Ghana is becoming a failed state - Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson

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  • Nana Siaw.............Kwabenya 1 year ago

    Our GSA & NPA are not helping us at all.They should recruit more Inspectors to oversee these thievery.
    Use national service or YEA with police in mobile vehicles to carry out these inspections and replacement of seals.

    I ...
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  • Omg 1 year ago

    Ghana is already a failed state!

  • Dadekro 1 year ago

    This man may be a Cardinal but in international politics or geopolitics he is a complete ignoramus just like you "Omg" because he does not know what makes a country a "failed state". His ignorance is embarrassing but forgivab ...
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  • Kwam 1 year ago

    Haha, l agree with the man of God to some extent. GH is becoming a failed state because we have failed to protect our forest, rivers, waters, Marine and natural resources, agriculture products, cocoa farms, poultry, food educ ...
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  • I PREFER THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN! 1 year ago

    I PREFER THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN!

  • Emelia 1 year ago

    Wo maame tw3. What are the components of a State? Government, sovereignty, the people and the last is facing existential threat. Is Ghana not becoming a failed state? You must be a half baked intellectual to display this stup ...
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  • Gideon 1 year ago

    And you that is a fully baked intellectual started your argument with an insult. Lmao

  • Dungeon Master 1 year ago

    The article didn't say Ghana was a failed state. The title says the man said Ghana was BECOMING a failed state. We are not there yet. We are close, though.

    May the Lord answer my prayers for military overthrow. We don't ne ...
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  • TWEAA DC 1 year ago

    MMM...1957 AGAINST 2024 AND 5 MILLION PEOPLE AGAINST 33 MILLION...A COMPLETELY MISMATCH...TWEAA.

  • Sycamore 1 year ago

    You gave a very concrete analysis and observation until that stupid 'lizard shit' at last . When making intellectual analysis leave politics aside and save your credibility. If you do this next time I'll insult you and your ...
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  • NPP= NANA'S POVERTY PROMOTERS 1 year ago

    Cardinal Turkson was even too gentle or diplomatic to say Ghana is becoming a failed state. The truth is, under Akuffo Addo Ghana is already a failed state. Somalia now looks like a paradise. There is nothing working in the c ...
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  • NEWMONT, ANGLOGOLD, ETC, SHOULD ALSO BE KICKED OUT OF GHANA. 1 year ago

    NEWMONT, ANGLOGOLD, AND THE LIKE SHOULD ALSO BE KICKED OUT OF GHANA.

    IF GALAMSEY IS DESTROYING GHANA'S WATER BODIES, IT FOLLOWS THAT NEWMONT AND ANGLOGOLD ARE ALSO DESTROYING GHANA'S ECOSYSTEMS.

    GHANAIANS ARE FOOLS FOR ...
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  • Good 1 year ago

    GHANA WILL BE SECOND NIGERIA IF NPP WINS AGAIN. LETS BREAK THAT EVIL YOCK FROM COMING TO GHANA.

  • Zack 1 year ago

    Truth.

  • Capricorn 1 year ago

    It's so obvious, no equivocation or whatsoever, Rev. The truth must be told as it is. Akuffo Addo and his surrogates have destroyed Ghana beyond recognition. In fact Ghana is charred. Where did we go wrong?

  • RAB 1 year ago

    Ghana is a failed state as far as Galamsey is concerned

  • Abu 1 year ago

    Kwame Nkrumah was a visionary leader.we lack visionary leaders in our generation.They all bunch of fools and greedy leaders we have now but their days will end soon .The backbone of every economy depends on Agriculture.This i ...
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  • GD 1 year ago

    Well spoken Sir. It is the onus of the current leaders to act accordingly to safeguard our environment from pollution and its related problems.

  • NDC/NPP are both the same 1 year ago

    His eminence put it bluntly that its a failed state

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 1 year ago

    HELLOOO!
    GHANA IS NEVER A FAILED STATE AND CAN NEVER BE!
    GHANA IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN WEST AFRICA.
    I LOVE MY GHANA NO MATTER WHAT!

    GHANA IS THE MOST RESPECTED COUNTRY AMONG ALL THE BLACK COUNTRIES IN WORLD!

    MORE ...
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  • Looming Danger 1 year ago

    Not now,my friend. Are you in space?

  • NPP= NANA'S POVERTY PROMOTERS 1 year ago

    Just listen to this donkey idiot from Kokoase saying he is from New York. If you love Ghana so why are you writing New York instead of New Kokoase? You and who respect Ghana? Have you heard or seen any international leader vi ...
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  • TeeeeY 1 year ago

    When your environment is destroyed, why are you not a failed state?I shudder to what citizens will be faced with.

  • Nsia 1 year ago

    That is the best we can get from the hopeless wankers who detested Nkrumah simply because he was more honest, passionate and selfless.And, the shsmeless fools do not even see their gross incompetence.

