Mahama stops Kufuor’s painful tears

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  • grace 12 years ago

    Lets try to understand the former president. His reaction is all due to ageing. At least Im happy the president has called to explain things to our former and hope that he will be the special guest at the grand opening in nov ...
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  • JOKER 12 years ago

    KUFFOUR WILL BUILD HIS HOUSE NEXT TO THE BUI DAM POWER STATION:

  • SERWAA 12 years ago

    WHY NPP LOVE CRYING LOUD OVER EVERY LITTLE THING THAT HAPPENS LIKE KIDS?
    MEN?

  • osei tawiah 12 years ago

    shame

  • REALITY 12 years ago

    In as much as I like the hardworking of president Mahama I sincerely supports Kuffour. Nkrumah is remembered today because of things like the Akosombo power. If Kuffour does not get this to his credit what will mark his name? ...
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  • Chii 12 years ago

    Remember, President Kuffour did not start the Bui Hydro-Electric Power project.

    It was initiated by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

    Kufour came in just to continue with a project at the right time.

    This is however a political ...
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  • Nyansafo 12 years ago

    It was not initiated dy Dr Kwame Nkrumah

  • Kojo T 12 years ago

    Nkrumah started it and the NPP stopped it under Busia . Give credit where it is due. NPP you are just a banza party full of crap

  • ELINAM 12 years ago

    Due to lack of Knowledge,wisdom and self discipline, our leaders want to be in the lime light all the time, and this also lead them to steal as much as they can so they never again see poverty. But all these states of hunger ...
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  • SHAMO 12 years ago

    KOTOKOLI FROM NIGER AND TOGO , I ALWAYS SAYS WHEN YOU COME JUST TAKE YOUR TIME AND LEARN OUR HISTORY! NKRUMAH STARTED BUI DAM WHEN? OR YOU FOOLS THINK BUI IS THE SAME AS AKOSOMBO? NKRUMAH 'S FULL ATTENTION WAS ON AKOSOMBO AND ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 12 years ago

    President Mahama called the office of former President Kufuor to explain that the official commissioning of the Dam would be done in November, this year, to which the former President would be invited.

  • TerrblY Spe cifiC 12 years ago

    YAKA GBOMO KUFFOUR CRYING. WHAT FOR?

  • NANA KUFUOR 12 years ago

    Shamo, go and have a look at Kwame Nkrumah's 7 Year Development Plan. Bui Dam is not Kufuor's baby. shut up!!!

  • EGYA BLAY 12 years ago

    You better know your history than waste your bloody time insulting people. Nkrumah started the Bui dam as stated categorically by your President Mahama. ''A people without the knowledge of their culture, history and origin is ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 12 years ago

    “A people without the knowledge of their culture, history and origin is like a tree without roots, indeed.”

    Just don't mind that 'bubu,' he is one banana short of a bunch and to parade his ignorance in here is all he h ...
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  • Rose Baema 12 years ago

    History is good. Now Kufuor is crying hoax for recognition. A thirty minutes speech was read to commission the Akosombo dam without mentioning Dr. Nkrumah's name. What goes around comes around. Bye

  • Mahmoud 12 years ago

    This is the dirtiest politics the Mahama administration has played so far. 9/11 took place in Bush's administration, and the hunt for Bin Laden was also started by Bush. But the difference in administration and the killing of ...
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  • Nana Ansah 12 years ago

    Shamo, it will do you some good to get a copy of the SYDP in order for you to know the full scale/extent of damage done to Maame/Daavi Ghana due to the unwarranted 1966 coup which was conspired by the treasonous Busia and the ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 12 years ago

    Nana Ansah, a bowl of wheat could have at least go some length to dignify their pride and brighten their corner gracefully, if that is what was given. To my understanding, Obroni-waawu clothing was the fate Oman Ghana was mea ...
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  • Mahmoud 12 years ago

    You are lost in the wilderness. One party state was a crime enough to overthrow Kwame Nkrumah. Therefore, the 1966 coup was the only legitimate coup in Ghana.

