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Asiedu Nketiah supports petitioners on irregularities

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  • Ghana 10 years ago

    NPP the grand Party of insults and name calling. These uncouth behavior does't stop with the downtrodden alone but even with the elites of the party.

    Most people in that party did not grow up with their fathers at home so, ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author: OBAA YAA

    ...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever ques ...
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  • SHAMO 10 years ago

    THE ELECTION WAS NOT ABOUT AKATSI TOWN BOSS, IT WAS ABOUT THE WHOLE NATION! IT WAS NOT ELECTION OF YOUR VILLAGE CLASS PREFECT OR KETA VILLAGE CHAMPION! SO GO AWAY WITH YOUR SCHOOL CHILDREN IDEAS

  • Gye Nyame 10 years ago

    Shows how out of control the elections were – no one followed the guidelines because of "chooboi, chooboi". Ghana for you – no wonder nothing works well in the country.

  • Alugu 10 years ago

    Just too many contradictions about what Asiedu Nketia said.

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    its unlikely there will be a runoff rather the issue will be settled either by upholding the decision of the ec or will go straight out and award the presidency to npp. either way there can be no peace and we should expect wa ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS 10 years ago

    The presiding officers are those who declare the results at the polling station.Therefore, mere failure, deliberate or accidental, to sign a pink sheet that contains results of valid votes cast by eligible voters cannot be ca ...
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  • RISPA CADIS 10 years ago

    Have you ever head of the word intentional accident or irregularities ? Well if that favors the alleged THIEF and not the VICTIM, then this is where STEALERS come into play.

  • chooboi yei-choboi yei 10 years ago

    That's how they chase grass-cutters in his village. everybody will hold a stick and they will be chanting: chooboi yei, chooboi yei. Now he is in the supreme court and he thinks he' in a circus.

  • GTV-TV3 on WWW.OFMTV.COM 10 years ago

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  • YUSIF ABDULAI 10 years ago

    SO IS NPP SAYING THEY ARE ALL WISE PEOPLE IN GHANA, AND WITHOUT THEM CAN NOT GO FORWARD? I THINK THEY SHOULD GIVE US BREAK

  • paul gyamfi 10 years ago

    hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NDC for you

  • LION 10 years ago

    SINCE WHEN DO YOU CARE ABT PRESIDENT MILLS? HYPOCRACY SO COMMON AMONG GHANAIANS ESPECIALLY AMONG THE NPP

  • Deals 10 years ago

    Asiedu Nketiah needs to go back to school & take english as a second language class.

  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    He defined over voting as every reasonable person understands it to be; when the votes cast exceeds the total number of voters on the register. There was no such incidence and no over voting therefore occurred. The clerical e ...
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  • Kim Cole Kweku 10 years ago

    I think the General's definition of over-voting was very intelligent even though essentially elementary.

    You cannot cite as over-voting an exercise where the number of votes cast is clearly within the number of registered ...
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  • Gye Nyame 10 years ago

    "He suggested that even if more ballots were found in the ballot box at the close of voting than ballots issued to voters, it could not be said to be over voting or wrong if the ballots in the box did not exceed the voters’ ...
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  • NanaKwesi 10 years ago

    Tsatsu wanted his finds out his view of over voting
    Witness says "there was nowhere in all 26,000 polling station where over voting" occurred. ie where number of votes in ballot box exceed the number of votes by the people a ...
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  • Nana Sei 10 years ago

    You are smart, shit like this is what most NDC folks don't understand. Literally if there are 100 registered voters but 10 actually show up to vote, agents could stuff 90 ballots into the boxes and according to NDC it should ...
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  • Tony 10 years ago

    What he is saying is one can't definately say voting is over when the number of registered voters had not exceeded the register. This is commonsense at best explain.
    The next point which I don't agree with you is suffing al ...
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  • Tony 10 years ago

