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How Dare You, Konadu Rawlings!

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  • Nii Gbemi Odenke Soomi II 8 years ago

    Absolutely right. Konadu Rawlings is a woman with no shame. Infact she should be the last Ghanaian to make such a comment. Maybe she either suffers from memory haemorrhage or she is just stupid.
    I suggest she should not be m ...
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  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 8 years ago

    You write like you do not understand what citizenship is all about. Rawlings Father might be a scot but by birth he is a Ghanaian.

    You ought to also get someone to lecture you about citizenry as it appears clearly that you ...
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  • Tuyoo 8 years ago

    Exactly, this moron does NOT know that his own kids born in Yankeeland are U.S. citizens.

    JJ was BORN in Ghana, schooled in GH, served in the Air Force, led GH as Commander in Chief for over a DECADE!

    JJ was NOT a born ...
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  • BlindMan 8 years ago

    This woman loves to talk without thinking, and she'll never think because, she does not think.
    Ghanaians are in the moment to dish it all on her, and she would in some day be skinned in public, if she continues to live like ...
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  • Bitter Kola 8 years ago

    Baroness Scotland,the first black Attorney General of England and Wales was born in Dominica.Boris Johnson MP and Mayor of London was born in New York. Keith Vas,MP was born in Yemen.How can Nana Konadu call Charlotte Osei, a ...
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  • Tuyoo 8 years ago

    So where did KOLA mention Ms. Osei or Konadu?

    Debate is about Okoampa's IGNORANCE re JJ!!

  • KnYc(USMC) 8 years ago

    You moron what do understand about the first republic constitution? JJ knew he couldn't be president that why he killed those Judges. Is not about being born on Ghana's soil, is about who your parents where. Do your research ...
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  • Nii Adjetey Lomo 8 years ago

    Mr.Ahoofe, I strongly support and quite agree with all what you have rained on Mrs.Rawlings, but from the look of things, and the way and manner you presented your article depicts your hatred to some political heavy in Ghana. ...
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  • Deme-Der Simon 8 years ago

    I agree perfectly with you bro!. Thanks.

  • klinker 8 years ago

    This man has to go back to class one. Does he remember that when Rawlings first stood as a presidential candidate he (Rawlings) was taken to court that he is not a Ghanaian but Rawlings won the case. The late Joe Reindorf was ...
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  • senior Citizens 8 years ago

    He should come to Ghana and support. Stupid man who will sit in some country and think he better of Ghanaians. APRAKU, KENNEDY ADJAPONG ETC ALL BEGIN THEIR LIVES OUTSIDE GHANA BUT THEY CAME BACK TO DEVELOP THE COUNTRY AND PU ...
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  • Sarskoberta 8 years ago

    Arguably, prof is the man!. The best that can happen to us if you should talk about developing Ghana. Even tho prof domiciles elsewhere on the continent, he makes it his priority to pin-point the ills of society. What is deve ...
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  • Mensah Abrampa 8 years ago

    Rawlings went to court over his citizenship challenge and won so what? It was this same Rawlings who masterminded the murder of the three high court judges in 1982 for handing out court verdicts that were not necessarily favo ...
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  • yussif fuseini 8 years ago

    You said it all,but who should we blame for the issues you raised in your article?this man Rawlings was enlisted into the Ghana army with all this facts available to them.The army at the time payed no attention to Mr Rawlings ...
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  • Atokalapiah 8 years ago

    Yussif pls learn for knowledge they say is powerful. ....basically who is a Ghanaian..Don't allow urself to be brainstormed by someone's ignorance. A person who is born in a country automatically and undebateable.unles the in ...
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  • sir lon£ly 8 years ago

    yussif fuseini tell who is a Ghanaian?

  • Edward Awiagah 8 years ago

    Have you finished fighting Otumfour for your kumawu lands? you seem to have so much hatred for people not on your side. that is your biggest problem. otherwise you have a point. if you could save us the insults.

