Akandoh’s ‘thugs' beat me mercilessly - Martha Kwayie

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W.o asempa, kintampo 8 years ago

Naa who cause am? Does madam Martha has foreigners detecting machine to presume that somebody is a foreigner? One thing I realized is that, the NPP is only creating unnecessary tension with regards to this registration. In fa ...
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Naa who cause am? Does madam Martha has foreigners detecting machine to presume that somebody is a foreigner? One thing I realized is that, the NPP is only creating unnecessary tension with regards to this registration. In fact, madam Martha must be responsible for her own ordeals.
GHANAVIA 8 years ago

Answer your infantile question yourself.
Probably you need someone with higher IQ to reason properly for you to appreciate the ramifications of your warp logic.

Answer your infantile question yourself.
Probably you need someone with higher IQ to reason properly for you to appreciate the ramifications of your warp logic.
jj 8 years ago

Fool

Fool
Grow up 8 years ago

Stupid comment. If you are in Ghana and cannot speak/understand any local language you are a foreigner.. no need for a detector.. if you don't have anything good to comment .. shut the fuck up..

Stupid comment. If you are in Ghana and cannot speak/understand any local language you are a foreigner.. no need for a detector.. if you don't have anything good to comment .. shut the fuck up..
Paapsy 8 years ago

Yours is rather surprising I have three children and non of them can speak any of the Ghanaian languages. Though they can comprehend twi and fanti they can't speak.

Yours is rather surprising I have three children and non of them can speak any of the Ghanaian languages. Though they can comprehend twi and fanti they can't speak.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

Paapsy, just don't mind that numskull for he is one banana short of a bunch.

Paapsy, just don't mind that numskull for he is one banana short of a bunch.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

Were you there to listen in on those presumed foreigners to conclude that they did not speak any of our Ghanaian numerous languages? Now, how many language are there in Ghana and do you understand all of them, fool? Some of y ...
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Were you there to listen in on those presumed foreigners to conclude that they did not speak any of our Ghanaian numerous languages? Now, how many language are there in Ghana and do you understand all of them, fool? Some of you are seriously insane in the membrane collectively. What a bunch of hue and cry babies!
Kofi 8 years ago

Idiot, Jake Obetsbi Lamptey the deceased chairman of "Yen Akanfuo" Party did not speak any of the local Ghanaian Languages. Read this tribute by Elizabeth Ohene, about him then come back and tell me whether he was a Ghanaian ...
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Idiot, Jake Obetsbi Lamptey the deceased chairman of "Yen Akanfuo" Party did not speak any of the local Ghanaian Languages. Read this tribute by Elizabeth Ohene, about him then come back and tell me whether he was a Ghanaian or an alien because he did not speak any of the local languages?

ELIZABETH OHENE;

Both of us could never really agree on when we first met, but I suspect circa 1967 would be a fair date. Maybe the meeting was from afar.

Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey was at the time the young, dashing, suave film star and smooth continuity voice on Ghana Television. He played the role of Dr. Minta in the television series of that name.

I was straight from school and finding a job with the Daily Graphic. I am a year older than him and this had special significance in my scheme of things.

These days it will probably be said we were both in the media, but I am not sure we defined it as such. We do agree on a story that sticks in our minds. I reported in the Sunday Mirror, as it was then called, on a press conference by E.H. Boohene who had been asked to stand aside from his position as Managing Director of Ghana Airways. Jake called me to say he liked my “refreshing use of the English language”.

Next heard of, he was in advertising and he was climbing the corporate ladder very fast. Whenever and wherever we met, we took up from wherever we had left off on the last occasion. We asked no questions about what each other had been up to.

Then we came to live quite near each other, Cantoments and North Labone, and I got drawn into his circle of friends. Various advertising campaigns became the language of conversation.

The KBL (Kumasi Brewery Limited) calendar was always a highlight; that is where the beautiful and attractive young girls hoped to be featured and served as a platform for many aspiring models.

The campaigns for the Family Planning programme were memorable and he made a name for himself in advertising. I have no idea how he decided on advertising but it fitted him like a second skin.

Much later on in my life, I came to the conclusion, in a very roundabout way that what a person became in life often bore no relationship to how he performed at school, or often how much schooling he had.

Jake did not go to university but he was better read than many who did. He used to read lots of “How to” books but his favourite genre were biographies, which he read avidly. If he borrowed your book, he would return it after reading and there would be a discussion on what he found interesting.

