of ur sinking intelligence and l dont in anyway blame you.lt is natural.the only thing Kufuor did to destroy dis country is the repeal of the criminal liable law.this is why all d mad people in ur NPP party can say anything and go free.you see how the country is today? this is the legacy of Kufuor.
PRINCE-ISAAC SOVOR - USA 9 years ago

Ghanaians want J.J Rawlings back to clear all this mess. Among all the presidents in Ghana, Nkrumah first, and JJ Rawligns second.Apart from these, the rest are rubbish...

Ghanaians want J.J Rawlings back to clear all this mess. Among all the presidents in Ghana, Nkrumah first, and JJ Rawligns second.Apart from these, the rest are rubbish...
nyansani ahetophel 9 years ago

Idiot

Idiot
ABBA 9 years ago

THE SPIRIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS TOTALLY DEAD BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS LOOTED THE COFFERS OF THE NATION. NOW IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BLOOD OF GEN I.K.ACHAMPONG AND THE OTHERS WHO WERE EXECUTED ARE INNOCENT.

THE SPIRIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS TOTALLY DEAD BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS LOOTED THE COFFERS OF THE NATION. NOW IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BLOOD OF GEN I.K.ACHAMPONG AND THE OTHERS WHO WERE EXECUTED ARE INNOCENT.
ABBA 9 years ago

THE OIL DESCOVERY HAS BEEN THE PERSONAL OF NDC CRIMINALS. EVEN GOING TO 'IMF' TESTIFIES.

THE OIL DESCOVERY HAS BEEN THE PERSONAL OF NDC CRIMINALS. EVEN GOING TO 'IMF' TESTIFIES.
efi 9 years ago

Stupid ugly proff .u align with them to steal ga lands.the npp is very corrupt.thieves and even their specker of Parliament stole spoons.Shinto.gari.

Stupid ugly proff .u align with them to steal ga lands.the npp is very corrupt.thieves and even their specker of Parliament stole spoons.Shinto.gari.
Plain Truth, USA 9 years ago

What happened to Kuffuor's Whistle Blower's Act? Mahama mus restore and enable the Whistle Blower's Act if he really wants to fight corruption.

What happened to Kuffuor's Whistle Blower's Act? Mahama mus restore and enable the Whistle Blower's Act if he really wants to fight corruption.
Kyebi Advocate 9 years ago

When people with Ideas speaks u can tell

When people with Ideas speaks u can tell
freddie 9 years ago

Fuck off ocquaye, if there were less of your kind in ghana probity and accountability wouldn't have failed.

Fuck off ocquaye, if there were less of your kind in ghana probity and accountability wouldn't have failed.
footballer 9 years ago

Corruption is King. I don't care who's is in as Pres. Corruption rules our land. Take a good look around.

Corruption is King. I don't care who's is in as Pres. Corruption rules our land. Take a good look around.
HUMANISM 9 years ago

It applies to everybody else except JJ and his NDC Members.

It applies to everybody else except JJ and his NDC Members.
Eddie 9 years ago

I keep on saying the only way to bring peace is to go federal.

I keep on saying the only way to bring peace is to go federal.
Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

Probity and accountability are rooted in a life-long process! Once corrupt, always corrupt!
Senior Ocquaye was my senior in Apam Secondary School!The junior girls?Ocquaye, Amer, Bieta tcha tcha!
The threesome?The evil that ...
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Probity and accountability are rooted in a life-long process! Once corrupt, always corrupt!
Senior Ocquaye was my senior in Apam Secondary School!The junior girls?Ocquaye, Amer, Bieta tcha tcha!
The threesome?The evil that men do follow them in life,because there is always someone who is disgusted by the changing colors of the chameleon!!
Pure Shit. 9 years ago

Oh Papa Ajasco.