    What he is saying is one can't definately say voting is over when the number of registered voters had not exceeded the register. This is commonsense at best explain.
    The next point which I don't agree with you is suffing al ...
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  • Okonko Palm 10 years ago

    I think the NPP communication Directorate has gone crazy with their spin.No one who watched the live television broadcast will come to such infantile conclusion.It seems to me that the Directorate is getting desperate hence t ...
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  • Naa 10 years ago

    You think the NPP people don't know about these basic electoral laws? They are very much aware of all the laws concerning election. Just that Nana Addo's desperation to be President at all cost is making them blind on these t ...
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  • Asou Kwao 10 years ago

    over voting is when the total vote in the ballot box exceed the number of voters who cast their vote in a particular polling station at a given period of time .( is common sense ). eg:when you have 10 voters who voted in poll ...
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  • Yaw Berfi 10 years ago

    You are very wrong. If 10 authentic ballots were issued at a particular polling station and 11 ballots were found in the box at the close of polling it only means that one of them was fake, and that is when the poling agents ...
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  • agbodo 10 years ago

    where I voted every was supervised at point of dropping your voted form into the box because it was in the open so it difficult for anybody to put into box more than 2 voter forms into this transparent EC boxes, so what is ha ...
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  • Okonko Palm 10 years ago

    More so,he defines over voting in a simplistic way with a powerful legal connotation.He said the phrase over voting had come to be accepted and recognized by all as the number of votes castes exceeding the number of registere ...
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  • Nana Sei 10 years ago

    How do you find the fake 1 out of the 11 if they are all stamped and all look alike? Then THE ENTIRE LEGITIMACY OF THE RESULTS IS COMPROMISED and hence SHOULD BE ANNULLED!!! What is hard about this? "It only hurts when its in ...
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  • Zangina 10 years ago

    Are you serious or just pulling the mosquito's leg

  • KT 10 years ago

    NPP and their supporters need to tell the truth,Asiedu Nketia used his "palm Wine Tapper's" English to take them to reality school. He took a big chunk at their case.

  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    WHERE LIES YOUR WISDOM?
    OVER-VOTING ALSO OCCURS WHEN ONE PERSON VOTES MORE THAN ONCE AT A TIME FOR A PARTICULAR CANDIDATE.

  • Joe ballack UK 10 years ago

    Aseidu Nketia talking front and back haha ABOA

  • Osei 10 years ago

    At the end of the day, and even before, NDC will ever regret voting for this idiot to be their general secretary.

  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    Don't let us blame or give shit to MR.Asiedu Nkatia but blame Dr.Afari Djan.According to the "general's testimony,Dr.Afari Djan failed to abide by the rules and did what he liked.Thanks Nana and his brave warriors.In Ghana,if ...
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  • K.K. 10 years ago

    IS THIS THE MUCH TAUNTED NDC MAN? FROM WHAT HE WAS SAYING I THOUGHT HE WAS REPRESENTING NPP. LOL

  • Kofi - USA 10 years ago

    THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU HAVE AN ILLETRATE AS YOUR GENERAL SECRETARY. HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND AND HAVE THE COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. NPP SHOULD SEND HIM AND TSATU SOME PRESENTS FOR HELPING THIER CASE.

  • Kweks 10 years ago

    Gen Mosquito.... the mosquitoes have really sucked your blood. Where is the head or tail of what you are saying?

  • me 10 years ago

    A fool indeed who is only good at churning out propaganda.we can all see his level of intellect. this is what ghana has been reduced to.

  • hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 10 years ago

    Once a liar, always a liar. Once a Palm-wine tapper, always a palm-wine tapper.