Friends and family

Our children were contemporaries and became friends, Mickey, Atu, Koranteng, and his Charis. He preferred to be visited than to visit. He ran an open house; you would always find a cold beer, most probably a Gulder in the Obetsebi-Lamptey house. During those times of shortages in Ghana, the availability of a cold beer certainly made the house at Fourth Circular Road attractive.

But the attraction went far beyond booze and food. The conversations ranged over a wide selection of topics because his range of friends was omnivorous.

There were the lawyers, army officers, childhood friends, engineers, journalists, diplomats, civil servants, etc. And then of course, he was a great one for picking strays, many of whom stayed as lifelong friends.

Sometimes it was not clear to me how he managed some of these relationships since he was hopeless at any of the Ghanaian languages.

Then Charlene died. Jake’s wife Charlene, his elegant, sophisticated soul mate died. We were young, death was not supposed to be part of our narrative, but Charlene died and suddenly the urbane unflappable host looked extremely vulnerable. Everybody rallied, Ninii, Miguel, George, Nikai, Ophe, Sati, Nancy, Angela, his sister Naa Ayele, his in-law Anna, all his many friends, and somehow he pulled through.

I got a scoop for the Daily Graphic about the inside story of the Liberia coup d’etat staged by Master Sergeant Doe, when his house suddenly became a refuge for his many Liberian friends who had to flee from the blood-letting in their country. He married Jeannette and Charis got a sister, Rachael.

Politics

At which point do I bring in politics? Of course he was the son of Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, one of the Big Six. But that is not what defined his politics. He could not come to terms with the manner of his father’s death, the vehemence with which political opponents were treated during the First Republic.

This outsize man, this man who doubled the ubiquitous plastic chair to cope with his weight, detested violence. But then, of course, he believed he could charm everybody over to his point of view with the sheer force of his personality. This, after all, is the man who convinced the whole of Ghana that there was something magical and special about Key soap.

There cannot be many people, alive or dead, who have worked longer, harder and with more commitment to the NPP political tradition than Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, It gives me a lot of satisfaction that I once told him he had done more for the tradition than his father did, a member of the Big Six, though he was.

The December 31, 1981 coup d’etat disbanded our group. Things were certainly topsy-turvy. Our friends had staged the coup d’etat, we disagreed with the overthrow of the elected government. Those who had been overthrown became the big supporters and beneficiaries of the coup and those who were in opposition ended up in exile.

We did not see very much of each other during the 19 years that I spent in exile but I was here when the customary rites were performed for Charis’ marriage. When I did get back in July 2000, it was a seamless reunion.

The campaign to elect Candidate Kufuor as president was in progress and campaign manager Jake simply set me to work. His house was a hive of activity and studios erupted on his garden for adverts to be recorded.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my very urban friend Otanka had been transformed into a very rounded Ghanaian.

He knew about all the many and various Likpe towns in the Volta Region, he knew about little villages in the remotest parts of the country. I inherited two friends of his from Nima. He still couldn’t speak any Ghanaian language and a concerted effort by Esther, his wife, to turn him into a Ga speaker was not very successful.

He was supportive when in 2004, I embarked upon my doomed enterprise to get elected to Parliament and Esther tracked me down to a little hamlet in the constituency that did not have a road.

The villagers did not vote for me but they still recount the day Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey’s wife came to their village! I did not support his doomed enterprise to get elected as the NPP flag bearer in 2007, but we agreed to disagree.

We have a lot of unfinished business. The last time we spoke, he wanted to know when l would finish work on a draft paper he had given me. Some around him were very wounded by his dramatic rejection by the party in the Tamale congress.

But he was still working on plans for party reforms. I also have an outstanding invitation.
kweku trouble 8 years ago

Thank you. Educate these jokes.

Thank you. Educate these jokes.
Buju B 8 years ago

Go and tell your Husband to face him and stop making this noise ok? ,

Go and tell your Husband to face him and stop making this noise ok? ,
sam 8 years ago

Akando has tasted power and he wants o thave favouir before Mahama in order to maintain him as a deputy minister when they win power. any MP WHO DOESNT DO MUCH FOR NDC TO INCREASE THEIR VOTES IN HIS CONSTITUENCY WILL NOT GET ...
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Akando has tasted power and he wants o thave favouir before Mahama in order to maintain him as a deputy minister when they win power. any MP WHO DOESNT DO MUCH FOR NDC TO INCREASE THEIR VOTES IN HIS CONSTITUENCY WILL NOT GET GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT HENCE THEY ARE DOING THIS.
OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

Your chairman can even slap a sitting MP and a public officer and still get blessing and approval from the top hierarchy from your party, you don't have to complain

Your chairman can even slap a sitting MP and a public officer and still get blessing and approval from the top hierarchy from your party, you don't have to complain
Efo 8 years ago

Is this idiot(Akandoh) going to be arrested.

