Remembering February 24, 1966

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• AMA 11 years ago

  Dictator Nkrumah was rightly removed. Real independence day in Ghana was Fe.24, 1966

  Dictator Nkrumah was rightly removed. Real independence day in Ghana was Fe.24, 1966

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• Onyame Ye Odimafo 11 years ago

  HAPPY NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY TO ALL!!
  
  God Bless Gen. Ankrah
  
  God Bless Gen. Kwasi Kotoka
  
  God Bless Gen. Afrifa
  
  May Their Souls Rest in Perfect Peace
  
  Aboa a, Onni Dua no, Onyame na Opra ne Ho!
  
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  HAPPY NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY TO ALL!!
  
  God Bless Gen. Ankrah
  
  God Bless Gen. Kwasi Kotoka
  
  God Bless Gen. Afrifa
  
  May Their Souls Rest in Perfect Peace
  
  Aboa a, Onni Dua no, Onyame na Opra ne Ho!
  
  24.Feb.1966 is a unique NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY!
  
  While kwame nkruma was seriously Condemning , blasting and lashing out against the West and accusing them as imperialists, he was at the same time also building "imperial presidency" around himself.
  
  Was kwame nkruma such a hypocrite?
  
  
  kwame nkruma was a hypocrite when he recklessly also does exactly what he has been accusing others for.
  
  According to his ideological followers, Others are always at fault, but nkruma never fault, this was the motto and the main theme of his doctrines.
  
  "Ghana's economy on unsustainable path"
  
  - Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
  
  The data coming in on Ghana's economic performance in 2012 indicates quite simply that public finances are out of control and the economy is in trouble. At the end of 2012, Ghana's budget deficit was a whopping Ghc 8.7 billion, amounting to 12.1% of GDP using the rebased GDP numbers (or some 20% of GDP in terms of the old GDP series).
  
  This is the highest recorded budget deficit in Ghana’s history. From Nkrumah through Acheampong, Rawlings and Kufuor, no government has incurred this level of budget deficit. What is more worrying is that this provisional deficit figure excludes some Ghc 4.0 billion in commitments and arrears yet to be paid to contractors and other service providers.
  
  If we include these arrears the deficit for 2012 would be some 23% of GDP using rebased numbers (or some 35% of GDP using the old GDP series). These are mindboggling numbers. The crux of the problem is that government spending increased astronomically to 34.5% of GDP even though government revenues amounted to 16.1% of GDP (a gap of over 100%) for the year
  
  The provisional 2012 budget deficit of 12.1% of GDP is almost double the budget deficit of 6.5% in 2008 using the rebased GDP numbers (or 11.2% of GDP using the old GDP series) notwithstanding the fact that Ghana enjoyed more favorable economic circumstances in 2012. In 2008 Ghana was not an oil producer and the global economy was in crisis.
  
  In 2012 on the other hand, Ghana was an oil producer facing a favorable external environment for its exports and yet managed to double the 2008 budget (which this government described at the time as “reckless”) and in the process achieve what is a truly unprecedented budget deficit in Ghana’s history.
  
  The government promised last year that its management of the economy would be more prudent than that of other governments in previous election years. Despite all the favorable opportunities at its disposal, 2012 has turned out to be the worst election year outcome in Ghana’s history in terms of the management of public finances. This is also yet another failed NDC promise.
  
  For any economy with this historic budget deficit combined with an increasing balance of payments deficit (some 13% of rebased GDP) and mounting public debt, this state of affairs will raise alarm bells, but not so in Ghana. The government has found a way to delay tackling critical economic problems through borrowing domestically and internationally and falsely claiming “unprecedented” achievements at home.
  
  In the process, Ghana’s total public debt has increased from Ghc 9.6 billion in 2008 to Ghc 33.5 billion in 2012 (an increase of 248% in 4 years!). As has been demonstrated for Ghana and many countries in the past however, this path and manner of managing an economy is unsustainable.
  
  Take the example of the management of oil revenues. It turns out that the NDC government forecast oil revenues from corporate taxes of Ghc 384.1 million for 2012 knowing full well that revenue would not materialize. This is because the Jubilee partners are entitled to capital cost recovery under the Petroleum Income Tax Law 1987 (PNDC Law 188) and the government knew this.
  
  The government nonetheless forecast the receipt of these revenues because the provisions of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act 2011 are such that the proportion of then oil revenues that accrues to the budget (The Annual Budget Funding Amount) is based on projected benchmark oil revenue. Under the Act, 70% of projected oil revenue accrues to the budget and 30% is divided between the Stabilization (21%) and Heritage (9%) funds.
  
  The government therefore over projected the oil revenue so as to get more of the oil revenue into the budget. In the meantime, the projected revenues were spent through government borrowing. Is it therefore a surprise that with such economic management the budget deficit would increase astronomically?
  
  Poor economic management has consequences. Unfortunately, the burden of the inevitable consequences of the NDC’s management of the economy is bound to fall disproportionately on the segments of society which are least able to afford it, as prices for petroleum products (whatever happened to the oil hedging policy?), transportation, water, electricity (in the face of water and power shortages), school fees, tax increases, expenditure cuts, unemployment, wage pressures, inflation, interest rates etc. shoot up and non-oil GDP growth slows down. This reality is already being felt and will soon be patently obvious for all to see.
  
  Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was the running mate to Ghana's main opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2012 election. He is an Oxford-trained economist, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana and until recently, Country Director of the African Development Bank in Zimbabwe.
  
  ~ Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
  
  
  Uder unitary Presidency, the "independence of the Central Bank" is the greatest abomination and evil in society.
  
  "Separation of Powers" and certain kind of independence for some state institutions is a taboo.
  
  Can a president be too strong?
  
  "Of course not," most people would answer.
  
  "It's always better to be strong than weak."
  
  Perhaps. But can a president be so powerful that he or she threatens the nation's freedom?
  
  Should a president be allowed to violate the rights of the people?
  
  Or to ignore the rights of other nations?
  
  In recent years, many people think that the president has become too strong. They say that the president has taken so much power from the other branches of government that this threatens the democratic system.
  
  Are there rules to tell a president how far he or she can go?
  
  The Constitution is supposed to prevent the president from using power in the wrong way. Article II states all the things that a president may do and some of the things that he or she may not do.
  
  
  
  The Growing Power of the President
  
  The Constitution was written over some years ago. The people who wrote it did not know about nuclear weapons or rockets to the moon or computers or modern television. They didn't know that the nation would some day be the richest among the poor and discover oil. They didn't know that the economy would become so complicated and so big that it would require constant attention to keep it running smoothly.
  
  Therefore, the rules that they wrote in the Constitution say little about a modern president's real power. J.B Danquah, Dombo and Busia would be shocked to know the following facts.
  
  The president today has the power to command the instant destruction of entire cities and villages with fire, so that he can have the opportunity to give new contracts to foreign companies and reap out the "Kick Backs" into his private and party`s accounts.
  
  Ghana has numerous contracts to offer. Only the president can give the signal to offer them because of "Kick-backs" and other forms of corruption.
  
  The numerous Regions are paralysed and are not strong enough to issue their own contracts since all the powers are vested under the "unitary Presidency".
  
  The people are denied from the rght to choose their representatives.
  
  Democracy is destroyed, and only the "unitary President" has the power to "impose" Regional Ministers, DCE`s and Members of the Council - of - State on the people.
  
  The president's power is felt all over the country. The president travels by Presidential jet from one nation to another. Foreign leaders often come to the Castle or Jubilee House or the so-called colonial "Flag-Staff-House", which also equates slavery to colonialism.
  
  If the first Asantehene or the subsequent ones like Otumfuo Osei Agyemang Prempeh II had tried to visit Europe or Asia, he would have been on a ship at sea for months at a time.
  
  The people expect the president to deal with a huge number of problems, because he has elevated himself as the god for the people.
  
  If there is economic trouble, they expect the president to cure it. Modern presidents don't just try to administer the laws passed by Parliament. Nor do they merely "recommend measures" to Parliament as required by the Constitution.
  
  Through staff members, they often bring pressure on Parliament to pass favored bills, including some actually written in the Executive Department.
  
  Does the Constitution Allow a "Strong" President?
  
  20 February 2013
  
  President appoints Council of State members
  
  President John Mahama has appointed a number of persons, including the immediate past Central Regional Minister, Ama Benyiwa-Doe to the Council of State.
  
  The Chairman of the Council is John Henry Martey Newman, former Chief of Staff under the late President John Mills.
  
  The other members of the Council include Cecilia Johnson, Brong Ahafo Region, Nana Osei Asibe, Ashanti Region and Patrick Enyonam Agbogba (Togbui Sri) Volta Region.
  
  The others are Rashid Sulemana Mahama, of the Northern Region, Okogyeman Kweku Gyamerah of the Western Region, David Kanga of the Upper East Region, Ama Benyiwa Doe of the Central Region, Edward Gyader of the Upper East Region, Abraham Kweku Edusei representing the Eastern Region and Dr Rabiatu Deinyo Armah of the Greater Accra Region.
  
  The Council of State members were sworn into office by the President on Wednesday.
  
  How much power should the president have?
  
  How much does the Constitution set limits to the president's actions?
  
  These are very old questions.
  
  Throughout history, there have been many kinds of presidents. But a number of them have tended to fall into two very different groups in their attitudes toward presidential power.
  
  The first believed that the powers of the president were few and limited.
  
  Presidents of this type thought they could, or should, do no more than follow the exact words of the Constitution and carry out the laws of Parliament. You might call them "weak executive" presidents.
  
  That doesn't mean that they were weak people. It means only that they believed their actions were strictly limited by the Constitution.
  
  Modern examples of such presidents were President Dr. Hilla Limann, and Prime Minister Prof.Dr.K.A.Busia.
  
  Some others have been "strong executive" presidents. They believed the Constitution gave them enough power to be strong leaders. In their view, a president could act in ways not specifically mentioned by the Constitution.
  
  Almost all the most Head Of States and presidents since kwame nkruma have believed in a strong Presidency.
  
  kwame nkruma ,kutu Acheampong, FWK Akuffo, jerry john rawlings, Agyekum Kufuor and atta mills all acted in bold new ways.
  
  Their critics were sometimes shocked by their actions and complained that the Constitution was ignored. But the "strong executive" defended himself through their spin doctors and the corrupt media who have allowed themselves to be bought with stolen state money.
  
  The question of how strong a president should be may be more important now than ever before. After all, the president has gained enormous power in recent years. Some scholars who once favored a strong president now believe that the trend has gone too far.
  
  They believe that we should go back to the days when the president and Parliament were more or less equal in power.
  
  What do you think? Below are arguments on either side of the question. Decide which argument is strongest.
  
  The Case Against a Strong President
  
  We often treat presidents as if they were royalty. presidents live in a big mansion. They have servants and assistants whose only job is to make sure the president has everything he or she wants.
  
  They don't get much personal contact with the people because Gbevlo Lartey and the BNI fears they may be attacked. As one critic says: "No one speaks to him unless spoken to first. No one ever tells him to go soak his head when his demands become unreasonable."
  
  The president has taken more and more power at the expense of Parliament.
  
  The people who wrote the Constitution believed in checking and balancing power between Parliament and the president. But today, the president is more powerful than Parliament.
  
  One example of what has happened is in the power to appropriate state money. The Constitution clearly gives that power to Parliament only. Yet recent presidents have been able to appropropriate state resources without a formal approval by Parliament.
  
  dramani mahama has even made it worse by appointing an extra minister of Finance solely for the Presidency in the name of Fiifi Kwetey. This implies that john mahama can unconstitutionally misapply state money to give bribery and buy more votes for his re-election,give personal donations to his kind ones from state money, and buy cars to his favorites at the cost of the state without Parliament`s approval.
  
  So run the arguments of those who are against the idea of a strong president.
  
  The Case for a Strong President
  
  The growth of the president's power is necessary. presidents should be strong and powerful.
  
  For example,Jerry Rawlings 1981-1992
  
  Gained power in a military coup during 1979 but handed it over. Re-took power in another coup of 1981. Elected President in 1992 and again in 1996 before standing aside as per the constitution.
  
  
  Keeping It Real
  
  Ever wonder what Nigeria would have been like if the government never lost 500 billion dollars of oil money to corruption? In this episode of "Keeping It Real," Adeola shows you the amenities that Nigerians have been robbed of. She also talked about the various African dictators who have refused to leave power even after decades.
  
  Enjoy!
  
  
  
  They say that Ghana today needs a strong president. Who else can give the nation leadership?
  
  Who else can make the quick decisions that are needed in a national emergency?
  
  In the old days during the second Republic, an army could move only as fast as its horses and sailing ships. There was plenty of time for Parliament to debate issues of peace. But not today. Only the president can act fast enough in an emergency.
  
  Furthermore, only the president can give real leadership on the many national problems. Parliament cannot lead as well as the president simply because there is only one president, but there are over 250 Representatives and several number of the Council of State. Members of Parliament seldom agree on what to do.
  
  Unlike members of Parliament, the president is elected by all the voters. The president does not represent just one part but the whole of the country. And if the people think that the president has taken too much power, they can always elect someone else every four years.
  
  So run the arguments of those who believe in the need for a strong president.
  
  
  20 February 2013
  
  President cannot dissolve BoG board
  
  The Fast Track High Court has declared that it was unlawful for the President of the Republic to dissolve the board of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) before the board had served its full term.
  
