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Ghana is pregnant with coup d'é·tat – Lawyer Effah – Dartey

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  • if the lone crusader 9 years ago

    Is the truth not staring at our faces?ltell you if tge day may come!!!!

  • EFO KOKU 9 years ago

    The devil came to steal, kill and destroy. Mahama came to create, loot and share.

  • Oye Onye Kwesi Atta 9 years ago

    NPP coup plotters are at it again?

    Jesus Christ!!!

    Once a killer always a killer
    Is this not the same Effah-Dartey who plotted coup, sentenced to death for treason but for the mercy of Efo Rawlings he was granted amne ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

    AUTHOR: KOFI-----
    THIS WICKED AND THIEVING NDC GOVT EVEN BUDGETED FOR JUDGEMENT DEBTS PAYMENTS WHEN THEY CAME TO POWER...GHANAIANS SAW THIER THIEVERY AND BAD IDEAS ABOUT GHANA SO THEY QUICKLY REMOVED IT FROM SUBSEQUENT BUDGE ...
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  • Daavi 9 years ago

    THEY WOULD HAVE MADE IT, AND NOW THEY ARE ON POWER AND THEY ARE ABOUT 90% IN THE ARMY SO CHECK IT.

  • 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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  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-SOD....
    What does the Mahama NDC gov't means by an Ultra modern Kumasi central market? What comparable ultra modern market in developed countries of the world should Ghanaians compare this Ultra modern Kumasi centra ...
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  • Shabi 9 years ago

    This Reginald Arkurst character must either be one of these Ghanaians who have sought cowardly refuge and consolation in the spoils of another country or, he is one of those dumb-ass African intellectuals, or, he must just si ...
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  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
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  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
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  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
    read full comment

  • reginald arkhurst? 9 years ago

    Dear sirs. now is not the the time (if there ever is one) to be talking about coup detats.Ghana is an economic mess due to government mismanagement and corruption.One thing Ghana has achieved over the last 2 decades is a meas ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

    If these arsehole can't legitimately win elections through the ballot box democratically, then everything goes in their Kukurudian book to set Ghana ablaze any which way they can. Christ me! What a bunch of desperate anarchis ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    SOMETIMES I WONDER WHAT OUR SOLDIERS ARE DOING FOR SUCH A LONG TIME! JJ RAWLINGS DIDNT GOT IT LIKE THIS TO STAGE A COUP D'ETAT, ANY WAY WE ARE NOW WAITING FOR NANA ADDO, I THINK THIS HAS SAVED THESE NDC GREEDY BASTARDS TO IF ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-BBCNEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    HOW COULD THEY IF AFRIYIE ANKRA IS STILL UNDER MAHAMA ARMPIT, IF ASIEDU NKETIA A PALM WINE TAPPER IS NOW A MILLIONEER, OKUDJETO , FIIFI KWETEY, OFOSU KWAKYE , OMANE BOAMA, JOHN JINAPOR WH ...
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  • BRIAN WILLIAMS 9 years ago

    MERCY ON WHO? THE LOOTING BRIGADE OF THE NDC.MILITARY RULE WILL PROBABLY BE BETTER.

  • Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

    That is a clear fact by forensic calculation! I wish majority of Ghanaians can see through the smokescreen like you!!

  • William 9 years ago

    IF YOU ARE NOT GETTING CLIENTS DON'T BRING YOUR MISGUIDED CHILDISH TALK TO US! Why did you join the army and why did you leave? What happened to your prostituted political career? Give us a break, disappointed man!

  • UNMISGUIDED AFRICAN CHILD 9 years ago

    For 40 years Black Africa wasted it's march to progress with coups and coups.
    Like the sale of newspapers,the entire continent was plagued with Coups...and,to this day,we are so far
    behind as a Race we need to run to catch ...
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  • twum 9 years ago

    Don't mind this stupid nkrabea, he thinks he is scarring Ghanaians but did not know, he is rather making NPP unpopular.

  • HANS 9 years ago

    AT THIS ADVANCED AGE, EFAH-DARTEY IS AGITATING FOR A COUP JUST BECAUSE HIS NPP IS INCAPABLE OF WINNING POWER THROUGH THE BALLOT BOX. WHAT A SELFISH PERSON WHO DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF A COUP ON THE ECONOMY O ...
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  • BB, USA 9 years ago

    Does that mean Efo JJ will kill again?

