Arrest of three arson suspects: NPP alleges witch-hunt

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  • ' and Jesus wept ' 12 years ago

    Here we go again. Where is lawyer Atta Akyea?

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 12 years ago

    The fowl struggles it out when death in on.

  • OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

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    Okudzeto must be investigated. he was all over the place canvassing for this spanish co. to be paid this money. An please remember, Martin Amidu hinted that okudzeto ...
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  • UTER 12 years ago

    THIS IS THE REALL TRUTH

  • POP 12 years ago

    GHANA BOKU HARAM IS IN BAWKU; NOW NPP IS USING THEM

  • LAWYER 12 years ago

    THE WENT TO USE THE BAWKU PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY AT WAR: THIS IT THE SAME METHOD USED IN BAWKU

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  • mRNA + tRNA 12 years ago

    NPP is scared their diabolical plan to destroy Ghana would be exposed!!!! Oh NPP stop being the stupid party

  • KOFI ADJEI 12 years ago

    THAT BEHAVIOUR OF NPP WILL NEVER STOP; THE ARE EVIL BUT HAVE FEARS AT THE SAME TIME; SO THE GO IN FOR THE STRONG NORTHERNES TO DO ALL THEIR EVIL PLANS

  • krikri 12 years ago

    that have specialized in chewing electric cables ONLY IN MARKETS. As for this type of nation wreckers, I have never seen such before

  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    pepeni like all evil men in history is saying its God who gave him victory , hitler , stalin and all the intrinsically evil men including satan also claimed the same. pepeni has put only his own muslim pepefuo in charge of al ...
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  • SARA 12 years ago

    I AM FROM BAWKU AND I WILL SUPPORT THEIR ARREST: NPP IS REALLY BEHIND ALL THESE NONSENSE:

  • UTER 12 years ago

    THIS BAWKU GUYS ARE MORE THAN BOKU HARAM: THE LOVE WAR AND TERROR

  • LAWYER 12 years ago

    i will not denied it, this exactly the method used in bawku for their war, by burning houses and shops

  • KOFI ADJEI 12 years ago

    THAT IS THE HANDWORK OF NPP; THE WILL ALWAYS USE THE POOR NORTHERNES FOR ALL THEIR EVIL DOES

  • Frimpong, Germany 12 years ago

    Stupid man. Your English is not good and you don't keep quiet.

  • KOGFI 12 years ago

    BUT HIS MESSAGE IS GOOD? YOU ARE REALLY A TALLERWÄSHCE IN GERMANY: GERMANS BELIEVE IN MASSAGE NOT GRAMMA AND YOU KNOW IT; IF ONLY YOU ARE FROM GERMANY YOU WILL NOT WRITE WHAT YOU WROTE:

  • Bless 12 years ago

    In this our time, someone can put out this? God save us.

  • LAWYER 12 years ago

    bawku people really use burning as their war guns. it peins to hear that npp went there to hire them.

  • Nana 12 years ago

    why NPP is using pepeni Dr. Bawumia as their star withness in on going election case in court?NPP are full of cowards and always need pepeni to lead them when things are thouth.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 12 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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  • GHANANI 12 years ago

    Th killing of Afrifa was a masterful display of good judgement by the AFRC.Look at the damage the coup of 1966 has done to the nation.No wonder Kotoka was also killed by Yeboah and Arthur.They pulled the sword and died by the ...
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  • GHANAVIO 12 years ago

    So he who has pulled the sword is always sitting on his hind legs with his antennaized ears and will flee for dear life at the slightest commotion.

  • DER GBAALE 12 years ago

    If this was witch hunt, why did the Policee not arrest you, or arrest me? Why would the Police target the very ones whom they have arrested? You are Politically biased

  • ......... 12 years ago

    Ghanaians,do not forget that the fire outbreaks are the handwork of npp.Remember that idiot who said their that sir john,akotk osei&co should alloe them to bomb school set fire at the markets to kill schoolchildren etc to pav ...
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  • Paul Amuna 12 years ago

    If the security authorities have arrested "suspects", why don't we all wait for them to conduct their investigations? Where is the "witch hunt" coming from? What do you really want? should we get to the bottom of the causes o ...
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  • bumbos 12 years ago

    don't mind this npp people. ghanains should be careful in joining this party. even their learned ones too are talking this way! are they the 666 that is prophesied of to come in the last days? god save our beloved country gha ...
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  • IKE 12 years ago

    why do we as ghanaians involves polities in everything that happens in the country. God have mercy on us.

  • Iwan 12 years ago

    The Asantehene said it. Very soon NPP Doctors will treat NPP members otherwise if they die, they died b'cos they are NPP. How silly are we going with democracy

  • KOLA PROGRESSING FORWARD 12 years ago

    Catching a thief and not mentioning their names or showing who they are to the public isn't politics ? When are you NDC educated illiterates going stop exposing your foolishness to the whole world to see ?