  Giving its judgement in a suit instituted against the Attorney-General and the Governor of the BoG by Mr Sam Okudzeto over the dissolution of the BoG board in January 2009 when its term had not expired, the court held that “the act of the President in purporting to remove the plaintiff from membership of the board when his term had not expired was unlawful”.
  
  
  
  
  Africa like some parts of the world has had its fair share of dictators over the past decades. Some appear on the scene as liberators, revolutionists while others come in as freedom fighters, but eventually they metamorphose into tyrants having looted with their families and want to indemnify themselves from accountability.
  
  Here are some of the worst dictators the ‘dark continent’ has come across ever since Africans weaned themselves off colonial rule. The criteria was based on poor human rights record, disregard for press freedom and the desire to remain in power for life at the expense of innocent lives.
  
  kwame nkruma of Ghana still stand fresh in memory.
  
  Charles Taylor – Liberia
  
  His full name is Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor. The 22nd president of Liberia ruled for eight years [1997-2003]. He was democratically elected. Prior to becoming the no. 1 man of his west African country, he was a warlord as the leader of the rebel group – The National Patriotic Front of Liberia. He lorded over the execution of his predecessor Sergeant Doe.
  
  Under his reign, he allegedly committed war crimes against humanity culminating in his current trial at the International Criminal Court of Justice in The Hague.
  
  The 63-year-old was accused by Amnesty International to have looted state coffers and used his troops to rape women and children as terror instruments. He is also standing trial for fueling the conflict in Sierra Leone through the illegal sale of ‘blood diamonds’ to support the rebels.
  
  Sekou Toure – Guinea
  
  (kwame nkruma`s best friend)
  
  "Birds of the same further flock together".
  
  Toure was the first president of Guinea. He fell short of four years to have ruled for three decades non-stop [1958-1984]. At one point in time he declared a one-party state. Toure was initially seen as the ‘Guinean Messiah’, but later became the sting of his people. A lot of Guineans fled the country into exile to avoid his ferocious wrath. Death camps were instituted under his watch, where his political opponents were tortured and some executed. He died in America while undergoing cardiac treatment.
  
  General Sani Abacha – Nigeria
  
  Sani Abacha came to the scene in a bloodless coup d’etat in November 1993. He was in power for only five years, but his nefarious feats fit someone who remained in power for life. Political pundits have christened him as the most brutal dictator of the west African powerhouse. Abacha is reported to have stolen millions of dollars from the country’s purse into western banks including Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.
  
  It is unconfirmed though, but rumours from official circles have it that the senior military officer died in sexual bouts with Indian prostitutes. The highlight of his brutal reign was the 1995 killing of the political and environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa.
  
  Laurent Kabila – DR Congo
  
  He was full of promises, but none came to nothing. He seized power in 1997 after toppling Joseph Mobutu. Having headed rebellion for decades before reaching the light to turn the misfortunes of his people, he rather aggravated their social condition in his four-year rule.
  
  An estimated 3.3 million people died during his reign. He failed to unite the people and succeeded in dividing them on tribal lines.
  
  He banned opposition parties and never held an election contrary to his promise.
  
  ''My long years of struggle were like spreading fertiliser on a field. But now it is time to harvest,'' he told Reuters when he overthrew Mobutu and indeed he reaped from what he sown.
  
  Enough! was the clarion call. Kabila met his waterloo in 2001 when one of his bodyguards shot him in a dramatic style.
  
  Kamuzu Banda – Malawi
  
  Call him a friend or a foe. He fits into any of them. However, the Malawian’s demeanour since he assumed post clearly classified him a despot. Banda was highly intoxicated with power and was never ready to let go.
  
  He fired ministers who had the sense to counsel him that ‘sir, you are biting more than you can chew.’ He was constantly on the hunt to haunt his opponents and many of them fled to exile.
  
  The tyrant declared a one-party state in 1966. His regime was a classic case of ‘grace to grass’. The National Assembly stripped him of his powers in 1993 and died four years after in South Africa.
  
  Robert Mugabe – Zimbabwe
  
  Uncle Roo is a classic case of hero to tyrant. He played an integral role in bringing freedom to Zimbabweans, but got himself drunk with power and went overboard. The veteran has clung on to power from 1980 till date. Zimbabweans are fed up with his repressive regime.
  
  He hates press freedom.
  
  The economy is in a bad state. If you are an opposition member be prepared to make the prisons your second home and the courts will be frequent places of visits. He succumbed to power-sharing in 2009, but the Movement for Democratic Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, now a key government figure touted to bring hopes to the former British colony of Rhodesia, is not having it easy with his opponent in the corridors of power.
  
  Mobutu Sese Seko – [Zaire] Congo
  
  He was born Joseph-Desire Mobutu, but popularly known as Mobuto Sese Seko [Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga] – a title he added to his name to wit, “the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake”.
  
  He was Zaire’s long-serving dictator, who stayed in power for 31 solid years. He felt bigger than his country and thought the nation cannot do without him. It took one Laurent Kabila to force him into exile.
  
  Mobutu was cunning, violent and always had his hands in state coffers. He lived in grandeur state while the country was stumbling in poverty. Mobutu died while in exile in Morocco after a protracted battle with cancer.
  
  Jean-Bedel Bokassa - CAR
  
  He was a former colonel who seized power in the Central African Republic in 1966 and declared himself president for life. Bokassa I was accused of cannibalism of imprisoned school children.
  
  His stock in trade in most parts of his 14-year rule was torture and execution of his opponents. It is widely reported that his coronation alone cost US$30 million and he amassed about US$125 m in his personal accounts.
  
  His regime ended in 1979 when French paratroopers overthrew his government while he was on an official trip to Libya. Bokassa had 17 wives with close to 50 children. He died at 75 from a heart attack in 1996.
  
  
  Colonel Muammar Gaddafi - Libya
  
  The beleaguered Libyan ruler is the longest-ruling Africa and the Arab world's “most erratic, most grimly fascinating leader - presiding for 42 years over this desert republic with vast oil reserves and just six million people,” Aljazeera described him.
  
  The revolutionist came to power through a 1969 bloodless coup against King Idris at the age of 27. He has ruled with eagle eyes over his oil-rich country and has dealt with dissidents [“rats”] severely in the past decades through public hanging and long term imprisonments. His regime is near collapse as rebels close in on him to drag him out of power from the beginning of the year.
  
  Idi Amin Dada – Uganda
  
  He is the most notorious of all African dictators ever. He has been described as the “Butcher of Uganda” for his brutalities in the 70s. He was in the limelight in 1971 after a military coup and ruled for eight years.
  
  He conferred on him the title, Field Marshal. He is known for the famous quote on the day of the coup: "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."
  
  He used his ‘killer squads’ to eliminate hundreds of his opponents. Amin was ousted in 1979 by Ugandan nationalists, after which he fled into exile.
  
  
  
  Dishonourable mentions
  
  Francisco Macías Nguema – Equatorial Guinea
  
  General Gnassingbé Eyadéma – Togo
  
  Paul Biya – Cameroon
  
  Mengistu Haile Mariam – Ethiopia
  
  Omar Al-bashir – Sudan
  
  Omar Al-bashir – Eritrea
  
  Siad Barre – Somalia
  
  Hissene Habre - Chad
  
  Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast's former president, is set to appear before the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.
  
  Judges on Tuesday will decide if there is enough evidence to try him for masterminding a bloody election standoff two years ago, when four months of fighting left some 3,000 dead following his refusal to concede defeat to current president Alassane Outtara.
  
  Prosecutors say Gbagbo, who faces four counts including murder and rape, spearheaded a plan to "stay in power by all means... through carefully planned, sustained and deadly attacks" against supporters of the election winner.
  
  "Hundreds of civilian opponents were attacked, killed, wounded or victims of rape as a result of this policy," the prosecution said.
  
  Gbagbo is the first former head of state to appear before the Hague-based court, where hearings will last just over a week.
  
  Large-scale killings
  
  Between November 28, 2010 and May 8, 2011 Gbagbo's forces killed between 706 and 1,059 people and raped more than 35 women, prosecutors say.
  
  In one instance, some 80 people were massacred when perceived Ouattara supporters were attacked in the northwestern Abidjan suburb of Yopougon a day after Gbagbo's arrest by rival forces.
  
  "The perpetrators were armed with Kalashnikovs and machetes. They attacked people in the street, sometimes stopping them at illegal roadblocks," prosecutors said, adding "victims were summarily executed or burnt alive, under the eyes of police officers who did not intervene."
  
  In a reminder of tensions still simmering, the same neighbourhood of Yopougon on Saturday saw riot police fire tear gas to disperse a group of around 50 pro-Gbagbo supporters.
  
  Ouattara's Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko had banned the demonstration but youths nevertheless gathered, shouting "Free Gbagbo" and charging a police barrier.
  
  Judges at the ICC said on Friday Gbagbo's mental health was fragile, but that he was fit enough to stand trial. Special measures including shorter sessions or letting the former president excuse himself and appear via video could be made possible, they said.
  
  The hearings are expected to end on February 28, when Gbagbo is expected to make a statement.
  
  
  
  
  Tunisia Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali resigns
  
  Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has resigned after failing to reach agreement on forming a new government.
  
  Mr Jebali had been trying to form a new coalition in response to the political crisis sparked by the killing of opposition leader Chokri Belaid.
  
  HAPPY NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY TO ALL!!!!

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• PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

  GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE YOUR REWARD, ALL GHANAIANS. GO AND PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR FOOLISHNESS. YOU DON'T GIVE A SECOND MANDATE TO AN INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, NO!! NOT AT ALL, THAT IS ABOMINATION IN DEMOCRACY, VERY ...
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  GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE YOUR REWARD, ALL GHANAIANS. GO AND PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR FOOLISHNESS. YOU DON'T GIVE A SECOND MANDATE TO AN INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, NO!! NOT AT ALL, THAT IS ABOMINATION IN DEMOCRACY, VERY SUICIDAL. HAD NDC MANAGED THE ECONOMY WELL, THESE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THE SITUATION. NDC HAS PRESIDED OVER THE BIGGEST RESOURCES GHANA HAS EVER HAD. THEY HAVE ALSO CONTRACTED MORE LOANS THAN ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT IN OUR HISTORY, BUT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR THIS. GHANAIANS SHOULD HAVE ENJOYED SOME ECONOMIC PROGRESS AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY. THE ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS SO CORRUPT. TO RESCUE THE SITUATION, THE POOR IS NOW BEING FORCED TO PAY. THIS IS INJUSTICE. THIS IS NOT THE GHANA KUFFOUR HANDED OVER TO NDC, HE EVEN ADDED FRESH CRUDE OIL WELLS. NPP TRANFORMED GHANA TO A MIDDLE INCOME ECONOMY WITH LIMITED RESOURCES BUT GOOD POLICIES. NDC IS WOEFULLY REVERSING THESE NPP ACHIEVEMENTS. GHANA'S CURRENT SITUATION IS VERY DISTURBING. WHEN THE HISTORY IS TOLD, IT WILL BE SAID THAT GHANAIANS WERE OFFERED FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION, IMPROVED UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL HOUSING FOR THE POOR AND AN EGALITARIAN SOCIETY BUT 50% SAID NO THANK YOU. THEY PREFERRED ECONOMIC "WOYOMISATION" , PHANTOM DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, PHILANDERERS FOR LEADERS, MACHIAVELLIAN DISRESPECTFUL CORRUPT LOUTS AND A VISIONLESS EVIL GOVERNMENT. I AM SO PROUD I VOTED FOR NANA AKUFFO ADDO.

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• SHAMO 11 years ago

  THOSE STUPID NDC FOOLS STILL TALK ABOUT NPP BOMBS!! YES... WE ARE PROUD AND BRAVE TO RESISTE OPRESSERS RULE YESTERDAY TODAY AND 4EVER! WE WILL TROW BOMBS BECAUSE BOMBS ARE MODE FOR DICTATORS! ONE PARTY STATE IS FOR NDC DOGS

  THOSE STUPID NDC FOOLS STILL TALK ABOUT NPP BOMBS!! YES... WE ARE PROUD AND BRAVE TO RESISTE OPRESSERS RULE YESTERDAY TODAY AND 4EVER! WE WILL TROW BOMBS BECAUSE BOMBS ARE MODE FOR DICTATORS! ONE PARTY STATE IS FOR NDC DOGS

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• TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

  MAHAMA WILL FUCK TOMORROW

  MAHAMA WILL FUCK TOMORROW

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• mensah abrampa 11 years ago

  I don't understand ghanaians. The nation is dangerously polarised and divided along tribal and political party lines.We are so disunited and polarised that some call good bad and bad good just to spite their opponents. We hav ...
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  I don't understand ghanaians. The nation is dangerously polarised and divided along tribal and political party lines.We are so disunited and polarised that some call good bad and bad good just to spite their opponents. We have lost our sense of direction as a nation. If this is unchecked for any much longer the harm that'd be done this country's economy and national unity and cohesion would be so enormous it may seem a near impossibility to undo the damage. There can never be any national development and growth without national unity. Unity brings peace and stability and this condusive environment promotes growth and development. Any president whose first priority on assumption of office is not to unite the divided nation has a parochial agenda, he's not interested in succeeding in his new job and he's doomed to fail.

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• Gye Nyame 11 years ago

  So called Nkrumaist have ruled Ghana longer than any and yet all we see is poverty and an ever deteriorating country. Yes, 40 out of 56 years of independence has been in the hand of Nkrumah leaning governments.
  