  • DR TRUTH 9 years ago

    PLEASE CAPTAIN U HAVE MISTAKEN OUR MAHAMA INDUCED LACK OF BASIC INGREDIENTS WHICH HAS RESULTED IN MOTHER GHANA'S POTRUDING SUFFERING BELLY TO BE COUP DETAT. A CHANGE IN GOVT WITH BAWUMIA-CONOMICS WILL SUBSIDE OUR TROUBLING B ...
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  • moyo 9 years ago

    If there is anything of that sort an idiot like this man and his family will have to pay. How on earth can you make such a stupid comment. Ghana is far far better than most countries in the world if cares to know. This man sh ...
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  • GOD DEY 9 years ago

    i know where this useless idiot lives. his days are numbered. i swear,i shall personally assisinate this man. this moron doesnt deserve to live.effah, watch out!siasem. GOD PUNISH U AND YOUR ENTIRE GENERATION

  • yobbo 9 years ago

    Hey be careful of your statement in some places u can't say that and Scott free.

  • DEPORT FOREIGN CRIMINALS ASAP 9 years ago

    HE WILL BE HOLD RESPONSIBILITY IF ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS TO THE NPP EFFAH .

  • LUv GH 9 years ago

    who sfould be careful of what, that stupid statemnet from dat man effa waht...wht is dat..nonse NPP ...wicked ppll...i wil nevr com to pwer agn..oluuuu party

  • GOD DEY 9 years ago

    do u blame the rat at your home for going after your favourite koobi. if u have any useful advice, please do direct it to the useless effah.

  • Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

    Will they and their family be in the country if their evil plans fail?

  • Kofi J 9 years ago

    Effah Dartey needs to be castrated and put behind bars for the rest of his life for that stupid comment. He's a Stupid Asshole, a Big one. Who needs a Coup in this modern era.

  • PUMA 9 years ago

    You are the no sense. If you are belly full not everyone is, when you people are contracting prisoners to burn down markets to destroy everyone's livelyhood because Ghanaians have short memories so will forget their sad days ...
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  • Otafirigya Oburonii 9 years ago

    Are u a christian or muslim u lack knowledge seek for before u can interplete

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Despite the Mahama failed government, Ghanaians have tasted democracy and embraced it no military intervention will be tolerated or be successful.

    Unlike previously when the Army only had to seize the Castle and GBC and co ...
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  • KOO DWOMO 9 years ago

    There is the possibility, although it may be difficult. Do not rule anything out. "It is only the fool who thinks that there is no God".

  • Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

    If you believe there is God,why do you think satan cannot be crushed in his kingdom?A prophet of doom fans the inferno of the devil!!

  • Abraham 9 years ago

    Effah, may be because of your own life history you continue to think that when there are challenges in running a country, then a coup is inevitable. That was some time back. We , as a country have gone through the mill, and I ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago

    It is very sad for a lawyer and politician who was prohibited from contesting his party's flagbearership because of his past involvement with military regime to make such prediction. It shows clearly that he has not learnt an ...
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  • G. K. Berko 9 years ago

    Kofi, you are right. He has not learnt any lessons yet and must be excluded from ever holding any post in future NPP regimes.

    He is a Lawyer and must know better. He could use his law prowess to compel Mahama to prosecute ...
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  • Nana Appiah 9 years ago

    Hey, What rights are you talking about? How could animals have right?? In a country when a fake Business man could transfer 122 Million Dollars out of the Country in fake names with fake documentations and go Scot free whilst ...
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  • KOO DWOMO 9 years ago

    Only fools think there is no! God!

  • Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

    You are the brainless one because you are dictating the modus operandi of the devil!!Wise people choose their words carefully so they don't support the devil unwittingly!!

  • Mr Joseph Adu Poku 9 years ago

    A shoeshine boy indeed.

  • Concerned 9 years ago

    A coup is a coup whether it's through the supreme court or military. People do not like military governments because of the excesses but this civilian government has the worse excesses ever in our history.
    This our democrac ...
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  • Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

    OMG,YOU!!UNION GOVERNMENT;FA WOTO BEGYE'S UNPARRELLED CORRUPTION??IT IS UNREASONABLE FOR SOME IDIOTS TO PONTIFICATE MILITARY LOOTING UNDER DURESS WITHOUT CONSIDERING CIVILIAN TAKEOVER BY MAKING THE COUNTRY UNGOVERNABLE!!THE 2 ...
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  • Martin/PA 9 years ago

    In as much as Mahama is blamed for failure in governance, NPP must take a share in the quagmire. NPP machinations slowed down the economy to a great extent.
    Just like the Republicans in the USA, NPP resorted to frustrate ...
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  • witch hunter 9 years ago

