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Top lawyers run for cover

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  • Nyansasem Lola, Washington DC 10 years ago

    ....WILL ALWAYS WIN THESE CASES AGAINST NDC

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Was there any case against NDC? I thought Real Honourable Martin Amidu went to court to claim Ghana money for Ghanaians. Did NDC get part of the money?

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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author: ORM...

    Even though the supreme court judges deferred to the lower courts to decide on Woyome, they fired a critical salvo against lawyers in the cases- Peasah Boadu for Waterville, Osafo Buabeng for Woyome, Tony Li ...
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  • AWUNI 10 years ago

    MAHAMA KNOWS ABOUT ALL THESE AND STILL CHOSE TO GIVE MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT TO THESE CROOKS. NOTHING CAN EXONORATE MAHAMA FOR DOING THIS. HE DEFINITELY HAS A SHARE IN THE BOOTY.

  • DAVI 10 years ago

    The Souls of Our killed citizens by J.J.Rawlings and Boachie Gyan will Never Rest until all the Crimes and Corruptions in AFRC-P/NDC Comes Out.WHY WAS COL.YAW BOACHIE KILLED?JUST FOR 50,000.00 1978 CEDIS BANK LOAN,GOD IS ALIV ...
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  • YOOOO 10 years ago

    he Souls of Our killed citizens by J.J.Rawlings and Boachie Gyan will Never Rest until all the Crimes and Corruptions in AFRC-P/NDC Comes Out.WHY WAS COL.YAW BOACHIE KILLED?JUST FOR 50,000.00 1978 CEDIS BANK LOAN,GOD IS ALIVE ...
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  • ABBA 10 years ago

    NO WONDER SOME PEOPLE CALL NDC "AKATA BONE SO" I AM NOT TRYING TO BRAND NDC MEMBERS AS CRIMINALS BUT I AM TRYING TO SAY THAT ALL THE NATION'S ROTTEN, CORRUPT CRIMINALS, NATION WRECKERS, AND FRAUDSTERS HAVE RUN FOR COVER UNDER ...
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  • BAD MOUTH 10 years ago

    Yea, dream on fellow Ghanaian. If you think anyone is going to be prosecuted, think again. My party NPP did it with Kuffours involvement. NDC got just happen to be caught.
    That is Ghana for you my friends. Wake up people

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    The NDC so-called politicians who are the most violent and murderers Cows in our country has planned to kill some of the Supreme court Judges if they found them guilty of their conspiracy with Afari Djan to rob the consience ...
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  • Bonsu 10 years ago

    That is Rawling's Messiah for you.
    How hypocrite???? or is it that THE DOG IS NOW WELL FED????

  • ANTHONY ARTHUR 10 years ago

    THROW THE CRIMINAL TONY INTO JAIL

  • Visionary 10 years ago

    Fellows, I ask you to stay calm. Its just a matter of time that Thief Former President Kufour and his co-host will be brought to the books.
    Do you vividly remember the drums beat that Kufour and his gangs beat during his t ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

    WE THANK GOD FOR THE LIFE OF ST. MARTIN AMIDU. IT COULD BE RECALLED THAT, EVIL CORRUPT NDC BASTARDS SACKED ST. MARTIN FOR DEFENDING THE POOR PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. TO BE PRECISE, FOR FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN EVIL NDC GOVERNMEN ...
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  • MAMA G 10 years ago

    I am unable to watch the TV channels. How do I go about it.

  • EEEEHHHUUUOOOOOO!!!!! 10 years ago

    I AM PROUD OF NDC AND NPP FOLLOWERS TODAY. GUYS YOU'VE ALL MADE ME A PROUD GHANAIAN TODAY. I AM VERY MUCH IMPRESSED THEY WAY ALL OF YOU HAVE DISCARDED YOUR PARTY AFFILIATIONS AND HAVE COME TOGETHER TO HAIL OUR ONE AND ONLY H ...
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  • ADENKULE 10 years ago

    MAHAMA, WHERE ARE YOU? ASIEDU NKETIA, WHERE ARE YOU? OYE LITHUR, WHERE ARE YOU? GHANA IS BLEEDING!!

    WE ARE ALL ATTENTIVELY WATCHING THE ACTION THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL WILL TAKE TO GET RID OF ALL AFFECTED CORRUPT LAWYERS ...
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  • decent 10 years ago

    aren't u aware?they shared de money among themselves. they will vomit it out.we live to see

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  • Asempanaye 10 years ago

    So you mean the judgement debt was actually an NDC invention to loot the state? And you don't see anything wrong with a party colluding to steal or rape the national coffers when Ghana cannot even feed its children in school ...
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  • Aba 10 years ago

    NDC folks are CRIMINALS in the highest order! They are common thieves!

