Patriotism pivotal to national unity – Rawlings

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GHANABA 1 10 years ago

When will this bastard keep quite? Ghanaians are so coward to let this nation wrecker walk Free and say anything he likes. I am praying each and everyday to see this bastard punished for all the killings.

When will this bastard keep quite? Ghanaians are so coward to let this nation wrecker walk Free and say anything he likes. I am praying each and everyday to see this bastard punished for all the killings.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

There are no unity in lies, deceitful,
dishonesty, thievery, murder, violent
and such a thievery activities cannot
unite our nation what-so-ever.

There are no unity in lies, deceitful,
dishonesty, thievery, murder, violent
and such a thievery activities cannot
unite our nation what-so-ever.
ZoRRo 10 years ago

When it becomes clear that the supposed leaders are stealing and only catering for themselves, how can you expect the ordinary citizen to be patriotic ?

When it becomes clear that the supposed leaders are stealing and only catering for themselves, how can you expect the ordinary citizen to be patriotic ?
AKANLAND 10 years ago

THIS WILL BRING PEACE

THIS WILL BRING PEACE
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter!

The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and ...
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The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter!

The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and celestial duties with my heavenly father.”

The immediate question is; how did the dead man come to sign his own personal tribute, since he is already in heaven?

The letter then goes on melodramatically, “As you leaf through these pages of my life’s story, I pray to God that it touches your heart in many positive ways. Weep not, I am not dead. I am alive and awake in the Lord. Ghana will not die; Ghana will live to declare the works of the Lord. As I rest in perfect peace in the celestial realms with my maker, I pledge to always uphold and defend the good name of Ghana. Remember the Lord in all your ways and He will protect you. Stay well my brothers and sisters, I will always be with you. Signed (with actual signature) John Evans Atta Mills...
Paul Amuna 10 years ago

But does that also include some people behaving above the law and / or taking the law into their own hands and behaving with impunity?

But does that also include some people behaving above the law and / or taking the law into their own hands and behaving with impunity?
Kofi Adjaho Mahama 10 years ago

JJ. we need you back for another house cleaning of your party and Ghana. The level of corruption, lies, manipulation of the ignorant,selfishness, and deception going on now does not auger well for the future of GHANA. Please ...
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JJ. we need you back for another house cleaning of your party and Ghana. The level of corruption, lies, manipulation of the ignorant,selfishness, and deception going on now does not auger well for the future of GHANA. Please come back from retirement to lead the house cleaning movement again.You are only retired but not retarded. I suggest that all those in the NDC who have betrayed you, who have betrayed the noble tenets of June 4 must be publicly executed and their assets destroyed. Also I plead that the Indemnity clause smuggled into the constitution by ex-convict Tsatsu Tsikata be removed in the name of Freedom and Justice now!
Oman Ba Pa 10 years ago

Mr. Rawlings YOU instituted the lawlessness and indiscipline growing in the society when you equated patriotism with it!
You destroyed social and economic justice in the nation and you took over public and state lands and pr ...
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Mr. Rawlings YOU instituted the lawlessness and indiscipline growing in the society when you equated patriotism with it!
You destroyed social and economic justice in the nation and you took over public and state lands and property, without recourse to any formal regulations. Forgotten the BA Mensahs, Siaws, Adom wo wiems, you destroyed?
So, what are you telling us now?
Kwaku 10 years ago

Rawlings has forgotten that the carrier of a message can influence the meaning of the message.He is the wrong person to say this,his actions over the years is contrary to somebody who is patriotic.

Rawlings has forgotten that the carrier of a message can influence the meaning of the message.He is the wrong person to say this,his actions over the years is contrary to somebody who is patriotic.
SETH DANSO 10 years ago

HOW MANY OF OUR LEADERS TODAY, PARTICULARLY THE POLITICIANS HAVE THIS "SENSE OF HUMOUR"? THINKING THIS WAY/MANNER IS NUTRITION FOR THE SOUL AND THAT IS WHY PAPA J WILL LEAVE TO REAP THE FRUITS OF HIS TOILS FOR THIS COUNTRY CA ...
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HOW MANY OF OUR LEADERS TODAY, PARTICULARLY THE POLITICIANS HAVE THIS "SENSE OF HUMOUR"? THINKING THIS WAY/MANNER IS NUTRITION FOR THE SOUL AND THAT IS WHY PAPA J WILL LEAVE TO REAP THE FRUITS OF HIS TOILS FOR THIS COUNTRY CALLED GHANA
Barnes 10 years ago

House cleaning in your context as I understand is making sure people like yourself explain why they have more than one house and also explain where they are getting their monies from if they are rich. Failure to do so would r ...
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House cleaning in your context as I understand is making sure people like yourself explain why they have more than one house and also explain where they are getting their monies from if they are rich. Failure to do so would result in seizure of all you have to the state, go to prison or in the worse scenario die for been rich without explanation.