  • JA Kuffour 12 years ago

    Go go go to the high court Aboa ba

  • BOMBER 12 years ago

    There is always meaning to all moves by the NPP when analysed criticallty. criminals burning markets have been arrested and a promoninent member of the NPP is inpugning "witch Hunt'What does this guy know that we do not know ...
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  • ALHAJI MORO 12 years ago

    HOW CAN YOU INSULT A GROWN UP AS IF YOU COME FROM A GOOD FAMILY .LOOK AT YOUR FATHER WHO FAILED TO EDUCATE YOU.GET A CLOSE LOOK AT YOUR FAMILY AND TELL THE WHOLE WORLD THE NUMBER OF PROMENENT PERSONS YOU HAVE IN IT .NEXT TIME ...
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  • Abrantie-In Da House 12 years ago

    If it takes such people to be educated, then we will all rather prefare to be uneducated. Have you ever heard of an educated fool before? This Dr. in a way seems to be a typical example of such people, for playing politics wi ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 12 years ago

    Is Dr Owusu Afriyie-Akoto telling ghanaians that because the suspects are from Bawku and have sought shelter in Accra they cannot commit any crime?Let us wait for the outcome of the investigations which will either exonerat ...
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  • THOMPSON 12 years ago

    There they go again.Dr.Akoto, if these people are members of any other party in this ocuntry, could it be a witch-hunt? You see Ghana would be a better place without things like you.What kind of nonsense is that? Are you the ...
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  • NOKWARE 12 years ago

    Witch-hunt and foul play allegations-sign of stupidity and foolishness.NPP is truly anti-Ghana.

  • CECILIA AMPADU- KNUST 12 years ago

    IMAGINE A PERSON CALLING HIMSELF AS A DR. WITH PHD. SAYING THIS NONSENSE TO THE PUBLIC. IT MAKES ME SICK TO SAY PEOPLE HAVE TURNED THEIR ACADEMICS TO CRAZY THINKING AND LOOSE TALKS. PLEASE LETE TALK SENSE

  • john kuffour 12 years ago

    dr akoto am a die npp supporter but pls leave the politics out of this issue so we could the iminent truth of the matter,people are hidding behind political parties destroying huge amount of properties and when they are arre ...
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  • AZIZ 12 years ago

    who is these foolish stupid idiot dr wat is he talking about, people are loosing properties that they have work for some years now, that have been burn by some foolish uselless beings may allah punish ...
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  • AKU JASIKAN 12 years ago

    WHAT A RUBBISH,WHY NPP WILL JUMP INTO THIS?WHAT NONSENSE IS THAT,WHERE IS ATTA AKYEA NOW,IF ITS WITCH HUNT WHY NO ARRESTING ME OR YOU?

  • DAGABIE 12 years ago

    Why and how did Dr Afriyie-Akoto quickly establish and is attempting to politicise this Fire issue when people are being arrested?

    Some people are blaming AMA etc over these fire out breaks and when the Police is doing th ...
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  • Kk 12 years ago

    I said it already that its a big hoax.Why do we have fire out break yet after the arrest.it should ve been over by now. stop creating unnecessary tension between NPp & ndc.Idoits.

  • James B. Otafregya 12 years ago

    Ofui: those men may be part of a gang of arsonists, so that other gang members will still operate, until those arrested give hints as to who the others are and they are also arrested.

    You are free to use your brain a bit - ...
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  • Jato.P 12 years ago

    This is what politicians do and allow criminals to get away with crime. I believe if they are sent to court there are robust procedures to determine their guilt or otherwise. It is therefore reprehensible when a lawmaker jump ...
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  • James B. Otafregya 12 years ago

    If this Dr. Banza is 100% sure that the arrest is witch-hunting and that those 3 men are innocent, then he is 100% certain that he knows the real culprits.

    I wonder where most of these mushroom PhD holders get buy their ti ...
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  • Judgement Day 12 years ago

    From Amina Yutong to market fires witch hunt, they always have opposite views. The NPP man should note that the fires are not burning NDC markets. The victims of these market fires are our mothers, sisters, aunts, wives,relat ...
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  • Judgement Day 12 years ago

    The NPP say that the fires are caused by rats. These must be very well built rats, trained to operate in the markets at the weekends. Now the argument has shifted to with hunting. Let's wise up.

  • Speedy Gonzalez. 12 years ago

    Dr.Afriyie-Akoto,is this your definition of witch hunt?Criminals have been apprehended and a learned man like Akoto looks through his political lens,what a shameless man.How would you respect people like this? i am speechless ...
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  • fela 12 years ago

    so can we call this man too honourable?

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 12 years ago

    Why not? Just put ‘dis’ before his honourable and it will suit him perfectly fine, trust me.

  • Nii Ansah 12 years ago

    what a nation, everything is now politics, even fire out breaks has become politics!

  • MANU 12 years ago

    AS FOR THIS MY NPP PEOPLE TOO. HOW DID YOU KNOW IT IS WITCH HUNTING? MUST EVERYTHING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT BE NEGATED? LET THIS LOVELY COUNTRY MOVE ON. WE WERE SOOO EMBARASSED BY AMINA. YOU HAVE STARTED AGAIN. CAN'T THE DECENT ...
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  • Abongo 12 years ago

    Here we go again NPP please give us a brake.