    Since 1972, the leftists have managed to keep themselves in po ...
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  • Kofi Adjaho Mahama 12 years ago

    Mahama tried to steal this project too.

  • Kofi Charlie 12 years ago

    The Bui dam is not Kronfor Kufuor's baby. It was initiated by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Kronfor Kufuor should stop trying to claim ownership of Bui dam. Kronfor can not reap where he has not sewn. Ghanaians are aware and kno ...
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  • Alex- Accra 12 years ago

    This guy wants to congratulate himself for everything new in Ghana. ie. The Tarkoradi Thermal power Plant,The oil find, The UDS in the north, Bui dam,etc. he sold city line, omni bus srevice, and state transport, then replace ...
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  • EZEKIEL 12 years ago

    As Globetrotter president AND SELF-DECORATING president!! That's enough!!

  • Oooops 12 years ago

    This shows Mahama and his NDC crooks and his advisers have no brains and does not think. They should have informed Mr Kuffour of what they plan to do, but keeping him in the dark he's right to explode. I heard him on Asempah ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 12 years ago

    JUST FUCK OFF YOUR PUPET GOVERNMENT IS
    JUST TEMPORAL.

  • TerriblY KWAKU SERWAA Spe cifiC 12 years ago

    So is NDC going to continue toying like this and not take things at the face value /

  • SAMMY 12 years ago

    SO CALLED SERWAA ARE REALY A RESIONALBLE PERSON? WHERE DID YOU GOT SUCH NAME SERWAA? SHAME ON TO YOU...

  • Ama 12 years ago

    Has Kuffor forgotten so soon what he did to JJ when he came into power. Whatever he did to JJ is at his doorstep waiting for him. When I heard his crying over this on radio I laughed because a very oldman like him just closed ...
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  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    A new era has begun and a breath of the desire for a better Ghana has invigorated the people so no nonsense , selfishness , procrastination or greed by politicians and the bureaucrats will be tolerated no matter which party i ...
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  • Hebert, Sweden 12 years ago

    Why should ex-President Kuffour cry? Does he think he is still the President, or he is superior than Pres. Mahama? What would Kwame Nkrumah tell Pres. Kuffour? Overthrowing him, just for Power, abandoned, and detroying all pr ...
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  • Nana Appiah 12 years ago

    How much Kick-Backs did Kufuor get in that Project?? 10% of $600 million??..I don't Blame Mahama for not inviting him..I think Mahama knows Kufuor Could have done it Way Cheaper...This kufuor Guy Is a thief and Mahama knows I ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 12 years ago

    THE ORIGINAL BLUEPRINT OF THE DAM BY DR NKRUMAH IS NOT WHAT KUFFOUR FOLLOWED. HE JUST DID A SMALL PART OF IT. I THINK MAHAMA SHOULD PROLLY REVERT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL BLUEPRINT AND GET IT DONE ONCE AND FOR ALL.

  • TIMEWILLTELL 12 years ago

    This just shows the true character of Kufuor. He was always in for himself. He wants Ghana to kiss his arse because he was president. We won't because you did a small bit of your job. Period!

  • Kwame 12 years ago

    UDS was a Rawlings brainchild but Kuffuor went to the extent of scuttling an award which the University wanted to confer on Rawlings. Now he is crying over not being invited to Bui. HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!

  • KWESOUN 12 years ago

    SHAME ON J J RAWLINGS AND NDC GOVERNMENT...THEY RULED GHANA FOR 19 YEARS...EXTENDING ELECTRICITY TO WIN VOTES IN VILLAGES, WHICH CAUSED OVER LOADING ON AKOSOMBO DAM...BUT COULD NOT BUILD A COMMON DAM

    KUFFUOR CONSTRUCTED B ...
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  • Abongo 12 years ago

    You see how black you look, that is how you bratns are.

