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Pentecostal Council: Chris Brown must be investigated

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  • Asempa Beba Dabi 11 years ago

    So rLg paid a million dollars for this idiot to come and smoke weed on our stage? No investigation needed..that scoundrel should be arrested right away!

  • DER GBAALE 11 years ago

    It is my prayer that other Religious Bodies join in to condemn this act. All well meaning organisations in the country should not just look on. If he actually advised the youth and anyone interested to smoke the forbidden tob ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

    I hope the state did not pay the $1 million for him to insult Ghanaians by disrespecting the law. If the state paid him the $1 million at a time of energy and water shortages, then Ghanaian leadership has seriously and danger ...
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  • Gye Nyame 11 years ago

    I think it was private sponsorship but still looks bad. Is he still in the country? At the very least he should render an opology to the country. The guy is a moron anyway, not sure why the choice.

  • Simplicity-USA 11 years ago

    WHO IN THE FIRST PLACE SHOULD WASTE THAT $1M TO THAT IDIOT TO COME AND TRY TO INCULCATE THE CULTURE OF THE WEST AND POLLUT OUR LAW ABIDING YOUTH WITH SUCH USELESS CULTURE? I BLAME THE ONE WHO INVITED SUCH HARDENED CRIMINAL.GO ...
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  • Middlebury 11 years ago

    I'll make sure this is published on EXTRA, ACCESS HOLLYWOOD, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT as well as other popular TV stations to bring him to book. How dare he abuse the kind / nice gesture of Ghanaians when given the oppottunity t ...
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  • WILLIAM 11 years ago

    He is not a role model. Known for his violence against woman! Forget about him. We have learnt our lesson from his public buffonery!

  • Middlebury 11 years ago

    For beating the day light out of Rhiana and now he things she wants him back so he's all that. He should thank his stars for gettting a second chance. 'Cos we know he's not well liked in the US, not after what he did to his g ...
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  • Middlebury 11 years ago

    I meant to say "he thinks"

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    WEED SMOKING CONTRIBUTES TO MEMORY LOSS

  • KT 11 years ago

    Some of us are very naive and I'm getting tired of some of the churches. You sit around and let Adom fm and TV shows/broadcast pornography and have a nerve to call it "Woba Ada Anaa". And sometimes they host these so called E ...
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  • Kofi - USA 11 years ago

    DONT TELL ME THAT HE SHOULD GO SCOT FREE BECAUSE HE DOES NOT KNOW OUR LAWS. FOREIGNERS ARE ARRESTED EVERYDAY IN THE USA AND THEY ARE NOT GIVEN A BREAK BECAUSE THEY DONT KNOW THE LAWS. WHAT A DUMB AND STUPID EXCUSE GIVEN BY TH ...
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  • Amber 11 years ago

    Boy oh boy, is this incident with Brown now a priority in Ghana? Don't we have enough baggage to worry about? The boy smoked pot while in Ghana & got away with it, and so whats there to investigate & who gets arrested for Chr ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    No water, no electricity, poor education,sanitation, etc. The list goes on and on. Laws of Ghana my foot. Ask public officials how they become rich overnight. Isn't corruption against the laws of the country. Aposty Samue ...
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  • Di Asempa 11 years ago

    Listen to yourself, Kofi! Just rethink your view and see if it carries any weight at all! What are you talking about? You expect the nation to applaud this foolish display of bigotry - publicly smoking a drug our laws frown u ...
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  • Anokwale 11 years ago

    The Pentecostal Council should look into developing the nation. Prosecuting Chris Brown will only help his "Street Credibility" and it will not solve Ghana's problems.

  • KROHEKROH 11 years ago

    We give the impression that we don't know who Chris Brown really is:
    that he is a thug with a posse, a serial trouble maker, has a record for being busted for the use cannabis, a banned substance, that he was charged with fe ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    We give the impression that we don't know who Chris Brown really is:
    that he is a thug with a posse, a serial trouble maker, has a record for being busted for the use of cannabis, a banned substance, that he was charged with ...
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  • Anokwale 11 years ago

    These religious bodies should concentrate on the following:
    1. Educating the youth
    2. Providing power solutions for the congregation
    3. Providing water solutions for the congregation

    Please stop driving luxury cars ...
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  • KD 11 years ago

    John Mahama gave his duty free access, Government facilitation and cash to do such foolish this. Now John Mahama wants us to pay more to fund rLG. Madness!