  • Ty 10 years ago

    How would you have voted - guilty or not guilty?

  • ECOMINI 10 years ago

    Was this an NDC case Lola of Washington. a group of people have stolen monies belonging to the state and you say the court is NPP-packed when no mention of NDC has been made. Is Amidu an NPP man? Lola This shows how stupid an ...
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  • AKONFEM ERROR PREZ 10 years ago

    CRIMINALS CORRUPTS EVIL DWARFS PARTY NDC SHAME ON THEM,HUUUUUUUUUU

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    William Easterly, an ex-World Bank economist and widely respected growth theorist, in recently noting that skilled individuals may elect to pursue occupations that redistribute income rather than enhance growth, referred to ...
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  • WE ARE ALL ONE BODY AS JESUS SAID 10 years ago

    LEAVE LAWYERS ALONE. THE JUDGES WE ARE PRAISING FOR AGREEING WITH MARTIN, THE HERO LAWYER, ARE ALL LAWYERS. MARTIN DID WHAT HE DID BECAUSE OF HIS TRAINED LEGAL MIND. EVERY SOCIETY NEEDS ALL PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS. REMEMB ...
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  • Nzema K 10 years ago

    Nkwasiasem ara kwa. what kind of reporting is this. Aboa funu.

  • Smart Frempah, UK 10 years ago

    So you don't understand what is all written here? God save us.

  • SUMA 10 years ago

    YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE TAKE COVER. HOW CAN YOU CONTRIBUTE MEANINGFULLY TO ANY DEBATE? U LACK WORDS, SO THE LITTLE YOU CAN SAY IS TO INSULT. FOOLISH TALK ONLY, CRITERIA FOR NDC MEMBERSHIP.

  • Yaw Asamoah 10 years ago

    INDICT,SUBPOENA,SUE AND JAIL THESE GONIFFS.

  • Coalition Against Fraud. 10 years ago

    Let's recall what J.J. Rawlings did to Acheampong, Akuffo, Utuka, Felli, Kotei, Amedume, Afrifa, and others. Did these men, now dead, commit any crimes worse than what Woyome, his cohorts in crime, and these lawyers now 'runn ...
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  • Kofi Asaase Asa--- Mantukwa 10 years ago

    How can Mr. Tony Lithur speak again at the Supreme Court?

    Would he be able to make any noise again at the Supreme court?

    Would he be able to challenge Mr. Phillip Addison again at the Supreme Court?

    I think he would ...
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  • NII ARMAH. 10 years ago

    THEY ARE ALL A DISGRACE.

  • Kodwo 10 years ago

    These people know no shame.

    In the U.K. and U.S.A. and other Western Democracies, these people, mentioned in the Chronicle Article, would have resigned, long ago.

    I am surprised, to say the least, that Barton Odro is st ...
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  • mazacs 10 years ago

    that is a lie

  • Kaduna Mafia 10 years ago

    at least the court is exerting its independence ....a hopeful sign and oasis amid a sea of confusion and corruption....the rule of law is the first step towards development and civility....mahama should purge the administrati ...
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  • k1k1k1 10 years ago

    the rule of law is the way to develop a nation.The root cause of all the problems in developing countries is the lack of and respect for law. until such a tine when all will be equal before the law, Africans will continue to ...
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  • Asempa Beba Dabi 10 years ago

    Hmm, asem Beba Dabi!

  • Smart Frempah, UK 10 years ago

    The state of Ghana coffers is like a milking cow. It looks like there should be a revolt somewhere. Not to overthrow the government but to overthrow some institutional leaders. Prisons were built for a reason and these peo ...
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  • mazacs 10 years ago

    this is a lie

  • fj 10 years ago

    tony lithur is hot.lawyer paani.

  • BA 10 years ago

    NZEMA K SHOULD GO BACK TO LEARN TO READ

  • HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

    If this is true, Mr. President its time to clean the house.Don,t allow any sycophant to dent your pride.We were taught to be objective and sincere in our actions in dealing with others.If any of your subordinates did anything ...
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  • KANIBA 10 years ago

    ATTA-MESS WAS ONLY SLEEPING IN THAT SLAVE CASTLE.

  • Kofi B. Shepherd Yeboa 10 years ago

    IT'S ALL PURE AND NAKED ROBBERY!