    This guy is a proper fool

  • The Truth. 9 years ago

    Are ur so called ideas finished that u want a coup to give u power?There won't be anymore Afrifa to do ur lazy work for u.Learn to make sensible arguments and stop the insults.NDC is younger than u,but when it comes to reason ...
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  • Bobovivi 9 years ago

    The coup mentality is rife with the NPP as they're realising they will lose the 2016 general elections again. You must know how JJ Rawlings chased them out of the country tgrough arrests and executions. All the remnants of re ...
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  • Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

    Is military intervention the only means of changing governments?Do we want collateral casaulties,disruption of law and order and intimidating military corruption?Is FOOLISH and senseless Captain Nkrabea (Rtd)Effa-Dartey,a law ...
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  • Senior citizen Bs Germany. 9 years ago

    Already,the true man of God, Rev Paster Asare Asiedu has predicted a coup de tat in Ghana owing to the abysmal performances of the NDC Government led by H. E.Mahama and passsd on the economic debris of hardship on the citizen ...
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  • Gyeabuor 9 years ago

    Where from this balderdash mentally retarded moron

  • LAST DON 9 years ago

    Effah Darteh “Bankye an Ngo” lawyer with no decency. Dirty Person from a primitive bush where human sacrifice is their religion. Aboa b3L3 take some laxative to clear your idiot belly.

    KT Hammond Mamaba gyimi gyimi wi ...
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  • Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

    OMG I can't stop laughing, LAST DON!I love your wonderful prose! I will cut and paste it!!

  • Ghanaian 9 years ago

    Please,it's better u read and analyze somebody's statement b4 u start to insult him. Just go back and read his statement very well, he raised and issue or a problem that if we the government aren't careful can cause that. Try ...
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  • MAN 9 years ago

    THIS SO CALLED EFFAH-DARTEY MY OWN IN-LAW IS A BIG FOOL,HOW CAN U SAY THIS? I RECPECTED U A LOT UNTILL NOW.:ME PAWU CH3W SE WO Y3 ABIAW:

  • Nii Tsokor 9 years ago

    With all the problems and economic set backs that Ghana experienced under military rule, who in his right state of mind would advocate another military rule? And this is a lawyer ?

    There are just too many bushmen like thi ...
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  • Adae 9 years ago

    Then we will destroy and divide Ghana into pieces. This time no way. Liman came and you truncated his rule and now Mahama, over our dead bodies. They will not see the day of light. The country will really be ungovernable.

  • M.D 9 years ago

    I support you Effah Dartey prez mahama is disgracing us from the north.

  • Efo Yao. 9 years ago

    Lawyer Effah - Dartey, you have made a statement which I hope you honestly and convincingly believe reflects the current state of affairs in Ghana. May I ask you this question: How would you react if that statement came from ...
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  • Kwasi 9 years ago

    C'omon Capt.Effah-Dartey(Rtd),are you trying to test the waters or what?Coming this far,and enjoying our freedom and freedom of speech and you talking about millitary?You(or your former millitary man J.Rawlings)try it and you ...
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  • Future Judge 9 years ago

    Go then and give birth to that coup de'tat. Stupid man. All these evil guys must die and leave the surface of earth.

    Foolish man, selfish idiot. You are supposed to have died long time. Bull shit you are, Effah Shit Dartey ...
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  • MASNUS 9 years ago

    will you wising up as retired soldier and speak with wisdom

  • NANA 9 years ago

    The NPP,wished there is a coup in Ghana but it will not happen in Jesus name rather if anything will at all happen it will be in 2020 when God forbid they are in power.Evil to whom evil thinks.Desperation of power will prove ...
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  • Yen Akanfuo 9 years ago

    Idiot try it and see what will happened you and your kind.

  • nabia 9 years ago

    Effah Dartey has now revealed his true colours. He was never a democrat. Tried the first coup against the late President Liman
    refer Yidanas book on who killed the judges

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

    Hey Dartey, you have not learned any lessons. You should be grateful to Rawlings for granting you amnesty after your failed coup d'etat. You have always had this stupid ambition of ruling Ghana by hook or by crook since your ...
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  • BILLYBILLY 9 years ago

    Ghana is a very civilized society, as such people with your barbaric mentality had better not try anything stupid else, this time you would not be sentenced to death for some one to come, free you again.

  • AAA-RASHID(OH.USA) 9 years ago

    Billybilly if you opt to be referred to as uncivilized then I have some semblance of sympathy for you, but if in this day and era you think the military is the answer to our problems then you need serious education.

