I'm scared of flying - Kwame Akuffo

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ACID 8 years ago

As an internal auditor in the early 70's
at the gcmb,sitting on the topfloor barcony was more than fun to me.But, now,a single storey floor becmes my phobia.

As an internal auditor in the early 70's
at the gcmb,sitting on the topfloor barcony was more than fun to me.But, now,a single storey floor becmes my phobia.
WISEMAN 8 years ago

I saw kwame Akuffo in London Colliers wood,if he doesn't have a passport how did he get there?Why is this guy telling lies?there is no need for that.Frax you are a liar!

I saw kwame Akuffo in London Colliers wood,if he doesn't have a passport how did he get there?Why is this guy telling lies?there is no need for that.Frax you are a liar!
kofi 8 years ago

Wiseman read the man's statement again,do you read english?He was in the plane 2008,and we are in 2015,passport is lost ,what part you dont understand?

Wiseman read the man's statement again,do you read english?He was in the plane 2008,and we are in 2015,passport is lost ,what part you dont understand?
MANKIND 8 years ago

YOU'RE A FOOL, WISEMAN.
THE GUY SAID HE LOST HIS PASSPORT.
THAT'S WHY HE SAID "I DON'T HAVE A PASSPORT".

YOU'RE A FOOL, WISEMAN.
THE GUY SAID HE LOST HIS PASSPORT.
THAT'S WHY HE SAID "I DON'T HAVE A PASSPORT".
SANTROFI 8 years ago

KOKOASE KURASENI PEOPLE.
THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY BUSHLIKE GHANAIANS HINDERING OUR NATION'S MODERN DEVELOPMENT.

ABOIT 90% OF GHANAIANS IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS ARE BUSH PEOPLE. THAT'S WHY GHANA'S MODERN DEVELOPMENT IS SUFFE ...
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KOKOASE KURASENI PEOPLE.
THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY BUSHLIKE GHANAIANS HINDERING OUR NATION'S MODERN DEVELOPMENT.

ABOIT 90% OF GHANAIANS IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS ARE BUSH PEOPLE. THAT'S WHY GHANA'S MODERN DEVELOPMENT IS SUFFERING.

EVERY FACET OF LIFE IN GHANA IS SUFFERING OF MODERNITY BECAUSE BISH PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN OVER GHANA AND RESORTED TO PLUNDERING THE NATIONAL TREASURY AS THEIR MAIN PREOCCUPATION.

WE SHALL SWIM IN THE QUAGMIRE.
John,Tema 8 years ago

Is Dennis Bergkamp,former player of Arsenals & Holland also a bushman?Wait till you experience a mishap in flight before you write that stupid comment.

Is Dennis Bergkamp,former player of Arsenals & Holland also a bushman?Wait till you experience a mishap in flight before you write that stupid comment.
Jaga 8 years ago

Don't you believe in all die be die concept ???

Don't you believe in all die be die concept ???
SANTO 8 years ago

Dennis Bergkamp i? "white" so he can't be a bush Man? Narrow-minded poor ignorantsoul.
Stay put where you are, and never travel across the oceans in this 20th century.

Efuom boy!

Dennis Bergkamp i? "white" so he can't be a bush Man? Narrow-minded poor ignorantsoul.
Stay put where you are, and never travel across the oceans in this 20th century.

Efuom boy!
James 8 years ago

You're not alone. I hate it. When I was in the US, I traveled by train and buses from Chicago to New York several times: about 24hrs whereas it took just 4hrs to go by plane.

You're not alone. I hate it. When I was in the US, I traveled by train and buses from Chicago to New York several times: about 24hrs whereas it took just 4hrs to go by plane.
Jasmine 8 years ago

Who told you it takes 4 hours to fly from Chicago to New York?

Who told you it takes 4 hours to fly from Chicago to New York?
MIDNIGHT TRAIN 8 years ago

James, you're a liar.
You never lived in the U.S.
Chicago to NY by plane 4 hours?
Was the plane walking?
Try 2.5 hours for truth.