  • sora 12 years ago

    HEHEHEHEHEH SMALL BOY KUFFOUR

  • SERWAA 12 years ago

    CRYING OVER EVERY LITTLE THING THAT GOES WRONG TO THEM

  • bbc 12 years ago

    good it serves him right. there is no fool like kuffuor. does he realise in npp nobody likes kuffour old fool. next time

  • osei tawiah 12 years ago

    crying like babies

  • fj 12 years ago

    kuffour is right

  • Nii Ansah 12 years ago

    please, bbc, accord the former president some respect! He is older than u!

  • osei tawiah 12 years ago

    why crying over just switching his Baby Bui Dam on before completion?

  • aku 12 years ago

    yea he may be even older than ur dad

  • Kwabena Amoafo 12 years ago

    BBC, you are the biggest FOOL. Why do you abuse an ex-president of the country. Please be courteous and apologise publicly. You must be ashamed of yourself.

  • Nana Ama Danquah 12 years ago

    Don't mind that old man, he can now see how painful it is, doing his time, did he invite Rawlings for any of his commissioning? no, e.g. Rawlings built hopitals before living power, r kuffour never invited him, rather he alw ...
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  • walter 12 years ago

    u dnt ave to insult him bsyds u wuld'nt lyk it if sum1 insults ur dad ryt

  • Otekokoooso nana. 12 years ago

    you have no respect for your own father how can you have it for any elderly. you think you are hiding behind the seen, so you can say whatever you want, you'll definitely pay for it. someone younger than you, will disrespect ...
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  • Oh No 12 years ago

    I believe old prez quiet intelligent and do not expect him to commit such an error. If you are invited twice the second one which will be the grand finale will be of no meaning to you and everybody. Keep calm old man

  • Precious 12 years ago

    The country looks gloomy and sad and I am surprised John is pretending not to see that the progress and gains made by the Kufuor administration, have been reversed by the 5 years of NDC rule. Where are the days when the banks ...
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  • ADJAN SUHUN 12 years ago

    PLEASE DO NOT TALK FOR ME; BECAUSE IT IS BETTER TO GO WITH MAHAMA THAN THAT ARROGANT MR: NO CERTIFICATE AS MY PRESIDENT:

  • MAAME 12 years ago

    WHO IS SAD AND WHO LOOKS GLOOMY? YOU LOST THE ELECTIONS AND SO YOU ARE STILL MOURNING. THAT IS WHY YOU FEEL AND LOOK THAT WAY TIME HEALS. YOU WILL BE FINE WITH TIME. I AM USED TO POLITICIANS AND SO THEIR WINNING AND LOO ...
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  • Big Kahuna 12 years ago

    You are very intelligent.

  • Frimpong, USA 12 years ago

    Shame unto you K4. Mahama speech tells it all and thief K4 had waited to hear the President's speech his jealousy and stupidness would have calmed his anger. His own guilty conscience haunting him.

  • Kwame Dokyi 12 years ago

    Ebei NPP ! "Enough is in the North"!!

  • John Kpeglo 12 years ago

    What he and his administration did to Jerry Rawllings is WORSE! I am not justifying evil BUT I think K4 should call Jerry and apologise to him! An international Prize worn by Rawllings was used to establish a UNIVERSITY in th ...
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  • gooza goro 12 years ago

    Kuffour is too petty to the liking of serious minded Ghanaians.

  • serwa 12 years ago

    GIVE US A BREAK

  • Akolgo 12 years ago

    This government always find reasons for every wrong doing. Wh can't mahama and his cohorts accept that they are simply incompetent? What evil could Kufuor's presence at the so-called switching ceremony cause? It is sad that t ...
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  • Sammy 12 years ago

    President Kuffour is crying because he was not hailed for starting the Bui dam after the UP tradition stopped it at the first time.H e must sit down and reflect what he did to Rawlings. NPP has lost a vote in 2016

  • Asante 12 years ago

    Kuffour has lost creadibility for the comment he passed. Since when did he realize asking Ghanaians to condemn a govt for not inviting past prez for projects intiated by them. By this he has made Rawlings a saint