  Nkrumah - 9 ...
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  So called Nkrumaist have ruled Ghana longer than any and yet all we see is poverty and an ever deteriorating country. Yes, 40 out of 56 years of independence has been in the hand of Nkrumah leaning governments.
  
  Nkrumah - 9 years
  Acheampong - 7 years
  Rawlings/Mills/Mahama – 24 years and counting

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  ARE U HIGH ON COKE OR WEED?
  U CALL FA WO TO B3GYE GOLF NKRUMAIST?
  U CALL JJ WHIPPING NAKED MAKOLA WOMEN AT MAKOLA MARKET AND KILLING PPL NKRUMAIST?
  U CALL DI WO FIE AS3M MILLS, ECOMINI MILLS NKRUMAIST? U CALL THIS MY 2ND C ...
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  ARE U HIGH ON COKE OR WEED?
  U CALL FA WO TO B3GYE GOLF NKRUMAIST?
  U CALL JJ WHIPPING NAKED MAKOLA WOMEN AT MAKOLA MARKET AND KILLING PPL NKRUMAIST?
  U CALL DI WO FIE AS3M MILLS, ECOMINI MILLS NKRUMAIST? U CALL THIS MY 2ND COUP D'ETAT, 1TOUCH ELECTION RIGGER, WOMANISER, 419 PRESIDENT, MILLS KILLER MAHAMA AN NKRUMAIST? DR. NKRUMAH WILL SPIT ON THESE CARTOONS CHARACTERS. THEY R BENEATH HIM. THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS WORTH MENTIONING IN THE SAME BREATH AS DR. NKRUMAH IS KRONFOUR KUFFOUR, BUT THAT GUY...HMMM, GARGANTUAN THIEF PAAA....

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• Ga-Adangbe Youth 11 years ago

  Where are your balls this time?

  Where are your balls this time?

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• SHAMO 11 years ago

  SOMEBODY TOLD ME NKRUMAH JUST BROUGHT EWES TO COME AND CARRY OUR SHIT SO I SHAMO SHOULDNT BLAME NKRUMAH TOO MUCH! ITS TRUE? ANYWAY I HEARD EWES CARRY SHITPAN WITH SHORT BROOM IN NKRUMAH TIME

  SOMEBODY TOLD ME NKRUMAH JUST BROUGHT EWES TO COME AND CARRY OUR SHIT SO I SHAMO SHOULDNT BLAME NKRUMAH TOO MUCH! ITS TRUE? ANYWAY I HEARD EWES CARRY SHITPAN WITH SHORT BROOM IN NKRUMAH TIME

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• WE LOVE U KUFOUR 11 years ago

  KOTOKA: The downward trend in our economic affairs resulting in high cost of living. This is due especially to extravagant use of the country’s funds on prestige projects, and generally to maladministration. Bribery and cor ...
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  KOTOKA: The downward trend in our economic affairs resulting in high cost of living. This is due especially to extravagant use of the country’s funds on prestige projects, and generally to maladministration. Bribery and corruption, nepotism, special treatment to party activists, injustice, suppression and detention of political opponents and general disregard for the constitution.

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• Repugnant. 11 years ago

  Let us honor Rawlings while alive for ridding Ghana of the scum of coup makers. No one has ever attempted a coup after his house cleaning exercise!!
  Long Live FLIGHT LIEUFTENANT JJ RAWLINGS.

  Let us honor Rawlings while alive for ridding Ghana of the scum of coup makers. No one has ever attempted a coup after his house cleaning exercise!!
  Long Live FLIGHT LIEUFTENANT JJ RAWLINGS.

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• KWAKU Holland 11 years ago

  RAWLINGS THE BASTARD CAME TO POWER IN A DUBIOUS MEANS.

  RAWLINGS THE BASTARD CAME TO POWER IN A DUBIOUS MEANS.

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• Yaw 11 years ago

  Really??? When the Ashanti cowards tried so hard to overthrow their enemy, Nkrumah, they couldnt. They had to turn to an Ewe, Kotoka for help which he offered and succeeded with intelligence and bravery. These same Ashantis t ...
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  Really??? When the Ashanti cowards tried so hard to overthrow their enemy, Nkrumah, they couldnt. They had to turn to an Ewe, Kotoka for help which he offered and succeeded with intelligence and bravery. These same Ashantis turn around to insult Ewes.
  
  In the same vein, when Acheampong imprisoned Busias men, after overthrowing him and the UP guys, it had to take Rawlings to do the dirty, brave work for them (where Kuffour became PNDC General Secretary) and released their guys from prison.
  
  Ewes will never vote for these bastards anymore. They should do their own shit & win their own elections on their fucking own. Ungrateful bastards.

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• David Ladi 11 years ago

  Gen Kotoka thought he was overthrowing Nkrumah to do the bidding of Ashantis and haters of Osagyefo. Unknown to him, he was being used by these greedy,tribalist and nation wreakers to seek their selfish interest.When he compl ...
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  Gen Kotoka thought he was overthrowing Nkrumah to do the bidding of Ashantis and haters of Osagyefo. Unknown to him, he was being used by these greedy,tribalist and nation wreakers to seek their selfish interest.When he completed the work, they used Afrifa to get rid of him.That is the true character of the Ashanti.

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• David Ladi 11 years ago

  There are better shit carrying guys in Ghana so why will Nkrumah want Ewes to do that.Under the Danes,Germans and British Ewes did not carry shit. They were trained as artisans which is why the best masons, plumbers and carpe ...
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  There are better shit carrying guys in Ghana so why will Nkrumah want Ewes to do that.Under the Danes,Germans and British Ewes did not carry shit. They were trained as artisans which is why the best masons, plumbers and carpenters are Ewes. What job did your ancestors do? Panyarring of course.Bloody ape.

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• Kalira 11 years ago

  God forgive you, amen

  God forgive you, amen

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• mensah abrampa 11 years ago

  Why. He has spoken the truth many ghanaians like Kalira with heads buried in the sand like the ostrich refuse to accept. If we continue like this any much longer there won't be any country called Ghana.It's much easier to des ...
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  Why. He has spoken the truth many ghanaians like Kalira with heads buried in the sand like the ostrich refuse to accept. If we continue like this any much longer there won't be any country called Ghana.It's much easier to destroy than to build or undoing the good that has taken several people several years to put together is easier than rebuilding from the ashes.

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• Kalira 11 years ago

  God forgive you too

  God forgive you too

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• SHAMO 11 years ago

  WONDERS SHALL NEVER END! OH SO EWES AND GAS WHO ARE CRITIZISING "MATE MEHO" FOR TROWING BOMBS TO A DICTATOR, LATER TURNED TO OVERTHROWN HIM? HMMMMM! EVEN NOW AFTER 46YRS THE SAME EWES AND GAS ARE DISTURBING US WITH CROCODILE ...
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  WONDERS SHALL NEVER END! OH SO EWES AND GAS WHO ARE CRITIZISING "MATE MEHO" FOR TROWING BOMBS TO A DICTATOR, LATER TURNED TO OVERTHROWN HIM? HMMMMM! EVEN NOW AFTER 46YRS THE SAME EWES AND GAS ARE DISTURBING US WITH CROCODILE TEARS CALLING FOR NKRUMAH GHOST AND CALLING HIM A HERO?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WONDERS

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• Shanpaani. 11 years ago

  ASHANTI MAN,EMPTY BARRELS MAKES THE MOST NOISE AS THE WHITE MEN SAY. WHY DON'T YOU ZIPPED YOUR MOUTH AND GO BACK TO YOUR TEACHER AND LEARN MORE HISTORY ABOUT NKRUMAH AND OUR MOTHERLAND GHANA. LITERALLY I DON'T THINK YOU KNOW ...
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  ASHANTI MAN,EMPTY BARRELS MAKES THE MOST NOISE AS THE WHITE MEN SAY. WHY DON'T YOU ZIPPED YOUR MOUTH AND GO BACK TO YOUR TEACHER AND LEARN MORE HISTORY ABOUT NKRUMAH AND OUR MOTHERLAND GHANA. LITERALLY I DON'T THINK YOU KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT THE COURAGEOUS AND THE INTELLIGENT MAN BY THE NAME "OSAGYEFO DR.KWAME NKRUMAH" AND MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE, AMEN.

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• Nana Beshii! 11 years ago

  SHAMO you seem to admire Ewes,Gas and Northerners. Hmm I can only guess you are from the bush. The works of a great man can never be undone by cowards like you. You fools tried so many times in vein to elevate the terrorists ...
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  SHAMO you seem to admire Ewes,Gas and Northerners. Hmm I can only guess you are from the bush. The works of a great man can never be undone by cowards like you. You fools tried so many times in vein to elevate the terrorists danquah and busiah but it never worked. We the good people of this country will always put them in the category of terrorists. Oh yes I understand your reverence of these idiots, even Osama bin Laden has supporters.

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• Nicholas . J. Bedzo 11 years ago

  During those days Kwame Nkrumah was
  riding his people like a horse detentions in prisons without any just
  course. A very stuborn guy will listern no one.

  During those days Kwame Nkrumah was
  riding his people like a horse detentions in prisons without any just
  course. A very stuborn guy will listern no one.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  I did not for one moment think of its failure. At any rate I knew my family and any relative of mine would have been killed in case of failure. Therefore I made no provision for them.
  
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  I did not for one moment think of its failure. At any rate I knew my family and any relative of mine would have been killed in case of failure. Therefore I made no provision for them.
  
  KOTOKA IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE SEEN AS A TERRORIST. A CIA SPONSORED TERRORIST. HE IS NO DIFFERENT THAN AL QUAEDA BOMB STRAPPED TERRORIST. FED WITH THE WRONG INFORMATION TO GO N KILL.....WAT A FOOL! IT TAKES 9 MONTHS TO GIVE BIRTH, BUT 1 BULLET TO END A LIFE!

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• SHAMO 11 years ago

  THE ONLY THING EWES HAS DONE GOOD IS TO KICK A COMMUNIST OUT FROM OUR NECK! NKRUMAH USED GHANA MONEY TO CATER FOR OTHER COUNTRIES WHILE GHANA AS A YOUNG NATION NEEDS MANY THINGS! UP TILL WE HAVE ONLY ONE STANDARD ROAD IN GHAN ...
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  THE ONLY THING EWES HAS DONE GOOD IS TO KICK A COMMUNIST OUT FROM OUR NECK! NKRUMAH USED GHANA MONEY TO CATER FOR OTHER COUNTRIES WHILE GHANA AS A YOUNG NATION NEEDS MANY THINGS! UP TILL WE HAVE ONLY ONE STANDARD ROAD IN GHANA , THE N1..! JUST SEE COTE D'IVOIR AND OTHER WEST AFRICAN ROADS ON GOOGLES

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  U CALL DR. NKRUMAH. A UNIVERSITY EDUCATED PHD HOLDER A COMMUNIST? WHAT THEN DO U CALL RAWLINGS WHO RULED GH FOR 20YRS? WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME U SAW A COLLEGE EDUCATED, PHD HOLDING COMMUNIST? COMMUNIST DONT DO HIGHER EDUCATION ...
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  U CALL DR. NKRUMAH. A UNIVERSITY EDUCATED PHD HOLDER A COMMUNIST? WHAT THEN DO U CALL RAWLINGS WHO RULED GH FOR 20YRS? WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME U SAW A COLLEGE EDUCATED, PHD HOLDING COMMUNIST? COMMUNIST DONT DO HIGHER EDUCATION, KWASIA!

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• SHAMO 11 years ago

  SO IDIOT, YOU WANT TO TELL US THERE WAS NO HIGHER EDUCATION IN RUSSIA AND CHINA ? UPON ALL THEIR HUGE CHALLENGES TO AMERICANS? SO THEY DIDNT HAVE MASTER DEGREE OR Phd IN SCIENCE? THEIR DOCTORS DONT HAVE EDUCATION? HAHAHAHAHA. ...
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  SO IDIOT, YOU WANT TO TELL US THERE WAS NO HIGHER EDUCATION IN RUSSIA AND CHINA ? UPON ALL THEIR HUGE CHALLENGES TO AMERICANS? SO THEY DIDNT HAVE MASTER DEGREE OR Phd IN SCIENCE? THEIR DOCTORS DONT HAVE EDUCATION? HAHAHAHAHA..!! NKWASEAFO LIKE YOU SHOUD PARK SOMEWHERE WHEN BIG MEN ARE TALKING! ANIMAL

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• Shanpaani. 11 years ago

  SHAMO IS MISSING SOMETHING. MAY BE THE ASHANTI MAN NEEDS SOME HELP. AGAIN I REPEAT WHY DON'T YOU ZIPPED YOUR BIG HUGE MOUTH AND FOUND SOMETHING OR RELAY SOME POSITIVE IDEAS THAT WILL BENEFIT YOU AND THE KINGDOM.AND STOP TAKIN ...
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  SHAMO IS MISSING SOMETHING. MAY BE THE ASHANTI MAN NEEDS SOME HELP. AGAIN I REPEAT WHY DON'T YOU ZIPPED YOUR BIG HUGE MOUTH AND FOUND SOMETHING OR RELAY SOME POSITIVE IDEAS THAT WILL BENEFIT YOU AND THE KINGDOM.AND STOP TAKING THINGS PERSONAL KWASE-A!