Oh Papa Ajasco.
ogyam 9 years ago

This boy called sam george needs to be placed in order. If not done by the president, there can be fire in Ghana which was caused by only one young man called sam george . His tribalistic ideas should get out him and think o ...
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This boy called sam george needs to be placed in order. If not done by the president, there can be fire in Ghana which was caused by only one young man called sam george . His tribalistic ideas should get out him and think of positive GHANA.
ebola 9 years ago

Rawlings should shut up.he brought this corruption in Ghana.he must face the gun as he did to the dead.he stole huge amount too.he is an idiot

Rawlings should shut up.he brought this corruption in Ghana.he must face the gun as he did to the dead.he stole huge amount too.he is an idiot
GOWAN 9 years ago

Indeed, anybody with a smidgen of political interest who has followed the evolution of the Jeremiah John Rawlings "probity and accountability" ballyhoo operating on the PNDC platform, and now, it's transmogrified version, tha ...
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Indeed, anybody with a smidgen of political interest who has followed the evolution of the Jeremiah John Rawlings "probity and accountability" ballyhoo operating on the PNDC platform, and now, it's transmogrified version, that is the NDC party, would attest to the fact that, it was a thieving cult, indeed, a looting and thieving religion with "lets go to antoa nyama for the truth" as the rallying cry for absolute and unadulterated thievery, breeding disciples, apostles, deacons, choirmasters, high priests, canons, elders and servers of the indoctrination of political looting and thievery, corrupt to the core looting vagabonds, burying the country in the abyss.
There was just not any probity and accountability, and by the time the masses woke up to the realization that, it was all a bunch of malarkey, the sheer thievery and looting and legendary corruption had reached it's apogee, with the principal leaders of such thievery now, proclaiming that, "it has reached epidemic proportions". Indeed, the supposed Founder of this religion had cause to state that, the principles of looting and thievery amongst his disciples had indeed, gone overboard, and Ghana was headed for the abyss.
Today, the wife of the Founder of the cult of thievery and looting which operated under the banner of "probity and accountability" is in court, to seek to claim ownership of some 500 purported shares in GREL(Ghana Rubber Estates Limited) with the current Chairperson of the Council of State, going to court to witness the bizarre circumstances surrounding the ownership of the shares at the center of this case.
Clearly, there was no "probity and accountability" for it to have even failed in the first place, but an ill-conceived, reckless, treasonous, lawless and brazen looting and thieving cult, whose sole aim and purpose was to thieve the natural resources and purse of the country bonkers.
Ghana is currently reeling from one of the ardent disciples of this looting and thieving cult/religion, whose actions have led the Chief Justice of the country, to state that, the level of zealousness of the principles of looting and thievery burying the country in the absolute doldrums, had reached a tipping point.
Such is the state of the country under that discredited "probity and accountability" ballyhoo.
It cannot be stressed hard enough that, until the offshoot of that PNDC cult of looting and thievery ie the NDC gov't led by John Mahama is massively voted out, Ghana is going nowhere in it's development efforts, and that is the hard straight facts.
@@@@@@@@ 9 years ago

To enriched his tribe men.God bless Major AGBO the most honest man amount Ghanaians. Any Ghanaian who became rich because. JJ blood money coup will be burned in hell.a BASTARD who stole aircraft seat used it as his love seat ...
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To enriched his tribe men.God bless Major AGBO the most honest man amount Ghanaians. Any Ghanaian who became rich because. JJ blood money coup will be burned in hell.a BASTARD who stole aircraft seat used it as his love seat with Kunadu now owns more than 200 articulated vehicles.God damn you murdrer
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Buffalo soldier. 9 years ago

How can an indemnify person fight against what he was indemnified for. Prof.as a respected Legal brain kindly campaign for the indemnity clause be remove from Ghana's constitution then we can start serious Probity and Account ...
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How can an indemnify person fight against what he was indemnified for. Prof.as a respected Legal brain kindly campaign for the indemnity clause be remove from Ghana's constitution then we can start serious Probity and Accountability. That clause make Ghana's constitution a funny Docus.
Osei kuffor 9 years ago

Bullshit.
If we don't change our ways . History will repeat it's self

Bullshit.
If we don't change our ways . History will repeat it's self
mensah abrampa 9 years ago