  • francisca 12 years ago

    all jealous people

  • ZONGO BOY 12 years ago

    IF NKRUMAH STARTED THIS, WHAT HAPPENED IN BETWEEN PNDC AND NDC PART 1 ERA. KUFFOUR AND NPP VISION WAS THAT WE WILL NEED BUI DAM IN FUTURE TO SUPPLY POWER SO LETS INVEST IN IT, NOW YOU RUN THERE TO COMMISION IT WHY DON'T YOU ...
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  • Africanus 12 years ago

    The question should be; why the NPP (UP) discontinued the project in the first place after Nkrumah started it in the 60s? Do not shift the blame.

  • alfred 12 years ago

    didnt invite you so what?? Prez kufuor stop behave like Prez Nkrumah.

  • Osei 12 years ago

    Our former president is peeved over he being sidelined. We thank God that was not the official commissioning.

  • SAMPANA 12 years ago

    SOME TIMES I THINK THIS K4 MAN DOES NOT THINK PROPERLY. DOES HE EVEN KNOW SHAME AT ALL? THIS MAN SHOULD KNOW THAT IT IS GOD WHO CREATED ALL HUMAN BEINGS.GOD THEREFORE EXPECTS ALL OF US TO BE APPRECIATED OF WHAT OTHER HUMAN BE ...
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  • asante 12 years ago

    One thing l don't like about the ndc is its timidity and the rush to apologise for anytime issues like this come. Were we not in this country when kuffour commissioned the Kejetia lorry park which was built by rawlings withou ...
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  • SAMPANA 12 years ago

    IF NOT BECAUSE OF THE WICKED AND BACKWARDNESS OF A POLITICAL GROUPING - THE UP/PP/NPP, OUR LEGENDARY DR OSAGYEFO KWAME NKRUMAH OF BLESSES MEMORY AND INFACT A REAL VISIONARY LEADER GHANA EVER HAD, WOULD HAVE COMPLETED THE BUI ...
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  • Kwame Dokyi 12 years ago

    asante, I love your comments!! Thank you!!!!

  • Agyakwakuo Twumpuduo 12 years ago

    Until such a time that Ghana will be blessed with PATRIOTIC media,Ghana will continue to be in the abyss. This stupid newspaper thinks it is nice for Mahama and the NDC to have treated Kufuor that way.
    If evolution is reall ...
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  • Citizen 12 years ago

    These gutter journalist are always looking for something untoward to report on - Building Storm in a Teacup. The Switching-on was barely underway when Former President Kuffour was called for his version; he will also not thin ...
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  • ALHAJI KUKRUDU 12 years ago

    He wants credit for himself but did not give others when he was in office. What a GREEDY and FOOLISH MAN? He should remember what he did to JJ concerning UDS.

  • JEFF 12 years ago

    BUT FOR NKRUMAH'S VISION IN INITIATING THE AKOSOMBO DAM/BUI DAM, MANY GHANAIANS WOULD BE LIVING IN "DARKNESS". UNDOUBTEDLY, GHANAIANS OWE A GREAT DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO THIS VISIONARY NKRUMAH.

    NKRUMAH NEVER DIES SO, REINCARN ...
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  • CAPT NINEPENCE 12 years ago

    MR REALITY YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY WRONG. IT WAS NT KUFOUR WHO STARTED WORK ON THE BUI DAM. WHEN KWAME NKRUMAH WAS IN PROCESS OF BUILDING THIS DAM, THE MENTORS OF KUFOUR MADE UP OF DR ABREFA BUSIA,JAKE OBETSEBI LAMPTEY,IC QUAYE,TE ...
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  • CAPT NINEPENCE 12 years ago

    HE HAS NO SHAME AT ALL!

  • Kirk Carsley Casper 12 years ago

    If this man has a heart in making part of Ghana's dream to come through by initiating such a project, why do you have to hide any little thing done about this project to the the initiator? Prez. Mahama, you didn't try at all.

