Ghana@60: J.J. Rawlings is the overall best former President- CVM

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King Bright 7 years ago

And John 'dramatic' Maama the worst overall former President. Just shut up, that's my opinion.

And John 'dramatic' Maama the worst overall former President. Just shut up, that's my opinion.
Abena Addo Kweikrom 7 years ago

Useful article as well as useless chai

Useful article as well as useless chai
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

Ha ha ha ha!

READ: "...The Tradition of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is just a Past Glory and totally irrelevant in the Modern Day Politics of Ghana..."

WE SAY: You sit in Ghana today enjoying Akosombo Power, KNUST, Gee/KATH Hospi ...
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Ha ha ha ha!

READ: "...The Tradition of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is just a Past Glory and totally irrelevant in the Modern Day Politics of Ghana..."

WE SAY: You sit in Ghana today enjoying Akosombo Power, KNUST, Gee/KATH Hospital, Tema Harbor, etc. etc, etc., and your sorry ass thinks the Kwame Nkrumah is past "Glory".

Foolishness!

Coming soon.....

"Ghana's Quantum Leap in Education" revisits the Ghana school and enrollment data, for the period 1951 (pop ~5,436,555) through 1966 (~7,891,194). In 15 short years, university enrollment alone jumped through the proverbial "roof" about 1,965%, from 208 to 4,291. In fact, Presidents Akufo Addo Dankwa, John Atta Mills, and John Kufour, are all represented in those "University Student Enrollment" numbers.
(Possibly, add this Opoku, Razak Kojo, in all the dimensions of the data)....To the point, using the example of success in education alone, Ghana could not have achieved 355% and 839% across the board quantum change in the number of schools and number of students enrolled, respectively, to include a 690% change in "Teacher Training", without spending some of the surplus Kwame Nkrumah's own government accrued for Ghana in the 1950s...," (Prof Lungu, soon come).
MINOR CASE 7 years ago

Kath/Gee was built in 1952. Kwame Nkrumah had nothing to do with it ,so it is with Kumasi College of Technology (KNUST)

Kath/Gee was built in 1952. Kwame Nkrumah had nothing to do with it ,so it is with Kumasi College of Technology (KNUST)
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

You must be off your rockers....in minor gear!

Who told you KATH was "built in 1952".

Playing the minor game, right?

Do you know who made the decision to relocate the hospital for whites to
the Kwadaso Military Qu ...
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You must be off your rockers....in minor gear!

Who told you KATH was "built in 1952".

Playing the minor game, right?

Do you know who made the decision to relocate the hospital for whites to
the Kwadaso Military Quarters, and build KATH at that location, for African?

Are you so lazy?

Read this, and come back again:

www.ghanahero.com/Visions/Nkrumah_Legacy_Project/Prof_Lungu/KATH_Gee_Hospital_Still_Another_Nkrumah_Sika_Duro_Final.pdf .
ERNESTUS SOWAH 7 years ago

JJ is the worst leader.

JJ is the worst leader.
CORNEY 7 years ago

Can you make your point why he is the worse leader?
The writer made his point which is the facts so if you have something contrary to that let us hear you,JJ is the best, most of us share that view and it reflects on the ele ...
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Can you make your point why he is the worse leader?
The writer made his point which is the facts so if you have something contrary to that let us hear you,JJ is the best, most of us share that view and it reflects on the electoral results in the past 3 decades and over.

Even lunatics know that Kwame Nkrumah is irrelevant in today's Ghana but in the past 8 years NDC leaders decided to be talkng about Nkrumah instead of Rawlings who brought them to the limelight and the results are the opposition they took the party to.

Check the recent results,even in the home district of Kwame Nkrumah,the so called enemies of Nkrumah won there,his own daughter could not win election in her home which shows Nkrumah is irrelevant, only a fool will continue to talk about Kwame Nkrumah to win election.
I'm praying for President Akuffo Addo to change that nonsense called Founder's Day to something else or get rid of it completely,if he cannot change it to reflect the true history of Ghana then he should get rid of it.

