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Chief Rejects Chieftaincy Minister

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  • nii 11 years ago

    being blind is not a blemish. he did not cause himself to be blind.I am sorry chief you are very very wrong in your thinking.

  • FR ANK 11 years ago

    How effective will a blindman be as a minister?Some of Mahama's appointments are funny and he must be told.As usual we are going to be told that the Btitish had a blind minister and we can also do the same.Always copying the ...
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  • Dream Seeker - Nima 11 years ago

    Mahama is not real... I don't think he has both school & home wisdom. A leader shouldn't involved in criminal activities but Mahama, he is 100% mafia criminal.. He must remembered 1 day, the Almighty Lord will reveal his secr ...
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  • HOUDINI 11 years ago

    Asiedu Nketiah is from this village called Seikwa, did this Chief talk to Mosquito about this appointment? Maybe Asiedu is using his village chief to complain about this appointment.

  • TSMD 11 years ago

    Where is the criminality in appointing a blind person? Let us stop these uncalled for criticism.

  • IDRIS PACAS 11 years ago

    The fact that a physically challenged person cannot be a chief in Akan land does not any way mean that such people cannot be ministers in the Republic of Ghana. Ghana is not governed according to the customs and values of any ...
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  • The Truth 11 years ago

    How many blind ambassadors do we have in the world? Virtually none. As a minister he may be required to represent chiefs in a position that will cause a stir to foreign digntories.

  • kodwo asante, Bronx NY 11 years ago

    physical challenged does not mean physical performance. if ghanaian should continue sitting examples of what happens in the advance countries to what we do in ghana then, let me tell you that THE STATE OF NEW YORK HAS A GOVER ...
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  • KERL 11 years ago

    the blind man is a lawyer.that local chief should tell us what he has done with his two eyes

  • kofi essoun 11 years ago

    thank you.

  • JUSTICE 11 years ago

    THUMBS UP FOR KERL.CHIEF "NO BLEMISH", WILL YOU PLEASE ANSWER KERL'S QUESTION? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH YOUR TWO BRIGHT EYES FOR MOTHER GHANA?

  • Mr Honest 11 years ago

    The best of all the comments. Kudos to you KERL. Indeed let that 'non-blemish' chief tell us what he and his entire family have been able to achieve academic-wise with their 'open' eyes. God have mercy upon such arrogant peop ...
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  • UNITED GHANA 11 years ago

    Well Said. this chief is primitive and has no place in the 20th century and its alarming to note that some people agree with him. What hope for Ghana

  • Komen 11 years ago

    No hope.

  • PRINCE 11 years ago

    ASK HIM AGAIN!!! WHAT HAS HE DONE WITH HIS TWO EYES APART FROM LAND LITIGATION?

  • Haruna 11 years ago

    Kerl, you are the type mother Ghana need apart from selling land to enrich himself at the es-pence of his people let him tell us what he has achieve with that his two open eyes.

  • Ndlovu 11 years ago

    Good one there. You've made my day.

  • chikay 11 years ago

    Not just a lawyer, he has a Masters degree and PhD in Law. I hear he is also a Law lecturer

  • REF: DREAM SEEKER - NIMA 11 years ago

    You are just envious and jealous of JM. You and your family members who think you are clean and honest, what have you achieved in life? Use your honesty to get a good living for yourself instead of squating in that one-room c ...
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  • Wiase ye sum 11 years ago

    Nana, we understand very well that a person with any physical challenge cannot be a chief in Ghana. The President work with the constitution and you know very well that, it has not been stipulated that, a person with any phy ...
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  • YAW BOATENG 11 years ago

    Former British Home Secretary was a completely Blind

  • Haruna 11 years ago

    Boateng, even the Governor of new york now is a blind man

  • NO LIE 11 years ago

    The ex-governor of New York State; the current governor is Cuomo.
    By the way, what stool is the minister going to contest and occupy in Seikwa or elsewhere in Ghana? This is one of the best appointments by The President: EQU ...
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  • Janet Namanima 11 years ago

    Please Your Excellency Prez. Mahama do not change Dr. Daannaa let him go through the vetting. This chief should be investigated for human rights abuses because if it is an abomination to nominate a physically challenged pers ...
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  • Osei Prempeh 11 years ago

    The former Minister of Education in Brtain was a blind man but he did his work excellently. The handicapped and disabled can play vital role in nation building

  • Banga na Soko 11 years ago

    But in normal cases a blind man MUST NOT lead a group. Chief Dwomo is right.

