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Slowly Mother Ghana's 'illness' is becoming her death

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  • Obra 6 years ago

    Thought provoking. Excellent piece.

  • Fire to Fire 6 years ago

    Excellent piece. The problem is that Ghanaians are intrinsically evil and our actions tell who we are. I have watched our actions for 66 years and that is the conclusion I have drawn. Praying and going to church does not mean ...
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  • SAM 6 years ago

    God bless you for writing the truth. He who has ears let them hear. Hypocrisy at all levels.

  • Kwadwo 6 years ago

    In 1979 Rawlings staged a coup and justified the killing of senior military office. That was mob because I remember people chanting "let the blood flow" after the first executions. No one cared to ask if those executed were g ...
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  • dddd 6 years ago

    may be you didn't read the article and even if you read, you never understood. we are not interested in when its started. we are interested in how to stop it.

  • Ken Ntiamoa 6 years ago

    I am not admitting that "mob justice"started after Rawlings coup as the writer above you wants us to believe; but, I cannot also side with you that we should only be interested in how to stop it. We cannot stop anything unles ...
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  • Kontoa 6 years ago

    Rawlings sought to straighten Ghana and crooked Ghana. The seed was sown then and we even see it in the way we speak English on Public Platforms. No decorum and no humility. Force and Power =Mob Justice. Sorry for the Sacrif ...
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  • -------- 6 years ago

    Intrinsically evil to the point that even pastor Otabil chose to describe it a cultural thing instead of calling it what it really is. Since when did snuffing the life out of someone became cultural? Only lying pastor Otabil ...
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  • George 6 years ago

    I guess you have to understand the word "culture" to get the import of what the Pastor was saying. In simplistic terms he was trying to say that we've taken these lynches so much for granted that it has become our culture (pa ...
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  • Omanbabea 6 years ago

    We should all blame law breakers and those who are charged to enforce laws in Ghana. When justice is not taken seriously by those in charge, people seek justice wrongly. This should be a lesson to every policeman, judge or ...
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  • AKUAMOA 6 years ago

    Stories of SERIOUS CRIMES occurs, but
    detection stories are not heard at all.
    A story of DECAPITATED HUMAN-BEINGS
    was told by an ACCRA resident and
    nothing was heard during MAHAMA
    government.Acc ...
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  • Randy 6 years ago

    Thought provoking. Excellent piece.

  • Liberty 6 years ago

    Nothing short of this will pacify the land , heal this broken nation and sent a clear message to this wicked generation of thugs. After all arrest have been made by the military, the field engineers regiment should move in wi ...
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  • AKUAMOA 6 years ago

    Is this CAPTAIN only GHANAIAN who
    has suffered this injustice ? TO WIPE
    AWAY THE SIGHT OF HUMANITY at
    DENKYIRA-OBOASI ? THIS IS INSANE !!!!

  • Kontoa 6 years ago

    Rather, a School to teach all people of Oboase Denkyira what Patriotism, Integrity, importance of education, belief in Ghanaian Values and Spiritual cleansing is what is necessary at that place. School should be named after C ...
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  • Kwaku Manfred 6 years ago

    We must learn not to share naked bodies of people no matter the circumstance. The one who did this has subjected the late soldiers family to a serious psychological torture which is the worst of it all.

  • Joe 6 years ago

    Kweku, how right you are. It is horrific that the images of the murder are available for all to see. It is even more devistating for the poor family.

  • Heinz-Dieter Spitschan 6 years ago

    BRAVO ... clear, hard & truthfully words. You describe exactly the hypocrisy of Ghana; they want to be seen as a member of the modern world, they drive cars, have TV and smartphones, and, of course, they are all deeply believ ...
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  • Spiritual not religious 6 years ago

    Well said. I saw on whatsapp an accident in Ghana I think at the new overhead where a woman had lost her legs and was bleeding to death and people had taken out their phones and were filming.

    No one even took a. Lord to st ...
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  • Kojo Arhin 6 years ago

    Sir May the good lord welcome you to heaven and forgive all your sins.
    I can't even think straight.this is a big shock.