  • Gina 868 10 years ago

    Lots of contradictions from all his statements. So nobody noticed this?
    Strange case!!!! and people. I told you it will bad for NDC. Even this is the cross-Exam of his own party. Hu it will be funny in the court for fews day ...
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  • ATO 10 years ago

    WE ALL LISTENED TO WHAT ASIEDU NKETIA SAID IN COURT. YOU NPP SUPPORTERS CAN PUT WHATEVER SPIN YOU DESIRE ON WHAT WAS SAID IN COURT. BUT REMEMBER HE WHO LAUGHS, LAST LAUGHS BEST.

  • concerned ghanaian 10 years ago

    I am really not suprised with the twists the NPP is accrediting to Mr Asiedu. I followed his presentation but could not see how he agreed or suported the petitioners' case.

    The npp can believe whatever, the Judges will dec ...
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  • kalusha 10 years ago

    HAHAHAHA FRUSTRATION BE WHAT..

  • DKB 10 years ago

    You can laugh your head off, when you are done, ask yourself why Ghana is in such a mess. You people joke with everything...from electricity problems, to water problems to serious court issues. No wonder our leaders don't tak ...
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  • THE TRUTH 10 years ago

    The moment Asiedu Nketiah opened his mouth this morning I started laughing. I knew the man was going to make a clown of himself, but for him to make a TOTAL JACKASS of himself was beyond my wildest imagination. Trust me, he a ...
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  • ASANTE 10 years ago

    IS BETTER YOU ADVICE npp PARTY AS A HOLE TO EASILY ACCEPT DEFEAT BEFORE JUDGEMENT OR ELSE THE BEST JOB FOR npp PARTY LEADERS WILL BE SECURITY OR ASSEMBLY MAN. THANK'S.

  • RISPA CADIS 10 years ago

    "If you want to catch a monkey, just throw a rope at it. It will sooner or later tie itself up real tight. then you can simply walk up to it and catch it" I can't stop laughing

  • KOGYAM58 10 years ago

    "On over voting, Mr. Asiedu Nketiah could not give a clear and cogent answer on the irregularity as had been defined by the petitioners. He suggested that even if more ballots were found in the ballot box at the close of voti ...
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  • GHANABA1 10 years ago

    I asked earlier on what sort of language this insect is going to use in the court.asiedu.what is the English word for "Choooboi"? more to come from the insect.parasites can be mp's in Ghana?

  • kk 10 years ago

    Is chooboi choobooi an election regulation in the EC?

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    I am not sure if the NPP Communication believes that their petition will be won through propaganda war. Almost on daily basis the team issues a statement about what happened in court with their own interpretations. Thank God ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    The world has changed! Find a book modern communication systems and courtroom!

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    One day when Dr Akadu a professor at an American-Ghanaian Peace Corps school in Pennsylvania walked to the black board, he noticed someone
    had handwritten the word 'Vagina' in Big letters. he turned around,
    scanned the cl ...
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  • Fire Burn U 10 years ago

    For once, Kofi, you are not volunteering any expert information about your understanding of Asiedu-Nketiah's definition of over-voting.

    According to him, over-voting occurs only if the number of ballots in the box exceed ...
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  • Gyambibi 10 years ago

    Your comment should have been addressed to both parties' supporters.If you have been following postings on this website you would have noticed that supporters of the two parties are doing what you allege only one party's comm ...
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  • ATINGA FRARA 10 years ago

    KOFI BIGOT ATA, YOU ARE FOOLISH AND USELESS MAN. YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO CAMBRIGE. WHAT YOU ON THIS WEB DOESN'T MAKE SENSE AT LL.

  • Ghana 10 years ago

    Ashanti/Akyem tribal NPP will never win election in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana again, they assume everything good in Ghana must be for them because they have the best primitive culture.

    They kill people when that their chief in ...
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  • Adante 10 years ago

    According to Nketia:

    It was Chooboi, chooboi in the villages. Did this Nketia guy understand that he was about the case before the supreme court of Ghana about our electoral LAWS?

    Chooboi, chooboi has no place in law! Y ...
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  • NANA O!! MOTHER 10 years ago

    Chooboi,chooboi lets go and spray mosquito.