  • Africanus 12 years ago

    This man has a part to play in the 50 years delay of the completion of the Bui Dam. These NPP folks should be ashamed of themselves for seeking to take credit for a project started by Dr. Nkrumah in the first place.

  • THE TRUTH 12 years ago

    SHOULD THE PRESIDENT CALL KWAME NKRUMAH ALSO OR THE CHILDREN SHOULD ALSO BE PEEVED THAT THEY WERE NOT INVITED KUFFOUR LET THE PEOPLE TALK FOR YOU AND STOP SOUNDING YOUR OWN TRUMPET

  • Concern Ghanian 12 years ago

    GOOD FOR BOTH UNDERSTANDING THAT

  • Concern Ghanian 12 years ago

    SWITCH ON MONEY, COMMISSIONING MONEY?

  • Branaboy 12 years ago

    Attributing the hydro-electric projects on the Volta river is historically inaccurate.

    Plans for dams on the river were first discussed and planned by the colonial government in 1920s'. In 1940 surveyors were busy on the ...
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  • Africanus 12 years ago

    You got your facts wrong. Even Kufuor admitted that the project was abandoned in the 60s. The question is; who initiated it before it was abandoned in the first place? Also, who abandoned the project in the 60s? These same NP ...
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  • Rose Baema 12 years ago

    Brenaboy, donot talk street or molemole history but go to the Ministry of Energy and read the closed files and you would understand who initiated Kpong and Bui. Ask Kufkuor where are the equipment at the Bui dam site after th ...
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  • Nana Ansah 12 years ago

    Get yourself a copy of the Struggle continues which was written by Kwame Nkrumah before his demise and then you will fuuly understand the huge damage inflicted on Ghana by a disgruntled few from the Mate Mehu knaves.

  • MATIGARI 12 years ago

    I THINK THE EX-PRESIDENT IS RIGHT BUT HE MUST NOT FORGET THAT HE DID SAME TO JJ RAWLING WHEN THE LATER WAS TO BE HONOURED BY UDS.JJ ESTABLISHED THE UNIVERSITY WITH A PRIZE MONEY HE WAS GIVEN. ASK WHAT EX-PRESIDENT KUFOUR DID ...
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  • Justan 12 years ago

    IF KUFFOUR WEEPS THEN WHAT SHOULD DR KWAME NKRUMAH DO.THIEF REAPING AT WHERE HE HAS NOT SOWN.

  • ADABRAKA 12 years ago

    Can Gh pay for K4 to be chauffeured to Bui. This is the man who wants state entourage whenever he is going out, even to Gifty Anti. Can we bear the cost if he was invited?

  • Augustine amoah 12 years ago

    Mahama has shown leadership by calling ex prez and explain matters to him.ghana we are growing democratically

  • VISIONLESS NDC 12 years ago

    BUI WAS A VISION OF THE OSAGYEFO, BUT IT REMAINED SO UNTIL THE ADVENT OF PRESIDENT KUFUOR AND THE NPP. THE P/NDC RULED GHANA FOR 19 LONG YEARS PRIOR TO THE ADVENT OF KUFUOR AND THE NPP BUT FAILED TO SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF BUI ...
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  • kwapea 12 years ago

    Remember, there is no copyright to an idea you had. If your ideas are not published, they are not coprightable. If these projects could be attributed to Osagyefo, then what will go to Sir Gordon Guggisberg, the colonial Gover ...
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  • Omanbapa Osei Oy3ade3yie 12 years ago

    We attribute the foundation of Achimota School and all projects initiated by Sir Gordon Guggisberg to the same, Sir Gordon Guggisberg.

  • MAAME 12 years ago

    GOD CREATED OUR WORLD AND HANDED IT OVER TO US TO MULTIPY - MULTIPLY. EVEN GOD WANTS HUMANS TO BE PART OF HIS CREATION. WHAT IS ALL THIS ABOUT WHO DID THIS AND WHO DID THAT. EVEN I IN MY OWN SMALL WAY, CONTRIBUTE TO GOD'S ...
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  • Hazor 12 years ago

    Late president Mills commission Kufour projects and busy paying judgement debts could not initiated a single project.Error president Mahama is also following Mills footsteps commission Kufour project and he invest heavily in ...
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  • kotler, philip 12 years ago

    If this story came from the Herald, I bet my bottom pesewa that Frank Agyekum has not granted them any interview anywhere. It is all a concocted story to insult our intelligence and belittle the Ex-President.