  • veey 11 years ago

    It is very rude for this particular chief to say what he said and very discriminatory. He must be made to apologize to all people living with physical disability. What a backward thinking chief!

  • ko 11 years ago

    Don't be silly call the disability a disabled and not physically challenged.How does that sound to you,very insulting isn't it.Stop calling the disabled physically challenged because the disabled is the best and most polite ...
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  • BABAGBAGW 11 years ago

    the chief is our traditions does not accept even one eye person to rule people.

  • Konkonsahene 1 11 years ago

    You are right Nana . Ghana needs more of such chiefs.

  • Sam. 11 years ago

    Very sad indeed that in this age of civilization a chief who is supposed to know better is discriminating against the disabled.They are humans just like Nana himself.Discrimination is unacceptable.Nobody chooses to be disable ...
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  • FAB 11 years ago

    Reason well Sam,Blindness is a physical disability and BP, Asthma etc are not so don't compare them!!! The Chief is right and others must speak out. As a saying goes; "If u don't talk about your hair during barbaring, you wou ...
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  • MR. FIGURE-OUT 11 years ago

    One, The chief cited the cultural norms and some traditional beliefs which is very prevalent among the Ghanaian chieftaincy institution. And secondly the chief shows respect for Dr. Henry Daanaa for asking the Gold thief Maha ...
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  • UNITED GHANA 11 years ago

    I have no respect for any traditions that do not respect people or life PERIOD. I suppose this Chief supports the murder of babies born disabled. That was practised by some tribes and probably still is today. Remember the Ana ...
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  • Haruna 11 years ago

    you are indeed konkonsahene, are you realy educated? if yes what is your acadamic qualification with that your two eyes

  • FR ANK 11 years ago

    What,a blindman to be a minster?Is it because the British appointed David Blunkett,a blindman as a minister.This is a joke.Some of Mahama's appointements are funny and just playing to the gallery.It is high time he got seriou ...
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  • Akwasi Antwi Boasiako 11 years ago

    Frank was David Blunkett an effective minister? Dr Martin Luther King said in 45 yrs ago that Do not judge someone by the color of his skin but rather the content of his character, that is why we have a black African-American ...
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  • Dagban Doo "UK" 11 years ago

    Cheiftency really deserves a clear leadership, It will be wise for His Excellency to change Mr. Daanaa, to other ministry like social welfare, or creat another if he still needs his service, Mr. Daanaa is equally a Ghanaian, ...
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  • Wiase ye sum 11 years ago

    The President used the Equal Opportunity Employment system - without regard to race, sex, religion, etc. Can he do the job? That is all that we are interested. We cannot discriminate, Nana. We are all created in the image ...
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  • Asonaba 11 years ago

    Was the minister enstooled a chief?There is nothing abominable when the guy is not sitting on a village stool. The guy is well qualified,he earned his certificate as a lawyer,something most of those bashing him could not achi ...
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  • jackmore 11 years ago

    This is ndc for you sunyani chief. B A region should be voting for npp now .

  • Atta K 11 years ago

    If you chosse otani as your leader that will happened.I am happy the people of Brong Ahafo Region are protesting.When the other Akans are opposing Mahama you guys said his wife is from B/A so you will support him you see he h ...
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  • Asemboni 11 years ago

    Atta k or whatever you call yourself,you are very stupid, what has this got to do with otani.The people you call otani are much more enlightened than your mother fucking self. Next time you want to make a contribution here, u ...
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  • Good citizen 11 years ago

    idiots or akans, anyway answer KERL's question,what did you fool and your village stupid chief do with your widely-opened bright eyes? the otani is a lawyer, you kanbongas are not, period.