Long live Rawlings,long live Ghana.
Essuman 7 years ago

It shows how low our standards are when a coup maker who overthrew an elected government and killed a lot of people then sold off the assets of the country, including one to his wife, destroyed education, forced to handover a ...
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It shows how low our standards are when a coup maker who overthrew an elected government and killed a lot of people then sold off the assets of the country, including one to his wife, destroyed education, forced to handover and he regretted leaving power after 20 years is somebody's best leader. SHAME!!!
GHANAIANS 7 years ago

ESSUMAN, YOU ARE A FOOLISH FOOL.IF NOT BECAUSE OF JJ RAWLINGS, DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN AND ENJOY THE GHANA YOU ARE HAPPILY ENJOYING TODAY. DON'T YOU KNOW IT WERE THE BIG FIVE (5) WHO STARTED COUP IN GHANA WITHOUT THE ...
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ESSUMAN, YOU ARE A FOOLISH FOOL.IF NOT BECAUSE OF JJ RAWLINGS, DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN AND ENJOY THE GHANA YOU ARE HAPPILY ENJOYING TODAY. DON'T YOU KNOW IT WERE THE BIG FIVE (5) WHO STARTED COUP IN GHANA WITHOUT THE INTENTION OF DEMOCRATIZATION, BUT FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH INTEREST. JJ RAWLINGS CAME TO STABILIZED GHANA THROUGH COUP, WITH THE INTENTION OF GIVING US DEMOCRACY, AND YES INDEED, HE GAVE US DEMOCRACY. FOOOOOOOLIIIIIIIIIIISH ESSUMAN. GO FUCK YOUR MOTHERFUCK MOTHER'S ASSHOLE.
Kojo T 7 years ago

Yes in the eyes of the ma te me ho Nkrumah did nothing .What did Baffour Akoto leave behind except for maimed bodies and a lie toting party .NPP what are your lasting legacies for Ghana ? Shame ...
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Yes in the eyes of the ma te me ho Nkrumah did nothing .What did Baffour Akoto leave behind except for maimed bodies and a lie toting party .NPP what are your lasting legacies for Ghana ? Shame on you
Nsia 7 years ago

Minor Case cum Minor Mind, Kindly broaden your scope of knowledge by reading this article written by Prof Lungu sometime ago.

KATH/Gee Hospital Still Is Another Kwame Nkrumah Sika Duro

Minor Case cum Minor Mind, Kindly broaden your scope of knowledge by reading this article written by Prof Lungu sometime ago.

KATH/Gee Hospital Still Is Another Kwame Nkrumah Sika Duro
Jojo 7 years ago

Shame onus that Rawlings is somebody's best president. What were his achievements in education, health, economy, etc? Nkrumah is INCOMPARABLE to any Ghanaian leader.

Shame onus that Rawlings is somebody's best president. What were his achievements in education, health, economy, etc? Nkrumah is INCOMPARABLE to any Ghanaian leader.
chris owusu 7 years ago

I agree JJ was best leader IN OUR MODERN TIME,, I HOPE HE AND HIS WIFE LIVE LONG TIME, TO ENJOY THE FRUIT HE AND HIS FAMILY PLANTED.. HE IS THE BEST PRESIDENT GHANA EVER GOT PERIOD ,, I WISH HIM WELL AND LONG LIFE. THANKS J ...
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I agree JJ was best leader IN OUR MODERN TIME,, I HOPE HE AND HIS WIFE LIVE LONG TIME, TO ENJOY THE FRUIT HE AND HIS FAMILY PLANTED.. HE IS THE BEST PRESIDENT GHANA EVER GOT PERIOD ,, I WISH HIM WELL AND LONG LIFE. THANKS JJ
Many SIngular 7 years ago

I belive you people eats your own shot for diner. To say Mr rawlings is the best president ever is a hororble crime against humanity.