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• Gye Nyame 11 years ago

  You will always be greeted by Kotoka when you enter the country by air. He was our redeemer, now we can write and say whatever is in our heart without worrying about our children or neighbors reporting us. Kotoka is the MAN!

  You will always be greeted by Kotoka when you enter the country by air. He was our redeemer, now we can write and say whatever is in our heart without worrying about our children or neighbors reporting us. Kotoka is the MAN!

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• Ga-Adangbe Youth 11 years ago

  Where are your balls?

  Where are your balls?

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• michigan 11 years ago

  Did Ghana really become free, or did the nation just begin the slippery slop to failures that is still going on till now?

  Did Ghana really become free, or did the nation just begin the slippery slop to failures that is still going on till now?

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• Nana 11 years ago

  I will rather live in servitude than live in riches without any rights or being subjected to as a slave.

  I will rather live in servitude than live in riches without any rights or being subjected to as a slave.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  THIS ISSUE OF THE OVERTHROW OF DR. NKRUMAH AS MASTERMINDED BY THE CIA, AFRIFA AND CARRIED FORWARD BY KOTOKA, ANKRAH. MUST BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS. I WENT TO GH NATIONAL COLLEGE AND WE WERE TAUGHT THIS AT SCHOOL. WE EVEN HAD DEBA ...
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  THIS ISSUE OF THE OVERTHROW OF DR. NKRUMAH AS MASTERMINDED BY THE CIA, AFRIFA AND CARRIED FORWARD BY KOTOKA, ANKRAH. MUST BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS. I WENT TO GH NATIONAL COLLEGE AND WE WERE TAUGHT THIS AT SCHOOL. WE EVEN HAD DEBATES FOR AND AGAINST THE OVERTHROW. SO I UNDERSTAND THAT THE CIA, AFRIFA, KOTOKA WERE IN THE WRONG BECOS HE AND HIS PPL FAILED TO FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION OF THE LAND. FUNNY ENOUGH, MY MOTHER IS GEN. AFRIFA'S NIECE.
  
  PRES. MAHAMA DO DUE DILIGENCE N REMOVE KOTOKA'S NAME FROM THAT AIRPORT....

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• SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

  Is it not an insult to continue to use Kotoka's name for our main point of entry? What must be preventing the change?

  Is it not an insult to continue to use Kotoka's name for our main point of entry? What must be preventing the change?

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• Ghana 11 years ago

  The Trokosis will go beserk if the Gas try to do that.

  The Trokosis will go beserk if the Gas try to do that.

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• old age and treachery 11 years ago

  Why is Mahama, the so-called Nkrumaist, keeping Kotoka name for Accra airport? My brother, the same reason Kwesi Pratt is an "Nkrumaist" and activist of the "Socialist Forum" and CPP member but campaigns for NDC and provides ...
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  Why is Mahama, the so-called Nkrumaist, keeping Kotoka name for Accra airport? My brother, the same reason Kwesi Pratt is an "Nkrumaist" and activist of the "Socialist Forum" and CPP member but campaigns for NDC and provides intelligence to US embassy. That's Ghana for you.

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• Yaw Adu-Asare 11 years ago

  Know-nothing Ama!

  Know-nothing Ama!

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• BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

  Shame unto up/ npp terrorist party for overthrowing the most competent man on earth.

  Shame unto up/ npp terrorist party for overthrowing the most competent man on earth.

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• CHARLES YEBOAH OBENG.USA 11 years ago

  Has independence brought anything important to the continent of Africa?Hell,no!Misery,rancour,poverty, economic deprivation,lack of job and employment opportunities,lack of social facilities/amenities(poor medical services t ...
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  Has independence brought anything important to the continent of Africa?Hell,no!Misery,rancour,poverty, economic deprivation,lack of job and employment opportunities,lack of social facilities/amenities(poor medical services to cater for teeming population,lack of hygienic drinking water, lack of power and electricity etc)and of course, BIG TIME CORUPTION, define Africa.Rampant military coups and political instability, leading to loss of millions of lives and destruction of properties have been bequeathed and bestowed upon the nations of Africa as undesirable legacy by the agitation for political freedom and independence.From Senegal to Somalia and from Libya to Namibia there is no hope for the people who live rudimentary,nomadic and subsistent lifestyle.Chaos and anarchy everywhere in Africa, except South Africa but they are not completely out of the woods yet.We should shove the blame on Nkrumah.Whites, Blacks,Asians,Hispanics together are running the greatest nation on earth,USA.Our forefathers were selfish and too ambitious and drove away the innovative whiteman who could have brought better living standards,culminating from massive economic,social and political developments.Nkrumah is never the greatest African.No need for political independence.He should be blamed for Africa's woos.All the eastern bloc nations are wallowing in poverty and under-development.Nkrumah aligned with them but remember he enjoyed the kindness of the American government to be educated.According to the International Monetary Fund,17 out of the 20 poorest nations in the world are African nations.Out of 20 poorest European nations, with the exception of Portugal,all the other 19 nations are Communist and Eastern Bloc nations. Why did Nkrumah align with the Eastern Bloc but had his education in USA? An Opportunist?He is to be blamed for Africa's problems.Ethiopia is considered one of the poorest in the world but Nkrumah teamed up with Haile Selassie and many others to fight for political emancipation.For nothing.Do not mention Nkrumah at all as the greatest in Africa.Deep-minded people adore the Western World.Forget about Nkrumah,socialism and communism,the woos of the world.Let us fight corruption now,resuscitate the economies and infrastructure that the colonial governments let behind,but we could not develop and advance on them.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  WHY DONT U MOVE BACK TO YOUR MOM AND DAD'S HOUSE? IF YOU MOVE OUT ON YOUR OWN N DECIDE TO GET INVOLVE WITH THE WRONG CROWD, THE WRONG IDEALS ETC. THIS IS WAT WILL BECOME OF YOU. PRESENT DAY GHANA. WE CANT DO ANYTHING OF THE T ...
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  WHY DONT U MOVE BACK TO YOUR MOM AND DAD'S HOUSE? IF YOU MOVE OUT ON YOUR OWN N DECIDE TO GET INVOLVE WITH THE WRONG CROWD, THE WRONG IDEALS ETC. THIS IS WAT WILL BECOME OF YOU. PRESENT DAY GHANA. WE CANT DO ANYTHING OF THE THINGS U HVE SUGGESTED WITHOUT INDEPENDENCE. U THINK BEING AN ADULT IS EASY/? IT AINT. HOWEVER, IF U MAKE THE WRONG LIFE CHOICES, U WILL SUFFER! GH IS SUFFERING BCOS SHE NEVER LEARNS FROM HER MISTAKES, NEVER MAKES THE RIGHT DECISIONS.

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• Onyame Ye Odimafo 11 years ago

  HAPPY NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  God Bless Gen. Ankrah
  
  God Bless Gen. Kwasi Kotoka
  
  God Bless Gen. Afrifa
  
  May Their Souls Rest in Perfect Peace
  
  Aboa a, Onni Dua no, Onyame na Opra ne Ho!
  
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  HAPPY NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  God Bless Gen. Ankrah
  
  God Bless Gen. Kwasi Kotoka
  
  God Bless Gen. Afrifa
  
  May Their Souls Rest in Perfect Peace
  
  Aboa a, Onni Dua no, Onyame na Opra ne Ho!
  
  24.Feb.1966 is a unique NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY!
  
  While kwame nkruma was seriously Condemning , blasting and lashing out against the West and accusing them as imperialists, he was at the same time also building "imperial presidency" around himself.
  
  Was kwame nkruma such a hypocrite?
  
  
  kwame nkruma was a hypocrite when he recklessly also does exactly what he has been accusing others for.
  
  According to his ideological followers, Others are always at fault, but nkruma never fault, this was the motto and the main theme of his doctrines.
  
  "Ghana's economy on unsustainable path"
  
  - Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
  
  The data coming in on Ghana's economic performance in 2012 indicates quite simply that public finances are out of control and the economy is in trouble. At the end of 2012, Ghana's budget deficit was a whopping Ghc 8.7 billion, amounting to 12.1% of GDP using the rebased GDP numbers (or some 20% of GDP in terms of the old GDP series).
  
  This is the highest recorded budget deficit in Ghana’s history. From Nkrumah through Acheampong, Rawlings and Kufuor, no government has incurred this level of budget deficit. What is more worrying is that this provisional deficit figure excludes some Ghc 4.0 billion in commitments and arrears yet to be paid to contractors and other service providers.
  
  If we include these arrears the deficit for 2012 would be some 23% of GDP using rebased numbers (or some 35% of GDP using the old GDP series). These are mindboggling numbers. The crux of the problem is that government spending increased astronomically to 34.5% of GDP even though government revenues amounted to 16.1% of GDP (a gap of over 100%) for the year
  
  The provisional 2012 budget deficit of 12.1% of GDP is almost double the budget deficit of 6.5% in 2008 using the rebased GDP numbers (or 11.2% of GDP using the old GDP series) notwithstanding the fact that Ghana enjoyed more favorable economic circumstances in 2012. In 2008 Ghana was not an oil producer and the global economy was in crisis.
  
  In 2012 on the other hand, Ghana was an oil producer facing a favorable external environment for its exports and yet managed to double the 2008 budget (which this government described at the time as “reckless”) and in the process achieve what is a truly unprecedented budget deficit in Ghana’s history.
  
  The government promised last year that its management of the economy would be more prudent than that of other governments in previous election years. Despite all the favorable opportunities at its disposal, 2012 has turned out to be the worst election year outcome in Ghana’s history in terms of the management of public finances. This is also yet another failed NDC promise.
  
  For any economy with this historic budget deficit combined with an increasing balance of payments deficit (some 13% of rebased GDP) and mounting public debt, this state of affairs will raise alarm bells, but not so in Ghana. The government has found a way to delay tackling critical economic problems through borrowing domestically and internationally and falsely claiming “unprecedented” achievements at home.
  
  In the process, Ghana’s total public debt has increased from Ghc 9.6 billion in 2008 to Ghc 33.5 billion in 2012 (an increase of 248% in 4 years!). As has been demonstrated for Ghana and many countries in the past however, this path and manner of managing an economy is unsustainable.
  
  Take the example of the management of oil revenues. It turns out that the NDC government forecast oil revenues from corporate taxes of Ghc 384.1 million for 2012 knowing full well that revenue would not materialize. This is because the Jubilee partners are entitled to capital cost recovery under the Petroleum Income Tax Law 1987 (PNDC Law 188) and the government knew this.
  
  The government nonetheless forecast the receipt of these revenues because the provisions of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act 2011 are such that the proportion of then oil revenues that accrues to the budget (The Annual Budget Funding Amount) is based on projected benchmark oil revenue. Under the Act, 70% of projected oil revenue accrues to the budget and 30% is divided between the Stabilization (21%) and Heritage (9%) funds.
  
  The government therefore over projected the oil revenue so as to get more of the oil revenue into the budget. In the meantime, the projected revenues were spent through government borrowing. Is it therefore a surprise that with such economic management the budget deficit would increase astronomically?
  
  Poor economic management has consequences. Unfortunately, the burden of the inevitable consequences of the NDC’s management of the economy is bound to fall disproportionately on the segments of society which are least able to afford it, as prices for petroleum products (whatever happened to the oil hedging policy?), transportation, water, electricity (in the face of water and power shortages), school fees, tax increases, expenditure cuts, unemployment, wage pressures, inflation, interest rates etc. shoot up and non-oil GDP growth slows down. This reality is already being felt and will soon be patently obvious for all to see.
  
  Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was the running mate to Ghana's main opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2012 election. He is an Oxford-trained economist, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana and until recently, Country Director of the African Development Bank in Zimbabwe.
  
  ~ Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
  
  
  Uder unitary Presidency, the "independence of the Central Bank" is the greatest abomination and evil in society.
  
  "Separation of Powers" and certain kind of independence for some state institutions is a taboo.
  
  Can a president be too strong?
  
  "Of course not," most people would answer.
  
  "It's always better to be strong than weak."
  
  Perhaps. But can a president be so powerful that he or she threatens the nation's freedom?
  
  Should a president be allowed to violate the rights of the people?
  
  Or to ignore the rights of other nations?
  
  In recent years, many people think that the president has become too strong. They say that the president has taken so much power from the other branches of government that this threatens the democratic system.
  
  Are there rules to tell a president how far he or she can go?
  
  The Constitution is supposed to prevent the president from using power in the wrong way. Article II states all the things that a president may do and some of the things that he or she may not do.
  
  
  
  The Growing Power of the President
  
  The Constitution was written over some years ago. The people who wrote it did not know about nuclear weapons or rockets to the moon or computers or modern television. They didn't know that the nation would some day be the richest among the poor and discover oil. They didn't know that the economy would become so complicated and so big that it would require constant attention to keep it running smoothly.
  
  Therefore, the rules that they wrote in the Constitution say little about a modern president's real power. J.B Danquah, Dombo and Busia would be shocked to know the following facts.
  
  The president today has the power to command the instant destruction of entire cities and villages with fire, so that he can have the opportunity to give new contracts to foreign companies and reap out the "Kick Backs" into his private and party`s accounts.
  
  Ghana has numerous contracts to offer. Only the president can give the signal to offer them because of "Kick-backs" and other forms of corruption.
  
  The numerous Regions are paralysed and are not strong enough to issue their own contracts since all the powers are vested under the "unitary Presidency".
  