    ALL THE PERSONALITIES INVOLVED MUST BE MADE TO COUGH UP THESE COLOSSAL SUMS OF MONEY; IF NOT, ALL THEIR ASSETS MUST BE CONFISCATED AND SOLD TO REDEEM THE MONIES.

    "SOME OF THESE MONIES C ...
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  • AWUNI 10 years ago

    EI!! SO MAHAMA KNOWS THAT WHEN YOU PAIR TWO CRIMINALS YOU GET POSITIVE RESULTS. HENCE, SELECTING THE NATION'S TWO OF THE MOST CRIMINAL LAWYERS TO REPRESENT HIM. AMEN.

  • shinny 10 years ago

    Put all of them to jail, this the nature of ndc layers, they are crook of only scooping nation covers, they have no heart for Ghana,

  • Jonas 10 years ago

    "The court held that Mr. Kofi Peasah-Buadu, lawyers for Waterville and Woyome, were collusive, collaborative and made the fraudulent representation that enabled them to expropriate the resources of the sovereign people of Gha ...
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  • \Canadasheabutter(GhanaUpper W\est Re 10 years ago

    ALL THESE STATE SABOTEURS & WRECKERS ACCOMPLIANCES , SHOULD BE TRIED UNDER DUE PROCESS IF FOUND GUILTY HEFTY JAIL SENTENCES HANDED TO THEM AND THE KEYS OF NSAWAM THROWN AWAY.

    THEY PRACTICING WHITE COLLAR CRIMES AGAINST THE ...
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  • KWAKU ALHASSAN 10 years ago

    Tony lithur is a crimenal

  • kusa 10 years ago

    the image says it all!!!africans still behaving like idiots...look at the ridiculous wigs!! Is this 12th Century England or modern Ghana!

  • ALL PROFESSIONS HAVE ROBES 10 years ago

    THE ROBES DODNT MATTER. IT IS NOT DIFFERENT FROM THE ROBES WON ON GRADUATION IN THE UNIBVERSITIES BY ALL CIVLISED PRIOSSIONS , THE ACEDEMIC HOODS AND CAPS AND CAPTHE SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT'S ROBES, THE CHORISTERS ROBES, THE DO ...
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  • KETA BOY 10 years ago

    Nations are not wealthy based on their resources but the values they uphold. Until we established strong values we should forget about developing.

  • WHAT IS GHANA POLICE DOING? 10 years ago

    Ghana Police do your job!!! These NDC free-loaders must go to JAIL!!!!!

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    Is it not the same judiciary who freed Mpianim, Wereko brobbey and others who stole hundreds of millions of dollars yet they have the audacoty to pontificate.

  • DKB 10 years ago

    They judiciary freed your mother and your father, stupid bastard. F**k off with your stupidity. With arse holes like you as citizens how can this country progress. Stupid fool.

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    President Mahama need to shake up this supreme court who have no problem handing legal ownership of a state bungalow to Jake Obitsebi Lamptey yet has the audacity to question lawyers who have every right to defend citizens o ...
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  • Close observer 10 years ago

    It is a new dawn, can't you see it, fool? You either hail those who loot the nation like you are foolishly doing or you help root out corruption in Ghana. Emulate Martin Amidu, a true patriot and a good citizen of Ghana and S ...
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  • David 10 years ago

    The court never said money paid to Woyome was unconstitutional. Woyome is before a High Court. Why do you guys twist the truth?

  • Murder by the Book 10 years ago

    The other day the Swiss president stated that it is impossible for the Swiss police and judiciary to be bought. That might be a bit far-fetched, but it points to an overwhelming behaviour/culture of R-E-S-P-E-C-T FOR SELF AND ...
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  • Murder by the Book 10 years ago

    Oh Lord save Ghanaian children from Ghanaian thief thief thief adults

  • MANNY 10 years ago

    They are all criminals. Jail them all.

    Well done Mr. Martin Amidu.

