Rawlings's 1979 demolition of Makola weakened Ga-Dangme state - Dr Ayew Afriye

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  • John 23 hours ago

    So this is vice president in waiting Jesus Christ

  • Massive Demonstration 23 hours ago

    He has eaten toilet don't mind him koraaa. Ayew Afriyie the We will not stop galasry today we will not stop galamsey tomorrow rogue. Jwasea villager.

  • Yoo 23 hours ago

    See how tall he is! He doesn’t look like an Ashanti. No wonder Nana Akomea, Ursula Owusu and co became MPs in Accra just to weaken the GaDangbe State.

  • AGBESI KWASI 21 hours ago

    Ayew Afriyie, the deeply tribal man. Please, see beyond ethnic issues. We are a nation. Tribal issues are primitive and derogatory.

  • Senseless Nonsense 19 hours ago

    Tell it to him firm & straight ! Cheap uninformed political talk. He saw nothing, knew nothing, and learns nothing. Hence, talks nothing but Senseless Nonsense

  • The Spear 18 hours ago

    I have never met people who craved and indulged in so much nonsense than Ghanaians. And this time, a guy with "Dr." appended to his name is the one fooling!

    Would Post Offices in Ghana also be compensated that, Air Letter ...
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  • Mango mo 21 hours ago

    How old are you in 1979? Ghanaians are wise oooooo

  • Pas Kwesi in Thé Bronx 19 hours ago

    Good to those folks I was 19.

    Stop the foolishness and don’t comment on what you don’t know.

    On the DDay I was a teenager who went to Kingsway to repair my watch. I waited in line prior to 2:30 pm opening of the s ...
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  • Sheikh 20 hours ago

    This from a so called MP is a BULL CR*P. If he does not know the truth he should investigate. Makola was demolished not because Rawlings wanted to WEAKENED the GA tribe. Rawlings was Adabraka boy! He lived his life in and aro ...
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  • PORPOR 20 hours ago

    This right to free speech thing is being carried to another level by some characters oohh! I mean how old was Ayew Afriyie when the makola market was demolished some forty six years ago . He should spare us this atrocious non ...
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  • Sheikh 20 hours ago

    This from a so called MP is a BULL CR*P. If he does not know the truth he should investigate. Makola was demolished not because Rawlings wanted to WEAKENED the GA tribe. Rawlings was Adabraka boy! He lived his life in and aro ...
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  • DJ Kapito 19 hours ago

    NPP will forever live in the past. No wonder the party is now as useless as it is.
    I wonder who regales all these fools with academic titles.

  • K. Opoku-London-UK 3 hours ago

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  • Pelicles 23 hours ago

    If the demolition of Makola market weakened the Ga-Dangbe state, why are they still supporting P/NDC? If a government comes to power and initiate a policy to weaken the people's purchasing power, that government is an anti-pr ...
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  • The demagogue presidential candidate. 21 hours ago

    Someone said blablabla!!!!!
    To weaken Ga-Dangbe vote for NDC.
    That's all a about!

  • Nana 23 hours ago

    Idiot, you want to turn the Ga people against the NDC as you did in the Asante people in the past. We wild awake for guys propaganda

  • NzemaK- Use Sec'ty Recruits to build affordable houses 11 hours ago

    Is the NDC listening?? A well crafted deliberate plan to pitch the Ga Adangme state against the NDC. They succeeded in doing this in Ashanti and Eastern Akan tribes. This witch craft can never be exhibited by any NDC person ...
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  • Shamu 23 hours ago

    Where is this man coming with such analyses? So Ghana still have this type of people with empty mind. When does improvement becomes backward? Has he really remember how Makola looks before demolishing? This MP need to go back ...
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  • Alosman 23 hours ago

    Divide and rule tactics.

  • Agbotadua 23 hours ago

    This guy is too foolish for parliament. Very very stupid and ugly like his mother's dross. Gyimigyimi

  • Laser 22 hours ago

    Masa Ghana has suffered a lot to go back to the NPP, you really mess things up.

  • Pantampram 22 hours ago

    These are the people waiting to take over from the NDC? Yesu Kristo!!