35 years ago, the Rawlings reign of terror was at its onset and it appeared well-intended to many Ghanaian onlookers. The faux pas was called a social revolution and its principal actors appealed for the support and sympathy ...
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35 years ago, the Rawlings reign of terror was at its onset and it appeared well-intended to many Ghanaian onlookers. The faux pas was called a social revolution and its principal actors appealed for the support and sympathy of the millions of suffering Ghanaians by identifying themselves with their poverty and deprivations by wearing shoes made out of old car tyres and euphemized as "Afro Moses, Jesus is a soul man ". The revolutionary era was inter-spersed with sermons by Rawlings on Probity , Transparency and Accountability which made some skeptical ghanaians to believe that a new era had dawned in our political life.
When they were prematurely retired in 1992 the so-called revolutionaries had become filthy rich owning businesses, mansions and an array of very expensive cars. Beside these, the nouveaux riches sent their kids away to the most expensive Ivy League colleges in the US & UK to be educated and were often seen in public sporting designer suits and shoes. What a way to end a social revolution! Secretly, they envied the rich and wealthy they loathed so much and whom they impoverished or murdered and seized their properties.
There are valid reasons to suggest that Rawlings era corruption, graft, greed, lies and propaganda, violence, the abandonment of courtesy, politeness and respect for the elderly as ghanaian values, rudeness, the introduction of insults and vulgarity as the new order of ghanaian pop culture, and the disregard for the rule of law and order were the political and social antecedents of the present day NDC failures and mismanagement of the economy .
JJ not only failed to walk the talk with a swagger but he has set an entire nation decades back. "Did We Go or Did We Come?"
james 9 years ago

To some of u,I dont know where u were all born through. When issues of national concern is on board then u make it a Mahama affairs.
Why are u people like that.

To some of u,I dont know where u were all born through. When issues of national concern is on board then u make it a Mahama affairs.
Why are u people like that.
mohammed 9 years ago

this man is too partisan. from whom did you hear probity and accountability? Rawlings. he brought discipline into the nation. now pastors, mallams and all shades of traditional authorities are stealing from the public purse.

this man is too partisan. from whom did you hear probity and accountability? Rawlings. he brought discipline into the nation. now pastors, mallams and all shades of traditional authorities are stealing from the public purse.
apuuu 9 years ago

EX President Rawlings no how to talk but he does not no how to dance when it comes to politics apuuu

EX President Rawlings no how to talk but he does not no how to dance when it comes to politics apuuu
DR KUFFOUR 9 years ago

Didn't Kuffour, his family and Ministers fill their pockets before leaving? What has the introduction of freedom of speech got to do with corruption? After the introduction, they ( The NPP ) started to steal from the State an ...
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Didn't Kuffour, his family and Ministers fill their pockets before leaving? What has the introduction of freedom of speech got to do with corruption? After the introduction, they ( The NPP ) started to steal from the State and it is still on with the present gov't.
SANDRA, UK 9 years ago

Is that the only contribution ? Hhuummmmm!

Is that the only contribution ? Hhuummmmm!
Stephen Dzeklo usa 9 years ago

When you guys wake up you said Rawllings do remember what Kufour said he said corruption started from Adams and that what he did the worst president in Ghana history

When you guys wake up you said Rawllings do remember what Kufour said he said corruption started from Adams and that what he did the worst president in Ghana history
Roy 9 years ago

This is a Professor. My foot. Mike Ocquaye is a useless and fill my stomach professor. He is a disgrace to this title. JK is one of the must corrupt President Ghana has ever had

This is a Professor. My foot. Mike Ocquaye is a useless and fill my stomach professor. He is a disgrace to this title. JK is one of the must corrupt President Ghana has ever had
Abugre Yahaya 9 years ago

Is Prof. Ocquaye really a professor? What kind of analysis is this. How was Kuffour more potent in a fight against corruption than all before and after him? Does Prof understand what corruption is? So you can't define corrupt ...
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Is Prof. Ocquaye really a professor? What kind of analysis is this. How was Kuffour more potent in a fight against corruption than all before and after him? Does Prof understand what corruption is? So you can't define corruption as "Kuffour," "Jake," or "Mike Ocquaye." These names and many others are synonymous to corruption.
BIG JAY 9 years ago