I belive you people eats your own shot for diner. To say Mr rawlings is the best president ever is a hororble crime against humanity.
CHAMPION ATTA 7 years ago

CHRIS OWUSU, WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR 60 YEARS ANNIVERSARY, FROM WHEN THEN? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY MODERN TIMES? THEN THERE IS CERTAINLY OLDEN TIMES! RAWLINGS CAN NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER COME NEAR NOR BE EQUATED TO KWAME NKRUMAH! ...
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CHRIS OWUSU, WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR 60 YEARS ANNIVERSARY, FROM WHEN THEN? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY MODERN TIMES? THEN THERE IS CERTAINLY OLDEN TIMES! RAWLINGS CAN NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER COME NEAR NOR BE EQUATED TO KWAME NKRUMAH! NEVER EVER! KWAME NKRUMAH CAME TO GHANA, SAW ACCESSED SITUATION AND WORKED TO GET US INDEPENDENCE! IT IS HIS DESTINY AND WAS WITHIN HIS TIME! NONE OR NO AMERICAN WILL COMPARE SO CALL MODERN PRESIDENTS TO THE "FOUNDING FATHERS" OF AMERICA WHOSE VISION, THE MODERN PRESIDENTS WALK BY! IT IS ONLY IN GHANA THAT WE POOH POOH ON SUCH IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FACTS, RAWLINGS IS JUST ANOTHER PRESIDENT AFTER THE VISIONARY KWAME NKRUMAH! KWAME NKRUMAH WROTE SEVERAL BOOKS, EXPLAINING AFRICA'S PROBLEMS AND OFFERED SOLUTIONS, RAWLINGS ONLY SHOUTED, WHAT HAS HE WRITTEN DOWN? NOT EVEN HIS VERSION OF THE AFRC AND PNDC DAYS, NKRUMAH WAS A FOUNDING FATHER OF THE PRESENT AFRICAN UNION, HIS STATUE STANDS IN FAR AWAY ADDIS ABABA IN ETHIOPIA, IN FRONT OF THE AU BUILDING, RECOGNIZED WORLDWIDE, WHO IS RAWLINGS? RAWLINGS ONLY FAVORITE TOPIC IS CORRUPTION, AFTER THAT WHAT ELSE? TELL ME? I DON'T CARE ABOUT WHO IS THE BEST PRESIDENT OF OUR MODERN TIMES BECAUSE WE AS A COUNTRY HAS NOT GOTTEN ANYWHERE. ALL WHAT THE MODERN PRESIDENTS HAD DONE WAS AN ATTEMPT TO BUILD ON AND FOLLOW THE PLANS LAID OUT BY KWAME NKRUMAH, GHANA IS NOT A BIG COUNTRY, ALL THE PLANS FOR SUCCESS HAS BEEN LAID OUT LONG BEFORE. PLANS FOR RUNNING THE ECONOMY AND OTHER AREAS IS WHAT DIFFERS! AMONGST AFRICANS, PARTICULARLY IN GHANA, WHEN WE TRY TO PICK THE BEST, THEN SOME PEOPLE GET JEALOUS AND ENVIOUS! AND I PERSONALLY BELIEVE IT IS SO WITH JERRY RAWLING AND HIS WIFE, THEY ALWAYS WANT THE SPOTLIGHT TO BE ON THEM FOREVER, NO ONE MUST EXCELL BEYOND THEM HENCE THEIR DETERMINATION TO STOP JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA, THEY KNOW NANA ADDO CANNOT DO MUCH TO EXCEL ABOVE THEM SO HE KEEPS PRAISING HIM, SEE HE IS QUIET NOW, NOTHING IS GOING ON NOW, SHOULD NANA ADDO BEGIN TO DO WONDERS, RAWLINGS WILL COME IN WITH HIS RANTINGS AND RAVELING OF CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACE TO DISTRACT NANA ADDO. RAWLINGS DON'T LOVE GHANA! THE LOVE THEIR HERO WORSHIPPING!
YAS 7 years ago