  • Aba 8 years ago

    I agree with you, but still Nana needs to produce his law certificate

  • Kingsley Baidoo 8 years ago

    Ghana is a mother land , Mr. Phd.

  • Atokalapiah 8 years ago

    Oh my friend pls ask again,a PhD holder saying this! It's a pitty

  • Atokalapiah 8 years ago

    My brother pls wise up. Ex prez JJ Rawlings father can be an American but so far as he was born on the land....then undebateable he is a Ghanaian. Basically I expect you to know about this piece.

  • Kojo 8 years ago

    Huh? Are you okay? You think we are talking about "America"?. Read 6(1) to 6(4) and learn from your constitution

    CHAPTER THREE: CITIZENSHIP

    6

    (1) Every person who, on the coming into force of this Constitution, is a ...
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  • GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

    THIS IS GROSS STUPIDITY LACED WITH OBVIOUS LIES. RAWLINGS IS OUT OF ORDER, YES. IT WOULDNT MATTER IF JJR PARENTS WERE MARTIAN, HE WAS BORN HERE, THAT IS WHAT MATTERS. ANYBODY BORN IN GHANA IS GHANAIAN. AS FOR ANLO AND EWE GE ...
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  • johny 8 years ago

    Can this man be civil for once in any discourse, the only person this hate monger is civil towards is his achem family member, in the unlikely event that akuffo addo become the leader of this dear nation of ours he should n ...
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  • Be prudent 8 years ago

    Konadu enemy of progress. shame on u.

  • yaw oware 8 years ago

    Brofo hunu

  • Nana Kwabena 8 years ago

    Dear prof,
    Please do you have to be so insulting in this article. It takes away from the facts and trivialises the points raised. Some of us greatly admire you, but you overdid it this time.

  • Weah 8 years ago

    Prof your language is very uncouth. Do u intend to come back to settle in Ghana? Please ask Akufo Addo to produce his law certificate. Not the original if he can't find it but even a photocopy will do. Others have done that a ...
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  • Just fuck off man 8 years ago

    Fucking Guy

  • klinker 8 years ago

    This too know prof must read Ghana's
    Independence Chatter before he declares JJ as a non-Ghanaian.

  • Bitter Kola 8 years ago

    Did Konadu read it before calling Charlotte Osei a foreigner?

  • Ebibiman 8 years ago

    Rawlings is Ghanaian period.
    He was born by a Ghanaian woman.
    Just as Obama is American cos his mum is American.


    Let the new EC herself prove Konadu wrong.

    With Akuffo Addo he hasn't been able to prove Konadu wrong ...
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  • ras man 8 years ago

    Please, please and please don't involve Osagyefo Kwame Inkrumah. This country is in this state because of you so called intellectuals. From what you're saying you belong to the group of Ghanaians who believe that we must alwa ...
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  • kwabena 8 years ago

    It's high time we stop this kind of politics with indecent language... I'm greatly disappointed in the so called Dr who wrote this. The fact that we find it difficult to tolerate some people 'nonsense' should not be a reason ...
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  • abu danquah kibi-adadientam 8 years ago

    nonesense doesnt mean an insult it depends on the material time of topic if u disagree.Than make non-sense to the reader.

  • fire 8 years ago

    The keys to the land rovers they used to kill the three judges and the retired army officer were picked from your center table.who place the car keys on your center table?

  • young bee 8 years ago

    was it not your dad whom she thought was hungry and gave him that contract to do the killing? you see that is why she told your father not to put the keys on the table but he kept them there. so it was your dad

  • sir lon£ly 8 years ago

    mr. phD how different are you from Konadu? you are just the same like her. Besides I will like to refer to you JHS pupil's book 2 Social studies there you will learn who a Ghanaian is.

  • Stoway 8 years ago

    YOUR COMMENT IS BIG INSULT TO THIS PHD HOLDER.

  • pee@atl 8 years ago

    You ignoramus Idiot...do you know what qualifies one for ghanaian citizenship????mr fake phd holder.