  • Mt103 USDT USA loading banks Canada link upTO up with all usa canada banks loading german too fixed crefit Scott mt103 22 hours ago

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  • James Kwashitse 22 hours ago

    My Mum sold cosmetics and others in Makola. She was arrested during the bombing in Makola and we found her Gonda Barracks after 3 days, clean shaven. They were made to squat "eye kanie.
    She never recoverd financially thereaf ...
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  • The Spear 18 hours ago

    Stop it, you congenital liar. "Eye hann, eye Kanea" was under Kutu Acheampong and later Fred Akuffo to embarrass ladies who wore very short and revealing dresses to work, mostly when they were caught arriving late to work.
    ...
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  • nii 17 hours ago

    sorry

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  • jjjjjjjjjjjjyyyyyyyyylkkkkkkkk 22 hours ago

    IT AFFECTED THE WHOLE ECONOMY OF GHANA.
    SOME OF THE BUSINESSMEN WERE BORN AND GOT RICH BEFORE JJ RAWLINGS WAS BORN. TOTAL KILLER

  • Okofo ) 22 hours ago

    Demolishing sate institution buildings,and digging a pit in the name of national cathedral, didn't weaken Ga adagme?

  • Okofo ) 22 hours ago

    Demolishing sate institution buildings,and digging a pit in the name of national cathedral, didn't weaken Ga adagme?

  • Kofi Ghanaba 22 hours ago

    Dedei Ashikishan was a Ga trader market Queen at Makola and a member of the CPP when Kwame Nkrumah was Prime Minister of Ghana.She financed the CPP.Rawlings demolishing of Makola market led to the poverty of Ga traders.Anytim ...
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  • Amina 21 hours ago

    Precisely. Rawlings was clueless. He was a poor man disowned and cared for my his mother who was never married tonhis father. This ruled the country and darkened our civilisation. Don't tell me his daughter's aiming to be a ...
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  • The Spear 18 hours ago

    Some of you love to listen to your own idiocy, don't you? Jerry was clueless, right? Yet he ruled over you for 19 years.

    Maybe you didn't know, but he was a fighter pilot, and a good one because he piloted choppers too. A ...
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  • Andamus 21 hours ago

    In fact i used to hold this Man so high but now no. Please someone should draw his attention that he is growing downwards

  • Bobby 21 hours ago

    The same way demolition of Jugdes and Ministries all in the name of building national cathedral has cause financial loss to the state and economic hardship

  • Zaga 21 hours ago

    these stories wont wash

  • Opoku 21 hours ago

    So?
    Cheap politician!
    Ga-Dangme state was not the only victim.
    Tamale Central Market was burnt down.
    Ghana has moved on, idiot!

  • KB 20 hours ago

    Its interesting how people are insulting Ayew Afriyie on his own Ghanaweb. I hope he reads the comments.

  • Kofi Adu 20 hours ago

    This is below belt, Dr. What were you seeking to achieve. No wonder you were only a year old so you were told. You didn't see what was happening at that time to appreciate the situation. Sorry for that. I thought as a learned ...
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  • HAPPY DAYS 20 hours ago

    Dr.Ayew,Kantamanto was a manufacturing hub employing thousands of people and similarly demolished and is today a hub for imported used clothing,JJ's party he bequeathed to some people is in power now led by somebody demolishi ...
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  • Nkansah 18 hours ago

    It is your useless father who is pregnant

  • Achakanapaya 20 hours ago

    Look at another shameless, dishonest idiot, coming from the npp criminals and Nation wreckers organization.
    Useless caricature like that.

  • Gbemi 20 hours ago

    Stop spewing gibberish and do more research about what led to the demolition of the Makola market. It has no link to the Ga-Dangme state.

  • PhD Nose Mask Palaver 17 hours ago

    Ayew Afriye allegedly holds a Doctrate degree from Cecelia Dappah College of Sanitation. With a Non Performers Pass (NPP), PhD. No wonder he can blow Korle Lagoon halitosis "fine" lavender, which can send people seeking for N ...
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  • HAPPY DAYS 20 hours ago

    Achakanapaya,here is a record of the dishonest people;
    Courtesy Ghana Statistical Service,
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    2016 230billion
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  • Katekastyle... 20 hours ago

    Reading the article, I think Afriye was fair, objective and on point in his analysis.
    We the Ghas always are aware how plotting and conniving are against us, so for or an Akan person to identify what went on is commenda ...
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  • Katekastyle... 20 hours ago

    Who is extremely tribalistic in Ghana than an Ashanti?
    The article was fair and objective and on point.
    However, we Ghas already know all those things but cool heads do win.
    Rawlings was an uneducated who happened to be ...
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  • Did Rawlings commit suicide? 19 hours ago

    Ooookay, now the secret is out

  • Rasta 20 hours ago

    Please find something good to say as an MP? How does this improve the economy & governance?