    Back to Ghana police service!! Part of this is your fault.When civilians bring criminals or whatever ...
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  • Joe 6 years ago

    Let us remember that it is not just this poor man who was killed in this way. It is happening frequently in Ghana. As you say, Kojo, unless the people can have some trust in the rule of law, then Ghana will become increasing ...
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  • Heinz-Dieter Spitschan 6 years ago

    Kojo Arhin:

    And that justifies such an action? Self-justice?! No, your argument is just too stupid. Because of thieves would not be sufficiently punished (like your mind), you simply kill them and take the right into your ...
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  • Bawumia 6 years ago

    Kwadwo stop insensible comparison, are u saying the act is right? pls stop inmatured politics

  • Margaret Ninsin 6 years ago

    Yes it is sad but our problem is bigger than what happened. Ghanaians hate themselves so much, this one of the evidence of that hatred. They cover it with all sorts of names. I am sure they knew who the captain was and plann ...
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  • universe 17 6 years ago

    thank you.You said it all.God bless

  • shamosco 6 years ago

    I think Ghana is continuously having indecisive leaders. Just look at the crowd happily yielding as if they were going for a fun fair, instead they were chasing a human being to kill. Shameful Ghana! Same thing happened in Ku ...
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  • Sweet Ghana 6 years ago

    The eulogies and sympathies coming from all and sundry is the cooperate cry of all that we end our collective hypocrisy of touting our nation as a haven of peace. Let's accept that we are a nation of pretenders who don't walk ...
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  • joseph togah 6 years ago

    that's all to it

  • Romould B. 6 years ago

    Well said,
    Indeed IT is so inappropriate in Ghana, in sister countries, it is used to help build security, apprehend culprits or perpetrators of evil acts, discovering things, inventing and above all making life much easier ...
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  • T and T 6 years ago

    The devil rules here because we do things of the devil.
    This is not the first time a human being has been killed like an animal.
    What about the many innocent females who have been found dead in the bushes with their organs ...
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  • FRANK , MARYLAND 6 years ago

    In short, we're not a civilized people - period! As for our leaders the least said about them the better! All they know is to engage in primitive acquisition of material wealth. Lord have mercy!

  • Konkonsahfuo 6 years ago

    Many of us are headed for hell

  • Kofi 6 years ago

    I am very pissed about this. If nothing is done to the death of this beloved Soldiers I guarantee the Military should take over the country. those who are responsible should be killed as well by Firing Squad or hang by death. ...
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  • CK 6 years ago

    I am frightened and may be better protected by a military regime... please safe us from vigilantism and lawlessness! Amen!!!

  • Alo Nation. 6 years ago

    I even wonder why we foolishly claim Ghana is a Christian country. Apuuuu! Christian "bin"!, Christian "ta". The country is really sick. This is something that happens every year in many places within this country. Innocent ...
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  • christiana nsoh 6 years ago

    Indeed I agree with you guys.May his soul rest internal peace.for his memory lingers in my mind.God should give his wife and children the strength to pull throu

  • yaw 6 years ago

    Culture is they way a group of people live and for decades these things are happening. I remember two great police men; Kweku Ninja and Jerry were murdered and their body buried by their murderers in Ablekumah. This happene ...
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  • Yakob Kay 6 years ago

    You perfectly right. Honest people like you are scarce in our society. We always pretend to share crocodile tears. They are all hypocrites, syncophants and parasites. Keep the lights burning.

  • Kwame Addo 6 years ago

    Just like St. Stephen, they stone Maxwell Mahama & like St. Stephen he is in heaven as I speak, praying for Ghanaians.

  • Tekno 6 years ago

    The Ghanaian has mastered the art of hypocrisy and now look where we are.Jesus always called out the hypocrites. How many of us really and I mean really get along. Come to the West and see what people who really get along beh ...
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  • Wofa 6 years ago

    Hope the government and some NGOs should start serious education on this mob violence. My boss and myself narrowly escaped a similar incident on a mining exploration in a remote area when we stopped to ask for a direction fro ...
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  • Truth. 6 years ago

    This is so true. Thank you. I don't know what to say. I got goose pimples after reading your column.

  • Sof Nalung, Tamale. 6 years ago

    You wrote my mind. Ghana's illness is her death. Still, I can't hold my tears. I have never felt for a someone I don't know like I have felt for Capt. Mahama. He will forever remain a hero in my heart. Go well, Captain!

  • Sof Nalung, Tamale. 6 years ago

    Mr Author, can't find your contact. I wish get in touch beyond this site. Thanks.

  • Sam Asante 6 years ago

    Thank you soo much for your outermost contribution. It touches soul. God heal our dead conscience. What you hit you become, what you forgive you are release for. God heal our Land.

  • Kontoa 6 years ago

    Dont forget the Custom officer who steals the hard earned cash from the poor traveller.

    The Trader who buys an item for 100 cedis and sells it for C1000 and says am selling at this price because of you. The travel agent wh ...
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  • james 6 years ago

    ooh why God will juge them

  • Sam 6 years ago

    Ppl are talking left right and centre
    Has anyone tried to find out the real truth why he was in that village at all?
    Two wrongs don't make a right but please let's all find out why the military were in that area and you say ...
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