  • yaa dua 8 years ago

    And kwame Nkrumah s name is always on your writing menu? Allow that EC chairperson of Nigerian origin to defend her self. I am tired of thinking Ghana doesn't have qualified personnel to assume that post.

  • senior Citizens 8 years ago

    Your story is out of Jealousy and bitterness. Only a Ghanaian foreigner who struggled to acquire USA citizens by dubious mean will speak like that. Yes you are right to condemned her comments on our new appointed EC but what ...
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  • kojo nzo ekangaki 8 years ago

    This is de first time this guy has written something sensible and on point,!

  • Saaeed 8 years ago

    Useless PhD ,fucking paper holder,kwame ur foolishness did allow u read the constitution to know that, a child born in Ghana of which one of his parents is a Ghanaian is automatically a Ghanaian... Where was ur father when Gh ...
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  • Sarskoberta 8 years ago

    Fucking paper rules the world. Got it? Just be content with your 'saaseven seventicate' oops! call it GCE, nope! A-Level, sort of. First degree, BA Hons. Not at all. BsC preferred. Not a Dr. Or Prof ...
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  • mahama Alhassan 8 years ago

    PhD of insane hatred, ur still not a renowned person,join ur class in the bush pls

  • Truthful Kofi 8 years ago

    Prof.. Hope you've also not lost your CERT.
    Your pieve makes it questionable.

  • Jibril 8 years ago

    Good friend, two wrongs don't make a right. Fact that you question Rawlings' citizenship of Ghana does not debar his wife from questioning that of others. Don't let your hatred of Rawlings blind you to commonsense logic

  • Baakious 8 years ago

    Mother fucker! shutt off your beak. Foolishness is not the monopoly for only u.

  • Akos 8 years ago

    Is this PHD aware that there are Lebanese/ Indians living in Ghana with Ghanaian passports by virtue of the fact that they were born here? Is he aware that these Lebanese and Indians vote and are eligible to hold public offic ...
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  • f quentin ex minister ghana 8 years ago

    How dare you end your article with an Insult to African Man of the Millinium Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah!
    You must learn how to talk about Your far far supperiors!
    In terms of being Globally famous; None; I repeat None of you ...
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  • james 8 years ago

    fools and dogs even the writer is very stupid and all who, who are in support of this writer are pigs.
    So one is a Scottish and so we should allow all this to go on,where was he the writer for all these years that he never t ...
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  • Jones Ofori 8 years ago

    Okoampah the joker is wrong again. A simple research would have enlightened him. KONADU is right. The EC chair was born in Nigeria in the year 1969. We know her birth mother is Nigerian. We want her to come clean. This goes t ...
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  • DR KUFFOUR 8 years ago

    Akoampa, you may say all about Mrs Rawlings but how dare you talk of Dr Nkrumah in that light of disrespect? You have failed your parents.

  • witch hunter 8 years ago

    Kwame,you becomes and look very insane and stupid sometimes, how dare do you say stupid things against your ex president JJ Rawlings if you have a bone to chew with his wife?Such insubordination behaviour from you must stop h ...
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  • Oheneba 8 years ago

    Are you really a PHD holder? I have my doubt. Even my daughter at primary 5 knows that per our 1992 constitution, once one of your parents is a Ghanaian, you automatically holds a Ghanaian citizenship unless you denounce it. ...
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  • Sam 8 years ago

    Great

  • tht lone crusader.the only. 8 years ago

    Is better she keeps mute and takes cover for how they run ghana only unto their whimps and nothing else.

  • Sam Bannerman ( USA) 8 years ago

    The mean of democracy it looks some of us really don't understand it. Ms Rawlings is a Ghanaian if something is not clear to her mind she has right to voice it out. Let us learn to be tolerant to one another view.