  • Aponkye Kpegah 10 years ago

    Look at this useless lawyer called Tony Lithur who made judgment debt claims on Ghana Government with a liquidated Austrian company. And this is the calibre of person representing Mahama as lead counsel in the on-going electi ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    The concern citizens of Ghanaians abroad such as America, Canada, London, Germany, Italy, Australia and Holland, is appealing to the highest court of our country to throw the petitioners foolish and diabolical case that is ha ...
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  • Close observer 10 years ago

    God will punish you for your foolishness. Nonsense, BBC NEWS INDEED! Talk about the good work of Martin Amidu, a true patriot and a good citizen of Ghana. STOP helping criminals to loot the nations wealth, unless you are one. ...
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  • agbodo 10 years ago

    IT IS PITTY TO CONTINUE READING FROM bbc news THAT WHICH IS OFFENSIVE AND UNCIVILIZED , WHY SHOULD THE PETITIONER,S BE THROWN OUT , JUST LOOK AT THE WAY AFARI GYAN HAD MESSED UP HIMSELF BY SERIOUS CONTRADICTIONS AS STAR WITNE ...
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  • Alpha 10 years ago

    NPP and NDC lawyers and politicians are all morally and legally corrupt. What matters to them is not the interest of Ghana but their own warped financial self interest.

  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    When Addison said "I don't trust them one bit" repeatedly, some of the judges spoke on behalf of Thorny Luthur and Tsatstu Tsikata (the armed robber), trying to make it look as if Addison was in contravention of the law. Soon ...
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  • ACCRAMAN 10 years ago

    Can someone advise these lawyers to remove the weaves on their head so they can think properly.

  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    There is not a single person in the NDC to brass who is any honest than this cohort of lawyers and not excluding the founder. The solution is to wipe out the NDC. Are Ghanaians reading these reports?

  • EEEEEEHHHHHOOOOOO!!!! 10 years ago

    MY HEADING SHOULD BE " I AM PROUD OF NDC AND NPP SUPPORTERS

  • PKP 10 years ago

    LOOK AT THE LIST OF LAWYERS INVOLVED. THEY ARE ALL MAHAMA S TRUSTED LAWYERS.IS GHANA IS GHANA IN GOOD HANDS?

  • Jojo 10 years ago

    People like nyansasem Lola will all the time write down funny things---many are talking about Ghana and he is adoring A political party----please be a bit serious for our dear nation

  • NPPsupporter 10 years ago

    The Ghana Bar Association should sanction all these lawyers and bar them from practicing law in Ghana. These are thieves and crocks. I wish someone sue all these lawyers in court

  • KOW Amisah 10 years ago

    This is a shame. Somebody steals a goat and is jailed for two years. i am not sayiing stealing is good. All i wish to say is that if what we are reading is true then these lawyers have no bussiness to be walking around free.

  • ABOKYI 10 years ago

    MAHAMA IS A TOOTHLESS DOG UNDER WHOSE EYES ALL THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING. SINCE PRAYERS CANNOT LET NDC GOVERNMENT CHANGE, I THINK WE NEED TO GO POUR LIBATION EITHER AT LARTEH, AKONNEDI, OR KWAKU FRI SHRINE IN THE ASHANTI RE ...
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  • KOFI LAMPTEY 10 years ago

    Plain old wolves and their puppies entered the ndc succeeded in destroying it totally ....names like evil attamills, evil bettymould, evil barto-odro, evil okudzeto ablakwah, evil asiedu nketia, evil evil evil.....and they ha ...
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  • GHANA FIRST 10 years ago

    can somebody help? i WANT TO BE A LWYER TO HELP SAVE GHANA
    E mail me if you are realy serious
    kingdomlife24@yahoo.com

  • Akora. 10 years ago

    This is the time BNI should act swiftly. They should be on the heels of the collaborators now for us to see the kind of work they are supposed to do.

  • kwam 10 years ago

    how on earth can Lawyers who have been trained to defend the rule of law, behave in these manner because of money? Ghana is boomed. Have we Ghanians benefited from your intellectuals? Are they not the cause of our problems?

  • Concern Ghanian 10 years ago

    THANK GOD WE HAVE ONE SINCERE GHANAIAN MARTIN AMIDU TO STAND BY HIS COUNTRY. THE GOVERMENT IS, THE MORE YOU NAKED THE COUNTRY, THE MORE YOU LOOT THE NATION, THE HIGHER YOUR POST. GOD WILL HEAR THE CRY, THE HUNGRY PEOPLE IN GH ...
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  • Concern Ghanian 10 years ago

    I THINK WAYOME MENTION NAMES? CALL ALL THESE PEOPLE TO FIND OUT THE ROLE IN THIS CASE

  • Serviceman 10 years ago

    Where are you BASTARDS going with all the money, when pregnant women are dying, children dying from common ailments such as malaria,no good drinking water for the masses.. the list is endless. Yet one person gathers so much f ...
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  • Alhaji Brutus 06.18 600 10 years ago

    Armed Robbers as lawyers.

  • Abba 10 years ago

    THE SPIRIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS TOTALLY DEAD BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS LOOTED THE COFFERS OF THE NATION.