Jerry Rawlings used probity and accountability to suppress and intimidate Ghanaians, whilst he and his wife looted from the state coffers to secure the future of his family. And that is exactly what all NDC appointees are em ...
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Jerry Rawlings used probity and accountability to suppress and intimidate Ghanaians, whilst he and his wife looted from the state coffers to secure the future of his family. And that is exactly what all NDC appointees are emulating. This accounts for the massive corruption in the current NDC government.
Just make a tour of the country, and you will see the number of Fuel Filling Stations springing up in the country. The NDC appointees are investing in the fuel business, and that is why they are reluctant to reduce fuel prices, when a barrel of crude oil is about $50. in the world market.
Just take a look at the picture of Jerry Rawligs in 1979, during his wee smoking days, and look at him now, you will see the extent he benefited from his bogus and self seeking revolution.
I think Ghana needs a better revolution than what happened in 1979. If you compare the corruption in Ghana in 1979, which Jerry Rawlings took advantage to disturb the democratic political situation in the country against what is happening now under Rawlings' NDC party, the 1979 situation was a bagatelle.
Politicians are milking the country in the name of democratic governance, and if this looting is all that democratic governance is about, then we don't need it.
People in governance must account properly for their stewardship, and put a stop to the looting spree in the NDC government.
Ghana is in a mess because any idiot gets up and becomes a politician overnight. You don't need to attend an interview to become a politician, and so all sorts of people are abandoning their professional career to enter politics to get rich quick.
Politicians don't deserve respect, and should never be accorded respect. They must be told in no uncertain terms that they are all criminals, and the only thing they deserve is nothing but imprisonment for the robbery being committed against the state.
Rawlings revolution was an expression of disillusionment by indian hemp smokers who constituted the 1979 military junta. They had impaired vision of the political situation in the country at that time, ,and that accounts for the failure of the much trumpeted probity and accountability nonsense.
The period from 1979 to 1992 was wasted effort. Ghana does not need people who would just make the effort, what the country needs are people who are results oriented, like J A Kufour.
Ghanaians were just not lucky, for I think JAK came to be president too early. He should have come after Jerry Rawlings and John Mahama to save Ghanaians from this one step forward, and two steps backwards the country is experiencing now.
So far John Mahama has not introduced a single social intervention policy that is beneficial to all Ghanaians. It is so so hardships, create loot and share for the NDC party faithfuls. He has only succeeded in dividing the country along party lines, with his winner take all agenda.
As for the cocaine business, the least said about it the better. It is obvious that the NDC government cannot survive without the cocaine business,and the arrest of Ruby is only a temporary setback. If they cannot take the cocaine by air, they will this time around, go by sea. It is a do and die affair for the NDC party, and nothing can stop them.
If you are a cocaine baron, then they do everything to ensure you are elected to serve at the national level. You must be conversant with the rules of the game to be retained. If you can't do the business to put money in the party coffers, then forget it. The party must survive is the clarion call.
OKOROMANSA 9 years ago

OF COURSE IT FAILED. RAWLINGS MUST BE FORCED TO RENDER A NATIONAL APOLOGY FOR HIS BAD DEEDS AND FAILURES. HIS MURDERS FAILED, HIS ACCOUNTABILITY FAILED, DISCIPLINE FAILED, PDC FAILED, EVEN TODAY HIS ENTIRE FAMILY HAS FAILED. ...
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OF COURSE IT FAILED. RAWLINGS MUST BE FORCED TO RENDER A NATIONAL APOLOGY FOR HIS BAD DEEDS AND FAILURES. HIS MURDERS FAILED, HIS ACCOUNTABILITY FAILED, DISCIPLINE FAILED, PDC FAILED, EVEN TODAY HIS ENTIRE FAMILY HAS FAILED. RAWLINS HAS TO REMAIN QUIET ON NATIONAL ISSUES BECAUSE, POLITICALLY, HE DID NOT ACHIEVE ANYTHING
VOICE OF REASON 9 years ago

A semi-literate hard up helicopter pilot who saw coup making as the only way to make it after senior colleagues sighted him for grounding......and gullible Ghanaians regard him as anti-corruption crusader?Such a crook and con ...
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A semi-literate hard up helicopter pilot who saw coup making as the only way to make it after senior colleagues sighted him for grounding......and gullible Ghanaians regard him as anti-corruption crusader?Such a crook and conman?
Dr. Ezanator Rawlings 9 years ago

my father has disgrace himself and now live in FEAR.he thinks somebody will do him some harm for his atrocities.my father now lives in HELL.i told him retribution require a long time and i can see
his time is near.pleas ...
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my father has disgrace himself and now live in FEAR.he thinks somebody will do him some harm for his atrocities.my father now lives in HELL.i told him retribution require a long time and i can see
his time is near.please forgive him but he has to render an apology to many ghanaians.
Criminal mahama. 9 years ago

A murder.

