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Kwasi Kyei Darkwah’s Apology Has Moral, Not Legal, Implications

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  • Paa John Mensah 9 years ago

    Brilliant masterpiece.

  • Teacher 9 years ago

    My sources in Ghana are telling me young girls are KKD's weakness. He blows them like no man's business. 18 and 19 year olds are his special delicacy. As a popular TV personality they are at his beck and call and he doesn't s ...
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  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    Pryce, what do you half baked, novice PH.D. say about most of your Ewe people (men) who sleep with their own daughters even sometimes to the extent of impregnation?

    Why don't write about both the moral and legal aspect or ...
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  • ENOBA 9 years ago

    I think you are just jealous of Mr. Price. This is very obvious. Get your own PH.D and see how easy it is for the one you just called novice.

  • Kwadwo 9 years ago

    Please explain to me the cause of the tribal bigotry you have spewing on this forum? What has an Ewe ever done to you? Please be advised that not every Ewe supported the violence Rawlings visited on the Nation in course of hi ...
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  • Kwadwo 9 years ago

    By the way I am a Brong from Sunyani so don't go calling me Kwadwovi in response to my critique. Hahaha.

  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    Kwadwo don't worry I stayed in Sunyani barracks for some time before in the late 60's and worked in Berekum for a short time too in the late 70's.

    But Kwadwo, fact is, I only hate people who think they are better than oth ...
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  • Teacher 9 years ago

    Adjoa, if you lived in Sunyani in the 60s, then you are not a young Ghanaian. You must be in your 50s and you should know and behave better.

    Your remorseless and capricious pursuits of certain persons on this forum is mark ...
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  • Kwadwo 9 years ago

    Sunyani is a beautiful place and you will agree that it is one of place that welcomes everybody. Infact most lof the Ewe soldiers who retire from the 3BN acquire land and settle settle permanently near the barracks. Major Oc ...
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  • Teacher 9 years ago

    Kwadwo, I don't think Adjoa and you have a lot in common. You only share your Sunyani background and that's all.

    You diverge widely on the important things of life. You argue out once, twice, then you leave it - let it be. ...
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  • Teacher 9 years ago

    ... by the tenor of our arguments. My thoughts went ahead of my fingers...

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Adjoa, you have come to my defense many times in this forum when others are attacking me and Danny(Dr. Pryce) is also my friend from the forum who I have exchanged a lot of emails with and have talked to him on the phone a co ...
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  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    Sarpong, I will tune my regulator in the next level regarding your directions. Take it cool!

  • Kwadwo 9 years ago

    I can bet that this is not the first time KKD has had sex with a younger woman. Therefore, this moral apology rendered by him is to save his businesses and a PR gimmick. I sincerely believe that the sexual encounter was conse ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce, Ph.D. 9 years ago

    I stated in my previous piece on the KKD saga that the man may have had a history of sleeping with young girls.

    However, it is also possible that his apology to Thompson and plea to God for forgiveness were honest proclama ...
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  • Teacher 9 years ago

    KK what?

    I bet many of us commenting on this KKD thing didn't know of the guy before his alleged rape. If you left Ghana in the past 20 years, I am sure you won't know who this KKD guy is.

    I left Ghana in 1981 and even ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce, Ph.D. 9 years ago

    Thanks, Teacher. I met KKD once in the early 1990s in Accra, and he's always been a likable person, in my opinion.

    For those who claim that I targeted KKD because he is not an Ewe man, I would say the claim is absurd, ind ...
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  • Paul 9 years ago

    KKD came on the scene in the late 80s as a young, dynamic and promising DJ with a 'silky voice'. He carried an 'English slang accent' and spoke well and his choice of music was also quite appealing in those days.

  • Teacher 9 years ago

    Thanks for the update, Paul.

    I feel so old and having left the home country so long ago... Hmmmm...

    Time to return for good?

    Well, as our people say, when the thing that is chasing you has not stopped the chase, yo ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    You can see KKD on youtube personality profile.That was the first time I heard him speak.His "acquired-aristo" facade is all there.

  • Eddie 9 years ago

    Pryce that is ur opinion that is fine can u give me more analysis here our brothers northerners a man will be in his 30s 40s,50s, to 75s n whereby they will bring a girl of 6 to ten yrs as his wife so the law n the references ...
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  • Paul 9 years ago

    Wait a minute. The minimum age for marriage may differ in different cultures but please don't tell me that "Northerness marry 6 to 10 year olds"!! Where did you get that. Can you also provide us with the facts on this one eve ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    Daniel,

    First, doesn't it occur to you that, under the circumstances, KDD's apology was carefully contrived? Hmm! With thoughts of rehabilitating himself. In fact, he might even become a bigger hit in town, if properly man ...
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  • DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9 years ago

    Thanks, Dr. Andy, for your insight....
    My dear brother Pryce has been sufficiently ambivalent in this article for me to ignore him completely today.....But I am also an agnostic who, to the honorable Dr. Pryce, may have warp ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce, Ph.D. 9 years ago

    Sammy,

    Affairs of the genitalia had caused wars between nations and conflict among groups/individuals for centuries! And these things go on even in modern times. So they are not trivial matters.

    I will urge you to igno ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce, Ph.D. 9 years ago

    Andy-K,

    I will not debate you on the inappropriateness of KKD's actions; I have made my arguments for the readers to form their own judgments.

    But I have one question for you: why do you call yourself an atheist? I am ...
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  • Paul 9 years ago

    I thought you were writing about the morality of KKD's act (and his apparent contrition). Christianity as a religion has no monopoly over morality and though a Christian myself, I find it hard to understand why some people al ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce, Ph.D. 9 years ago

    Paul,

    Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. I cannot argue for other religions because I am not sure what their texts contain. Because I know what the Holy Bible contains, I am able to make informed judgments bas ...
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  • Chabba 9 years ago

    If you think marriage is expensive try cheap casual sex with a stranger in a hotel bathroom ala KKD.

  • Osofo 9 years ago

    If the sex was consentual, then there is no need for an apology. Both parties are adults and age should not be a factor. Price should stop disturbing our ears.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

    A woman was standing in a crowded lift of the hotel she was staying in. When a man got in and accidentally elbowed her in the breast.

    The man said, "I'm sorry! But if your heart is as soft as your tit, you'll forgive me."
    ...
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  • Paul 9 years ago

    This was no apology in my view. It was a statement put out by KKD's LEGAL TEAM on his behalf, purporting to show remorse and to suggest that somehow he had realised the errors of his ways and 'turned to God' for 'redemption.
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  • BERNARD 9 years ago

    Thank you for the valid points raised here. Any society that shows total disregard for women takes civilisation a step backward.

    African women especially, have taken too much burden and pain for far too long as they have ...
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