  • Abba 10 years ago

    NOW IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO WERE EXECUTED ARE INNOCENT.

  • AKONFEM ERROR PREZ 10 years ago

    THEY MUST BE IN JAIL PERIOD,USELESS INCOMPETENT,MA´HAMA IS A THIEF,MILLS TIME AND NOW,MAHAMA SAID HE CHOP ALL GHANA MONEY,LEFT BONES NOW,HOW AND WHY,OH GHANA DOD SAVE GHANAOOOOOOOOO,HMMMMMM,NSEM PII

  • Skotsman 10 years ago

    Really, this is to indicate that Mahama is part of the deal. Let's see how they retrieve the money. They must give us timelines to get us our money back.
    You will see they will delay in the retrieval and, later tell us Water ...
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  • WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR AGAIN? 10 years ago

    THE NDC STINKS OF CORRUPTION, EAT CORRUPTION, INHALE CORRUPTION, SMOKE CORRUPTION, SH1TS CORRUPTION. TO BE PRECISE THE NDC IS CORRUPT IN ITS EYES, EARS, BONE MARROW, NOSE AND EVERYWHERE!!!!!!! SHOULD GHANAIANS SIT DOWN FOR TH ...
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  • Mamaa Mamprobi 10 years ago

    Disgraceful Ghanaian lawyers. That is all they are about. Hope the Ghana Bar Association will finally wake up and clean up their members. Corruption is too deep in their system. The Bar doesn't seem to be the honourable prof ...
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  • WILLIE 10 years ago

    If things will continue this way we will surely be getting closer to the promised land sooner. May God help us.

  • CONCERNED GHANAIANS 10 years ago

    Mr Amidu has shown what wise people and concerned citizens do - speak less and act more. We need more of such people in Ghana; in fact in places of trust. Are you there? Please make yourselves known.

  • It's no joke 10 years ago

    It is about time the GBA started a root and branch clear out of the criminal, unprofessional and incompetent lawyers who hide under the cloak of respectabilty that the qualification bestowed on them by the Association gives t ...
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  • NYATE FE 10 years ago

    IT IS EXTREMELY VERY APPALING TO SEE THOSE LAWYERS, JUDGES COVER THEIR HEADS WITH THE COLONIAL WHATEVER THEY CALL IT. GET THEM SOME KETE/KENTE CLOTH TO COVER THEIR HEADS.PATRIOTISM AND NATIONALISM IS VERY IMPORTANT HERE.

  • Efua 10 years ago

    That's why Ghana is poor . If you we have guys like Mr Barton-Odro and Tony Lithur as leaders in the country

  • frank 10 years ago

    plasea call me on 004915217127283,i like you very much

  • BE SMART 10 years ago

    MAHAMA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOK UP,FOR DECEIVERS ARE CROWING SLOWLY INTO THE SUPREME COURT TO ROB HIS OFFICIALS FROM COMPETENT PERSONS LIKE LITHUR WHO HAS BEEN A THORN IN NPP'S FLESH.HE NEEDS TO BE VIGILENT.

  • Danny Bless 10 years ago

    "Law Should be like death,which spares no one" said Philosopher Montesquieu.There is no Cover for them....!!

  • Jeff, UK 10 years ago

    That is how they have made monies all this while, I mmean by fraudulent means. Now the cat is out of the bag. GH is watching how they get treated. GH would love to see them thrown into jail

  • martin's wig others hv specialrobes t 10 years ago

    LEAVE LAWYERS ALONE. IT IS NOT LAWYERS ROBES THAT IS THE PROBLEM FOR GHANA. THEN THE CHORISTERS MUST STOP WEARING THE ROBES AND THE SOLDIERS THEIR CEREMONIL DRESSES AND ALSO ACADEMIC GOWNS SHOULD NO LONGER BE WON BECAUSE THE ...
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  • Ghana Nii ba 10 years ago

    NDC corrupt Lawyers defending corrupt and error president.
    God will punish you all for looting our nation.

  • PILLARS 10 years ago

    NDC IS A SHIT

  • Sam 10 years ago

    the so called layers looted this country.

  • KOLA DE IDIOT 10 years ago

    Martin, the gods of Ghana, orphans and widows and the misappropriated poor of Ghana thank you, may you live longer and stay blessed

  • THANK YOU.. 10 years ago

    PLEASE YOUR TEXT HERE HAS PUT TEARS IN MY EYES..

  • Koo 10 years ago

    FIRE BURN THESE WICKED LEADERS