  • ASIEDU 10 years ago

    MOSQI DID A GOOD JOB

  • HONESTY 10 years ago

    If this write up is truly from the NPP Communications Team, then I can only weep for the party. It means they do not have a single intelligent person in that party and for that matter the NPP as a whole. It means they do not ...
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  • Akua 10 years ago

    Victory for NPP

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

  • ASANTE 10 years ago

    GENERAL MOSQUITO IS MORE EDUCATED THAN THIS UGLY REPORTER.THE GHANIAN REPORTERS ARE STUPID SOMETIMES BUT ONLY 6-3 FORMATION WILL JUDGE YOU AT THE END.

  • JAK 10 years ago

    Asiedu Nketia said over voting means when the ballots papers in the ballot boxes exeed the elegible voters.But he failed to explain the blank spaces on the pink sheets to be filled in.How would he know if there is over voting ...
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  • NANA 10 years ago

    ASIEDU IS RATHER MAKING A GOOD WAY FOR THE PETITIONERS...I SAID IT THAT THIS MAN WILL GO AND DISGRACE HIS PARTY

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation to the next, says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. But in modern business (and education and gov ...
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  • Rastero 10 years ago

    Asiedu was clear as to his definition of over voting. I wonder how some people can blatantly lie. This media should not allow people who are disordered liars from birth to deceive the public.

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 10 years ago

    Asiedu choooboi ---eye Nketia. Asiedu chhhboi ----eye Nketia. This dude is real village lawyer.

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 10 years ago

    NPP communications directorate is mischievous.

  • ASUMADU EMESEWOELI, HO, VOLTA REGION 10 years ago

    SINCE WHEN DID ERRORS, BE THEY ADMINISTRATIVE OR OMISSIONS BECOME VIRTUES OF LIFE, AS THE RESPONDENTS AND ASIEDU NKETIA WANT US TO BELIEVE? AT ANY RATE HOW CAN AN ELECTION IN 26,002 POLLING STATION GO ON WITHOUT ANY HITCH AS ...
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  • YAW (Virginia) 10 years ago

    The best thing that ever happened to NPP was this fool Asiedu Nketiah mounting the witness box. For one thing, he sounds very unintelligent, has a loathsome and repulsive appearance, very inarticulate with some bush(akurase) ...
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  • hoo-yah 10 years ago

    aeisdu nketiah is weird guy

  • Togbe 10 years ago

    Massa this kejetia logic in your defence will make matters worse. Get something better to say.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    General Mosquito are you saying that the presiding officers have their own rules than the EC? Are you saying that we should accept the presiding agents own laws rather that what the EC have said? If so the the whole election ...
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  • Zangina 10 years ago

    ndc lawyer Amaliba siad before Tsatsu started his boring x examinations that he was only waiting to hear Tsatsu's x examination and then he could die peacefully after that. Then yesterday he said the mosquito is like a moving ...
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  • nana kwame 10 years ago

    Infact Asiedu Nketiah is really a blockheaded as he himself said. I believe he will be crying all night n will be carefull when making statements

  • AA 10 years ago

    this guy is not serious.he is so pathetic.couldnt ndc find any better person.

  • hope 10 years ago

    how can u say i was there physically and they verified my face physically.OMG.he really made my day.

  • YD- USA 10 years ago

    NPP is making it look like they were the only ones watching. OH, thank God it is being telecast live

  • ASANTEWA 10 years ago

    WHY DID GHANA WASTE OIL MONEY on THIS FOOLISH ELECTION(being RIGGED by AFARI GYAN and COMPANY)

  • ASANTEWA 10 years ago

    GHANA has GONE TO THE DOGS(SAD INDEED)

  • Ohemeng 10 years ago

    Now we know

  • Wendy 10 years ago

    Why npp? We all watched and listened to Asiedu Nketia. He never supported the petitioners. Its amazing how npp twists everything and believes they are always right.