  • GHANABA-BA 11 years ago

    any IDIOT can write here,@KD,it seems you shool from the street (BORN IN THE CAVE )we want reasonable comments,if you had nothing good to contribute then better go to labour Dept for Job instead of being big fool here

  • Mahama-Gbagbo 11 years ago

    Ghana has lost respect among foreigners. Foreigners come here and do galamsey with reckless abandon.Nothing is done to them. Others come here and smoke weed openly and even on stage. Can Chris Brown do this in the USA? He sho ...
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  • things falling in line 11 years ago

    THESE IMMORAL ATTITUDES COMING FROM MAHAMA'S AFFILIATION WITH GAYS AND OYE.

  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 11 years ago

    Ghana people don't play oooo, no one can fool or out think them, they are even smarter than some of their parliamentarians.

    Chris Brown is a very talented, rich, popular, young African entertainer, he is in his early twen ...
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  • RAX DOE,Amsterdam.Holland 11 years ago

    Iseems u dont know what u are talking.Who is Chris Brown?Law is law and no can be above it if hes rich hes rich for himself.Look COOLIO was in Germany some years back he did the same and he was arrested detained,fined and dep ...
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  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 11 years ago

    My dear RAX DOE, Amsterdam, Holland, congratulations on your marriage to Mr. Holland hence your surname Holland, now to address your rant, rage and disrespect, I've already stated who Chris Brown is, nowhere in my writing did ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 11 years ago

    Is that the company handling Mahamah's free computers?

  • AMANOR ISAAC,USA. 11 years ago

    I have interacted with various groups of Americans ,the truth is they wish most of them could live a discipline live like most Ghanaians.The cry to motivate the youth to go into smoking and that of gay rights is just aimed at ...
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  • Anokwale 11 years ago

    If we were so disciplined we would have:

    1. Consistent water supply
    2. Consistent power supply
    3. Smooth roads

    Discipline is not just social. It includes performance on the job and accountability...

  • kofi 11 years ago

    Oh God help our nation u give 1 million dollars to boy hmmmmmmmmm

  • Houdini 11 years ago

    You people need to get a real life. Smoking a weed need to be investigated? What are they going to nvestigate? Whether he smoked the weed or what? If it is against the law in Ghana and it is, why did the Police not arrest him ...
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  • Yaw 11 years ago

    This is a matter of law and not Churches. The Churches should solve their problems and leave the law alone. Too much churches business in Ghana. The Jews are killing the Palestinians and that is what the Church should talk ab ...
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  • ASANTE 11 years ago

    Let say the churches dont talk abt it Ask urself can you flout on USA laws & be allowed to go free? FOOOLS like Yaw and Cephas Arthur will let this go without allowing sensible Ghanaians to talk about it. YAW WO YE ABOA PAAAA ...
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  • Yaw 11 years ago

    You a big fool, why wasn't he arrested when they saw him smoking. The US is country that respects its laws. The stupid Churches do not poke their nose into the laws of that of US. We are still listening to the nonsense of the ...
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  • Yaw 11 years ago

    YOu are a big fool.

  • Jill 11 years ago

    The man was seen smoking on stage, people assume it was wee, although none has any prove, and there we are debating & calling for investigation on him. Although, what he did was not cool, do you really think Chris would admit ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    The Church should investigate Rev Obinim and all the other Pastors who have committed adultery and also the Government Officials who have defrauded the state and we are now saddled with the Gargantuan debt.

  • truth 11 years ago

    Poor Ghana, the same bunch of people who said Ghana could not afford free SHS, but today the can pay an illiterate American $1M. Shame on Mahama and his gang, pure selfishness, so they can stay in power and rip Ghanaians off. ...
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  • Nashiru 11 years ago

    Yaw you need help. Are u saying we should endorse such a silly act? Do you have children? If u have lost morals and all hope for a decent living, our society cannot be like you. Mad boy

  • Madusa 11 years ago

    Good and timely for the pentecostal council to come out strongly against such act BUT where were they when some disgruntled group were asking for permission to start throwing BOMBS!

  • KFC 11 years ago

    Apostle Samuel Yaw Antwi, instead of spending the time to talk about important things relevant to the improve the whole nation, you foolishness spend your energy to discuss unimportant issues

  • jankrojah 11 years ago

    He belongs to the pentecostal union of Ghana, Ghana is a Christian nation we have morals so he is his right lane he has nothing to for with no water, no electricity ok?

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Like Newt Gingrich said, “stop the pious baloney.” Please talk about important things like creating schools and clinics with all the monies you collect from the poor folks. The Catholics and Wesleyans did it. Now that ...
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  • Dan 11 years ago

    do u all no for sure that he was in fact smoking weed on stage and not just a roll up??? and did he shout out to the audience EVERYONE GO SMOKE WEED????? cos the videos that ive watched he doesnt say that!!!

  • Remove Indenity Clause 11 years ago

    That is the way they introduce their stupid culture and freedom to other countries. US is a country where two male priests can get married in a church.

