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This United States Embassy faux pas is unacceptable

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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    The United States was right to question Mahama's administration said sacrifices. If a pick pocket steal hundred dollars from you and you start begging for arms so that you can have a transportation fare back to Keta and the p ...
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  • Whatever 9 years ago

    Who apologizes for doing the right thing? And even the case you made, There's NO proof that Mahama or any member of his current administration has made money from GYEEDA, SADA etc so stop throwing mud, will you?

  • GIRLS SP 9 years ago

    The reply to Mahama from the US Ambassador was more than correct simply because John Mahama is USELESS !!!

  • G.G. LAWRENCE 9 years ago

    US Ambassador only apologized because the bunch of IDIOTS in the NDC government with their empty head Mahama cannnot understand, so the Ambassador has to throw a portion of meat to the barking dog.

  • GIRLS SP 9 years ago

    Sarpong, better save your precious time n something better than to waste it on this Mad Ewe, BOKOR. You are fully aware that his likes are all the same, they can only think from A to B.

  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    We are very upset with the embassy apologizing , when will men of courage stand up and speak the truth , intimidating a whole embassy into retracting and not speaking up is very sad . we dont need cowards here .This no time f ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    That is called diplomatic niceties but they got their message to this useless administration alright and Mahama and his men are really afraid.

    Go and read Okudzeto crying statement.

  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    Think again!

  • Boys Boys 9 years ago

    Sarpong! take you cool, it isn't writing the below comment but surely one of the nasty primitives Ewes.



    Author: Akadu Mensema
    Date: 2014-07-20 10:10:49
    Comment to:AND YET They PROMPTLY APOLOGIZED?


    Think again!

  • Whatever 9 years ago

    Even the remorseful US Embassy doesn't want to associate itself with such unsustainable political games by its own staff yet NPP members are continually reaching for the cards and attributing to the the US Embassy. I mean th ...
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  • Nii 9 years ago

    All these reactionary and prompt responses must be coming from the Chief of staff's office. This man is exposing the presidency too much to public ridicule for nothing. Does he know his responsibilities at all. This goes beyo ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Who told you they are remorseful? They wanted to put it out there and they have achieved their mission. You just don't know Americans. Mission accomplished.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Come on Cardinal of Truth, where is your objectivity? You are turning this innocuous retweet, nothing but a harmless storm in a tea cup, into something bigger. Then again I shouldn't be surprised by your stand, because your p ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Somebody wrote a whole article on something you call innocuous and harmless but a little comment from me is turning it into something bigger.

    Did you exercise your brain before asking me where my objectivity is? Objectivit ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Your habitual insults are becoming rapidly jaded. Losing their effectiveness.
    Tell me how you exercise your brain, and I will faithfully do it in picoseconds.

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    You just think through before you put pen on paper or in this case, don't let your hands work faster than your brains.

  • DAN 9 years ago

    god gave the nigger boy a small monkey brain and skin the color of feces to make him the perfect slave for the white and china men

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 9 years ago

    And Satan gave obroni evil black brain to be destructive always. Example, the bombing a civilian place by the children of Satan, obronis. Aren't you ashamed to be a child of satan, Dan?

  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Is the N-word the only word you were ever taught or ever learned ? Go count the number of times you stupidly used it. Please, learn some new ways of insulting people you disagree with. Learn words like schlemiel and amoretz.

  • Nii Tsokor 9 years ago

    I take this whole thing as meddling in the affairs of a sovereign country like Ghana.It is fine for Ghanaians to say whatever they want about Mahama's tweet. It is totally unfair for any foreign government official to do so.

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Sovereign state that depends on others for its survival ? When did you guys find out about your sovereignty? IMF and World Bank have been telling you what to do for the longest including telling Mills to put a fleece on hirin ...
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  • Nii Teiko 9 years ago

    This Sarpong chap must be one of the dumbest Africans on the face of planet earth. He does not know what sovereignty means, he does not even know that most countries that are affiliated to those financial institutions - inclu ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Your ignorance is disturbing; we need a special glossary for your Sarpongese. Putting a fleece on hiring is not synonymous with putting a freeze on hiring. We might as we'll communicate in Twi.

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago

    Mike, I disagree with you that the US Embassy undeplomatic twitter post and interference in Ghana's internal affairs is harmless. It's dangerous.

    Having said that, I am also of the view that Ghana should be thankful for th ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Embassy officials now more than ever before have to be very careful of how they make use of their Tweeter, Facebook, Instagram, etc, accounts. The superhighway has literally transform what we can and cannot do.