James, you're a liar.
You never lived in the U.S.
Chicago to NY by plane 4 hours?
Was the plane walking?
Try 2.5 hours for truth.
Dr idi Dada 8 years ago

Who writes these articles? Such shabby writing!

Who writes these articles? Such shabby writing!
Jasmine 8 years ago

Like "the mindset of a plane"?

Like "the mindset of a plane"?
samax 8 years ago

how did you fly if you don't have a passport

how did you fly if you don't have a passport
kokoti 8 years ago

read the points well before u comment he said he flew in 2008 bt e passport is missng be smart

read the points well before u comment he said he flew in 2008 bt e passport is missng be smart
Abaa 8 years ago

Kwame Akuffo you are perfectly right!I also abhor travelling on air.

Kwame Akuffo you are perfectly right!I also abhor travelling on air.
kohems 8 years ago

They expect freebies before voting for candidates.It means even before the MP enters parliament he is coached to be corrupt.What a nation!!!

They expect freebies before voting for candidates.It means even before the MP enters parliament he is coached to be corrupt.What a nation!!!
AWE MANSAH 8 years ago

A LOT OF US VE SAME PHOBIA BUT KEEP YOUR PASSPORT BCOS U NEED IT EVEN IF YOU ARE TRAVELLING BY ROAD TO SUDAN OR TANZANIA. NPP MAY SEND U AS THEIR POOLING AGENT IN MALI,SOMALIA OR CHAD AND U NEED PASSPORT. IT IS NOT FOR BOARD ...
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A LOT OF US VE SAME PHOBIA BUT KEEP YOUR PASSPORT BCOS U NEED IT EVEN IF YOU ARE TRAVELLING BY ROAD TO SUDAN OR TANZANIA. NPP MAY SEND U AS THEIR POOLING AGENT IN MALI,SOMALIA OR CHAD AND U NEED PASSPORT. IT IS NOT FOR BOARDING PLANE BUT FOR RECEIVING VISA TO TRAVEL ABROAD NOT OVERSEAS ALONE.
Ghanaba 8 years ago

Fraks, could the US govt's decision to bar you from entering the US for continuously defending drug dealers (thanks to the recommendation of Akrasi Sarpong &Co) be part of the reasons? Just asking. Such decisions definitely ...
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Fraks, could the US govt's decision to bar you from entering the US for continuously defending drug dealers (thanks to the recommendation of Akrasi Sarpong &Co) be part of the reasons? Just asking. Such decisions definitely could invoke this kind of phobia too.
TRUTH 8 years ago

There's nothing bushman about fear of flying. Kutu Acheampong was Head of State for 6 years hated flying. It is just the fear of height which is involuntary.

There's nothing bushman about fear of flying. Kutu Acheampong was Head of State for 6 years hated flying. It is just the fear of height which is involuntary.
NPP NOW BURIED IN SHIIT 8 years ago

NO WONDER HE HAS THE NAME AKUFFO.APUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

NO WONDER HE HAS THE NAME AKUFFO.APUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Jenny 8 years ago

Aeroplane fascination. One of the greatest inventions of mankind

Aeroplane fascination. One of the greatest inventions of mankind
G. K. Berko 8 years ago

Is this a national news item that all must be aware of? Don't we need to spend time brainstorming on issues that might change the lives of people for the better? I don't see how the inability of Kwame Akuffo to fly is such a ...
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Is this a national news item that all must be aware of? Don't we need to spend time brainstorming on issues that might change the lives of people for the better? I don't see how the inability of Kwame Akuffo to fly is such a huge national problem. It may not even affect his life that much to be a concern to him, really. He is still a successful Lawyer making money, even as most Ghanaians are jobless.