A murder.
VOICE OF REASON 9 years ago

What happened to Account No.48? Why the indemnity clause in the constition?Are the Rawlinges' not beneficiaries of $4million dubious judgement debt?Do they not own Nsawam Canneries under the guise of 31st DWM?And yet Ghanaian ...
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What happened to Account No.48? Why the indemnity clause in the constition?Are the Rawlinges' not beneficiaries of $4million dubious judgement debt?Do they not own Nsawam Canneries under the guise of 31st DWM?And yet Ghanaians can't see through this crook and conman?
Yaw Yaw 9 years ago

Kufuor did NOTHIBG. He said corruption has been around since Adsm so he woukd not fight corruption to discredit his govt. Too many examples of corruption to list.

Kufuor did NOTHIBG. He said corruption has been around since Adsm so he woukd not fight corruption to discredit his govt. Too many examples of corruption to list.
Oman Ba 9 years ago

When JJ Rawlings came to the political scene in Ghana, he never proved himself accountable BECAUSE HE WAS BROKE AND AS POOR AS CHURCH MOUSE.

All that he did was to STEAL from the STATE COFFERS. Rawlings is branded CHIEF TH ...
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When JJ Rawlings came to the political scene in Ghana, he never proved himself accountable BECAUSE HE WAS BROKE AND AS POOR AS CHURCH MOUSE.

All that he did was to STEAL from the STATE COFFERS. Rawlings is branded CHIEF THIEF BECAUSE at the time he handed over to the late Dr. Hilla Limann, how much money did he leave in the COFFERS at the BANK OF GHANA?

I wonder why people with wisdom and know how will revere CHIEF THIEF JJ Rawlings.

Rawlings has killed many innocent Ghanaians. As a result, his hands are tainted with the BLOOD OF FELLOW GHANAIANS some of who were missing from their homes overnight.

Can Rawlings deny this?
Dan 9 years ago

shut the hell up Bitch,where were you when shit was happening,you now have a loud mouth to talk,uh? damn ass coward.

shut the hell up Bitch,where were you when shit was happening,you now have a loud mouth to talk,uh? damn ass coward.
Kofi 9 years ago

He actually ended up joining the fray by giving state property to his wife that is, to his family. The murdered Gen Acheampong did not do that.

He actually ended up joining the fray by giving state property to his wife that is, to his family. The murdered Gen Acheampong did not do that.
Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris!. 9 years ago

I hope Mr, Rawlings must continueing to join anti curoption to figth it in down town Ghana the people have faith with him to help.

I hope Mr, Rawlings must continueing to join anti curoption to figth it in down town Ghana the people have faith with him to help.
okonkobaba 9 years ago

It is not only sad but also unfortunate that a professor like Ocquaye will say Rawlings probity and accountability failed. How did it fail ?
I don't need anybody to lecture me on Rawlings. If not for this man, Ghana will hav ...
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It is not only sad but also unfortunate that a professor like Ocquaye will say Rawlings probity and accountability failed. How did it fail ?
I don't need anybody to lecture me on Rawlings. If not for this man, Ghana will have been worse of than it is today.
Let's put dirty politics and politics of hate aside and call the spade a spade. Ghanaians owe him a lot.

If not for Rawlings, Ghana will have been worse than it is today. What he started was not followed or continued.
Let's not play dirty politics or politics of hate. You as a professor should know better and not to mislead the people.
Abongo 9 years ago

He is stu7pid my friend

He is stu7pid my friend
Abongo 9 years ago

What a stupid man

What a stupid man
MAHAMA LOOT ND SHARE 9 years ago

NDC,MAHAMA,JJ MUST GO 2016 PERIOD,MAHAMA CAN NOT KILL GHANIANS AGAIN

NDC,MAHAMA,JJ MUST GO 2016 PERIOD,MAHAMA CAN NOT KILL GHANIANS AGAIN

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