Ghana’s biggest Navy ship commissioned at Sekondi Naval Base

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  • Enyo 11 months ago

    Hmmmm...one day one day!!

  • BB 11 months ago

    So who is going to carry the dwarf's chair around for him from January 8..?? Addo mampam... s3 w'agye w'ani so!

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  • SO THE PEOPLE WHO WORK ON THAT BRAND NEW SHIP FEEL SO PROUD MEANWHILE FOR SOME OF THEM THEIR CHILDREN'S WAEC RESULTS HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED BECAUSE GHANA IS TOO POOR TO PAY WAEC 11 months ago

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  • T IS NOT BRAND NEW SHIP.IT'S QUITE OLD.PROBABLY REFURBISHED. HOW MUCH DID IT COST GHANA? 11 months ago

    It is not brand new (see article) It was probably decommissioned (taken out of service) by another Nation and obviously sold to Ghana. It will be interesting to find out the REAL cost of this vessel to Ghana.
    NB-Vessels are ...
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  • Aba Sam 11 months ago

    It's not brand new. GNS Achimota has been in existence since the 60s. It undergone modernisation and refurbishment. Ask the residents of Sekondi European town.

  • Apraku 11 months ago

    This is the old GNS Achimota , read and compare it to the the newly commissioned one by Akufo Addo . And then ask yourself whether it's a new one or a decommisoned ship?


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    GNS ACHIMOTA was originally the Presiden ...
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  • MHB 11 months ago

    It's not a brand new the article says it was made since 1999 just calculate how many years gone now. It's not need but who will be bold enough to say to Akufu Addo who is not ready to listen to anyone. That is ghana

  • Kojo 11 months ago

    Unfortunately, the joke will be on you because you're going to get him a house and office, then pay him till death!!!!

  • Asare Invisible 11 months ago

    Nana Addo didn't appear on the ballot paperd for your vote.

  • world 11 months ago

    @ bb who ? YOU.

  • Frederick Atsu Latzoo 11 months ago

    His Ga woman who's insensitive like the wicked husband Nana addo will carry it arround.

  • Yaw Wontumi 11 months ago

    A useless ugly hybrid black sooted face akyem weed smoking ape called akuffo addo. Akuffo addo is a big fool. Gbemela akuffo addo. Dzimakpla akuffo addo. Abolokpaku..

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  • Parliament Marshalls are not lawless 11 months ago

    The president who worked so hard but has never been appreciated by Ghanaians. He devoted all his life for the betterment of Ghana.

    Indeed, one day, one day, Ghanaians will will call you the true Messaiah of Ghana.

    Go an ...
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  • Apraku 11 months ago

    One day! One day! , Ghanaians will cry for Akufo Addo.I'm not equating Akufo to Dr. Nkrumah ,but it will be same as they always cry for Kwame Nkrumah!!!

  • Sycamore 11 months ago

    Both of you simpletons your stupidity is legendary

  • Nana Kofi 11 months ago

    Why not leave it for the next government to commission it.
    Addo guy guy.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Why can’t he commission it when he probably started the whole process and it has been completed before he leaves office? Will Mahama or Efo Jeremiah John Rawlings not have done the same? Even John Mahama commissioned projec ...
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  • Who has seen Koku Anyidoho? 11 months ago

    Boreholes and the things you mentioned are the ones closer to the people.

  • K 11 months ago

    FRANK Ampukyeikyei-Kos33nyo, why is a foolish old monkey like you still allowed to come home everyday to desecrate our discussions with your tribal bigotry and foolishness?

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    I come to the forum for a fool like you to kiss my stinking Anus. This makes sense to you. Damn bastard and a disgrace to humanity like you. Please don’t start me on because the day is still young. You can go and burn the S ...
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  • Gina 11 months ago

    You are a fool. It was because of this kind of mismanagement by npp that Rawlings made the coup.

    I think the death penalty must be reinstated to deal with all the thieves and looters.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    And Efo Rawhide Rawlings was not corrupt and murderous? He was a disgruntled and failed Military man who had become a pauper and lived on credited Yor Ke Gari and KOOSE. There are not enough superlatives and vocabularies to d ...
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  • LA 11 months ago

    Calm down bro. You don't have to waste your time responding to some of thr stupid responses to your well laid out facts.

  • world 11 months ago

    @ nana kofi for ndc party leaders to blow up your mind again we just did it within 100 days we can do it and will do more all are fake because they have told ghanaians have short minded.

  • Akuffo Addo 11 months ago

    Ok.
    A freshly painted 25 year old ship commissioned by the President. The assembly man of that base could have done the commissioning instead.
    Our next would be an 150 years old submarine fitted with a few centuries old fir ...
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  • Aba Sam 11 months ago

    GNS Achimota is more than 25 years old. I was taken aboard the ship in 1969 when Kutu Acheampong was the Western Regional Commissioner (present day Regional Minister). I was in Primary School Class Six as school present.

  • Different GNS Achimota 11 months ago

    The 60 year old one is long retired. This is a different ship.