    The mi ...
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  • DELAW 9 years ago

    Sorry for this man a lawyer talking like this oh Ghana where are we going

  • Musah Osman 9 years ago

    This statement coming from no mean a person than a former minister of state and a flag bearer contestant is the most irresponsible statement ever.Ghana is not ready to revisit the dark days of our country's history any more

  • OH MY PEOPLE 9 years ago

    The man is only advising us to be conscious of the dangers that the current situation in Ghana could bring to the country. The pervasive corruption and plain thievery from national coffers, the refusal to reduce fuel prices i ...
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  • Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

    Why should military intervention be any alternative at all? Trust me ! There is a storm in the tea cup, so save any opportunistic adventurism!

  • NOBODY WANTS NDC TO WIN 9 years ago

    NDC IS SO VERY USED TO CORRUPTION AND LOVE IT SO VERY MUCH.....SO THEY CANT FIGHT IT AT ALL AT ALL.....AND THEY EVEN CONTINUE TO PERPETRATE IT THE MORE....SHAMELESS FOOLS

  • Douglas. Bristol-UK 9 years ago

    they can never try n even succeed in a coup masterminded by ugly Ape looking akufo addo

  • OPPONG 9 years ago

    Ha ha haaaaaaaa! Come to Kumasi and see how your people "humans" work for the Asante apes and live in the uncompleted houses of Asantes!

  • Sarrouk 9 years ago

    Don't try to divide us, Ashanti's were the founders of our nations

  • Zito 9 years ago

    I wish Ghanaians know where you live, you don't make such statements. I'm Ewe myself your'e embarrass to our nation. No wonder why Ghanaians don't wanna marry us?

  • Steve Kweku Duah 9 years ago

    NPP do your top men meet to seriously band themselves together on issues that will bring you to power and what will put you in perpetual opposition? Just when it was very clear you would win the 2012 elections you Parafed Gha ...
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  • Kofi Ghana 9 years ago

    Stupid .. You need to go back to Class-one and give your law qualification to your alliterate Mother ..

  • OPPONG 9 years ago

    True true!

  • GOD DEY 9 years ago

    I KNOW WHERE THIS USELESS IDIOT LIVES. HIS DAYS ARE NUMBER. I SWEAR, I SHALL PERSONALLY ASSASINATE THIS MORON. HE DOESNT DESERVE TO LIVE.HIS FAMILY SHOULD START PREPARING FOR HIS FUNERAL. SIASEM. GOD PUNISH U AND YOUR GENERAT ...
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  • Sarrouk 9 years ago

    God bless you! You are the kind of person Ghana need rite now! I was once NDC but I've switched, what is going on in Mahama administration is disgusting, and something has to be done to save this God loving, peaceful nation.

  • Wilson Dey 9 years ago

    You can't impeach his brother, in case you don't know he is not an elected official. I don't think you were ever an NDC member in the first place. God bless you anyway.

  • ADE 9 years ago

    THESE YESTERDAY SOLDIERS LACK KNOWLEDGE. NO SOLDIER THINKS OF COUP THESE DAYS. REMEMBER CORRUPTION STARTED FROM INDEPENDENCE. IN KUFFOUR'S REGIME IT WAS THERE. WHAT HAPPENED TO HIPC MONEY? GHANA @50? SALE OF STATE INDUSTRIES? ...
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  • witch hunter 9 years ago

    So who impregnated miss Ghana?some comments are not helpful for stability of the country.Please wait for 2016 to contest elections and stop polluting soldiers minds.

  • Nyarnu 9 years ago

    Mr president, please take this statement very serious. Effa Dartey is ploting underground. Let the security operatives do their underground work well. Once said this he is not far from doing it. He has done it before and can ...
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  • Alaska 9 years ago

    Are these guys truly democratic? Mahama should be very careful NPP might have already infiltrated the Army just as they have done at Bank Of Ghana with thier sympatizers leaking information to them for politics.

  • Awudu 9 years ago

    Are you a Ghanaian or not,and how do you make a stupid information.

  • Truth 9 years ago

    We welcome it. All politicians are idiots

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 9 years ago

    The NPP man what sense has he? The NPP wants a coup in Ghana but that will not happen for them.

  • kojo 9 years ago

    You try any coup we are in Ghana already and we are base in Osu we are neutral we do not support any political party we think about the citizens of Ghana. We are armed to the teeth if you are a soldier try and see fire ...
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  • kobina 9 years ago

    Is the Ghanaian soldier a different breed of a human being than his ordinary citizen counterpart not a soldier? What makes the Ghanaian soldier superior in terms of political capacity to govern? We as a people have experience ...
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  • PATRIOT 9 years ago

    I know Effah-Darteh from Legon and we were all in Commonwealth Hall.He had the singular ambition of becoming the president of Ghana and believed the shortest route to achieve his aim was joining the army.No wonder he wanted t ...
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  • Amorin Jude 9 years ago

    You speak like this and expect Ghanaians to vote for your party to come to power? My goodness. God forbid.