  • JA Kuffour 12 years ago

    These guys?????

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 12 years ago

    THE KULUNGUNGU BOYS ARE BACK TO BOMB! THESE SAME BAWKU BOYS WHOSE FATHERS BOMBED PREZ KWAME NKRUMAH IN THE INSTANCE OF TH DANQUAHBUSIA TRADITION ARE BACK TO TOWN DOING THE FIRE BOMBING AND AGAIN. THEY MUST BE DEALT WITH MERCI ...
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  • ALI 12 years ago

    STOP TALKING THIS SHIT AND SPEAK SOME SENSE!

  • OMANBA 12 years ago

    Ali,have you forgotten Mama Tula who was recruited by messers Danquah,Busia and Obetsebi Lamptey to throw bombs at Osagyefo?The Danquah/Busia tradition is always using northeners to do their dirty works.

  • ebo kobina 12 years ago

    HIS NAME WAS MALAM TULA , A DIE HARD MEMBER OF THE MOST CRIMINAL PARTY OF OUR TIME , FORMER (UP)UNITED PARTY NOW NPP WHICH HAS THE SAME IDIOLOGY ,DISTROY IF IT DOES NOT BENEFIT YOU. MALAM TULA WAS ALSO DOUBLING AS THE JUJU MA ...
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  • Emmanuel Ayivi 12 years ago

    TROKOSI AMETOWE IS GHANA'S FIRST BOMB THROWER.

  • JAYTEE 12 years ago

    some of these guys in npp are so stupid... here we are with a problem confronting us, and here we are with suppected people.. lets find out if its true or not.. its all in the betterment of Ghana not anyone.. and u guys come ...
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  • fela 12 years ago

    before u know this Mp is behind the fires

  • Kwabena Ntow 12 years ago

    Was it not the same people who said the announcement of arrests was a hoax and only a face-saving PR gimmick? How come they are now claiming ownership of the arrested suspects?

    So arrests were made after all.

  • asa 12 years ago

    it is only in Ghana that the opposition party interjects politics to a national tradegy. They npp must allow police and the investigation to be devoid of politics. The women and traders who have lost their daily lively hood m ...
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  • osei yao 12 years ago

    What is wrong with these NPP diehards. NPP members never do wrong! The police arrest people only those who have been fingered by the President! A party seek to rule the nation yet bent on discrediting every state institution! ...
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  • Min tua 12 years ago

    Agitations and name callings will not solve issues. Let the law work. Why term this witch hunt. Or you know those who are behind the fires

  • Berko 12 years ago

    NPP, there you are!

  • capt ninepence 12 years ago

    the chairman of the npp is not an intelligent man at all. how could he open his goddamn mouth and say mice are the cause of fires in our markets? has he been to America before? if not he should just go to Bronx, new York city ...
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  • fakum 12 years ago

    NPP were behind all this fire and you could see the way they were so desperate that would be exposed.

  • oppoosinii 12 years ago

    Why is NPP so quick in defending these men when the charges are not even been brought yet? Are the victims of the markets not from both political party therefore it makes sense for all of us to rather have the victims plight ...
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  • Jeff, UK 12 years ago

    THere are so many Bawku indigenes walking around. Where were these one arrested. In any case, if there are witches, they need to hunted

  • Natural Mystic 12 years ago

    How come that in Ghana, everything is reduced to politics?

  • paa otoo 12 years ago

    no RATIONAL being will talk like that owusu Akoto.

  • mohammed sulley. 12 years ago

    COULD THESE MEN BE THE ARSONIST IN GHANA FIRES? OR THIS IS JUST A WITCH HUNT BY THE NDC GOVT?

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  • KYESUURI-KALEO 12 years ago

    OH NDC GOV'T BETTER FINDS SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEMS AND STOP ALL THESE NONSENCE

  • Jade 12 years ago

    Bunch of pure organic evil people - JJ created monsters burning from birth

  • TABIRI 12 years ago

    SO ITS TRUE NPP ARE BEHIND THIS FIRES, HMMMM, NATION WRECKERS

  • Jade 12 years ago

    Think, scumbag

  • Jade 12 years ago

    What else do you expect from these evil people. Bad leaders bring along bad omen to a country.

  • KT 12 years ago

    Why NPP quickly jumping the gun. Nobody knew the suspects were NPP supporters.

  • kwam 12 years ago

    Why can't Politicians think first about Ghana. If they are NPP members and so what? Those property destroyed
    belongs to both sides of the political divide.

  • Whatever 12 years ago

    The market women whose goods and properties have been burnt need to vent their anger by mounting a demonstration against the NPP at the NPP headquaters

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

    Crimes are committed and three people were arrested and only for this IDIOT to come out saying is witch-hunting.
    When is the police ever going to carry out their jobs without the intervention of these rats in politics?

  • CITIZEN 12 years ago

    Why would NDC witch-hunt'the nobodies' in NPP?The fact that Dr Akoto identified them as NPP gives credence to the fact that NPP is involved in burning the markets.Unfortunately,they are again using our innocent northern broth ...
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