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Asantehene Leads the Way into Chieftaincy Modernization

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  • Afram 11 years ago

    Thank you Nana for the initiative, long live Nana.

  • BAD MOUTH 11 years ago

    This guy is an idiot leading people who are by nature self- serving and inward looking. Like their EWE in-laws (Rawlings/Konadu), this chief is just a show boy, chop and ignore the people person.
    I met and interacted with th ...
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  • sukutu 11 years ago

    You coward,you couldn't bring your name so all I can say is you are a big foooooool whose head even wouldn't be accepted by the gods of the stool.

  • Kwaku Baah 11 years ago

    This type of Asante hegemony propaganda must stop in this country. Ghana is a modern state with executive, legislature and judiciary. Asantehene does not represent and should not represent the people of Ghana. He is only a ch ...
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  • CITIZEN ONE 11 years ago

    Are you chiefs in the Ashanti region well trained? How the fuck are you going to ask some foreigner to tell a Northern Yana, Ga Mantse, Ewe Togui and an Akan Nana, how to effectively carry out their traditional principles.

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  • Serious talk 11 years ago

    Asante's obstruct when their stupid tribesmen are not in government. They'll never accept any election that does not declare the drug dealers comrade as the winner. Time for them to form their state like Swaziland so they can ...
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  • Ghana 11 years ago

    Why not go to his palace there and start worshiping him the asanti chief.

  • TRUE GHANAIAN 11 years ago

    Ashantis are stupid and are indoctrinated to worship their chief no mater what. It could be a professor, medical Doctor or a Rocket Scientist. They are framed from birth to be IGNORANT.
    And oh, the prof might be a victim to ...
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  • sukutu 11 years ago

    You are a trokosi idiot,Ashantis don't sleep with their sisters,you are a pig you will forever remain inferior aboaba a Dr.Nkrumah ay3 big mistake.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    SHUT UP THERE.ASHANTIS DO SLEEPS WITH THEIR DAUGHTERS AND SISTERS.

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    The Domestic Violence and Victims’ Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Central Region is investigating a ...
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  • JOMO KENYATTA 11 years ago

    ASHANTIS HAVE TAKEN AN OATH TO DEFEND THE ASANTEHENE EVEN IF HE GOES NAKED ON THE STREETS OF KUMASI. FINE ITS UP TO THEM BUT WHY HASNT ANYONE ANSWERED THE QUESTION. WHAT DID THE ASANTEHENE GO TO DO WITH SO MUCH GOLD IN NORWAY ...
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  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    You have Alzheimers Jomo. The topic is about how Gas have sold all Accra lands to be minority in their in town.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    What are you idiot scared of not using your name,ASSHOLE?

  • Kofi Kyei 11 years ago

    1. The Asantehene took 35 million dollars from the World Bank for the poor kids of Asante and squandered the whole amount. Up to date he has not been able to account for the money. No bank statement and no audited account.

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  • Serious talk 11 years ago

    Asantehene took money from IMF and invested it in the drug trade in an attempt to multiply it by 10 fold but the drug enforcement agency is killing that venture

  • George Opoku-Agyemang 11 years ago

    very good idea

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    NO PLANNING IN KUMASI. NO CHILDREN HOSPITAL. NO WOMENS HOSPITAL. NO KOTOKO STADIUM. EVEN THE WEBSITE IS NOT UP TO DATE. CAN U BUY A REPLICA JERSEY WITH YOUR CREDIT CARD OFF THE KOTOKO WEBSITE? JOKERS...

  • jay 11 years ago

    He's giving out free kusea and fufu.

  • KOFI 11 years ago

    Fa wo gyimii no firi ha ko. Aden na w'agyimi saa? Fool found out they have these abroad and think we should also have the same thing without evaluating how we are going to resource all these nonsense.

  • Snoop 11 years ago

    Chietaincy in the 21st century?? You guys are truly primitive apes stuck in the 15th century. You have refused to evolve. Stunted monkeys!!!

  • sukutu 11 years ago

    That is why your chiefs are appology to human race nkusee.Ashantis don't beg governments for survival ,they are hard working you can never ever much them.Let them breakaway and they will turn their area to Chicago and you bre ...
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  • jay 11 years ago

    What happened to the lost gold? Ah asantehene.

  • sukutu 11 years ago

    Is the Gold for you?or your useless parents or your hopeless chief?What belongs to the Golden stool is for Ashanti nobody,no government can ask for accountability how much more you useless entity .Do the Ashantis account to y ...
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  • taa 11 years ago

    That's why some people call us primitive because we fear accountability thereby allowing the so called ruling class to do whatever they want.Stand up and be counted.

  • CITIZEN ONE 11 years ago

    Don't even know why we lame Ghanaians sat around for so many years to get bullied by these Ashantis, into believing that all the Gold of the Coast is their personal property. See how God works in mysterious ways, All the Oil ...
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  • CAPII 11 years ago

    "SREMU SEI GYATA," IS THE WISE ONE. DR J.B. DANQUAH WAS RIGHT; TRADITIONAL RULERS ARE THE "NATURAL LEADERS." NOT CORRUPT POLITICIANS & COUP MAKERS. LANDS BELONG TO TRADITIONAL RULERS & THEIR PEOPLE. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IS CORR ...
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  • taa 11 years ago

    Does that make you a natural slave?All men are born equal.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 11 years ago

    Hope the modernisation comes with an end to primitivity where humans sacrifices would be a thing of the past.
    This is an area where stupid Okoampa won`t talk about.
    KWASEA.

  • Conventional Youth. 11 years ago

    STEMICs is a win win socio economic policy.

    STEMICs:

    S- Science

    T- Technology

    E- Engineering

    M- Maths

    I- Innovation / Information

    C- Communication

    s- Skills & Systems.

  • GOLD COAST 11 years ago

    Man,get real! Chieftaincy has been a curse on the continent,and it is incompatible with modern democracy. Moreover,it has created ethnic divisions and tribal wars in almost all countries in Africa - with devastating consequen ...
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  • taa 11 years ago

    Nothing stops a chief from going to parliament.He can stand for elections after resigning if he thinks he is good enough.You should know Thieves of Chiefs that Ghana is a Republic and you should count yourselves lucky to be s ...
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  • Serious talk 11 years ago

    Asante's have ignorance in their blood. They are bigots and its about time they form their own state like Swaziland. They've killed Ghana socioeconomic development thru their STUBID tribalism. No election is ever going to be ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

    A so-called highly educated Ghanaian professor of English and Creative writing, Okoampa-Ahoofe must stick to his creative writing skills and not make assertions that does not meet elementary level laughing test. Asantehene is ...
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