  • D.K 9 years ago

    useless idea, coup d'etat hummmm

  • ROLAND GODXTYM 9 years ago

    nkrumah is not mahamah. u thought how u masterminded nkrumah's overthrow u can do it this tym? 4get man. Democracy, rawlings did dat n the same npp said it was wrong den y vindicating rawlings dis tym? mahamah,won't be overt ...
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  • Namjia 9 years ago

    There is no directives as Ministers like Humado and other are delibrately causing financial loss to the Government. Mahama can't be everywhere so he appoint people to work with. Unfortunately they are mostly corrupt as the wo ...
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  • Ajovi 9 years ago

    NPP soldiers are cowards. They dare not try else the ewes will wipe them out.

  • LARYEAH 9 years ago

    YOU ARE VERY STUPID PERSON.

  • Ajovi 9 years ago

    Half of Gas vote NPP half vote NDC . You have neutralised yourselves so whatever you say does not count. My brothers come to NDC to keep the Ashantis at bay. Remember they want to exterminate Gas and Ewes.

  • Martin Amidu's Loyalist 9 years ago

    Some of you talk as if you were only born today.What were the reasons Rawlings made his coup to receive praise from Ghanaians at that time.It was because the masses were suffering at that time.Let me inform you that report ca ...
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  • kwesi foi 9 years ago

    this man is a die hard busia-danquah traditional man and he knows what he is talking about. the 24th February 1966 bloody coup d'état was carried out by his forefathers led by abrefa busia, Edward akuffo addo, jb danquah and ...
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  • Stoway 9 years ago

    Who told you the masses are suffering? Don't confuse Npp supporters for the masses. Now the getting of free loans waawaa and drug business money is not flowing like Kuffour's corrupt time. Wait for Ghanaians to vote for you.

  • watson 9 years ago

    EFFAH U A CAPITAL FOOOOOL

  • Dannybee 9 years ago

    In the face of the economic hardships we should continue to promote democratic values so that allegations of corruption are dealt within the law. History has taught us that the military do not have the expertise & know how to ...
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  • Paul 9 years ago

    It is wholly irresponsible for anyone, let alone a politician to even suggest that the military might intervene in the country's governance. The military has no, repeat, NO POLITICAL MANDATE and their record (including that o ...
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  • Asamoah Forson 9 years ago

    YES IS THE ANSWER. GHANA IS PREGNANT WITH TWINS. HOW DO YOU KNOW???YOU'RE MAGIC MAN AND VERY SOON GHANA IS COMING TO HAVE TWO NEW BOYS TWINS.

  • ASA 9 years ago

    ALL YOU KNOW IS THIS NONSENSE

  • rashid alhassan 9 years ago

    in the unlikely event of this coup,people like Effah Datteh shall be the first to be annihilated and demystifyed from the surface of this earth....anyway its the all die be die man who sent him to talk this gibbrish,shaaaaame ...
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  • Asamoah Forson 9 years ago

    ANOTHER JJ RAWLINGS IS ABOUT TO COME AND THIS TIME THEY ARE TWINS. BELIVE IT OR NOT. WAIT AND SEE.

  • KOOBOY 9 years ago

    COUP D'ETAT DESTROYED GHANA ALL THE WAY FROM THE AFRIFA AND KOTOKA. COUP D'ETAT DESTROYED THE MAIN FABRIC OF GHANA. DO YOU REALIZE HOW MANY BLOOD OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE SHED? ONLY A FOOL WOULD ADVOCATE FOR A CHANGE IN GOVERN ...
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  • Banza Bokoi 9 years ago

    The ex Captain attempted a coup and was court martial and discharged from the military. He still harbours the ambition to be the Head of State through fair or foul means. He wanted to be the flag bearer of his party but faile ...
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  • Emma 9 years ago

    This is my second time I am hearing this, all from NPP faithfuls. 1st it was one MP for Nadam - Upper East on Multy TV and now Nkrabiah. If that is all that NPP thinks and wishes then its unfortunate. The 1st ALL DYE BE DYE n ...
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  • Ernest. 9 years ago

    No doubt this is coming from the mouth of a failed coup plotter. Failures are always frustrated and come out with such nonsense. If you had won your presidential ambitions and elected president you would have been worse of th ...
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  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    NPP knows that Nana Addo can't beat Mahama and NDC will still win majority in parliament,come 2016.The fact that Nana Addo has not made any changes in his campaign strategy confirms that he can't beat Mahama with the same Baw ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Ever since Achimota school days and his studies at Legon, Mr. Effah-Dartey never stopped his interest in one day becoming the president of Ghana. Studying law and later joining the military , and later the NPP, was his way of ...
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  • BE BOLD 9 years ago

    But you are being taken for granted now through the massive corruption and you are going along with it. Are you bold to face that

  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Be Bold, tell me how you are being bold to face you so-called massive corruption?
    At least I'm not using fake moniker like BE BOLD. I am bold enough not to hide under a moniker

  • my mind 9 years ago

    effa dartey is NOT a retired army officer.