  • Alberto 11 months ago

    Nana do all, do not bother about NDC and their propaganda because of free SHS Ghanaians will start reading through their deceit.

  • Pompeii 11 months ago

    @Alberto... we have just seen how your kwashiorkor Free SHS blasted violently in your face. Amokuaaaa.........

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Did Free Education at the North not blast into the face of Mahama when he was taken from Achimota for Free Education at Tamale Secondary School when Nkrumah was kicked out of office?

  • K.TEE HAMMOND 11 months ago

    @Frank Agyena-Karikari kwaseato, bodambo, gyimifuor, kwaadonto! We've been asking you to tell us when you'll be organizing the "one-week" funeral observation for your brutally-assassinated NPP party, but you've been pretendin ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    OFUI GYIMIFOUR, KWASEANTO, ABOAFUNU A WOHO BON SE PRAKO BINI. I speak politics but don’t do politics. I am not a good liar to be a Politician. Also, unlike your Efo Jeremiah John Rawlings, I can’t kill and murder innocent ...
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  • Ramatu 11 months ago

    The ship is home secondhand.

  • Mahama 11 months ago

    Posterity will remember you if we tell them your good works. God bless and be you everlastingly. Amen.

  • REDONDO 11 months ago

    Posterity will surely remember that stupid Kyebi forest animal who took $58 million dollars of our taxpayers money, spent just $80,000 from this amount to dig an empty hole, and stole the rest of that money for he and his fam ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    What about the one who took from most Ghanaians their Fifty Cedi notes forcefully and never paid them back. He was more horrible. I mean Efo Jeremiah John Rawlings and Boakye Djan, the two most dangerous murderers of innocent ...
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  • K.TEE HAMMOND 11 months ago

    Kotibortor @Frank, your political idol & STUPID "SPECIAL CHILD" FROM KYEBI - Nana Akuffo Addo, was so ruthless in the killing of his first wife. He went on to orchestrate the killing of his own kinsman... the Hon. JB Danquah- ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    An ignorant fool. People tell you Akuffo Addo is from Kibi and you stupidly believe it. I lived and worked at Kyebi Panor and stayed at Paa Willie’s house, sometimes with Akuffo Addo when he came for funerals.
    Akuffo Addo ...
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  • Atta kwabena 11 months ago

    But GNS Achimota is more than 40years old ooh...this is a repainted Navy Ship waii
    This naval ship has been in Ghana since Rawlings time oooh....this is repainted commissioned naval ship hahahahahah oooh mother Ghana

  • Francis Mccarthyo 11 months ago

    Hahahaha this is a RE-PAINTED OVER 40 YEARS OLD SHIP. WE IN SEKONDI ARE AWARE

  • Who has seen Koku Anyidoho? 11 months ago

    Even on their death bed they still have a mouth

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Are you very sure? In this Computer Age, who would repair and commission a Naval ship that old? Let us be honest a bit

  • NAMELESS 11 months ago

    Believe it. I joined the Ghana Armed Forces in 1997. At that time, Ghana Navy had four ships namely GNS Achimota, GNS Sibo, GNS Dzata and GNS Yogaga. GNS stands for Ghana Navy Ship. So, GNS Achimota is a very old ship. Whe ...
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  • Nana 11 months ago

    You are right. But this GNS ACHIMOTA is a recently acquired vessel that was named after the old GNS ACHIMOTA(the old one has been decommissioned). You can do your checks.

  • Tom T 11 months ago

    You wasted your time in the Navy and learnt nothing. Different vessels have carried the name Achimota over the years. The Achimota is the flagship of the

  • FOYOOSIS 11 months ago

    Frank Agyena-Karikari, I thought you said you had a university education in Ghana before you left the place to wherever only God knows you are now.

    Having had a university education, you don't know the long existence of th ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    I am sorry to tell you that UCC did not teach Military History at my time. We were trained to be Teachers in the then Secondary Schools and Teacher Training colleges. I had my first teaching appointment at Tamale. Later, I mo ...
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  • FOYOOSIS 11 months ago

    Thanks for your submission, Wofa Frank Agyena-Karikari.You seem to be a respectful person, however, I can't tell where the hatred for a particular person and tribe is coming from. Is it because you are Akyem and so doesn't wa ...
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  • Who has seen Koku Anyidoho? 11 months ago

    Mcheeew if you know how much was skimmed buying this improved banana boat you would marvel at this magnitude of greed.

  • Yakubu 11 months ago

    Commission what??? This is an old ship since Nkrumah days, repainted and being used to deceive who??
    GNS achimota even took part in Liberian war way back in the 1990.
    Stop misleading the public pls

  • Different GNS Achimota 11 months ago

    That ship you're talking about has been retired since 2017. This ship was renamed after the retired Achimota.