  • Senior Wisdom 11 years ago

    This Chief should apologize immediately. Such stupid statements should not be accepted any longer in modern Ghana

  • George Best. 11 years ago

    MY BROTHER, DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT? DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE INTITUTION OF CHIEFTANCY AND WHAT IS ENTAILS? WILL THIS MINISTER BE ACCEPTED BY CHIEFS LIKE OTUMFOUR TO MEDIATE IN A CASE AT ASANTEHENE`S PALACE? IT`S ...
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  • THANKS 11 years ago

    SO BASED ON YOUR ARGUMENT MR. BEST, WHICH ONE IS THE MOST STUPID TO FOLLOW. CHIEFTAINCY OR GOD.....

    SUCH A STUPID TRADITION WITH NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DISABLED YOU SUPPORTING. IF YOU HAVE A DISABLED SON, WILL YOU BE TALKING ...
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  • Lilly 11 years ago

    Take life out of otumfuo and see what is left of him.Otumfuo is a human being,so is the lawyer.A blind man who is a lawyer should tell you how good he is.talking of wisdom's family paying,no,its your family that will pay and ...
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  • Good citizen 11 years ago

    Here the idiots go again,the history behind why the asuantehene not seeing the blind is well known, when that asuantehene became blind before he died which is the reason for this primitive taboo, did they destool him?

  • ABRANTIE GYASI 11 years ago

    IN THE KINGDOM OF THE GOOD FOR NOTHING BLIND CHIEFS,THE SINGLE EYE IS THE KING.

  • THANKS 11 years ago

    JUST TO SAY THANK YOU......Senior Wisdom

  • jim 11 years ago

    I have always doubted the capability of our president Mahama.

  • Senior Wisdom 11 years ago

    Such stupid traditions should be discarded. Who made you better than another human being with a disability

  • George Best. 11 years ago

    NANA, MO NE KASA! Chieftancy is a traditional culture in Africa. Most of the things associated with this isntitution have to do with traditional cultural practices and norms. Where in Africa is or has there been a chief with ...
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  • All De Way 11 years ago

    This is unwise and funny condemnation that this man so-called a chief is putting across. Being appointed as a minister, his brain is much needed to help the country to be on its feet to developt. The so-called chief condemnin ...
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  • PAUL 11 years ago

    CHIEFTAINCY is an outmoded and backward institution that must be scraped off immediately. It is discriminatory and anti progressive, that is why in most European nations it was scraped off. I know one day the people of Ghana ...
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  • kofi 11 years ago

    these are the things which is drawing us back. what has his intergrity got to do with this

  • Izash, UK 11 years ago

    That chief is no better than a Blind man.In England, David Blunkett' a blind man was a Home Secretary for nearly 8 years under Tony Blair and he did a very very good job. If this chief was in some parts of the world and said ...
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  • ISSAH (Beijing) 11 years ago

    very stupid and uncivilized way of thinking. when have you criticize your own tradition for burying chiefs with human heads? think like a ghanaian and not a chief.

  • THANKS 11 years ago

    JUST TO SAY THANK YOU ISSAH..................

  • Dfh 11 years ago

    Am surprise at that traditional chief. What does he understand by abomination. Can that chief also study to become a lawyer.

  • Dfh 11 years ago

    Am surprise at that traditional chief. What does he understand by abomination. Can that chief also study to become a lawyer.

  • Baba Alhassan 11 years ago

    Mr. President don't mind agitations from voltarians over your appointments, they are greedy and vicious.If there should any complains then it should come from the Akans in the NDC because their population far outnumber that o ...
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  • Osei Wiafe 11 years ago

    WHAN NA ODI AKOKO A NANI ABO? Seriously, it is discrimination against the Lawyer, BUT Chieftaincy is more about the culture. Now, with our cultural mentality (which I am not endorsing) giving the chiefs a blind minister, is a ...
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  • Otanka 11 years ago

    This chief is primitive and insensitive. This man was not born blind he became blind as result of sickness. Anybody can become blind at anytime. Those of you who can see now should beware cos you can be blind tomorrow. I pray ...
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  • Gyeabour 11 years ago