Is this idiot(Akandoh) going to be arrested.
Corrupt IGP 8 years ago

THE NPP IS TAKING NOTES OF EVERY SINGLE SHIT DONE TO ITS MEMBERS.. When the time comes, just let those ndc members come for their nsawam prison uniforms..

THE NPP IS TAKING NOTES OF EVERY SINGLE SHIT DONE TO ITS MEMBERS.. When the time comes, just let those ndc members come for their nsawam prison uniforms..
Kofi 8 years ago

This will not lead us to anywhere in terms of our advancement! You have not verified the story.It might have ho;es in it.

This will not lead us to anywhere in terms of our advancement! You have not verified the story.It might have ho;es in it.
Great AKANS will always be comfortabl 8 years ago

Ghanaians deserve hardship!! They are happy with it..... Illiterates Ghanaians had I know they say is always at last...

Ghanaians deserve hardship!! They are happy with it..... Illiterates Ghanaians had I know they say is always at last...
2016 8 years ago

Those persons whom Kwabena Mintah Akandoh said were Ghanaians but were being disputed by Martha Kwayie to be foreigners and so allegedly slapped them to prevent them from registering, why did they not report the matter to the ...
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Those persons whom Kwabena Mintah Akandoh said were Ghanaians but were being disputed by Martha Kwayie to be foreigners and so allegedly slapped them to prevent them from registering, why did they not report the matter to the police and file charges against her if she indeed, slapped them as Kwabena Mintah Akandoh is alleging?
Kwabena Mintah Akandoh cannot be justifying his reckless violent conduct by the unleashing of his thugs on Martha Kwayie and the Police and Peace Council must act and speak to these matters and there should be leadership from John Mahama, considering the fact Kwabena Mintah Akandoh is not only an MP but a Dep Min appointed by John Dramani Mahama, or because he was bussing foreigners to register to vote for John Mahama, he gets a pass?
The Police must pick Kwabena Mintah Akandoh up immediately.
witch hunter 8 years ago

How did you know that your aselians are NDC tugs madam?Antwi Boasiako aka wontumi" patapaa" slapped fellow NPP member who is an MP,did you hear that?A dog can eat fellow dog flesh so make your investigations properly and may ...
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How did you know that your aselians are NDC tugs madam?Antwi Boasiako aka wontumi" patapaa" slapped fellow NPP member who is an MP,did you hear that?A dog can eat fellow dog flesh so make your investigations properly and may you will be shocked about the out come.
PAULO 8 years ago

It is ashamed that the NDC have taken to violence means in order to hold on to power. So where are the Ghana police? How if it an NPP that is charge the Ghana police takes seconds to be there.

It is ashamed that the NDC have taken to violence means in order to hold on to power. So where are the Ghana police? How if it an NPP that is charge the Ghana police takes seconds to be there.
obi 8 years ago

why all this

why all this
Faustina Agyekum M 8 years ago

If the Ndc claim they have done so well as they perceive why do they have to buss foreigners to register them to vote for them? This is common sense and reasonable people can't just understand this simple logic. This loving ...
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If the Ndc claim they have done so well as they perceive why do they have to buss foreigners to register them to vote for them? This is common sense and reasonable people can't just understand this simple logic. This loving and caring woman can not do what this Mp is alledging, i have really experienced her and I know her. People of Ghana, let's think of our dear NATION first, men who will leave their wives, children and sisters and hire people to beat somebody's wife, mother and sister and expects to be a law maker, shame on all women who endorse such an act
Educate 8 years ago

How do these Ivorians prove at registration centers they're Ghanaians before allowed to register to vote?

How do these Ivorians prove at registration centers they're Ghanaians before allowed to register to vote?
cool it 8 years ago

they will beat you again continue fooling yourself, idiot

they will beat you again continue fooling yourself, idiot
lion man 8 years ago

Npp activists don't understand anything else than yelling lies. Simple instructions to follow they won't heed. They want to reach the press and disturb our ears with falsehoods. They tickle themselves and wail like baboons.

Npp activists don't understand anything else than yelling lies. Simple instructions to follow they won't heed. They want to reach the press and disturb our ears with falsehoods. They tickle themselves and wail like baboons.
Bravo USA 8 years ago

Great job Akandoh and his thugs. An ugly woman like that should not be playing politics

Great job Akandoh and his thugs. An ugly woman like that should not be playing politics

Akandoh’s ‘thugs' beat me mercilessly - Martha Kwayie

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