  • Andrew 9 years ago

    Why are you asking for anybody with balls? You don't have balls in your 350 ibs trokosi massive frame or you have not seen your dick and balls since you crossed the 300lbs weight limit?

  • Ebibiman 9 years ago

    In the first place, no one compelled that Embassy worker to respond to our President’s message of assurance. Ghanaians, not citizens of the US, were the President’s audience. So, what justification could a non-Ghanaian (m ...
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  • Mohammed Dimbie 9 years ago

    So, Ghanaian workers at the US Embassy are allowed to use the official handle of the US Embassy to do their anti-Mahama politics, eh? And you don't see anything wrong with it?

    Lazy twerps like you will continue to have a l ...
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    truth hurts so learn english! staff=employees....stuffs you put in your grocery cart!

  • Wiafe 9 years ago

    The Mahama brothers Inc. cabal is milking Ghanaian resources dry and the US Embassy knows about it.

    I am sympathetic to NDC but Mahama is a wicked son...Its time to get him out of there.

    And Bokor--stop your antics. M ...
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  • Mohammed Dimbie 9 years ago

    Go and get John Dramani Mahama out of office, you foolish boy with stones for brains. He will be there till December 2016 when elections are held. If he stands and wins again, he will be our President till 2020,by which time ...
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  • Bryden Wilson 9 years ago

    Jamie

  • DAN 9 years ago

    mahama not drink that water from volta that all those china miners have dumped their mercury and other mining chemicals in

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 9 years ago

    Why are you so interested in Africans affairs obroni satanic boy Day? Obronis are doing worst than China. Example is HIV you evil obronis planted in Africa to reduce the population of the continent. Shut up satanic obroni boy ...
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  • syncopa 9 years ago

    ...unfiltered opinion. Transparent hypocrisy. Wake up and work!

  • GOLD COAST 9 years ago

    "Like father,like son".This unpatriotic idiot (also known as Catalyst,Cardinal,Houdini,Sam,Teacher and Nyansasem)who lives in Houston, is a clone of his recent ancestors - the Mate Meho terrorists of yesteryear - who sold thi ...
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  • YOOMOBEGA 9 years ago

    And they think they will be voted in in 2016. They better be prepared for Supreme Court Petition II. And the majority of them happened to be Akanfuo.

  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    idiot!

  • GOLD COAST 9 years ago

    Mr.Akadu Mensema(yes,he was once a male student at York University, Toronto,Canada who underwent a sex change operation)claims to have a "doctorate" in African Studies - and can't even write well. Tweeeeaaa !

    PEACE

  • Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago

    Gold Coast, also known as, Odikro Akyea Mensah, will continue to be the communist deranged bigot that he is till 'thy kingdom come'. Yes some of us would prefer to sell Ghana to the imperialist than to foolishly offer it to t ...
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  • Chabba 9 years ago

    Who cares about a delusional man called Michael. Bokor ?

  • Mawuli 9 years ago

    There are too many dufi on Ghanaweb period. You have people jumping up and down with joy like monkeys that has been fed banana because, a non entity America embassy staff insulted your president on Ghana soil.

    Do Ghanaian ...
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  • G.G. LAWRENCE 9 years ago

    Mawuli, fools and blockheads are the most nonentities one can easily find all over the streets in the Volta Region.

  • DAN 9 years ago

    ghana is spoke in same breath as nigeria!

  • Mawuli 9 years ago

    G.G. LAWRENCE {the American embassy spokesman}in Accra lol. At least you can guess my tribe by virtue of my name.

    I am a proud Ewe and most of all,a proud Ghanaian. I have never tried to hide who I am and never will.
    I ha ...
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  • Fiifican 9 years ago

    Mawuli,

    I think you are behaving like the ostrich, burying your head in the sand like nothing is happening around you.

    Perhaps being an NDC political goon has left you immuned to what is happening in Ghana.

    There ar ...
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  • Mawuli 9 years ago

    I am not going to debate you by resorting to insults neither do I have the time to take you on line by line to demolish you childish argument.

    Do not for a moment assume that I am a member of the NDC or the NPP. Both parti ...
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  • Fiifican 9 years ago

    Mawuli,

    I like your arguments. Truthfully.

    I'm a fair-minded guy and just as learned so I appreciate a good argument from somebody just as learned and well-travelled as I am.
    I consider myself a well-educated individua ...
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  • Mawuli 9 years ago

    Hello Nye bro,

    Sorry if you don't mind me addressing you that way.

    I am very glad we had this exchange and quite emotional when I read your reply. Imagine if we had gone ahead to drown each others argument in an emotion ...
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  • Fiifican 9 years ago

    Nice.