  • Kojo,Krachie 8 years ago

    This is one such moment the First Lady will look back on and say to herself "how did i do that".She apparently did not think this one through,and may have opened her mouth before thinking.
    When you are in the public eye,ever ...
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  • Blackshirt 8 years ago

    Young an Ahootofe you just marred your objective article with your ignorant perception about the great Osagyefo,Dr.Kwame Nkrumah,The veteran BBC of all international broadcasting organization's research findings which conclud ...
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  • Obournana 8 years ago

    Okoampah the uselwss writer will never write without destroying Osagyefour Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Okoampah is nobody so who cares. His muederer uncles who cold-bloodedky killed Apedwa chief can never override Nkrumah in popularit ...
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  • TEE 8 years ago

    IS REALLY SILLY, SHE HAS RIGHT FOR GHANAIANS TO KNOW THE REAL NATIONALITY OF MRS. OSEIE PERIOD

  • TEE 8 years ago

    KNOW THE REAL NATIONALITY OF THAT NIGERIAN / GHANAIANS MRS. OSEI

  • Kwaku 8 years ago

    We are where we are because non Ghanaians are at the helm of affairs. Togolese, Burkinabes,Ivorians et al. These "alien" leaders don't have the country at heart and are stealing right, left and center. Being born in Ghana sho ...
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  • Alhassan Alhassan Fuseini 8 years ago

    senseless attack on the first family

  • Nana Dizzle 8 years ago

    Obviously dis guy has issues.. am wondering how he is allowed to put such articles here.. Instead discrediting Konadu's statement you are rather attacking her personality... N u r a PHD holder??.... take your logical reasonin ...
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  • Obournana 8 years ago

    Okoampah the useless writer will never write without destroying Osagyefour Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Okoampah is nobody so who cares. His muederer uncles who cold-bloodedky killed Apedwa chief can never override Nkrumah in popularit ...
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  • okletey 8 years ago

    Some part of your epistle you said Konadu from Krobo and Ada. What does that mean Krobos and Adas not ghanians? Mr writer

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  • Sonkronsuo 8 years ago

    Konadu, it pains me that you abandoned your own beloved party(NDC). You have the capacity and intellectual to lead the party in future. But unfortunately, you follow these lazy men, Owusu Bempah,Joshua Aryee and co who could ...
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  • nana yaw 8 years ago

    Lets all wait to see, This woman cant do anything to lift election process. Even we didnt see anything from the immediate past Ec

  • Sonkronsuo 8 years ago

    Konadu, think before you talk. Stop talking before you think. The Ewes don't inherit from their mother line. By your analysis, it means your husband did not deserve to rule Ghana for almost two decades. Is it because you want ...
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  • BENJAMIN BOANYAH 8 years ago

    Your venom on the former first lady was too Judgemental,uncalled for and hypocritical.She only asked a question, no matter how rhetoric it may sound. Your hatred for her and perhaps her family is too betrayed in your rebutal ...
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  • Andani A A sigli 8 years ago

    so called ph-D holder talked as if class one child,how does one bcomes a citizen of a country, go back to school and stop insulting dignify people.she has the to raise a concerc and the simple question s ws she borne in niger ...
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  • Philip-Nerry Mawuakpe 8 years ago

    Professor you are a shame a big shame to PhD holders. Come back to Ghana and start all over from primary one so that school will go through you

  • Kwame Sarfo Tabi(Hamburg) 8 years ago

    It's a big shame that a Ph. D holder Kwame Okoampa with his level of education, would allow himself to be swallowed up in hatred so as to be obliterated by his level of thinking.
    He has an axe to grind with Konadu-Agye ...
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  • Igor 8 years ago

    Dr . Okoampah , we are tired of your acrimonious articles. You have descended into the so called storm drain yourself. Find work and do to bring development to Ghana.

  • Alpha-Umar Azumdoh 8 years ago

    I rever Mrs Charlotte Osei n im so proud of her. Anytime I see or read about her, I always wish she were my sibling......all base on her accademic exellence. This is just by way.

    Just as i have not chance upon Nana Konadu' ...
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  • ras man 8 years ago

    Good Anna very good

  • Gbewaa 8 years ago

    Anything with an Akan last name is OK for Ahoofe. Okoampa contreviently forgets that Kesson-Smith Osei is only an Akan by inter-marrying an Akan man called Osei.