  • Constructivist 9 years ago

    All those castigating and using unprintable words on Effah should continue living in their folly, we have all the ingredients for a coup de'tat in its overdose in Ghana today than ever. Yes, the appetite for a coup might not ...
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  • KT 9 years ago

    I knew ED from Commonwealth Hall. He joined the army solely with the intention of staging a coup. When he got the least chance, he tried something, failed and was kicked out. No surprise he talks like this. The soldiers are e ...
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  • D. Aryee MD. 9 years ago

    KOKOTAKO! ABOA BONE!!

  • jimmy 9 years ago

    The one who wrote this piece of news should have done better considering reported speeches

  • Abdul Razak 9 years ago

    These are the bad and evil people we have as citizens. He's just fueling problems. What a bad human being.

  • Abdul Razak 9 years ago

    He's just coup de tat himself. He should be arrested be4 he put his plans into action

  • ibn abudu @ Canadasheabutter (GhUWR) 9 years ago

    You are just an evil double faced individual . When you are pick security agents for questioning , they will cry owl . Free speech have limitations even in the West

  • Nana Effah 9 years ago

    My name sake and learned friend, do you feel home sick of the army life? If so do not tarnish our profession with this coup notion. Let peace reign and allow army lethal rule flow to an immeasurable distance.

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 9 years ago

    This is Effah-Dartey's concocted imagination.

    Give us the evidence, Captain (rtd) Effah-Dartey.

  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    Soldiers - like Jerry Rawlings - are the best leaders? Ghanaian Policemen, who stand by the roadside begging for coins from drivers (ignoring all their other duties of providing safety for the country) are the best leaders, r ...
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  • witch hunter 9 years ago

    Stupid comments

  • ISAAC A.K.A MARCUS GARVEY- ASIA 9 years ago

    DOUGLAS,U AGAIN INSULTING ASHANTI,S HERE RIGHT? OK MY ASHANTI,S KUMASI GUY,S ARE TRACKING U DOWN AT U.K.Y3DI WOFUNU 3B3KO TOGO,ABOABIBA,WO MAAME TW3 KANKANI,IF UR A. MAN ENOUGH,GIVE UR MOBILE OR YOUR PHOTO,MY KUMASI GUY,S WIL ...
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  • Lord Tennison 9 years ago

    Gone are those Abongo Boys days.We will fiercely resist any attempt at trampling upon the will of the people of Ghana.
    We have unequivocally settled for a democratic dispensable.So shall it be till Jesus' second advent.
    A m ...
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  • NDC AKROMFUOR PARTY. 9 years ago

    We pray God kick off this satanic party from this world .All members of the party are criminals.

  • Okess 9 years ago

    THIS GUY SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED FOR INCITING LAWLESSNESS. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE ELECTIONS IN GHANA. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE GOVERNMENT HELP TO VOTE THEM OUT.

  • Samuel Asante U.S.A 9 years ago

    If this man tried a coup before then the government must keep an eye on him.No country is having it easy now. Ghanaians are even blessed though hardship is noted on peoples faces .No government should treat statements like th ...
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  • malata 9 years ago

    This guy Effah Dartey is just a post loving trouble maker. At motown, he turned a thank you speech into his personal vendetta, blasting and insulting all our white expatriate teachers. He hasn't changed all these years!

  • Yaw 9 years ago

    The juguar joker is at it again. You do not have a political clout. You are the joker in the park.

  • .USMAN. 9 years ago

    Burkina O DENDE AWAAWA AWA AWA ATUUUUU!

  • Agonaba 9 years ago

    "Countries with numerous coups are unstable"

  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    The changes in the country and people would not happen over PRAYERS. Instead, it can only happen with the will power of the government, civil servants, and citizens across the country.
    A whole new mind set, character, atti ...
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  • Azumah Nelson 9 years ago

    These people don't understand democracy
    Rffah Dartey is a former soldier. If he is a man let him lead that coup.