  • QUEEN D 12 years ago

    kUFFOUR, ARE YOU A BABY TO BE CRYING OVER SPILL MILK, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL HIM AND FIND OUT THE REASON THEY DID NOT INVITE YOU BUT DON'T GET ON THE PHONE AND START CONDENING THE PRESIDENT. STOP DI ...
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  • TWAALA-JAPAN 12 years ago

    OH,MOTHER GHANA WE CALL ON YOU TO KEEP US IN YOUR BOSSOM. PRESIDENTS ARE CRYING, TEACHERS AND DOCTORS ARE CRYING AND WHAT NEXT?? IT IS A BIG TASK TO APPEASE OUR OWN CHILDREN NOW AS YOU SEE SQUABBLES HERE AND THERE

  • KA AKYIRE 12 years ago

    THEY STOP RAWLINGS TO RECEIVE DR DEGREE FROM THE NORTHERN UNIVERSITY WHICH HE PUT IN HIS EARNINGS, YET THIS IS TRIAL SWITCH, YET KUFFOUR WANT TO BE CARRIED WITH HIS WALKING STICK. WHAT ABOUT THE FORMAL OPENING?

  • KA AKYIRE 12 years ago

    GO TO ACCRA AIRPORT AFTER RENOVATION BY RAWLINGS, KUFFOUR CAME FROM NO WHERE COMMISSION IT AN PASTE HIS NAME THERE AND LATER STRIP RAWLINGS OF ALL COURTSIES VIA AKUFFO ADDO. WE HAVE MANY SAMPLES SO KUFFOUR SHUT UP

  • LASTAP 12 years ago

    KUFOUR, GROW UP.

  • NAA4U 12 years ago

    K4 DID NOT EVEN WAIT FOR JM TO FINISH DELIVERING HIS MESSAGE AND QUICKLY JUMPED INTO CRYING. HE IS SIMPLY AFRAID THAT WHAT HE DID TO RAWLINGS WILL BE DONE TO HIM

  • sam (usa) 12 years ago

    Good the president's office has called the ex-president and explained issues to him .Good job president Mahama,this shows you are humble and not arrogant.By the way it would have been proper,should the president had informed ...
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  • Korsi Vivor 12 years ago

    JUST AS KUFUOR DID TO RAWLINGS, SO IT SHALL BE DONE TO HIM. WHY IS HE CRYING NOW? AFTER ALL, IT IS KWAME NKRUMA'S PROJECT.

  • JAYTEE 12 years ago

    just switching on ceremony too u won go some.. aa ba why... if people are to be invited, we would and should start from old.. Our beloved and departed Nkrumah isnt around but his kids i tink could come also...for me, i belive ...
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  • TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

    Kuffor behaving like a child denied of toffee claiming to have been sidelined.Really?
    Oh,only now has Kuffor realised how it feels to be sideline?
    He did to Rawlings and even the dead and here you are complaining.Throughout ...
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  • Nana Ansah 12 years ago

    Kufuor skipped everything Nkrumah during the 2007 AU conference in Accra forgetting that the very AU which he boasted becoming it's chairperson for a year was Nkrumah's own baby. Now Kufuor is crying us Bui river. Has Kufuor ...
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  • Otoo 12 years ago

    This tribalistic politician and thief John Kufuor should just shut his dirty mouth up. He has nothing to offer Ghanaians. He can only teach people how to steal state property, how to be nepotic, how to be corrupt, how to coll ...
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  • IRON LADY 12 years ago

    TWEAA KAI, MAHAMA THE THIEF

  • SHAME 12 years ago

    LOL