    Sure.
    I would like to give you my e-mail address.

    Exactly one week from today, I will give you my e-mail address on here.

    Hopefully, the hoopla would have died down a bit and no other prying eyes would see my ...
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  • Mawuli 9 years ago

    Sure bro

    Take Care

  • Military Man 9 years ago

    fificole@telus.net

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    I would not believe that 10 words from a foreign national could rock Mahama's sinking boat like this. Of all that the citizens have been saying about the deplorable living condition with insults and others, non could register ...
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  • KOLA INSIDE LONDON 9 years ago

    I keep on saying, Bokor is like most Ewe people nothing but a mere useless nonentity hypocrite and he will forever remain an IDIOT. A full idiot like Bokor calls himself Dr., indeed mad doctor.

  • KING LOMOTEY 9 years ago

    Obama should do something about the Central American Ninos and Ninas.
    Let's tweet him that he can't deport those children.

  • DAN 9 years ago

    go stand at usa embassy nigger and see how long it takes them to refuse your visa

  • WHO DARES WIN 9 years ago

    Some of you here are without proper brain in your skulls. Do you think if another country's embassy did something similar to the US, they will take it lightly? US embassy has no right to interfere with Ghana internal affairs. ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    Remember this is a social platform and every tom, dick and harry have right to tweet. The last scenario for any foreign national in this brouhaha is to expel him period. US government will not send any agent to kill anybody o ...
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    how often do you see US embassy persons get kicked out of South america or Russia? Often...truth hurts

  • DAN 9 years ago

    mahama will be hung at the hauge!

  • Concerned Person 9 years ago

    Hague!!!

  • David Mensah 9 years ago

    The United States is the problem the whole world is facing. Just look all around the world. They destroyed Libya, Iran,they are encouraging the slaughtering of innocent Paletinians and the list goes on. Only foolish and insan ...
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  • NAKED 9 years ago

    You have perfectly described that of your nonentity ethnic group who have the lowest IQ in the world. Now to you goofy , dullard, birdbrain, listen to me Asantes never fought to show their humanity to anyone unlike your ethni ...
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  • David Mensah 9 years ago

    Very low dirty human beings with inherit deformed IQs. Look all over the country and see who are the nuisance. Smelling, dirty with shoe shine boxes roaming and sleeping rough. You are not even fit ot be considered human bein ...
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  • Schalke Fan 9 years ago

    Bush pig is cleaner that a swampy one. We are also sleeping rough in order to allow ya people to squat in our uncompleted houses just to show to you and ya gang that we are the blessed ones and you need us more than we do ...
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  • David Mensah 9 years ago

    who is a fool then?sleeping rough in order to allow people squat in your uncompleted houses...is it a BABOON mentality?

  • amos 9 years ago

    hello Mr writer wake up from your dreams and face the music!! WE DONT HAVE BALLS BECAUSE WE ARE BEGGARS!!! What did we do when the CIA overthrew Nkrumah? What did we do when the Chinese evaded our lands destroyed it and stole ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    Accept that your NDC has failed all and we all know it!

  • ZEGO 9 years ago

    What a useless govt. I nominate the person from the embassy who sent the tweet for the Order of the Volta

  • James 9 years ago

    This writer is a big fool.
    Why should Mahama go on social media and expect only Ghanaians to respond? Why should any smart person look unconcern when President JM is not being sincere to his audience? Show me the sacrifice.
    ...
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  • TEE 9 years ago

    MAHAMA SHOULD STEP DOWN PERIOD

  • Maakamaka 9 years ago

    American diplomats never write or talk nonsense okay? They know what they are talking about.Gross mismanagement,coruption everywhere.Bravo!the diplomat. Please write again and do not apologize, they would come beg for partner ...
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  • Lexus 9 years ago

    Why is the US Embassy wasting time exchanging 'tweets' with Kofi Sansankroma Dubai and his bunch of sorry ninnies? Apologising for what?
    What is not true about the alleged tweet from the Embassy?
    When did these incompetent, ...
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  • Fiifican 9 years ago

    Michael,

    I don't think you are for real.

    Just like all Ghanaians, the Americans are also tired of these clowns we have as leaders of our nation.

    All the propoganda these useless president spews out without actually t ...
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  • Yaa Adoma 9 years ago

    NDC is making a meal out of this bcos of the hidden connotations. In the first place,it makes it explicitly clear to the ndc folks that the US is not on their side. Secondly,the US response seems to insinuate that (like the t ...
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