  • Catastrophy#4more 1 year ago

    The Nonsensical Parochial Paranoids-N.P.P, is a rogue led regime. From the state of failed state, the next sure stage is Catastrophy. See Somalia, Liberia,etc? A Stitch in Time, they say, Saves Nine (9). Let figure #8, save ...
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  • EAS 1 year ago

    Thank God we are now hearing the voices of our clergymen speaking to issues concerning the country called Ghana. It's not too late for the government and other stakeholders to act now.

  • Edmond AmponsahIn 1 year ago

    Sir,
    You are somehow right. However, the blame should not go to government alone but our traditional leaders and unpatriotic Ghanaians who put money over the lives of Ghanaians
    The traditional leaders, DCE's give a brand ...
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  • Osei Kwabena 1 year ago

    ALL THESE LEADERS ARE PART OF OUR PROBLEMS IN GHANA. WHEN DID YOU AND THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITIES CAME TO REALIZE THAT GALAMSEY IS DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT? WITH ONLY TWO MONTHS TO THE END OF HIS TERM, CAN NANA ADDO ALONE STOP ...
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  • Nana. 1 year ago

    Check your grammar please

  • HENRY, SPAIN 1 year ago

    GALAMSEY IS ALREADY ILLEGAL IN THE COUNTRY. THOSE WITH PERMIT CAN DO THE MINING,BUT SOME ALSO POLLUTING THE RIVERS. JERRY TIME, NO WAY.

  • Kwam 1 year ago

    Eiii!! But what has you taken you such a long time to say it?? I hope the powers that be will accept this view in good faith and work towards the restoration of hope to the youth of GH.

  • Godwin 1 year ago

    Partly because of people like you.

  • Eiii. 1 year ago

    Akuffo Addo has collapsed Ghana

  • Kubut3 1 year ago

    Ghana should be divided along tribal lines . There are INTELEGENT people from each tribe who can help their kin folks . African unity is nonsense. Melema and PROFFERSOR lumumba are two idiots, currently confusing the ch ...
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  • Citizen 1 year ago

    Because you people went to sleep. Tell the EC to make her mistakes again in declaring the results. This time, she would not survive

  • Kubut3 1 year ago

    You guys can't do shyt. Nothing happened when the PNDC /NDC LED BY RAWLINGS AND KOJO TSIKATA ,KILLED THE AKAN JUDGES AND MADE US SLEEP AT 6PM FOR YEARS .

  • Ghanaba 1 year ago

    Another fucking tribalistic idiot, this Kubut3 is!

  • JIM 1 year ago

    Courtesy of the NPP and NDC administrators, Ghana is technically a failed state. There is so much lawlessness, corruption and incompetence that have engulfed the national psych no one knows what to do. Akkufo-Addo through hi ...
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  • Emmanuel Adasibo Asumadu 1 year ago

    Massa Ghana has gone past failed state so if you are bellyfull keep it to yourself.

  • Kaya 1 year ago

    Ghana is becoming a failed state under the leadership of Nana Akuffo Addo. Everyone is saying it.

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  • Kobina Boafo 1 year ago

    Ghana is already a FAILED STATE. Our wanton disregard for the rule of law, our weak and failed institutions; our inability to prioritize Agric and process our own God given resources. Our leaders with worthless qualification ...
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  • GMA 1 year ago

    Cardinal, the country is already a failed state big time! We are finished!!!!

  • Joe 1 year ago

    Becoming a failed state?
    Indeed - Ghana is a Banana republic- period!

  • Kwame Ales Canada 1 year ago

    I was expecting the cardinal, Turkson to comment on the unnecessary demonstration of the Catholich Dio. of Accra on the steets of Accra which has no pastoral or theological significanse for Ghanaians. With the hymnus "Laudat ...
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  • The Brains 1 year ago

    Mr Cardinal Turkson, well said, but Ghanaians need you home to come and help the state from failing. If your prayers for Ghana is not working enough, come home. Complaining from afar won’t help.

  • kwaku-t 1 year ago

    If you are a Cardinal keep out of politics. You are becoming too known

  • kwaku-t 1 year ago

    We have a PAPAL NUNCIO in Ghana. Do keep quiet

  • Chuck, Virginia 1 year ago

    Ghana is already a failed state. A country that experiences incidents of thugs attacking law courts, beating up judges and the police and freeing suspects on trial, which embodies lawlessness, a country where police and custo ...
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  • Ojatanaa 1 year ago

    Another gayman who told you that lazy man using the Bible to con the masses and living on freebies

  • BISHOP ROLLINS 1 year ago

    Corruption kills. If Ghana cannot kill corruption, then corruption will kill Ghanaians. Its just as simple as that.

  • Agapanthus Africanus 1 year ago

    We have already composed a Requiem for Ghana. Ghana is badly broken and is dying. The people, the politicians, the chiefs etc are all talking rubbish when they open their mouths.

  • Nii Adjei 1 year ago

    I seriously detest this lame approach at globalizing the maladministration and incompetence of this clueless Akufo-Addo-Bawuliar NPP government. Instead of calling them out for who they truly are, these clergy engage in circu ...
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