With this clear and simple thought in mind, you will fall a victim because when you came to power with the help of Boakye Gyan and others after your failed Coup attempt, you did not possess all that you have now.

Would you be patriotic enough to come out and declare all your assets just before you came to power in 1979 up to date and how you acquired them and let your wife do same? After that, could you order all those Ministers and other Staff who served under you to do same?

It is only after doing this that people will take you as serious otherwise hold your peace forever.
NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

I have strongly come to believe that Rawlings was a fake revolutionary whom the West and the American CIA used to brake the front of the progressive revolutionary elements in the country in the 80s.

As a former revolutiona ...
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I have strongly come to believe that Rawlings was a fake revolutionary whom the West and the American CIA used to brake the front of the progressive revolutionary elements in the country in the 80s.

As a former revolutionary Cadre of the then INCC based at the State House, I'm still struggling to come to terms as to how did the revolution failed so miserably, what went wrong, where we went wrong and how at the end of the first year of the revolution, most of all the strongly and selflessly committed revolutionaries were either chased into exile, dismissed from the main stream government or murdered like what pathetically happened to Kwame Adjima and co with more also left languishing in prison without charges or trials in conflict with the ideas of the revolution for freedom to our people.

Come to think of it that strongly ideologically based Pan-Africanists leftists like Jonny Hassens, Chris Atims, Nyeya Yens, Kutanas, Ama Atta Aidoos, Yaa Asieduas, Jude Quarshies, Dr. Bawas, Kofi Ashieboy Mensahs, Cynthia Asieduas, Kisiedus, the Kwaku Bakos, Amenkos, Nubours, Ato Austins and most patriotic organizations with leftist ideologies like PANIMOS, KNRGS, AYCS and all the original membership of June 4th, the TUCs and most Pan-African movements unbelievably made to disorganized and become vocally dormant.

It is now my strong conclusion after thoughtful political analysis and the despicable privatization adopted policies, devaluations, workers redundancies, senseless adoptions and murders, oppression and suppression of press freedoms, horrible abuses of human rights and freedoms of speech which were all what the revolution came to restore to bring hope to our people, the taken over for free of privatized state properties like GIHOC, GNTC, State Hotels by the Rawlings family and their criminal cronies and with the ethnocentric "nyebro" thing, I think I'm hundred percent right, Rawlings was a CIA paid agent.

Rawlings did the yankees job and betrayed the revolution. He is indeed a crook, a pretender and fake revolutionary who came to kill patriotism and the revolutionary fire that was burning in the people!!!
BRIAN WILLIAMS 10 years ago

YES THERE WAS NEPOTISM DURING THE RAWLINGS ERA; AND THE KILLING OF THE THREE JUDGES IN THE END GAVE US THE LIKES OF ATUGUBA. I VERY MUCH DISAGREE WITH YOUR SOCIALIST LEANINGS, IN THAT, EVEN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION CAME TO REA ...
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YES THERE WAS NEPOTISM DURING THE RAWLINGS ERA; AND THE KILLING OF THE THREE JUDGES IN THE END GAVE US THE LIKES OF ATUGUBA. I VERY MUCH DISAGREE WITH YOUR SOCIALIST LEANINGS, IN THAT, EVEN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION CAME TO REALIZE IT IS ONLY THROUGH A FREE MARKET ECONOMY THAT WEALTH IS CREATED. AS GREAT AS NKRUMAH WAS AND PROBABLY STILL IS, SINCE "NKRUMAH NEVER DIES", HIS BIGGEST FAULT WAS SOCIALIST ECONOMIC POLICIES WHICH RUINED THE ECONOMY. I MUST ADMIT THAT POLITICALLY AND TO SOME EXTENT ECONOMICALLY, NKRUMAH IS THE BEST LEADER GHANA HAS EVER HAD.
KB 10 years ago

Was 31st movement a front for Rawlingses to amass wealth? JJ just said his wife acquired property for herself legitimately using 31st movement. This is sad if he did not misspeak. Then he has no moral legs to stand on.

Was 31st movement a front for Rawlingses to amass wealth? JJ just said his wife acquired property for herself legitimately using 31st movement. This is sad if he did not misspeak. Then he has no moral legs to stand on.
Kwasi 10 years ago

Power-drunk disappointed philipo shut your beak up!