  The people are denied from the rght to choose their representatives.
  
  Democracy is destroyed, and only the "unitary President" has the power to "impose" Regional Ministers, DCE`s and Members of the Council - of - State on the people.
  
  The president's power is felt all over the country. The president travels by Presidential jet from one nation to another. Foreign leaders often come to the Castle or Jubilee House or the so-called colonial "Flag-Staff-House", which also equates slavery to colonialism.
  
  If the first Asantehene or the subsequent ones like Otumfuo Osei Agyemang Prempeh II had tried to visit Europe or Asia, he would have been on a ship at sea for months at a time.
  
  The people expect the president to deal with a huge number of problems, because he has elevated himself as the god for the people.
  
  If there is economic trouble, they expect the president to cure it. Modern presidents don't just try to administer the laws passed by Parliament. Nor do they merely "recommend measures" to Parliament as required by the Constitution.
  
  Through staff members, they often bring pressure on Parliament to pass favored bills, including some actually written in the Executive Department.
  
  Does the Constitution Allow a "Strong" President?
  
  20 February 2013
  
  President appoints Council of State members
  
  President John Mahama has appointed a number of persons, including the immediate past Central Regional Minister, Ama Benyiwa-Doe to the Council of State.
  
  The Chairman of the Council is John Henry Martey Newman, former Chief of Staff under the late President John Mills.
  
  The other members of the Council include Cecilia Johnson, Brong Ahafo Region, Nana Osei Asibe, Ashanti Region and Patrick Enyonam Agbogba (Togbui Sri) Volta Region.
  
  The others are Rashid Sulemana Mahama, of the Northern Region, Okogyeman Kweku Gyamerah of the Western Region, David Kanga of the Upper East Region, Ama Benyiwa Doe of the Central Region, Edward Gyader of the Upper East Region, Abraham Kweku Edusei representing the Eastern Region and Dr Rabiatu Deinyo Armah of the Greater Accra Region.
  
  The Council of State members were sworn into office by the President on Wednesday.
  
  How much power should the president have?
  
  How much does the Constitution set limits to the president's actions?
  
  These are very old questions.
  
  Throughout history, there have been many kinds of presidents. But a number of them have tended to fall into two very different groups in their attitudes toward presidential power.
  
  The first believed that the powers of the president were few and limited.
  
  Presidents of this type thought they could, or should, do no more than follow the exact words of the Constitution and carry out the laws of Parliament. You might call them "weak executive" presidents.
  
  That doesn't mean that they were weak people. It means only that they believed their actions were strictly limited by the Constitution.
  
  Modern examples of such presidents were President Dr. Hilla Limann, and Prime Minister Prof.Dr.K.A.Busia.
  
  Some others have been "strong executive" presidents. They believed the Constitution gave them enough power to be strong leaders. In their view, a president could act in ways not specifically mentioned by the Constitution.
  
  Almost all the most Head Of States and presidents since kwame nkruma have believed in a strong Presidency.
  
  kwame nkruma ,kutu Acheampong, FWK Akuffo, jerry john rawlings, Agyekum Kufuor and atta mills all acted in bold new ways.
  
  Their critics were sometimes shocked by their actions and complained that the Constitution was ignored. But the "strong executive" defended himself through their spin doctors and the corrupt media who have allowed themselves to be bought with stolen state money.
  
  The question of how strong a president should be may be more important now than ever before. After all, the president has gained enormous power in recent years. Some scholars who once favored a strong president now believe that the trend has gone too far.
  
  They believe that we should go back to the days when the president and Parliament were more or less equal in power.
  
  What do you think? Below are arguments on either side of the question. Decide which argument is strongest.
  
  The Case Against a Strong President
  
  We often treat presidents as if they were royalty. presidents live in a big mansion. They have servants and assistants whose only job is to make sure the president has everything he or she wants.
  
  They don't get much personal contact with the people because Gbevlo Lartey and the BNI fears they may be attacked. As one critic says: "No one speaks to him unless spoken to first. No one ever tells him to go soak his head when his demands become unreasonable."
  
  The president has taken more and more power at the expense of Parliament.
  
  The people who wrote the Constitution believed in checking and balancing power between Parliament and the president. But today, the president is more powerful than Parliament.
  
  One example of what has happened is in the power to appropriate state money. The Constitution clearly gives that power to Parliament only. Yet recent presidents have been able to appropropriate state resources without a formal approval by Parliament.
  
  dramani mahama has even made it worse by appointing an extra minister of Finance solely for the Presidency in the name of Fiifi Kwetey. This implies that john mahama can unconstitutionally misapply state money to give bribery and buy more votes for his re-election,give personal donations to his kind ones from state money, and buy cars to his favorites at the cost of the state without Parliament`s approval.
  
  So run the arguments of those who are against the idea of a strong president.
  
  The Case for a Strong President
  
  The growth of the president's power is necessary. presidents should be strong and powerful.
  
  For example,Jerry Rawlings 1981-1992
  
  Gained power in a military coup during 1979 but handed it over. Re-took power in another coup of 1981. Elected President in 1992 and again in 1996 before standing aside as per the constitution.
  
  
  Keeping It Real
  
  Ever wonder what Nigeria would have been like if the government never lost 500 billion dollars of oil money to corruption? In this episode of "Keeping It Real," Adeola shows you the amenities that Nigerians have been robbed of. She also talked about the various African dictators who have refused to leave power even after decades.
  
  Enjoy!
  
  
  
  They say that Ghana today needs a strong president. Who else can give the nation leadership?
  
  Who else can make the quick decisions that are needed in a national emergency?
  
  In the old days during the second Republic, an army could move only as fast as its horses and sailing ships. There was plenty of time for Parliament to debate issues of peace. But not today. Only the president can act fast enough in an emergency.
  
  Furthermore, only the president can give real leadership on the many national problems. Parliament cannot lead as well as the president simply because there is only one president, but there are over 250 Representatives and several number of the Council of State. Members of Parliament seldom agree on what to do.
  
  Unlike members of Parliament, the president is elected by all the voters. The president does not represent just one part but the whole of the country. And if the people think that the president has taken too much power, they can always elect someone else every four years.
  
  So run the arguments of those who believe in the need for a strong president.
  
  
  20 February 2013
  
  President cannot dissolve BoG board
  
  The Fast Track High Court has declared that it was unlawful for the President of the Republic to dissolve the board of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) before the board had served its full term.
  
  Giving its judgement in a suit instituted against the Attorney-General and the Governor of the BoG by Mr Sam Okudzeto over the dissolution of the BoG board in January 2009 when its term had not expired, the court held that “the act of the President in purporting to remove the plaintiff from membership of the board when his term had not expired was unlawful”.
  
  
  
  
  Africa like some parts of the world has had its fair share of dictators over the past decades. Some appear on the scene as liberators, revolutionists while others come in as freedom fighters, but eventually they metamorphose into tyrants having looted with their families and want to indemnify themselves from accountability.
  
  Here are some of the worst dictators the ‘dark continent’ has come across ever since Africans weaned themselves off colonial rule. The criteria was based on poor human rights record, disregard for press freedom and the desire to remain in power for life at the expense of innocent lives.
  
  kwame nkruma of Ghana still stand fresh in memory.
  
  Charles Taylor – Liberia
  
  His full name is Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor. The 22nd president of Liberia ruled for eight years [1997-2003]. He was democratically elected. Prior to becoming the no. 1 man of his west African country, he was a warlord as the leader of the rebel group – The National Patriotic Front of Liberia. He lorded over the execution of his predecessor Sergeant Doe.
  
  Under his reign, he allegedly committed war crimes against humanity culminating in his current trial at the International Criminal Court of Justice in The Hague.
  
  The 63-year-old was accused by Amnesty International to have looted state coffers and used his troops to rape women and children as terror instruments. He is also standing trial for fueling the conflict in Sierra Leone through the illegal sale of ‘blood diamonds’ to support the rebels.
  
  Sekou Toure – Guinea
  
  (kwame nkruma`s best friend)
  
  "Birds of the same further flock together".
  
  Toure was the first president of Guinea. He fell short of four years to have ruled for three decades non-stop [1958-1984]. At one point in time he declared a one-party state. Toure was initially seen as the ‘Guinean Messiah’, but later became the sting of his people. A lot of Guineans fled the country into exile to avoid his ferocious wrath. Death camps were instituted under his watch, where his political opponents were tortured and some executed. He died in America while undergoing cardiac treatment.
  
  General Sani Abacha – Nigeria
  
  Sani Abacha came to the scene in a bloodless coup d’etat in November 1993. He was in power for only five years, but his nefarious feats fit someone who remained in power for life. Political pundits have christened him as the most brutal dictator of the west African powerhouse. Abacha is reported to have stolen millions of dollars from the country’s purse into western banks including Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.
  
  It is unconfirmed though, but rumours from official circles have it that the senior military officer died in sexual bouts with Indian prostitutes. The highlight of his brutal reign was the 1995 killing of the political and environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa.
  
  Laurent Kabila – DR Congo
  
  He was full of promises, but none came to nothing. He seized power in 1997 after toppling Joseph Mobutu. Having headed rebellion for decades before reaching the light to turn the misfortunes of his people, he rather aggravated their social condition in his four-year rule.
  
  An estimated 3.3 million people died during his reign. He failed to unite the people and succeeded in dividing them on tribal lines.
  
  He banned opposition parties and never held an election contrary to his promise.
  
  ''My long years of struggle were like spreading fertiliser on a field. But now it is time to harvest,'' he told Reuters when he overthrew Mobutu and indeed he reaped from what he sown.
  
  Enough! was the clarion call. Kabila met his waterloo in 2001 when one of his bodyguards shot him in a dramatic style.
  
  Kamuzu Banda – Malawi
  
  Call him a friend or a foe. He fits into any of them. However, the Malawian’s demeanour since he assumed post clearly classified him a despot. Banda was highly intoxicated with power and was never ready to let go.
  
  He fired ministers who had the sense to counsel him that ‘sir, you are biting more than you can chew.’ He was constantly on the hunt to haunt his opponents and many of them fled to exile.
  
  The tyrant declared a one-party state in 1966. His regime was a classic case of ‘grace to grass’. The National Assembly stripped him of his powers in 1993 and died four years after in South Africa.
  
  Robert Mugabe – Zimbabwe
  
  Uncle Roo is a classic case of hero to tyrant. He played an integral role in bringing freedom to Zimbabweans, but got himself drunk with power and went overboard. The veteran has clung on to power from 1980 till date. Zimbabweans are fed up with his repressive regime.
  
  He hates press freedom.
  
  The economy is in a bad state. If you are an opposition member be prepared to make the prisons your second home and the courts will be frequent places of visits. He succumbed to power-sharing in 2009, but the Movement for Democratic Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, now a key government figure touted to bring hopes to the former British colony of Rhodesia, is not having it easy with his opponent in the corridors of power.
  
  Mobutu Sese Seko – [Zaire] Congo
  
  He was born Joseph-Desire Mobutu, but popularly known as Mobuto Sese Seko [Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga] – a title he added to his name to wit, “the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake”.
  
  He was Zaire’s long-serving dictator, who stayed in power for 31 solid years. He felt bigger than his country and thought the nation cannot do without him. It took one Laurent Kabila to force him into exile.
  
  Mobutu was cunning, violent and always had his hands in state coffers. He lived in grandeur state while the country was stumbling in poverty. Mobutu died while in exile in Morocco after a protracted battle with cancer.
  
  Jean-Bedel Bokassa - CAR
  
  He was a former colonel who seized power in the Central African Republic in 1966 and declared himself president for life. Bokassa I was accused of cannibalism of imprisoned school children.
  
  His stock in trade in most parts of his 14-year rule was torture and execution of his opponents. It is widely reported that his coronation alone cost US$30 million and he amassed about US$125 m in his personal accounts.
  
  His regime ended in 1979 when French paratroopers overthrew his government while he was on an official trip to Libya. Bokassa had 17 wives with close to 50 children. He died at 75 from a heart attack in 1996.
  
  
  Colonel Muammar Gaddafi - Libya
  
  The beleaguered Libyan ruler is the longest-ruling Africa and the Arab world's “most erratic, most grimly fascinating leader - presiding for 42 years over this desert republic with vast oil reserves and just six million people,” Aljazeera described him.
  
  The revolutionist came to power through a 1969 bloodless coup against King Idris at the age of 27. He has ruled with eagle eyes over his oil-rich country and has dealt with dissidents [“rats”] severely in the past decades through public hanging and long term imprisonments. His regime is near collapse as rebels close in on him to drag him out of power from the beginning of the year.
  
  Idi Amin Dada – Uganda
  
  He is the most notorious of all African dictators ever. He has been described as the “Butcher of Uganda” for his brutalities in the 70s. He was in the limelight in 1971 after a military coup and ruled for eight years.
  
  He conferred on him the title, Field Marshal. He is known for the famous quote on the day of the coup: "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular."
  
  He used his ‘killer squads’ to eliminate hundreds of his opponents. Amin was ousted in 1979 by Ugandan nationalists, after which he fled into exile.
  
  
  
  Dishonourable mentions
  
  Francisco Macías Nguema – Equatorial Guinea
  
  General Gnassingbé Eyadéma – Togo
  
  Paul Biya – Cameroon
  
  Mengistu Haile Mariam – Ethiopia
  
  Omar Al-bashir – Sudan
  
  Omar Al-bashir – Eritrea
  
  Siad Barre – Somalia
  
  Hissene Habre - Chad
  
  Laurent Gbagbo, Ivory Coast's former president, is set to appear before the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.
  