  • Kyekyeku 11 years ago

    Do you think that Chris brown can came to Massachusetts where i live to smoke on a stage and go free,why are Africans so stupid and hate our selves, won't he go to Jail if he was to be a Ghanaian ? Then release all the inmat ...
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  • hmmmm 11 years ago

    only in Ghana is everything investigated. immigration treated him like a diplomat . people at the airport and organizers should be arrested all of them . they not doing their jobs well

  • Kwesi 11 years ago

    Am very surprise that DSP could say that we should forget about what Chris Brown did just because he don't know the laws of Ghana. Those of us living in here(U S) will not anything and go free all in the name of not knowing t ...
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  • Kwabena 11 years ago

    There are also accessories to a crime.

    If Christ Brown must be investigated then those who invited him to perform, who must have known that the guy was simply a toke, must also be answering some questions as well.

  • MUSA 11 years ago

    DSP CEPAS ARTHUR NEVER SAID THAT. CONCENTRATE IN WINNING SOULS FOR CHRIST RATHER THAN DECEIVING THE VULNERABLE AND STEALING THEIR MONEY TO LIVE FLAMBOYANT LIVES

  • AMANOR ISAAC,USA. 11 years ago

    Do you know this pastor?you think it is all pastors who are after money?This man has a good MS chemistry degree and was a College lecturer outside Ghana before sacrificing to the winning of souls.NB he is not rich,has not got ...
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  • FRANK. 11 years ago

    Stupid Musa.Advise moslems not to be suicide bombers.

  • Nene 11 years ago

    Appalling as Chris Brown’s action is, even more appalling is Cephas’ comments. Remember his comments on the “Bribe Giver”? Cephas is a GINORMOUS disgrace to the Ghana Police Force and the Ghana Police Force is a GARGA ...
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  • Nantwi,BSEd,MSEd(ece),MSEd(sas) 11 years ago

    The guy is an American.This is nothing in the USA.Some States in the USA has decrimilize mrijuana.Ghana is so backwards that after 56 years of Independence,we are still Crying about Electricity,Water and Tiolets.And the Judge ...
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  • AMANOR ISAAC,USA. 11 years ago

    It is a very serious and a big thing bro.Ghana a lot of problems to solve which we have became a generational head ache so we dont need more.Malaria ,dirty environment and ........so we dont need more diseases related to smok ...
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  • AMANOR ISAAC,USA. 11 years ago

    It is a serious and a big thing bro.Ghana has a lot of problems to solve which have became a generational head ache so we dont need more.

  • kk 11 years ago

    The pentecostal council should start arresting those boys at circle smoking weed, we are too much interested issues that wont help us.
    We have no light and water but they are busily talking about someone who has nothing to ...
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  • frankieknuckles 11 years ago

    So what if C.Brown smoked and inhaled on stage? The hypocrisy and holier than thou attitude demonstrated by this so called pastor never ceases to amaze me....the pastor should put an end to the grandstanding and preach the wo ...
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  • kwasi oyinasky 11 years ago

    The pentecostal churches and all the people who are outraged by the Chris Brown's behaviour have nothing to do. 56 years after independence the capital city does not have water , no electricity and the hospital does not have ...
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  • Amavi 11 years ago

    IS DSP CEPHAS ARTHUR TELLING US THAT IN GHANA TODAY, IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS AN EXCUSE? WHAT AN APOLOGY OF A POLICE OFFICE.

  • Lorgo Ligri 11 years ago

    May be Chris Brown paid him some money to say that. You know how our leaders are. Always defend and cover up for the rich and clobber the poor. Some kind of ignorance. I hope the DSP comes to America, break the law and use ig ...
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  • OK 11 years ago

    The police position is sickening. This can't happen in the UK. Regardless of whether you know the law or not if you run foul of it you will be held accountable.
    The organizers must be held responsible. The least they ca ...
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  • Santa 11 years ago

    What happened to Paul Macarthney,the Beatle in UK?

  • Nanak 11 years ago

    Instead of the leaders focusing on the country's economy, they' will rather waste money to investiage him?? what is there to investigate if u apparently saw him on stage smoking weed????please y'all are hypocrites and your s ...
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  • Nanak 11 years ago

    Ghanaians are hypocrites period

  • ASUMADU EMESEWOELI, HO, VOLTA REGION 11 years ago

    JM(JOHN MITOEME)LAUNCHED HIS BOOK IN THE US AND WAS PROMOTED BY A GAY WITH ALL ITS IMPLICATIONS OF AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THAT ABOMINABLE PRACTICE. SOME MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL SUPPORTED THIS PROPAGANDA NDC GOV'T TO WIN POW ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    An old priest got sick of everyone in his parish confessing adultery.
    During one Sunday’s sermon he told them, “If one more person confesses to
    adultery, I’ll quit!”