Power-drunk disappointed philipo shut your beak up!
GABRIEL QUARM KUTU 10 years ago

Till a new Rawlings emerge from the military Ghana will still grow backwards. can't just believe our leaders travel outside see massive development and can't implement this in the country, but rather connive with foreigners t ...
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Till a new Rawlings emerge from the military Ghana will still grow backwards. can't just believe our leaders travel outside see massive development and can't implement this in the country, but rather connive with foreigners to rob the country of it limited resources. We are not serious as people and a state.
like the truth 10 years ago

How old are you?

How old are you?
lydia.usa 10 years ago

I agree with you Gabriel another Rawlings should come and save ghanaians from the chinese illegalls
and the woyomes Mahama and co

I agree with you Gabriel another Rawlings should come and save ghanaians from the chinese illegalls
and the woyomes Mahama and co
km agyin 10 years ago

Our past leaders except a few have continually run this country down, especially the military regimes. There has been so much disruption to our march forward towards becoming a prosperous nation. Sadly some of our more recent ...
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Our past leaders except a few have continually run this country down, especially the military regimes. There has been so much disruption to our march forward towards becoming a prosperous nation. Sadly some of our more recent governments continued to let this country down. Corruption now is unprecedented. Look at what is happening now. I am talking about the threat to our environment and natural resources posed by galamsey, especially the Chinese with their heavy machinery, decimating our rivers and forests, killing and raping our people and the government does nothing to stop it. Look at the poverty all over the place. It takes a brave man to remain patriotic to such a country. After all, who is willing to die for a country that does little for you. Look at our body politics of today. We only insult each other and seek our own selfish interests first at the expense of the nation, instead of standing together to resist and defend our motherland from this colonization of the Chinese and send these misfits back to where they belong. Our leaders must first show patriotism by doing for the people first before they do it for themselves. Let's stop pitching tribe against each other. Let our country earn patriotism from us.
KOMLA TULASI 10 years ago

jj rawlings. How patriotic are you. You forcibly took over power and together with your wife and others, raped the country and bled it dry from its resources, including sale of state organisations and enterprises under the ...
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jj rawlings. How patriotic are you. You forcibly took over power and together with your wife and others, raped the country and bled it dry from its resources, including sale of state organisations and enterprises under the guise of diversiture, etc. etc. including unlawful acquisition of lands. Don't continue to think that Ghanaians are fools; you dirty PSYCHOPATH. DON'T BLAME ANYBODY FOR THE CURRENT SITUATION IN GHANA AS GHANA'S RETROGRESSION IS DUE TO YOUR STUPIDTY AND GREED. YOU WERE NOT ASHAMED TO ATTEND B.A. MENSAH'S FUNERAL WHEN YOU LABELLED HIM A 'THIEF' AND TOOK OVER THIS FACTORY WHICH YOU HANDED OVER TO YOUR BROTHER IN LAW. RAWLINGS, YOU ARE NOT A SAINT AND IT IS ABOUT TIME YOU STOP THE STUPID LIES. YOU ARE FORTUNATE THAT GHANAIANS HAVE SPARED YOU AND YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE WALKING FREE. AS A GOING STATE 'EVER LET YOUR WORDS BE SWEET BECAUSE YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU MAY EAT THEM' . YOU STATED THAT YOU SHOULD BE TAKEN TO THE STAKES TO BE SHOT IF YOU FAILED. I THINK IT IS ABOUT TIME YOU SURRENDER YOURSELF TO BE SHOT AS INDICATED AS YOUR SO CALLED EVIL REVOLUTION HAVE FAILED GHANA!!!! IT IS ABOUT TIME GHANAIANS STOP THE SO CALLED JUNE 4 CELEBRATION OTHERWISE WE ARE GIVING CREDENCE TO YOUR EVIL DOINGS AND GHANA'S DOWNFALL.
Onuado 10 years ago

Please stop casting dust over the eyes of our inocent brothers and sisters. You care not or have any notion what PATROTISM actually stands for. SO STOP IGNORANT MINORITY IN GHANA and around theContinent of Africa. Cherio..... ...
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Please stop casting dust over the eyes of our inocent brothers and sisters. You care not or have any notion what PATROTISM actually stands for. SO STOP IGNORANT MINORITY IN GHANA and around theContinent of Africa. Cherio............
Onuado 10 years ago

JJ,you know for sure that Patrotisim is the least of your vision as far as Ghana is concerned.You are the last to believe this is one of the fruits of your own attitute.

JJ,you know for sure that Patrotisim is the least of your vision as far as Ghana is concerned.You are the last to believe this is one of the fruits of your own attitute.

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