  • Patriot 11 months ago

    Better to have an old navy ship than nothing at all, so a 25 year old ship is not bad I guess. We just may be surprised how much this 25 year vessel cost. Also why name it Achimota instead of after one of our presidents, or a ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    It is difficult to name it after any of our Presidents because of our Tribal nature. Imagine it has been named after an Akan President. Other Ghanaians will be against it. After Efo Jeremiah John Rawlings, I would have led th ...
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  • Patriot 11 months ago

    Point well taken. We have to get pass these tribal and ethnic barriers though to stay a strong nation.

  • At 11 months ago

    NDC supportors God will judge you one day

  • K.TEE HAMMOND 11 months ago

    Like the way the same God judged you this recent past... December 7th. Clap for Jesus

  • De Spinola 11 months ago

    The so called commissioned Ship is an old Japanese Naval vessel, that have been refurbished and this NPP government bought it at a discounted price, to come and deceive Ghanains that they are improving the operational maritim ...
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  • UK boy 11 months ago

    Hmmmmmmm Ghana, people votes all because of their stomach, they don't think tomorrow, well done Nana

  • Gina 11 months ago

    Nitiwul the barbaric idiot. Why gather all fleet for a dwarf to review because of only one used ship.

    Mmmcheeeew

  • Kaklo 11 months ago

    Create loot and share

  • Esi 11 months ago

    The vessel that is not yet paid for?

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  • Bros 11 months ago

    @ Frank Agyna-Karikari, please don't waste your strength on those ungrateful illiterates. Always remember, majority of them are suffering from MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. Please i have noticed you are very clever so just stay away ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Thank you very much but I come to this forum for some people to know the truth. Many on this forum are very young and don’t know the stupidities that went on under the murderers Boakye Gyan and Efo Jeremiah John Rawlings wh ...
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  • Samurai 11 months ago

    1999 is not that modern o....considering the sophistication of naval vessels around....or we go manage am like that??

  • SS 11 months ago

    Honestly Ghanaian are the most ungrateful people and wicked, l now understand kwame nkrumah pains, irrespective of nana addo pride he has done alot of ghana basic infrastructures then any other government apart from Dr Nkruma ...
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  • Archipelago 11 months ago

    And who is Ghana going to conquer with this ship? Comoros? Then you want AFCON scoreline. Nmoa

  • Aboro 11 months ago

    Ghana still has the 9th largest navy in Africa. We need to do even better than this.

  • Rust bucket 11 months ago

    A 25 year old naval vessel is at the end of its service cycle in Japan. They found a dumping ground in Ghana. Soon in will be rusting in Sekondi Harbour, for want of fuel.

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  • Torgbe 11 months ago

    Pack out, worst president

  • Watchman 11 months ago

    Who supplied the antique to Ghana?

  • Used ship 11 months ago

    No no no is not brand new .Is a second hand ship.Nobody knows the cost except Akuffo Addo and his cronies but we're going to pay for it.Akuffo Addo is a tyrant leader. He doesn't tell Ghanaians the cost of his project because ...
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  • FTT 11 months ago

    Ghanaians will remember you and Dr BAWUMIA forever

  • Kwame-Italy 11 months ago

    So Ghana's Maritime boudaries can be Safe from Drug transported MAFIA Gangs by a 25 year fabricated Ship in the year 2025 ? Wonders never end.!

  • Nyameasem Nyasasem 11 months ago

    Praising yourselves for buying a twenty-five year old vessel for the Ghana Navy? Very serious!

  • What type of ship is this? 11 months ago

    Is this an Offshore Patrol Vessel? Or a Fast Attack Craft? This is great but we need heavier firepower too. About time we got destroyers, frigates and submarines with modern tech.

  • Koku powerthen you want to disrespec 11 months ago

    Ndc and jealousy

  • Concern citizen 11 months ago

    Look the monkeys low IQ Ghanaians who never appreciate better things apart from John Mahama nonsense, you will regret one day by insulting good things from Nana Addo's government

  • Kwam 11 months ago

    Good but in terms of modern combat ships the GN is far far behind other countries in the sub region. We have a long way to go.

  • Aboro 11 months ago

    Far far behind? The entire West African region has underperforming navies. Ghana and Nigeria make up the largest navies in the region. Ghanaian navy can do far better than this though. But no, definitely not 'far far' behind ...
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  • Good Nana Addo 11 months ago

    May the good Lord continue to bless you, Nana Addo. History will never forget you for the bold decision you took for Ghana. Frees, SHS, Drone, medical service , 1 constituency 1 ambulance, Drip , Agenda 111 and many roads con ...
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  • Kofi Nok 11 months ago

    Why named ACHIMOTA?

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  • Frederick Atsu Latzoo 11 months ago

    Thanks for the biggest navy ship Nana Addo.
    With all this you were applying for another loan to purchase ships for the navy where as our children still studying under trees and others writing on the floor .
    Thanks to NDC mp ...
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  • K 11 months ago

    This has been a very difficult project but Nana Addo with the help of Gen rtd Blay, managed to pull it off. It was supposed to have been
    Commissioned in May.
    I remember the swamps, fields of coconut trees and mighty hills ...
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