  Judges on Tuesday will decide if there is enough evidence to try him for masterminding a bloody election standoff two years ago, when four months of fighting left some 3,000 dead following his refusal to concede defeat to current president Alassane Outtara.
  
  Prosecutors say Gbagbo, who faces four counts including murder and rape, spearheaded a plan to "stay in power by all means... through carefully planned, sustained and deadly attacks" against supporters of the election winner.
  
  "Hundreds of civilian opponents were attacked, killed, wounded or victims of rape as a result of this policy," the prosecution said.
  
  Gbagbo is the first former head of state to appear before the Hague-based court, where hearings will last just over a week.
  
  Large-scale killings
  
  Between November 28, 2010 and May 8, 2011 Gbagbo's forces killed between 706 and 1,059 people and raped more than 35 women, prosecutors say.
  
  In one instance, some 80 people were massacred when perceived Ouattara supporters were attacked in the northwestern Abidjan suburb of Yopougon a day after Gbagbo's arrest by rival forces.
  
  "The perpetrators were armed with Kalashnikovs and machetes. They attacked people in the street, sometimes stopping them at illegal roadblocks," prosecutors said, adding "victims were summarily executed or burnt alive, under the eyes of police officers who did not intervene."
  
  In a reminder of tensions still simmering, the same neighbourhood of Yopougon on Saturday saw riot police fire tear gas to disperse a group of around 50 pro-Gbagbo supporters.
  
  Ouattara's Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko had banned the demonstration but youths nevertheless gathered, shouting "Free Gbagbo" and charging a police barrier.
  
  Judges at the ICC said on Friday Gbagbo's mental health was fragile, but that he was fit enough to stand trial. Special measures including shorter sessions or letting the former president excuse himself and appear via video could be made possible, they said.
  
  The hearings are expected to end on February 28, when Gbagbo is expected to make a statement.
  
  
  
  
  Tunisia Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali resigns
  
  Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has resigned after failing to reach agreement on forming a new government.
  
  Mr Jebali had been trying to form a new coalition in response to the political crisis sparked by the killing of opposition leader Chokri Belaid.
  
  HAPPY NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY TO ALL!!!!

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• Repugnant. 11 years ago

  Sure happy national liberation day for
  YEN AKANFUOOOOO!!

  Sure happy national liberation day for
  YEN AKANFUOOOOO!!

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• kojo poku 11 years ago

  YOU BASTARD FROM TOGO TOOK US TO THE ABYSS. GHANA IS SUFFERING BECAUSE OF EWES FROM TOGO DR KWAME NKRUMAH ACCEPTED AS PART OF GHANA AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  YOU BASTARD FROM TOGO TOOK US TO THE ABYSS. GHANA IS SUFFERING BECAUSE OF EWES FROM TOGO DR KWAME NKRUMAH ACCEPTED AS PART OF GHANA AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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• Pelicles 11 years ago

  They brought his downfall by being coup leaders since 1966.
  
  Kotoka-----------1966
  
  Agbo and Serlomey 1972
  
  Rawlings----------1979 & 1981

  They brought his downfall by being coup leaders since 1966.
  
  Kotoka-----------1966
  
  Agbo and Serlomey 1972
  
  Rawlings----------1979 & 1981

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• PAA JOE 11 years ago

  You omitted your pals:
  AFRIFA---1966
  KUTU ACHEAMPONG--1972
  BOAKYE GYAN-------1979
  KONADU AGYEMAN----1981
  Please note that Ashantis had a role in all of the coups. Stop being dishonest. Will it be safe to say Ashantis sho ...
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  You omitted your pals:
  AFRIFA---1966
  KUTU ACHEAMPONG--1972
  BOAKYE GYAN-------1979
  KONADU AGYEMAN----1981
  Please note that Ashantis had a role in all of the coups. Stop being dishonest. Will it be safe to say Ashantis should also secede and go back into the holes they came from?In fact Ghana will be a lot brighter because there will be less charcoal black skin like that of Kufuor producing so much darkness in certain part of the country for the Electricity Corporation to try to generate enough light to overcome.

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• PAA JOE 11 years ago

  Afrifa was an Ashanti and he was part of the coup plotters.It was he,with a lot of malice and hatred for the ewe-
  who got S.B Arthur, Moses Yeboah and
  Mensah Poku to assassinate Kotoka so he can take over.Boakye Gyan whose ...
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  Afrifa was an Ashanti and he was part of the coup plotters.It was he,with a lot of malice and hatred for the ewe-
  who got S.B Arthur, Moses Yeboah and
  Mensah Poku to assassinate Kotoka so he can take over.Boakye Gyan whose uncle was one of these 3,later had to revenge the death of his uncle by killing Afirifa who was responsible in organising the assassination of Kotoka and yet when the 3 were arrested he feigned not knowing anything about it and had them killed by firing squad. So you see most of Ghana's problems have been and continue to caused by Ashantis who think they are the only ones that can rule Ghana. Please leave Ewes alone.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  SO AFRIFA WAS THE TRUE MASTERMIND OF THE COUP AGAINST THE CPP AND DR. NKRUMAH? THEN I THINK WE SHOULD NAME THE AIRPORT AFTER AFRIFA AFTERALL....NOT KOTOKA! AFTERALL, KOTOKA WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS

  SO AFRIFA WAS THE TRUE MASTERMIND OF THE COUP AGAINST THE CPP AND DR. NKRUMAH? THEN I THINK WE SHOULD NAME THE AIRPORT AFTER AFRIFA AFTERALL....NOT KOTOKA! AFTERALL, KOTOKA WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS

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• Repugnant. 11 years ago

  They needed to return the country to civilian rule and could not compromise, Afrifa preferred Busia while Kotoka Gbedemah. Afrifa therefore conspired with Arthur and Yeboah to get rid of Kotoka. The reason for the coup itself ...
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  They needed to return the country to civilian rule and could not compromise, Afrifa preferred Busia while Kotoka Gbedemah. Afrifa therefore conspired with Arthur and Yeboah to get rid of Kotoka. The reason for the coup itself according to kotoka was to please Ghanaians by turning them against her rapid development, this makes wonder, after we have all been told to sacrifice. That is very stupid and naive, even for a decorated civilized savage.
  KOTOKA: The downward trend in our economic affairs resulting in high cost of living. This is due especially to extravagant use of the country’s funds on prestige projects, and generally to maladministration. Bribery and corruption, nepotism, special treatment to party activists, injustice, suppression and detention of political opponents and general disregard for the constitution. That coup had CIA written all over it. For the sake of argument should the US gov't be overthrown for her economic downturn and bad economic times?

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• David Ladi 11 years ago

  Ignorant black monkey. Ewes will have been better off in Togoland. Not only Ewes but Upper East and Eastern part of the Northern region which formed the now defunct Trans Volta Togoland.There would have been development in th ...
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  Ignorant black monkey. Ewes will have been better off in Togoland. Not only Ewes but Upper East and Eastern part of the Northern region which formed the now defunct Trans Volta Togoland.There would have been development in these regions than we have now.

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• GOLD COAST 11 years ago

  Early in the morning of Feb.24,1966, yours truly's great aunt and eight other workers,were on their way to work at the Airport.On reaching Flagstaff House,Afrifa's soldiers at the spot flagged down the van.The driver stopped ...
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  Early in the morning of Feb.24,1966, yours truly's great aunt and eight other workers,were on their way to work at the Airport.On reaching Flagstaff House,Afrifa's soldiers at the spot flagged down the van.The driver stopped but thinking they were soldiers fooling around(he had driven past that area for years),started to move the van.In a few seconds, Afrifa&Kotoka's soldiers mowed down all the civilians in the van.The driver died later,but all the rest died on the spot.
  
  For this incident and the traitors' sacrifice of Ghana at the altar of foreign governments,yours truly thanks Boakye Djan and Rawlings for eliminating these "you know what"from our midst.And wherever they are today,I hope they're "enjoying" it over there."THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES AFTER THEM."
  
  PEACE

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• michigan 11 years ago

  Amen to that.

  Amen to that.

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• Chinebuah 11 years ago

  Thanks Kotoka's dick was cut and shoved into his mouth by Arthur, t5he Nzemah Kotoko warrior.

  Thanks Kotoka's dick was cut and shoved into his mouth by Arthur, t5he Nzemah Kotoko warrior.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  IF WAT AFRIFA AND KOTOKA DIS WAS RIGHT AND CONSTITUTIONAL. DJAN AND RAWLINGS WOULDNT HAVE STEPPED IN N KILLED THEM. ITS EQUALLY SAD TOO. THAT RAWLINGS NEVER MOVED GH FORWARD LIKE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO AFTER HE TOOK OVER. HE ENDE ...
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  IF WAT AFRIFA AND KOTOKA DIS WAS RIGHT AND CONSTITUTIONAL. DJAN AND RAWLINGS WOULDNT HAVE STEPPED IN N KILLED THEM. ITS EQUALLY SAD TOO. THAT RAWLINGS NEVER MOVED GH FORWARD LIKE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO AFTER HE TOOK OVER. HE ENDED UP BECOMING JUST LIKE THE PPL HE KILLED.

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• KUKRUDU 11 years ago

  This guy was and is a DISGRACE to AFRICA & AFRICANS. Throwing people into jail without trial. If his WARPED policies were in operation today, his daughter SAMIA could be languishing in INSAWAM PRISON taday. A PRESIDENT FOR L ...
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  This guy was and is a DISGRACE to AFRICA & AFRICANS. Throwing people into jail without trial. If his WARPED policies were in operation today, his daughter SAMIA could be languishing in INSAWAM PRISON taday. A PRESIDENT FOR LIFE?? SEE MANDELA & THE RESPECT HE COMMANDS. HE DID HIS TIME AND LEFT OFFICE - NOT A PRESIDENT FOR LIFE!!!!!!!! TODAY, HE IS RESPECTED ALL OVER THE WORLD.

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• DAN 11 years ago

  Please be objective!Do you really believe kwame Nkrumah is a disgrace to africans? Dont sell your conscience!

  Please be objective!Do you really believe kwame Nkrumah is a disgrace to africans? Dont sell your conscience!

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• Dugbartey, Agbenyegah 11 years ago

  24th February is a dark day in Ghana history. this was the day the saboteurs, nation wreckers, jealous and envious fools and unscrupulous characters sold our dear Ghana for a mere $300.00 to our colonial slave masters and sec ...
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  24th February is a dark day in Ghana history. this was the day the saboteurs, nation wreckers, jealous and envious fools and unscrupulous characters sold our dear Ghana for a mere $300.00 to our colonial slave masters and secret gents. Afrifa and Kotoka were our domestic spies who worked with UP and the foreign secret agent to disrupt our socio-political development and advancement. They have without doubt set Ghana back 35+ years. So what have these unscrupulous characters, failures, irresponsible and idiots achieved for Ghana to mark them 'heroes'?. Even the average thinking Ghanaian mind would not find anything meaningful for their inexplicable and inexcusable selfish actions. Afrifa planned the killing of Kotoka to pave the political platform for Buasia and PP party. Predictably, Afrifa was killed by the gun. Afrifa was a nation looter more than Da Rocha(a Nigerian), Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, Kronfuor Kufuor, Mpiani, Isaa Osei, Ebo Bartels, Asamoah Boateng, R.R Amponsah, Victor Owusu, J.H Mensah, Awuku Brobby etc and Osafo Manfo and the Rawlings and Ahwoi brothers all put together. Afrifa simply looter the national coffers to beautify Mampong, his home town. A for a traitor and selfish corroborator like Kotoka to have him honoured with our national airpot is a total disgrace for mankind!!!!. Please stop thinking Ghanaians have no experience or knowledge of their past. Remember - he who fell the tree is a witness to the falling of the tree'. For their atrocities to humanity, Afrifa and Kotoka have no credibility in the history of Ghana. They were just cowards and traitors.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  U ARE SUCH A TOOL, SUCH A FOOL. RAWLINGS CAME DECADES AFTER DR. NKRUMAH. YOU WOULD THINK THAT EVEN JJ WOULD HAVE HAD CIVILIZATION AND JAILED PPL FOR WRONG DOING LIKE DR. NKRUMAH DID. WAT DID JJ DO TO THESE SAME PPL DR. NKRUMA ...
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  U ARE SUCH A TOOL, SUCH A FOOL. RAWLINGS CAME DECADES AFTER DR. NKRUMAH. YOU WOULD THINK THAT EVEN JJ WOULD HAVE HAD CIVILIZATION AND JAILED PPL FOR WRONG DOING LIKE DR. NKRUMAH DID. WAT DID JJ DO TO THESE SAME PPL DR. NKRUMAH WAS JAILING? ASK URSELF. I HATE GH AND GHPPL. SUCH TIMID FOOLS!