    Since everyone liked him, they decided to use ...
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  • angel 11 years ago

    I support u. Do you know the pastors who "kali" before getting into the pulpit to preach?

  • zag 11 years ago

    Before his coming to Ghana ,i wrote a short article on here that,Chris Brown is not a good example for Ghanaian youth.I know the organisers just want their profit and wouldnt care what ever happens.This country is not America ...
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  • nsemfoahi 11 years ago

    Shame on you police service,IGP what did you say about this stupid act? there are people kept at Nsawam for years for smoking wee,what is the differents between this idiotic person who smoke this on stage,shame on you Ghana p ...
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  • GEORGE TEE 11 years ago

    ITS NOT TOO LATE TO ARREST CHRIS BROWN. ARREST HIM AND LOCK HIM UP FOR SOME DAYS. THEN GET THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO FREE HIM. THAT WILL SERVE A WARNING TO ALL FOREIGNERS THAT TAKES THE PISS.

  • DAN 11 years ago

    You can bet he left your dirty country the same night to prevent getting Malaria,typhoid,yellow fever

  • FRANK. 11 years ago

    Why at all do we invite such a stupid,hopeless rat into the country?He did that because he does not respect the nation and its citizens.Will he do that in America?Such filthy animals should not be invited into the country.

  • Kaku 11 years ago

    In fact DSP Cephas Arthur must resign from his position. He is an embarrassment to the office and the Ghanaian culture. Pressure must come on him from the top to do so. In fact we agree with GPC. rlg and the organizers must ...
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  • We The People 11 years ago

    Copy cat Ghana. A disgraced non entity like chris brown, comes to Ghana makes a million dollars, smokes wee, and deficates on the laws of Ghana and no one says a thing. Our youth are liking this rogue and the next thing you w ...
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  • God's Servant 11 years ago

    Do not be surprised becos chris brown is implementing Satan strategic action plan.So what is the Church in Ghana also doing strategically to confront satan's strategy??????.

  • Nashiru 11 years ago

    I want Ghanaians to probe further into what is going on? How much taxes oes RLG pay? How could Aambire dole out $1m to this silly guy, when we ave a lt of kayayei fom h North queuing at Esi Sutherland part just the next day f ...
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  • Charles Yeboah Obeng USA. 11 years ago

    He just took the law into his own hands.Ignorance of the law is no excuse. In USA,the possession and use of marijuana is unlawful and punishable by a fine,jail term or both depending on the quantity possessed.He just frowned ...
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  • nicmannn@atl 11 years ago

    stop inviting thugs and gay life to ghana

  • Bewise 11 years ago

    why did this people invite a looser for a concert in Ghana? We have a lot of fools in Ghana, look at what he has put in the minds of the youth. There are so many good Ghanaians, Nigerian and African musicians who could have g ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    INSTEAD OF ARRESTING THIS GUY N GIVING HIM $10,000 BAIL FOR SMOKING WEED. U ALLOW HIM TO WALK AWAY FREE? WHERE DO U EXPECT TO GET MONEY FROM FOR YOUR NEW EQUIPMENT AND LATEST POLICE GADGETRY? FOOLS! CHANGE THE IGP ASAP. THE N ...
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  • Ketasco Headmaster 11 years ago

    The Police know their work. The law is no respecter of persons (citizens and foreigners). Ghanaians who visit Togo and other French-speaking countries know how obedient the people are and how strict the law enforcers are with ...
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  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

    Where lies our dignity and credibility as people and country? Dished out whopper one million dollars for a lawless hoodlum, disorganized baboon rapper and a disrespectedly unethical crook only in exchange for insult to our l ...
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  • BRAA PANIN. USA 11 years ago

    who is Chris Brown? this useless guy? ghanaians are fools. you guys lives in this darkness and pay one million dollars to this forking guy and smoke wee in front of you? hahahahah ghanaians are funny

  • kofi kofi 11 years ago

    stupid country,stupid people and would keep on suffering and die stupidly in the end.it is the wrath of the lord so bear it.country full of lies.i hate you all.

  • Nicholas Osei Kyeretwie-Chicago-USA 11 years ago

    This is what we get,when we think that everything from the whiteman is not only good but better.Who paid him that much?

  • AMANOR ISAAC,USA. 11 years ago

    In most of their songs,there are a lot of thought provoking wise sayings but we dont want that.or even try to promote the AZANTO singers and dancers.

  • DAN 11 years ago

    does Ghana have a extradition treaty with usa! Has FBI or Cia came to Ghana and arrested people...Dream on! Also you can do is put arrest warrant and if he evr comes back jail him! And he can easy bribe any police with all hi ...
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