Come On! Kwadwo Nyameama, my Cocoa farming neighbor at Akranteasa village, also fears flying. So, he would not even take any free offers to fly overseas. And so is my dear friend, Amadu Kangiba in Lawra, the best bicycle mechanic that I ever knew. Oh, my step-aunt Amma Tonkyenedi, from Akrofrom in the Eastern Region, is also afraid of flying. In fact, she is even afraid of traveling in ordinary vehicles. So, most of the time she would walk long distances and refuse a lift. Yet, she thrives. She cares more about how much of her produce she can sell at the Market. The fast dwindling buying power of customers has affected her income badly. Much of her commodities go rotten after long waiting on the tables and their frequent retraction. She would not even have electric power at home to keep them refrigerated in the huge deep-freezer her son in Spain sent to her. She is more afraid the empty box that the fridge has become would soon be only good enough for a hiding spot for her grand kids playing hide and seek.

But I bet all these friends of mine and many other citizens would rather like to hear us discuss, on here, issues of National import, even if it is on why our sources of Game meat has all but dried up. Barely any Snails in the Forests, or any more grasscutters in the Savannahs.

For the very first time in our Country's history, we have to import Wood to supplement local demand, not because of population explosion that is excessively demanding wood for any purpose, but because our corruption has eaten into the sustainability management of our Forests Estates to allow rampant and needless and illegal extraction of Timber by greedy, destructive folks. No wonder some have resorted to Mango Trees and Twie (Borusia Palm) to fell for rafters in their houses.

In a consequential tandem, the habitats for our Game and wildlife has almost all disappeared or dangerously altered to impinge on the sheer existence of the animals providing us Game meat. Our politicians would rather keep it that way, because it offers them the chance to control the imports of foreign Poultry and stale Meat, which only their cronies have import Licenses for. They then all share in the booty of shoving that down our throats at high profits.

Many of our Streams have permanently desiccated, stressing our populations in their supply of drinking water. The watershed areas in the Forests have all been affected to trim the flow of water to only trickle of their original forms. No wonder the Akosombo Dam and even the new one at Bui would not have enough water to turn their turbines to provide sustained Power.

Corruption has motivated the maintenance of the status quo in even designing our infrastructure to the point that we still, in this 21st Century, build open culverts for drainage, only to see them filled with trash to choke the flow of waste and rain water, resulting in avoidable floods.

Because of Corruption, we can hardly maintain a regular supply of fuel to keep our Electric grid fully engaged, despite our discovery of Oil, hence endless 'Dumsor, Dumsor'. Our private Companies all do not have enough power to continue operations to even keep the existing employee levels let alone expand to absorb newly unemployed. The Nation has gone of borrowing spree in the last few years sending us into more debt than all our previous Administrations combined. And yet, we have little to show for.

So, goes our story, on and on, and on....And this Kwame Akuffo's fear of flying is what you care to share with us?

Long Live Ghana!!!
Sorogomo 8 years ago

I am surprised that despite the big issues at stake, the fear of flying has found space in ghanaweb. Please be serious.

I am surprised that despite the big issues at stake, the fear of flying has found space in ghanaweb. Please be serious.
courage 8 years ago

I can help you understand the theory of flight. 0503183411

I can help you understand the theory of flight. 0503183411
Sacramento esq 8 years ago

the year is 1996. in the late Mr okyere"s office at THE Ghana SCHOOL OF LAW. KWAMEakuffu in A HISTORIC LEGAL ARGUMENT WITH THE UNSTOPPABLE src president ALBERTADARE. Mr okyere is impressed as these two stalwart law students e ...
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the year is 1996. in the late Mr okyere"s office at THE Ghana SCHOOL OF LAW. KWAMEakuffu in A HISTORIC LEGAL ARGUMENT WITH THE UNSTOPPABLE src president ALBERTADARE. Mr okyere is impressed as these two stalwart law students exchange verbal salvos on the issue of the control of the school bus.I cannot wait to relish these two counsel battle it out in court. KUDOS TO YOU ALL.
Dabo 8 years ago

Ghanaweb please stop posting such useless stories. Who is this lawyer or whatever he calls himself and of what use is he to our national development.

Can't fly so what has that got to do with the price of bread?

Ghanaweb please stop posting such useless stories. Who is this lawyer or whatever he calls himself and of what use is he to our national development.

Can't fly so what has that got to do with the price of bread?

I'm scared of flying - Kwame Akuffo

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