  • Kodjo 9 years ago

    Old man FOOL. You want some young soldiers to stage a coup so you and your theiving political friends will come back to power. Stupid TWAT!!! Every tiime these dicks aren't in power they always spell doom and gloom for our co ...
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  • Help me 9 years ago

    Frustrated poor man, it is only when your party is out of power that you can see the wood for the forest. . Hunger is driving many politicians into saying things they know can never happen. Poor remuneration from your law pra ...
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  • Free Spirit 9 years ago

    Eiiii K Nkrabea, u are a big fool and a lie. We won't do any coup. The country can be sold, we don't mind so far as it's the democratic decision of the people of Ghana. Aaaaaba what nonsense is that? You the retired officer ...
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  • The Truth 9 years ago

    We hate the truth

  • Victor Afeli 9 years ago

    This man need be arrested, he trying to put this bad things in the people mind.

  • Atooo 9 years ago

    These npp people are from the pit of hell. Coup to whose benefit? Akuffo Addo or who? You wished president mills dead thinking that by some design u will come to power. It did not work. Today u want coup? You guys are sick an ...
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  • Kpengson Ray 9 years ago

    Hey! A coup in Ghana? Let anyone try and I tell you that will unleash the legendary kraken! If we think the country is being mis-managed and corruption is not being fought as it should we have the option of voting the present ...
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  • kwame 9 years ago

    NPP is now realizing that 2016 election is over for them. They want to try other means, coup.

  • Dela hoya 9 years ago

    beloved people of mother Ghana lets make Ghana a peaceful home for there is no place like home.

  • jim 9 years ago

    Mahama is very well aware there is nobody with courage to stage a coup in Ghana.

  • FedUp 9 years ago

    How did you fare in the NPP presidential primaries? Simply appalling. Give u a break. bomb throwers

  • Gyimah 9 years ago

    Another stupid and useless bastard. Look at at him full shit.
    Spitting total none sense like a kwashiorkor child with diarrhoea.

  • Ghandi 9 years ago

    Let the coup come, NPP!. We shall take advantage to settle scores. Akuffo Addo, Dr Bawumia, Franklin Cudjoe,Kwaku Baako, Irresponsible Akomea, Otabil,that useless bishop at Oboasi & many others should just pray it doesn't hap ...
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  • G. K. Berko 9 years ago

    It is most unwise for this former military officer to be making a comment like this.

    He seems to be endorsing the preference for a coup to the current administraton. He is undermining the entrenchment of our Democracy.

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  • koby 9 years ago

    Effah dartey is pregnant

  • The Common Ghanaian. 9 years ago

    NPP,seeing defeat already? Better sit up and organise. Dreaming of a coup will no help the Party. Strange that Democrats are praying for unconstitutional means to be part of government. It will not happen my dear.

  • kwayeb 9 years ago

    Yes, I for see this when the president attempts to send troops to Nigeria. The guy needs to reason.

  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    All the powerful NPP communicators have lost vim one by one.Bawumia,Paul Afoko,Kwabena Agyapong,Ken Agyapong,Nana Akomea,Kofi Jumah,Wontumi and Nana Addo himself.Where are they?No message,no strategy and no confidence,that's ...
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  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    No, it shouldn't take a coup for the change to occur. Rather, a change in the mind set, behavior and attitude of all Ghanaians. No condoning, no connivance, and no collaboration to crime; every crime!

  • CAO 9 years ago

    SAS.

  • Ex Cpl Djanie 9 years ago

    Politicians should stop insulting Effa-Dartey and start doing some soul searching b'cos anyone who is old enough and remember what went on in Ghana some few years before 15th May and June 4th 1979, will tell you that we've g ...
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  • sonkrolo 9 years ago

    IS YOUR THINKING STILL IN THE 70s. REMEMBER WE IN 2015.

  • Asass, Ksi. 9 years ago

    Ghananians have short memory as the Prez said, we should learn from the past.

  • FRITZ NKROMA 9 years ago

    FOLKS, JUST IGNORE HIM!

  • FRITZ NKROMA 9 years ago

    FOLKS JUST IGNORE THAT COWARD

  • 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.

  • abba 9 years ago

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

  • Amoo axim 9 years ago

    Effah ; u n ur family will b de 1st to die shd de coup u r planning occurs. Do Effah after all hav chn? Is u n ur group planniig anoda coup? they did dat to nkrumah, but wont happen again in dis country. stupid comment fm w ...
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  • MIRIMANU 9 years ago

    Graduate of de university of fools.

  • koo Nimo 9 years ago

    Once a soldier always a soldier ..