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• Papa 2 11 years ago

  Live in the past if you will! Ahead, Ghana

  Live in the past if you will! Ahead, Ghana

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• amoah wade3 11 years ago

  beside the "outdated" airport in his name,
  
  who the fuck is kotoka?
  
  many will ask.

  beside the "outdated" airport in his name,
  
  who the fuck is kotoka?
  
  many will ask.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  JJ KILLED. DR.NKRUMAH JAILED PPL. WHICH IS BETTER? TOO MANY FOOLS HAVE BEEN BLINDED BCOS THEY REFUSE TO USE THEIR GOD GIVEN BRAINS. UNDER DR. NKRUMAH, LOOK AT THE INDUSTRIES, THE RESPECT, OUR GDP IN SUCH a short period of tim ...
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  JJ KILLED. DR.NKRUMAH JAILED PPL. WHICH IS BETTER? TOO MANY FOOLS HAVE BEEN BLINDED BCOS THEY REFUSE TO USE THEIR GOD GIVEN BRAINS. UNDER DR. NKRUMAH, LOOK AT THE INDUSTRIES, THE RESPECT, OUR GDP IN SUCH a short period of time? LETS CALL A SPADE A SPADE. THE OVER THROWERS(KOTOKA, ANKRAH, AFRIFA) WERE WRONG AND THEY DEFIED A SITTING CONSTITUTION. ACHEAMPONG, RAWLINGS, KUFFOUR, MAHAMA HAVE ALL DONE WORSE, MUCH WORSE....FOR THE PPL OF GH. SO HOW COME DR.NKRUMAH GETS THE MOST CHASTISEMENT FOR SOME REASON? WHO IS POLLUTING THE MINDS OF THE PPL OF GH? DID U HEAR DR. NKRUMAH USING HIS AUTHORITY TO LASH NAKED MARKET WOMEN IN MAKOLA MARKET? AH, TOO MANY GYIMIFUO CONCERT PPL IN GH....

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• mensah abrampa 11 years ago

  Nkrumah, no matter how you slice and dice it, was a dictator. Nkrumah jailed a lot of innocent ghanaians and many died in prison or died soon after their release from Nsawam jail and many were those who lost their eyesight be ...
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  Nkrumah, no matter how you slice and dice it, was a dictator. Nkrumah jailed a lot of innocent ghanaians and many died in prison or died soon after their release from Nsawam jail and many were those who lost their eyesight because they were kept in seclusion in darkened cells. His dictatorship made nonsense of our Freedom and Justice motto.It's true Kotoka, Afrifa and Ankrah overthrew the constitution which is a treasonable offense but "those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable". (John F Kennedy). We've had 2 dictators, Nkrumah and Rawlings. Rawlings was worse than Nkrumah. Nkrumah was a visionary whose horizon expanded beyond ghana to Africa whilst Rawlings was a clueless revolutionary wanna-be who ruled the longest time and had very very little to show for it. All said and done we dont need any more dictators.

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• old age and treachery 11 years ago

  In spite of being a pro-NLC sycophant, Owusu has done us a favour. We can see how dictatorial Kotoka sounded. And we can also see that Kotoka naturally was afraid of revealing the background of the coup. Thanks to declassifie ...
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  In spite of being a pro-NLC sycophant, Owusu has done us a favour. We can see how dictatorial Kotoka sounded. And we can also see that Kotoka naturally was afraid of revealing the background of the coup. Thanks to declassified US documents and the book "In Search of Enemies" by former CIA station chief in Angola, John Stockwell, we know very well the "background" of the 1966 coup!

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• Repugnant. 11 years ago

  He could have simply owned it, yes let the moronic ashanti/akyem Matehu SENSELESS swoon call it their liberation day. They will need more of those from their egoistic selves. Midgets.

  He could have simply owned it, yes let the moronic ashanti/akyem Matehu SENSELESS swoon call it their liberation day. They will need more of those from their egoistic selves. Midgets.

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• ken aboagye 11 years ago

  No wonder kotoka died a desttitute. His immediate FAMILY is feeling the result of this dastardly act more than anyone in Ghana. His son can only boast of a small carpentary shop not worth more than hundred ghana cedis at HAVE ...
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  No wonder kotoka died a desttitute. His immediate FAMILY is feeling the result of this dastardly act more than anyone in Ghana. His son can only boast of a small carpentary shop not worth more than hundred ghana cedis at HAVE in the VR.

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• Kofi 11 years ago

  Do you know what destitute mean? Kotoka died while still a member of the NLC. He died a hero, probably the greatest heroic death up till that time. Nkrumah was a real dictator who would leave no one in his way to becoming the ...
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  Do you know what destitute mean? Kotoka died while still a member of the NLC. He died a hero, probably the greatest heroic death up till that time. Nkrumah was a real dictator who would leave no one in his way to becoming the president of Africa. He did some good work but that does not absolve him from being a dictator. How did he become president-for-life? We must stop making him a saint for he was not.

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• princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

  General kotoka was influence by money from Harlley
  Harlley was a corrupt Ewe Police officer who was given money by Franklin Williams an African American CIA agent in Ghana.
  Harlley was some of the renegade Ewe's from Togo ...
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  General kotoka was influence by money from Harlley
  Harlley was a corrupt Ewe Police officer who was given money by Franklin Williams an African American CIA agent in Ghana.
  Harlley was some of the renegade Ewe's from Togo who joined the Ghana Police Force.
  Kotoka was a teacher in the Army who use to teach soldiers in the Army about how to read and write.
  My late mother was one of his students.
  Kotoka betrayed General Bawa who was his friend in the Ranchi Barracks first Battalion in Takoradi before he became the commander of the Battalion in Kumasi.
  It was not an Ashanti conspiracy about any interview with Owusu,it was a renegade corrupt Officer brainwashing his nephew.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  ALWAYS A JUDAS.....NO LOYALTY FROM KOTOKA! BACKSTABBING NKOAAA.....NO WONDER GHPPL ARE SOME OF THE BEST JUDASES IN THE WORLD, BACKSTABBERS NKOAAA. WHAT IS THE GOVT OF GH IMPLYING BY PUTTING KOTOKA'S NAME ON OUR AIRPORT? ONLY ...
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  ALWAYS A JUDAS.....NO LOYALTY FROM KOTOKA! BACKSTABBING NKOAAA.....NO WONDER GHPPL ARE SOME OF THE BEST JUDASES IN THE WORLD, BACKSTABBERS NKOAAA. WHAT IS THE GOVT OF GH IMPLYING BY PUTTING KOTOKA'S NAME ON OUR AIRPORT? ONLY BACKSTABBERS CAN BE RECOGNISED IN GH?
  
  KOTOKA BACKSTABBED BAWA. BACKSTABBED DR. NKRUMAH. SO HE WAS BACKSTABBED BY AFRIFA. WHO WAS ALSO BACKSTABBED BY GYAN. SO WHO BACKSTABBED CORRUPT POLICE OFFICER HARLLLEY? HIS DAUGHTER WAS THE HEADMISTRESS AT ST JOHNS.....

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• Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

  LONG LIVE NKRUMAH! LONG LIVE GHANA!

  LONG LIVE NKRUMAH! LONG LIVE GHANA!

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  AFRIFA N KOTOKA.....
  THE MOST GARGANTUAN COWARDS N TRAITORS IN THE ANALS OF GH HISTORY.....
  $300 DOLLARS FROM CIA TO CRUCIFY DR. NKRUMAH....OH! GYIMI TINGS BI WAT.....
  JJ KILLED, DR. NKRUMAH JAILED...WHO IS BETTER? JSS N S ...
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  AFRIFA N KOTOKA.....
  THE MOST GARGANTUAN COWARDS N TRAITORS IN THE ANALS OF GH HISTORY.....
  $300 DOLLARS FROM CIA TO CRUCIFY DR. NKRUMAH....OH! GYIMI TINGS BI WAT.....
  JJ KILLED, DR. NKRUMAH JAILED...WHO IS BETTER? JSS N SSS STUDENTS MUST BE MADE TO STUDY NKRUMAH BOOKS IN GH. COURSES ABOUT DR. NKRUMAH MUST BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS. SO OUR KIDS CAN DEBATE AND CRACK THEIR BRAINS! TO THE LIES THAT HAS BEEN PROPAGATED TO US FOR ALL THESE YRS. WHY GRACE THE AIRPORT WITH KOTOKA'S NAME|? ARE WE GLORIFYING TERRORIST AND BACKSTABBING BEHAVIORS IN GH?
  GH GOVT IS HIGHLY INCOMPETENT!
  IF YOU TELL THE GOVT OF GH TO BABYSIT YOUR KIDS. U WILL COME BACK N FIND YOUR KIDS PLAYING IN THE MIDDLE OF NIGGER 1 HIGHWAY, NAKED.
  WITH FEACES ALL OVER THEM. GH GOVT IS HIGHLY INCOMPETENT. NOTHING SHOULD BE TRUSTED IN THEIR CARE. THE PPL IN POSITIONS OF POWER HVE
  GREATLY DEPRECIATED THE BRAND OF GH. DR. NKRUMAH SET THE BRAND SO HIGH. EVERY MONKEY OR SO CALLED PRESIDENT WHO CAME AFTER DR. NKRUMAH,
  HAS KNOWINGLY DEPRECIATED THE VALUE OF THE BRAND CALLED GHANA. I WILL BE HONEST. I HATE GH RIGHT NOW.]
  THE BIBLE SAID THIS DAY WILL COME. IF YOU ARE ALWAYS EATING, BUT CANT SHIT. ARE U SUPPOSED TO PRAY OR DO SOMETHING ELSE?...
  FOOLS IN PARADISE, I HATE GH....

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• Uncle Al 11 years ago

  After that the downward spiral of Ghana's problems began, a year or so later of this interview Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka was killed by a palace coup planned by Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa the thief, who used Ghana's scant resources to ...
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  After that the downward spiral of Ghana's problems began, a year or so later of this interview Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka was killed by a palace coup planned by Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa the thief, who used Ghana's scant resources to built a modern village called Korobo in the Ashanti region for his clan. What can we say? dog eat dog. After struggling to rid ourselves of the numerous coups, here comes the NPP and the sour loser Akufo Addo, trying hard to send us back to the coup maker-dogs hands again, STAND UP GHANA PEOPLE, as said by the Nigerian bro.

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• Repugnant. 11 years ago

  But after Dr. Busia’s fiasco in London to halt the independence of Ghana, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Agyemang Prempeh II reconciled with Nkrumah for the good of the country, and became an “open supporter of the CPP” ( ...
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  But after Dr. Busia’s fiasco in London to halt the independence of Ghana, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Agyemang Prempeh II reconciled with Nkrumah for the good of the country, and became an “open supporter of the CPP” (Bing, 1968). That, to me, was a mark of a great King. Nonetheless, judging from the threats of Danquah and the NLM, the 1966 coup was the culmination of the Opposition’s long struggle to topple the Kwame Nkrumah government by any means possible. Certainly, the coup was designed to return Ghana to the claws of its former imperialist Britain and its allies, as desired by Dr. J.B. Danquah. In his March 6, 1944 speech marking the centenary of the infamous Bond of 1844, Danquah expressed his unflinching desire to place a self-governing Ghana under the British empire. He said: “I AM SOMETIMES MUCH SURPRISE WHEN I SEE MANY OF MY COUNTRYMEN TERRIFIED BY THE USE OF THAT WORD, ‘SELF-GOVERNMENT.’ THEY ARE TERRIFIED OF IT BEACUSE THEY THINK IT MEANS THE DESIRE TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE [BRITISH] EMPIRE AND BECOME INDEPENDENT OF THE BRITISH. IF IT COMES TO THAT, IF IT COMES TO A DECION TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE BRITISH CONNECTRION, I WOULD BE THE LAST [PERSON] TO EXPRESS SUCH A TERRIFIC WISH” (see the Historic Speeches of J. B. Danquah). This was why Danquah would later condemn the 1948 uprising following the ex-servicemen’s march as “an act of treachery.” His telegram to the British Government concerning the same uprising ended with the words, “God Save the (British) King” (Awoonor 1990). What a Compatriot Saint of Ghana!
  
  Indeed, imposing Dr. J. B. Danquah on the nation as “A Compatriot Saint of Ghana” is justifying the shooting of Sgt. Adjeitey and his comrades on February 28, 1948.
  
  Correction in Part II. Sub-Heading: “The Tyrannical Rule of Ofori Atta...” Line 24-25 should read: “major uprising in Asamankese” and not Akyem Kotoku.
  
  Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, Ph. D.

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• JAMES Y 11 years ago

  When did this make-believe interview take place? B.K. Owusu should release the taped record of his interview. People did not see or hear Owusu's interview, or read it from any new paper at the time.

  When did this make-believe interview take place? B.K. Owusu should release the taped record of his interview. People did not see or hear Owusu's interview, or read it from any new paper at the time.

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• ABIRI 11 years ago

  THE NDC SHOULD TAKE A CUE FROM THAT. SPECIAL TREATMENT TO PARTY ACTIVISTS, NEPOTISM AND TRIBALISM IN THE NDC. DO WE NEED ANOTHER COUP D'ETAT?

  THE NDC SHOULD TAKE A CUE FROM THAT. SPECIAL TREATMENT TO PARTY ACTIVISTS, NEPOTISM AND TRIBALISM IN THE NDC. DO WE NEED ANOTHER COUP D'ETAT?