    I am so much disappointed with this chief. He is a disgrace. I salute you JM

  • LG 11 years ago

    THIS FOOLISH CHIEF SHOULD BE DESTOOLED.NO WONDER HE COMES FROM ASIEDU NKETIAH'S BACKYARD.
    THE LEARNED LAWYER SHOULD ALSO DRAG HIM TO THE COURTS FOR DEFAMING HIM.THIS LOOSE TALK SHOULD NOT COME FROM A 'PARAMOUNT'CHIEF.PARAMOU ...
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  • oslloor 11 years ago

    IF A BLIND MAN CANNOT PRESIDE OVER CHIEFS,THEN I HUMBLE SUGGEST THAT AN 'UGLY CHIEF'LIKE YOU IS NOT FIT FOR THE PALACE.WHAT DO YOU THINK NANA?
    CHIEFTANCY IS SO NOBLE TO INCLUDE SUCH UGLY PERSONS LIKE YOU.PEOPLE OF SEIKWA DES ...
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  • Thinking Aloud 11 years ago

    Steve Wonder and this Ghanaian ministerial nominee a shining examples of people who have defiled conventional expectations. Ask Nana, to close his eyes for one hour and perform some of the roles expected of him and see how us ...
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  • kyerewa 11 years ago

    God bless you Mr President, for caring about all including the disable, you are a leader,and you always unlocking potentials in others

  • ghana boy 11 years ago

    Much respect to all our Kings and Queens, so what will the minister do, make sure all Kings and Queens and properly taken care of because they can't take care of them selves and where in the world does a King or Queen need s ...
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  • BabaUS 11 years ago

    First is someone who wants to defend right of gays, now its someone who is handicapped. Where are we going with this.

  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    here a few days ago he tried to be slick and give us an excuse on the level of a cheating husband telling hisd wife his car broke down a few miles away so couldnt come home for 3 days . a womanizer is always a natural born li ...
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  • rem 11 years ago

    This is not fair. We are in the 21st century and such statements of discrimination must stop. Nana pls come again.

  • Nana Asare 11 years ago

    IY IS NOW CLEAR THAT John Mahama HAS NO ADVICERS AND IF HE DO HAVE ADVERCERS THEN GHANA IS IN SEROUS TROUBLE.

  • Kingsley Kwame Kissi 11 years ago

    Hmmmm,when did disability becomes inability? Nana Dwomo,should not forget that,he can also become same at any giving time in his life.As such,he ought doubt their potentials because; wisdom is not embedded in one man's brain ...
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  • ghana boy 11 years ago

    This is soooooo Stupid, it's like taking all the governers in the USA or in Nigeria and appointing a minister over them, who does that?Come on, H.E Mahama, give me a break and get serious with our tax and minerals funds. Why ...
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  • nabia 11 years ago

    SEIKWA CHIEF, PLEASE YOU REMAIN THERE AND HELP ASIEDU NKETIA TO SELL HIS BLOCKS. DO YOU WANT ME TO LIST THE NUMBER OF CHIEFS IN GHANA WHO ARE BLIND OR PHYSICALLY INCAPACITATED AND BED RIDDEN?
    PLEASE GIVE US A BREAK. DID THE ...
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  • Yaw Adu-Asare 11 years ago

    What credentials does Dannaa bring to the job?

  • Sam 11 years ago

    Oh, what a comment from a chief. It is just sad and painful. Disability is never inability please.

  • Yaw Kojo 11 years ago

    I feel sorry and disgusted that a person should be denied a ministerial position just because he is blind. Are we not backward? I cant believe certain comments people who are supposed to know say.

  • Civil Rights Campaigner 11 years ago

    With this kind of chief leading his people,what good can come from his leadership? These are the kind of people who will hide their physically-challenged children in the room instead of schooling them to unearth the strength ...
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  • ko 11 years ago

    If you are a civil right campaigner do you call the disabled physically challenged.Don't you find it insulting.The description is disabled and that is the best description.