  • WILLIE 10 years ago

    I HOPE ASIEDU DIDN'T MEAN THIS. PLS ALLOW HIM TO SAY IT IN TWI OR BRONG.

  • eoa-uk 10 years ago

    what a joke, general mosquito, please you haven't been put on cross examination yet and you contradicting yourself already....empty head!

  • YAA BABY-JAPAN 10 years ago

    CLERICAL MISTAKES ARE VERY COMMON EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD.THE MERE FACT THAT A PRESIDING OFFICER FORGOT TO APPEND HIS SIGNATURE CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED AS IRREGULARITIES THEREFORE THE WHOLE BALLOTS THERE MUST BE NULLIFIED. ANYWAY ...
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  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

    HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT A LIAR, HOW AMAZING? YOUNG PIONEER BOY NOW PRESIDENT. PRESIDENT MAHAMA AIYEKOOOOO

  • NIGERIA THE BEST 10 years ago

    INFACT THIS WAS HOW I WAS WONDERING, AS WE WERE 10HRS ON TV LISTERNING.WE GOT SOO AMAZED AS HE SPOKE TOOOO MUCH AND SO SCORING HIS OWN GOAL. TONI LITHUR KEPT HIS HAND AND HEAD BENT ALL WHILE IF U WATCHED HIM DESTROYING HIMSEL ...
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  • your mama 10 years ago

    poor asiedu nketiah what have you get yourself into i dont blame you but uncle jj how do you get to be general secretory of ndc something is not right in mother ghana really you are disgrace to yourself

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 10 years ago

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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    Sorry to read from one "Ghana" that most of NPP supporters don't have fathers.May I know from Mr. Ghana whether JJ Rawlings is an NPP supporter?I've learnt from recent elections that most Ghanaians are not matured to do polit ...
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  • Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

    Is nobody fit to be general secretary of NDC aside of this guy? NDC cannot be a serious party.

  • mohammed amin abdallah adenta fafraha 10 years ago

    i wasted my time reading the article,unfortunately it is one party propaganda machinery. i was reading it with keen interest thinking something cogent was being told about the court case.politicians stop misleading the ghan ...
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  • RAS UHURU 10 years ago

    MAHAMA? THE GUY IS TUFF. I SURE GHANAIANS WILL NEVER CHOOSE SOME ONE LIKE NANA ADDO OVER MAHAMA

  • fj 10 years ago

    any idiot can go to court.

  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    Now we know the real idiot going to court. He can't even define over voting, let alone explain it. Asiedu Nkasei thinks we are in cout to drink palm wine and insult men of God so he is dressed in suit and tie only to come and ...
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  • GHANA FIRST 10 years ago

    I am not a judge and nither have i been even a lawyer
    But from the information gathered so far a run off is a must
    Even if it itis not the expenditure that will be so high on the state the best thing that should be done is ...
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  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    There is no way this is heading to a run off or a re-election. Mahama stole the election and must be jailed so that the real president be sworn in, period. Even the EC has confessed that he made a mistake so he would be given ...
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  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    OVER-VOTING OCCURS WHEN THE NUMBER OF VOTES CAST EXCEEDS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS.
    OVER-VOTING ALSO OCCURS WHEN ONE PERSON VOTES MORE THAN ONCE AT A TIME FOR A PARTICULAR CANDIDATE.
    FOR INSTANCE, IF THE TOTAL ...
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  • Kwabena Asamoah 10 years ago

    You hypocrites, liars and Nation wreckers, the Telecast was live and all of us listened to Mr. Asiedu Nketsia.
    Mr. Asiedu Nketsia never supported the NPP's so called irregularities; he identified errors made by the Returning ...
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  • paul gyamfi 10 years ago

    hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NDC for you.

  • kwaw 10 years ago

    Asiedu was totally confused

  • chief amankwa 10 years ago

    waa look