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• CAPTAIN 11 years ago

  EWES AND ASHANTIS CONSPIRED TO OVERTHROW NKRUMAH AND HAVE EVER SINCE BEEN AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS TO THE DETRIMENT OF OTHER GHANAIANS. IS IT A STRUGGLE OVER THE SPOILS OF THEIR CONSPIRACY OR A MANIFESTATION OF NKRUMAH'S CURSE ...
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  EWES AND ASHANTIS CONSPIRED TO OVERTHROW NKRUMAH AND HAVE EVER SINCE BEEN AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS TO THE DETRIMENT OF OTHER GHANAIANS. IS IT A STRUGGLE OVER THE SPOILS OF THEIR CONSPIRACY OR A MANIFESTATION OF NKRUMAH'S CURSE? EWES AND ASHANTIS MUST BE EXPELLED FROM GHANA FOR PEACE TO PREVAIL IN THE COUNTRY. BY THE WAY, THE CHIEF CONSPIRATOR WAS COLONEL KOTOKA. HE WAS ASSISTED BY AFRIFA WHO WAS JUST A MAJOR AT THE TIME. GENERAL ANKRAH WAS JUST A FIGUREHEAD USED BY THE TWO AS A FRONT. AFTER THE COUP, KOTOKA AND AFRIFA PROMOTED THEMSELVES TO GENERAL AND BRIGADIER RESPECTIVELY. WHY THE ATTEMPT TO PORTRAY AFRIFA, THE MAJOR WHO LATER BECAME A BRIGADIER, AS THE CHIEF CONSPIRATOR INSTEAD OF HIS BOSS KOTOKA, THE CLONEL WHO LATER BECAME A GENERAL? ARE THE EWES ASHAMED OF THEIR RECORD AS CRONIC COUP PLOTTERS IN GHANA?

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  U COULDNT HAVE SAID THAT ANY BETTER.

  U COULDNT HAVE SAID THAT ANY BETTER.

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• ERICUS-ERICUS 11 years ago

  TRIBAL POLITICS WILL TAKE US ANYWHERE -STOP THESE STUPID TRIBAL POLITICS

  TRIBAL POLITICS WILL TAKE US ANYWHERE -STOP THESE STUPID TRIBAL POLITICS

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• Sankofa 11 years ago

  Kotoka, Afrifa and all the other coup makers were military adventurers who overthrew an elected government for selfish personal reasons.
  
  The NLC set the nation back so many years and we have never recovered from that coup. ...
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  Kotoka, Afrifa and all the other coup makers were military adventurers who overthrew an elected government for selfish personal reasons.
  
  The NLC set the nation back so many years and we have never recovered from that coup. The worst thing is they stopped all the development projects and plans Nkrumah had put in place to propel us forward.
  
  You would have thought that having accused Nkrumah of mismanaging the country and corruption, the NLC would have managed the country better and eschewed corruption. Instead, they proceeded to mismanage the country and loot our nation dry. Ankrah was forced to resign after accepting money from abroad to fund political campaigning.
  
  Kotoka was killed in a counter-coup. Afrifa is said to have master-minded this, and became Chairman of the NLC, He wrote in his book 'When I sat in the chair (as NLC Chairman), I realised that power was sweet'. This indicates the calibre of people who overthrew Nkrumah.
  
  We must learn our lessons and make coups a thing of the past. Kotoka is not a hero. It was wrong to name our international airport after him; we must rename the airport. Afrifa does not deserve the title 'Okatakyie' conferred on him by Ashanti chiefs. Afrifa was a coward, shameless opportunist and corrupt person who did nothing good for our country, seeking power for its own sake.

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• Ghana Coach 11 years ago

  Fuck that Kotoka.Bring him back alive and kill him all over again.May he rot in Hell.

  Fuck that Kotoka.Bring him back alive and kill him all over again.May he rot in Hell.

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• Paul Amuna 11 years ago

  Your ignorance and distortion of facts is not at all surprising.

  Your ignorance and distortion of facts is not at all surprising.

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• CARDINAL 11 years ago

  Distortion of facts? What facts did he distort? The fact is that Nkrumah by the time he was dethroned had destroyed the economy, has imprisoned his political opponents including some CPP members and forced others into exile. ...
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  Distortion of facts? What facts did he distort? The fact is that Nkrumah by the time he was dethroned had destroyed the economy, has imprisoned his political opponents including some CPP members and forced others into exile. He had declared a one party rule and made himself President for life.
  
  The overthrow of Nkrumah spared Ghana the agony of becoming modern day Zimbabwe with that 89 nine year old relic.

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• princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

  FACTS THAT WERE DISTORTED BY THE WRITER
  
  1]Many of the presidential guards were killed and expelled from the Army.
  2]Colonel Zuarungo was forcefully retired from the Army and he ended up working at PTC.
  3]Harlley an Ewe P ...
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  FACTS THAT WERE DISTORTED BY THE WRITER
  
  1]Many of the presidential guards were killed and expelled from the Army.
  2]Colonel Zuarungo was forcefully retired from the Army and he ended up working at PTC.
  3]Harlley an Ewe Police officer and uncle of General Kotoka was afraid of his connection with Sargeant Ametepe being exposed.
  4]It was Harlley who took money from Franklin William the CIA agent stationed in Ghana.
  5]General Kotoka worked with the CIA in the Congo to disarm Lumumba's troops.
  6]Will you blame the President of Greece since the economy is bankrupt?
  7]if you are a leader with corrupt Politicians in your party stealing all these Gargantuan money wont you jail them.
  8]Its not an Ashanti conspiracy,its an Ewe conspiracy from Alakple,Anyako against the good Ewe soldiers from Klikor and Agbozome who were part of Nkrumah's security network.

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• Edem/usa.ghana 11 years ago

  Bravery and fight for true indepence, freedom and justice

  Bravery and fight for true indepence, freedom and justice

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• Yaw 11 years ago

  Fellow Ghanaians let's ponder over the situation in our country very carefully.
  It is true that Nkrumah did many good things but let's face it Nkrumah had much more money available to do the things he did. Let's be mindfull ...
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  Fellow Ghanaians let's ponder over the situation in our country very carefully.
  It is true that Nkrumah did many good things but let's face it Nkrumah had much more money available to do the things he did. Let's be mindfull of the fact that Nkrumah did not tolerate dissent and opposing views. In my opinion he was so dictatorial and so badly wanted to be recognised that a lot of people adopted the attitude of "If you can't beat them join them". Sadly I feel that this is what JJ also brought to Ghana! it comes from being in power too long. JJ ended up with so many "Yes" men around him that he failed to recognise that these "yes men" were only in it for themsleves. All the talk of probity and accountability really meant nothing to those who associated themselves with JJ. In my opinion, today there are a lot of so called NDC stalwarts who are simply in there for financial benefit and not for their belief in the principles of the NDC. 47 years on Corruption is probably worse! The only difference now is that it is legitimised by the so called Democratic credentials of Ghana. All this "Beacon of Democracy" is just cheap talk which seems to mean "absence of coups" and nothing else.

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• Eben. 11 years ago

  Thank God we had Nkrumah to do all the things in 9 years for us. The Matemeho's would have stolen all money and encouraged tribalism in Ghana.

  Thank God we had Nkrumah to do all the things in 9 years for us. The Matemeho's would have stolen all money and encouraged tribalism in Ghana.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  From 1957 independence to 2008 Ghana owed $9.5 billion in loans.
  Within the last 3 years alone Ghana's debt has increased to $21.7 billion !!!
  HMM HMM, Where did the $12.2 billion go? Alhaji Dramani Mahama has used the nat ...
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  From 1957 independence to 2008 Ghana owed $9.5 billion in loans.
  Within the last 3 years alone Ghana's debt has increased to $21.7 billion !!!
  HMM HMM, Where did the $12.2 billion go? Alhaji Dramani Mahama has used the nation as a security to purchase an Aircraft at the expense of
  Tax Payers.
  How can Dramani go out to borrow money $3 billion dolla
  rs from the Chinese Government and use the money to buy an aircraft
  for himself when our nation is suffering?

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• Meshack 11 years ago

  Exactly forty-seven years ago today, Ghana was liberated from a brutal dictatorship that made life in this country not worth living...yet, today, we have progressed into having a government that has no clue as to what nation ...
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  Exactly forty-seven years ago today, Ghana was liberated from a brutal dictatorship that made life in this country not worth living...yet, today, we have progressed into having a government that has no clue as to what nation-building is...only efficient in defrauding the citizens of this nation of their vote...God have mercy on our homeland Ghana.

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• Ghanaba 11 years ago

  Kwame Nkrumah's place in history is assured. His first place in Africa is unlikely to be challenged.

  Kwame Nkrumah's place in history is assured. His first place in Africa is unlikely to be challenged.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  TIME MAGAZINE PUT HIS PICTURE ON THE COVER OF THE FEB ISSUE. I DONT SEE KOTOKA'S NAME. I DONT SEE AFRIFA'S NAME. I DONT SEE BUSIA'S NAME. I DONT SEE RAWLINGS'S NAME. I DONT SEE MILLS, OR KUFFOUR'S NAME. ALL I SEE IS DR. NKRUM ...
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  TIME MAGAZINE PUT HIS PICTURE ON THE COVER OF THE FEB ISSUE. I DONT SEE KOTOKA'S NAME. I DONT SEE AFRIFA'S NAME. I DONT SEE BUSIA'S NAME. I DONT SEE RAWLINGS'S NAME. I DONT SEE MILLS, OR KUFFOUR'S NAME. ALL I SEE IS DR. NKRUMAH. SO SHAME ON ALL HIS HATERS. TING FOR YOU NEVER LOSS! DO U KNOW THE TYPE OF PEOPLE WHO GRACE THE COVERS OF TIME MAGAZINE? I WISH I HAD A COPY.

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• GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

  Kotoka was killed in a counter-coup. Afrifa is said to have master-minded this, and became Chairman of the NLC, He wrote in his book 'When I sat in the chair (as NLC Chairman), I realised that power was sweet'. This indicates ...
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  Kotoka was killed in a counter-coup. Afrifa is said to have master-minded this, and became Chairman of the NLC, He wrote in his book 'When I sat in the chair (as NLC Chairman), I realised that power was sweet'. This indicates the calibre of people who overthrew Nkrumah.

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• Yaw Buor 11 years ago

  Kotoka the hero - that was the slogan around Ghana at the time. I was about six years old then, but I well remember the times.
  Kotoka is still a hero. If it were not for him, the big-mouthed radio announcers and newspapers w ...
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  Kotoka the hero - that was the slogan around Ghana at the time. I was about six years old then, but I well remember the times.
  Kotoka is still a hero. If it were not for him, the big-mouthed radio announcers and newspapers we're enjoying now wouldn't have been possible.
  Thank you, General Kotoka!

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• Nana Beshii! 11 years ago

  God will always punish Owusu and his kinsmen!

  God will always punish Owusu and his kinsmen!

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• BlackMan 11 years ago

  Yet still, the real truth hurts on both sides,
  Was it good or bad, we're all facing the benefits of the 1966-coup till now,
  To all the Pros & Cons, ask yourselves: How far have we moved forward since Osagyefo was ...
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  Yet still, the real truth hurts on both sides,
  Was it good or bad, we're all facing the benefits of the 1966-coup till now,
  To all the Pros & Cons, ask yourselves: How far have we moved forward since Osagyefo was overthrown?
  Although we can forgive, but yet still we can't forget!!
  Osagyefo is long for good just as his Cons wanted but yet still HIS LEGACY LIVES ON!!!
  Let by-gone be by-gone & let's all move Forward Ever instead!!!

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• BlackMan 11 years ago

  Osagyefo is long gone for good just as his Cons wanted, but yet still HIS LEGACY LIVES ON!!!
  Yet still, no any other president of Ghana was & is BETTER than him Osagyefo till now!!!!!!!

  Osagyefo is long gone for good just as his Cons wanted, but yet still HIS LEGACY LIVES ON!!!
  Yet still, no any other president of Ghana was & is BETTER than him Osagyefo till now!!!!!!!

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• princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

  Many of the Presidential guards were killed.General Bawah was killed by Kotoka and his men.
  Zuarungu who was the commander of the Presidential Guards ended up working at the Pioneer Tobacco company in Takoradi with corporal ...
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  Many of the Presidential guards were killed.General Bawah was killed by Kotoka and his men.
  Zuarungu who was the commander of the Presidential Guards ended up working at the Pioneer Tobacco company in Takoradi with corporal Ali Tawah.

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• kelvin Akonnor 11 years ago

  TELL ME WHAT DANQUAH AND BUSSIA ALSO DID FOR THIS NATION.STUPID PEOPLE LOOK AT HOW THE WHOLE OF AFRICA IS SUFFERING TODAY.NKRUMAH NEVER DIES.

  TELL ME WHAT DANQUAH AND BUSSIA ALSO DID FOR THIS NATION.STUPID PEOPLE LOOK AT HOW THE WHOLE OF AFRICA IS SUFFERING TODAY.NKRUMAH NEVER DIES.

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• Yaw Adu-Asare 11 years ago

  Kotoka was a liar!
  
  Why didn't Kotoka say anything about his contact and relations with USCIA?
  
  How much did the CIA pay Kotoka and Afrifa?
  
  Kotoka was silent on his self-promotion to a higher rank in the Ghana army!
  
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  Kotoka was a liar!
  
  Why didn't Kotoka say anything about his contact and relations with USCIA?
  
  How much did the CIA pay Kotoka and Afrifa?
  
  Kotoka was silent on his self-promotion to a higher rank in the Ghana army!
  
  Feb 24, 1966 was a day of infamy in the history of post-independence Ghana.
  
  Kotoka was an ignorant fool and a shame to the Ghana Armed forces. Come to think that Ghanaian tax payers wasted resources to train this backward Guan as a military officer.

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