  • Bill 9 years ago

    This man is an imbecile. Those days are over. Try it if you don't agree with me

  • Akunga akonga 9 years ago

    No! No! Not again! We can not retrogress. Very dangerous n may be treasenable speculation. Am l right?

  • kwame 9 years ago

    he should try a coup and the ewes and northern guys in the Ghana army will use him for pepper soup.

  • KBK 9 years ago

    Effa is right to say dat becos mahama is weak to punish corrupted people in ghana they are walking free with out any action

  • kojo 9 years ago

    arrest this npp idiot

  • Ewe Boy 9 years ago

    Listen to that unapologetic foolish man. Coups are thing of the past. You should be arrested and charged with breach of national peace.

  • Mr Joseph Adu Poku 9 years ago

    Effah Dartey is very right, Ghana's pregnancy is long overdue.

  • Mars1 9 years ago

    A coup d'etat in Ghana! Did I hear this right, tell me! This person is really out of his mind if he thinks that will be the solution to Ghana's perceived or imagined problems. Wake up folks it is not and will never be the S ...
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  • Mars1 9 years ago

    Vote out the so-called rascals if you do not like them. But to go for military coup, wow, someone must be drank out his mind. Military governments are part of the problem in African development. People must get used to the i ...
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  • Mars1 9 years ago

    The idea of the military in government is an aberration. Ghana did not get this far to imagine a military government is the solution to whatever the solution to GOVERNANCE problems in Ghana. Any idea of a military set up in g ...
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  • KB, USA 9 years ago

    While I agree with all your comments, the inability or incompetence of the current government to listen to any form of advice, makes one wonder, if Ghanaians would not support any band of inept, half baked intellectuals who e ...
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  • kojo 9 years ago

    Do not even try any coup in Ghana it will not be successful foolish ignorant soldiers. We are base in Accra we protect Ghana Citizen's. We are neutral we do not support any political party. We are armed to the teeth.

  • Kwaku Amoah Germany. 9 years ago

    Efa dartey what have you done for your town Berekum and Ghana as a whole that you want Ghana to go back again. You can do that coup now because you are one of the ALL DIE BE DIE GROUP. THE NPP. Start the coup from your fam ...
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  • Patriot. 9 years ago

    Mr Darteh, it seems to me that all these people screeming CORRUPTION, don´t reaaly understand what system we find ourselves in. Mr Darteh,you are invited by the Attorney-General, if you have any evidence of corruption, other ...
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  • mensa 9 years ago

    Keep on preaching that and you and your family will be the first to suffer, Foolish talk........

  • Jasco 9 years ago

    Stupid,stupid. Who wants military government in Ghana!? Are you out of your locks? What do they do to a country when they are in power, is it not"bugabuga "tactics they use to embezzle the country and ordinary? Mr man, don't ...
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  • LARRY KING 9 years ago

    NPP: BOMB THROWERS, COUP MAKERS ARSONISTS, DRUG BARONS, NATION WRECKERS.

  • harun 9 years ago

    Is not just from the leaders bt almost every one is not prepare to do the right thing. So efa datey hold your breath

  • Eva 9 years ago

    See this lier, nobody is going to take a
    gun because they know a good work is going on by the government. If you don't see it go to heal

  • Nana Kwaku Germany 9 years ago

    You should go to heal, wait and see gun coming soon fool as you are.
    do you think of Ghana

  • John Musah 9 years ago

    Effah Dartey should stop this reckless talk. There was corruption under the K4 administration and under Rawlings. How come he did not think a coup was possible. Mahama is running a Constitutional
    government. If you have pro ...
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  • Nana Kwaku Germany 9 years ago

    (rtd) Effah Dartey why are you all quite, should all stand up against corruption. we are ding in our own Land hmm (Ghana)

  • JJ 9 years ago

    havent enough been said about SADA, national Service Secretariat, Presidential plane acquisition, etc whatever came out of these?

  • Paa Joe 9 years ago

    SUCH A FOLK, IS STILL LIVING IN AN UNCIVILIZED WORLD.

    SHOULD THE OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMEMTS BE UNDERTAKEN BY CRIMINALS IN THE ARMY.

    BNI HAS TO SUMMON THIS FOLK FOR QUESTIONING AND POSSIBLE PROSECUTION.

  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    Another desparate and losing NPP politician trying to instigate military personnel to enagae in a coup. When the NPP realizes that it can't overcome its political opponents, it resorts to coup parlance, hoping that some withi ...
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  • mma 9 years ago

    It is not bravery when our soldiers turn their guns on civilians and topple democratically elected governments. Go clear BOKO HARAM and prove your worth

  • richeee!! 9 years ago

    You are rather pregnant with coup de, tat