  • Atngabono Jonathan Agana 11 years ago

    were from dis wicked old chief.pls let us respect Gods creation n show respect to ur brothers who are disable.he de chief with both eyes,wat beta tin has he done 4 for mother Ghana.give as a break!

  • Nana Bawuah 11 years ago

    According to Akan tradition anyone, who contests to occupy an Akan stool must be without blemish physically and morally. Therefore, to enstool even a person which has only a large scar on his face, any other deformity or phys ...
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  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    Is the CONFIRMATION of a PROPOSED MINISTER not by majority vote ??? The Chief is saying his opinion on the matter.UNFORTUNATE THOUGH!!!!! Maybe he is DIS-APPOINTED the min. CANNOT see his Bling-Blings all over!!!!Chief, what ...
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  • HONESTY 11 years ago

    If blindness is a blemish what about incircumcision or Koti Bortor????
    Cripples and other physically challenged pwesons are senior ministers in Germany, UK, US and other advanced countries.

  • kwame Frimpong 11 years ago

    This chief has no manners at all how there you says such a nonsensical statement like this. YOU HAVE EYES BUT U COULD NOT EVEN FINISHED SIXTH FORMS AND LET ALONE BECOME A LAWYER. YOU ARE A BIG DISGRACE TO YOUR SUBJECTS.

    I ...
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  • Concerned citizen 11 years ago

    What a pathetic chief. Very, very primitive chief in deed! He needs to be replaced. He is not fit for the position he holds in his village! He is still in the stone age hole! What professional qualification has he got apart ...
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  • Lorgo Ligri 11 years ago

    A blind man leading a convoy of gold and regalia...uumh, the chief might have a point there, but who said you need eyes to administer the truth over these triple same-land sellers and litigants? This Nana is scared 'cos the b ...
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  • Ayibete 11 years ago

    The laws of the country Ghana and the laws of the chiefs which is higher?
    I believe that the President has consulted others to find this lawyer capable of doing the job that is why he is nominating the lawyer.

  • ALHAJI KUKRUDU 11 years ago

    Who is this STUPID MAN? I can't believe his comments!!! What makes chieftaicy sacred institution, drinking from human skulls, bathing human blood, human sacrifices, polygamy, stealing of resources belonging to the indigenes, ...
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  • ALHAJI KUKRUDU 11 years ago

    With NO eyes, he is a PhD. holder. With all your two eyes, what is your qualification. USELESS MAN!!!

  • anotentene long mouth 11 years ago

    can u people talking bla bla bla differentiate btn tradition and religion nana is talking about tradition not education

  • NANA KWADWO ADUSEI 11 years ago

    Sir , David Blunkett was not Culture Minister in charge of Royal Family (Monarchy) affairs .
    Someone should have consulted the National House of Chiefs .Someone is saying : "I am the Boss so l can do whatever l like "
    D ...
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  • K Philly 11 years ago

    We are all impaired, in more ways thanwe know. Please give a chance to Dr Henry Seidu Daannaaa, a visually impaired lawyer. In spite of his visible disability, he has achieved much more that 95% of the population of the world ...
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  • Asantehene 11 years ago

    ohene kwasea

  • arhinful 11 years ago

    ghs thank you ghanaweb has cut my distraction cost. a political appointee,

  • Baffoe 11 years ago

    It is likely this so called ignorant and backward chief has been paid or bribed by some political pundit(s) to muddy the waters or create unnecessary nuisance. All like-minded chiefs have the option to back out of the chiefta ...
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  • lawrence 11 years ago

    MY LITTLE ADVICE TO THE PRESIDENT IS THAT, please kindly stop CREATING MINISTERING POSITIONS FOR YOUR FRIENDS, what do you mean by CHIEFTAINCY MINISTER, even you as the president that , the constitution gives you every right ...
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  • kodwo asante, Bronx NY 11 years ago

    WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS "WITHOUT SUBSTANCE" citizens. JM tell them when they are queing every night to get visa's to come to the USA - The former Governor of the State of New York David Peterson is physically challenged but w ...
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