  • Owura T 19 hours ago

    Distorted history. How many Gas’ were business owners in 1979?PNDC came in 1981 and Manila was destroyed in 1979 by the AFRC with the total support of Ghanians at the time . We all chanted let the blood flow!!
    A tribal big ...
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  • Dzool 19 hours ago

    Mr MP don't waist your precious time, these Gas will still be voting for Rawlings daughter that is ultimate backwardness to the apex.

  • Pas Kwesi in Thé Bronx 19 hours ago

    Stop the foolishness and don’t comment on what you don’t know. On the DDay I was a teenager who went to Kingsway to repair my watch. I waited in line prior to 2:30 pm opening of the store. Immediately we went in, the mili ...
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  • Truth 19 hours ago

    Gyimiesem! You are here talking about 79 when during akuffo addos term elections claimed over 8 lives you didn't see it. Dishonest fools. You guys have lost the plot and you are so blind not to see that people a wising up. Go ...
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  • PNDC killed several innocent Ghanaians 19 hours ago

    Some for collecting mere ghc50,000 loan

  • Senseless Nonsense 19 hours ago

    @Truth. More f*re

  • The absolute truth NDC is afraid of being exposed 19 hours ago

    Why demolish only Makola market and leave Ho or Tamale markets. Was Kalabule practised only at Accra. NDC is afraid of it's wicked past and want it buried but intellectuals shall continue to highlight all the atrocities for t ...
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  • Quame 19 hours ago

    NPP and tribal sentiments is nauseating.

  • Holland 19 hours ago

    In a serious and just region such a person can never be a lawmaker. Criminal and a bastard.

  • Senseless Nonsense 19 hours ago

    @Holland. More f*re !!

  • Owelewa 19 hours ago

    Eiii, Henry Djaba of Tata Brewery? What ignorance!!
    Siaw's factory.

  • Andropov 18 hours ago

    Small boy. My secondary school junior now old were you then.. this jandam will not work

  • Dannboy 18 hours ago

    You're a tribal bigot, we see where you are coming from with this evil hatred diabolical statement. JAH Punish You. Ghana need Peace

  • Andropov 18 hours ago

    How old were you in 79. Jandam will not work

  • Boat STOP THAT NONSENSE. 18 hours ago

    Ogyan gyimi s3m saa na 2028.
    You don't even know the history.

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 17 hours ago

    Stupid fool. Tribal bigot. Wo mam3 tw3. Kwasiaa buuluubuuluuu.

  • JJ KUFFOUR AKUFO ADDO 17 hours ago

    This guy is very dangerous. This is an insult to the good people of Ga- Gangme. The security agencies must watch him.

  • nii 17 hours ago

    its very interesting to talk about it

  • Koo, Germany 17 hours ago

    NPP & their asantes eg. Ayew Afiriyie, Ghanaians are fed- up with your foolishness. He is bringing in their dirty tribal politics. He wants to create hatred btw. the Gas and the NDC. But this will not work. Huuuuu.... Ayew Af ...
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  • Senegal 17 hours ago

    I swear no Voltarian will ever be elected as ndc flagbearer or even vice bcos they are 2nd class in ndc party. They are only good for votes

  • Hyeiinio 16 hours ago

    Purely bogus . Akowaa yi y3 aboaa pii.

  • Sultan 16 hours ago

    That is he talking about......

  • Ghana boy 12 hours ago

    It was during AFRC regime and not Pndc

  • No Mercy 9 hours ago

    Not only demolition, Rawlings killed innocent People Rawlings sold many Properties in Ghana, Rawlings destroy the Ghana.Rawlings bastard was a God himself.All what Rawlings did to the GHANAIANS CITIZENS will come back to his ...
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  • Nii Abbey 8 hours ago

    Let's face facts, Makola was the HEADQUARTERS of KALABULE in Ghana at that time, so much indiscipline between traders and clients. You dare not ask of the price of an item on display and refuse to buy, the insults and shame f ...
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  • Mamas Tula 5 hours ago

    This is utterly rubbish and does not make any sense to the reader. It is like what I have heard from people why they hate the NDC and J.J. Rawlings, is what their parents or some elder(s) told them about the party and the lea ...
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  • K. Opoku-London-UK 3 hours ago

    ===AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFF ...
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