Nonsense, look at the creation of the ex-gratia award by Kuffor. These are looting brigades, may be with the exception of JJ. They are looting everything Nkrumah left for this country. And these people had free Education un ...
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Nonsense, look at the creation of the ex-gratia award by Kuffor. These are looting brigades, may be with the exception of JJ. They are looting everything Nkrumah left for this country. And these people had free Education under Nkrumah. Everybody wants a house or two after service, though they all have houses before coming to office.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE 7 years ago

King Bright the most stupid man ever

King Bright the most stupid man ever
Kwasi Owusu Kyenkyehene, London. 7 years ago

Jerry Rawlings - Hero? Villain? Traitor? Killer? Whatever views we hold about this failed officer turned dictator and later president, he certainly changed Ghana for better or for worse. However, you stretch the facts too muc ...
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Jerry Rawlings - Hero? Villain? Traitor? Killer? Whatever views we hold about this failed officer turned dictator and later president, he certainly changed Ghana for better or for worse. However, you stretch the facts too much to grade him best of our past leaders. Please, do your homework properly and come back.
WHOSE MONEY IS HE SPENDING?> 7 years ago

The idiot has still not been able to tell us where he was born at.That goes to tell you the bastarcd is not a GHANAIAN-a fact he confirmed at ACHIMOTA SCHOOL.......HE IS A TOGOLESE

The idiot has still not been able to tell us where he was born at.That goes to tell you the bastarcd is not a GHANAIAN-a fact he confirmed at ACHIMOTA SCHOOL.......HE IS A TOGOLESE
Mr Bond 7 years ago

Are you kidding or what that Rawlings is the best president.It is him selling all Nkrumah industries and pocket the money make him the best president or the killings of judges and ex-leaders or putting locks to industries tha ...
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Are you kidding or what that Rawlings is the best president.It is him selling all Nkrumah industries and pocket the money make him the best president or the killings of judges and ex-leaders or putting locks to industries that did not sell or render Ghanaians jobs and seizes of private industries for their owners or sharing industries to his crime in partners make him best president?
Sekwi Nipin 7 years ago

You don't know what you are talking about. I strongly advise you to polish not only your thinking but also your English before you take on the task of belittling Kwame Nkrumah.

You don't know what you are talking about. I strongly advise you to polish not only your thinking but also your English before you take on the task of belittling Kwame Nkrumah.
Nsia 7 years ago

Only a "pea-brained" person will say something so daft about the man[Nkrumah] whose actions freed an entire continent.Am glad you told the writer where to stick his gross stupidity!

Only a "pea-brained" person will say something so daft about the man[Nkrumah] whose actions freed an entire continent.Am glad you told the writer where to stick his gross stupidity!
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EDUARDO DOMINMGO 7 years ago

BOTH JJ RAWLINGS AND DR KWAME NKRUMAH DID THEIR PARTS, BUT JJ RAWLINGS DID NOT FACE THE WRATH OF THE WEST AS DID DR KWAME NKRUMAH. YOU DID NOT KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE POWER OF THE WEST SO YOU SPEAK LIKE THIS, BUT ALSO JJ RA ...
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BOTH JJ RAWLINGS AND DR KWAME NKRUMAH DID THEIR PARTS, BUT JJ RAWLINGS DID NOT FACE THE WRATH OF THE WEST AS DID DR KWAME NKRUMAH. YOU DID NOT KNOW THE EXTENT OF THE POWER OF THE WEST SO YOU SPEAK LIKE THIS, BUT ALSO JJ RAWLINGS SAVED GHANA FROM AN IMMINENT FALL INTO THE ABYSS OF DESTRUCTION! BUT DR KWAME NKRUMAH WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE EDGE IN MY BOOK , IT IS A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE!!
Joey Boy 7 years ago

It's your opinion and you are entitled to it.

It's your opinion and you are entitled to it.
Kae 7 years ago

Stupid people

Stupid people
francis kwarteng 7 years ago

The dumbest article I have read this year.

The dumbest article I have read this year.
AKWE 7 years ago

foolish

foolish
MICHELL 7 years ago

CORRUPT PARTY

CORRUPT PARTY
Kwame 7 years ago

Do I hear Rawlings right...Rawlings is now saying that members of NDC did not protect him, his wife and other members of NDC as NPP use to do.
But did he forget that he has been calling those who defended NDC during his tim ...
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Do I hear Rawlings right...Rawlings is now saying that members of NDC did not protect him, his wife and other members of NDC as NPP use to do.
But did he forget that he has been calling those who defended NDC during his time of torments by NPP, Mills and Mahama era as being babies with sharp teeth?
Thus Rawlings expect members of NDC to go on the rampage, destroying both private and public property as members of NPP have been doing.
NDC members Rawlings has call on you for positive action whenever any of your members come under attack by any state agency.
Rawlings has also exposed the Animal Farm of justice in the Ghanaian courts that when a son of a member of the bench was being tried the father issued a warning for NPP to stop the prosecution.
Kutsii 7 years ago

Former President Kufuor is the 'ALI BABA' of all the Presidents. Kufuor alone took 3% of our oil wealth under the guise of the EO Group. What a THIEF!

Kufuor shabbily introduced the school feeding progress, only for Mills ...
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Former President Kufuor is the 'ALI BABA' of all the Presidents. Kufuor alone took 3% of our oil wealth under the guise of the EO Group. What a THIEF!

Kufuor shabbily introduced the school feeding progress, only for Mills to iron it out smoothly.
songo 7 years ago

jj rawlings noe doubt stabilize country and we must celebrate him.sure

jj rawlings noe doubt stabilize country and we must celebrate him.sure
prof kofi 7 years ago

Please check your grammar.We do not say GOOD THAN.We say BETTER THAN.Stop polluting people

Please check your grammar.We do not say GOOD THAN.We say BETTER THAN.Stop polluting people
mirafat 7 years ago

Oh Razak, you are a pathetic stomach career politician. Get some job to do to develop your brain. Very senseless and unscientific analysis. I am sure you will continhe to wallow in hopelessness. From APC TO NPP TO WHERE ELSE?

Oh Razak, you are a pathetic stomach career politician. Get some job to do to develop your brain. Very senseless and unscientific analysis. I am sure you will continhe to wallow in hopelessness. From APC TO NPP TO WHERE ELSE?
Akua Mansa 7 years ago

JJ Rawlings is indeed the worst President Ghana has ever had. It gives us no solace that after 60 years Ghana is still in the doldrums

Rawlings arrogated to himself the power to rule Ghana and after 20 yrs of his rule Ghan ...
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JJ Rawlings is indeed the worst President Ghana has ever had. It gives us no solace that after 60 years Ghana is still in the doldrums

Rawlings arrogated to himself the power to rule Ghana and after 20 yrs of his rule Ghana was left in taters and ran to the ground - being HIPC

This man put innocent people to the spokes and without justice killed them. Women were raped and the country stood still while this man ravaged the country.

He sold off all national treasures and industries to his croonies including his wife and all those industries have been ran to the ground. This man ran the economy of the country to the ground. What legacy did he leave. HIPC, Poor Education, poor social infrastructure. Did you hear of "Rawlings Chains" Only under this man did Ghanaians go hungry

Don't dare compare this man to any other President. He is the worst President ever Ghana has experienced

Worst of all he left us with the most incompetent greedy political party, the NDC

RAWLINGS the best President - my FOOT
Mark 7 years ago

No Ghana former President can be Best than the founder of the Nation Dr.Kwami Nkrumah.

No Ghana former President can be Best than the founder of the Nation Dr.Kwami Nkrumah.

Ghana@60: J.J. Rawlings is the overall best former President- CVM

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