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‘Ken should have been kept at the CID headquarters and not a prison’

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  • Ofosuhene 10 years ago

    Instead of u giving him advise to humble himself,u are rather saying this stupid thing

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    Moving prisoners is a normal occurrence; a normal safety procedure. Ghanaians need just to be disciplined.

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    You deserve what you are given.
    It is a bit too late for some people to acquire wisdom

  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 10 years ago

    V.I.P. = Vagabonds in power !

    Only the Ayigbe/Frafra extremists dominated NDC cabal currently in power, will visit such inhuman practises on a fellow Ghanaian, who didn't commit any evidential crime but just expressed his ...
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  • Dean 10 years ago

    Spewing hot air all over. Needs growing up.

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    Since before independence we have been plagued by all sorts of ruthless , vicious and willfully authoritative govts that all have one thing in common , denying the right of free speech and proper analysis of the motives and a ...
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  • They Say They Say 10 years ago

    Hahahaha mannnnn get off that stuff, ok? U got a little more left in your head hahahahahaaaa.

  • ACRI Mate 10 years ago

    NPP govt must fire the Director General of prisons for this unprofessional and political behavior.
    The people i hate most in my life are pprison officers and their wardens. They are so cheap that food belonging the inmates ...
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  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 10 years ago

    Left your brains in mama's womb ?

    When Tsatsu Tsikata stole our monies and gave it to Valley Farms and got his deserved jail term after a trial spanning over 4 years, and started doing his time at only Nsawam prisons, what ...
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  • Gyabaa 10 years ago

    Are you aware what Ghanaians are creating? You know Kufour was a nice person and did not want to harm anybody when he came. The reason was, doing that would have created a path for the politicians to follow.
    WHAT IS HAPPENIN ...
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  • DEE 10 years ago

    TRANSFARING PRISONERS IN THE NIGHT IS A SECURITY PRECAUTIONAL MEASURES DONE ALL OVER THE WORLD,WHAT IS THIS MP TALKING ABOUT?

  • GHANABA 1 10 years ago

    What do you mean by security measures? does such occur in Ghana?Do we have a so-called BNI? What is their job? Do you think Ken Kuranchie deserves such punishment? If so, then Boateng Gyan,Asiedu Nketiah and Atubiga should ha ...
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  • Zegbete 10 years ago

    He is an idiot. Birds of the same furthers ....

  • JOE ATISO 10 years ago

    WHEN WOULD YOU TROKOSI TRIBALIST,IDIOTS,COWARDS AND IGNORANT BUFFOONS LEARN TO REASON?YOU ARE HIDING BEHIND NAMES THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND TO SPEW YOUR GARBAGE AND HATRED FOR AKANS FORGETTING THAT NOTHING LASTS FOREVER!IF KU ...
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  • Joemens 10 years ago

    Ofusuhene or whatever you are .............................

  • agya koo 10 years ago

    bla bla bla

  • SIR OSMON 10 years ago

    Ken is a public figure so when keep at a particular prison tru his stay people or other prisoners may harm him.

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    That was never the intention behind this "SHOW OF POWER".

  • Tanko 10 years ago

    The MP for Asuogyaman should stop lecturing prison officers and quit politics to look after his sick wife,if he has got any reasonable duty of care.This guy will say anything just to heard but does not give a hoot about anybo ...
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  • SIR OSMOND 10 years ago

    TOO HUSH FOR HIM. TAKE EASY

  • Zegbete 10 years ago

    This man must not be be parliament because he does not even know the difference between someone who has been investigated in court already and sentenced.

    The CID only investigate crimes and in the process may decide to kee ...
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  • Zegbete 10 years ago

    This man must not be in parliament because he does not even know the difference between someone who has been investigated in court already and sentenced.

    The CID only investigate crimes and in the process may decide to kee ...
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  • ST SIMON 10 years ago

    WHEN TAPPING OF CONVERSATION STARTED WITH THE FORMER NPP CHAIRMAN, MR HARUNA ESSEKU, PEOPLE WERE HAPPY, THEY DID NOT CONDEMN IT. NOW SOMEBODY HAS BEEN IMPRISONED FOR SPEAKING HIS MIND AND AS USUAL PEOPLE ARE HAPPY. ITS NOW A ...
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  • kojo 10 years ago

    If u think u know more than the prison off's then pls take over from them immediately and stop making unnecessary noise.

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Another good example for the need of FREE EDUCATION in Ghana

  • KOFI B 10 years ago

    THIS IS A VERY NAIVE AND NONPLUS MP WHO IS MAKING THIS STATEMENT.HAS HE EVER SEEN ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO SERVE A JAIL TERM AND IS KEPT IN A CELL INSTEAD OF A PRISON.SHAAAAAME ONTO THIS MP

  • Taamiawu 10 years ago

    Why not rather The Flagstaff House!!!!!!!!!!!Is it because Ken belongs to NPP? CID HQ is not a prison. I am surprise that such an idea is coming from a learned person and an MP!

  • Yaw Amofa 10 years ago

    Did the law professor hear the Supreme Court sentence? It said "sentenced to jail". Once a jail sentence is pronounced on you, prison is your home! Ken Kuranchie is like any other Ghanaian, not a super- Ghanaian.

  • JOE ATISO 10 years ago

    SENTENCED TO JAIL DOESN'T MEAN ANY JAIL OR INHUMAN TREATMENT. IN ADVANCED AND LAW ABIDING NATIONS, JAIL OR INCACERATION ARE OF DIFFERENT FORMS DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF CRIME(S) COMMITTED.YOU CANNOT PUT A PERSON WHO HAS COMMIT ...
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  • Yaw Amofa 10 years ago

    You are showing your crass stupidty by trying to appear learned! Does every jurisdiction not have its own statutes? You keep quoting advanced countries all the time without thinking. Wha is advanced people grabbing machines g ...
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  • Ghanaian, NY 10 years ago

    Prison Officers at Ho explained that it is normal practice to move prisoners around for security reasons. If this is perceived inhumane why for centuries they have'nt condemned it nor done anything about it.

    Why now? Is it ...
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  • Kodjo 10 years ago

    Why are all NPP politicians supporting this irresponsible journalist on the contrary I haven't heard one NDC politician come out openly to defend Atubiga? We need our politicians to help the judiciary kerb this growing threat ...
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  • Kumah 10 years ago

    You are a disgrace to the learned profession. Just get out of you myopic environment. Courting cheap publicity. Are you really a lawyer?

  • osei yaw - london 10 years ago

    It beats the mind, that a senior Law lecturer in Ghana does not know, that CID Headquaters is not a Detention centre or a Prison; and that

    - Prison Governors do shift Prisoners from Prison to Prison daily without much ado ...
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  • Amina 10 years ago

    If that is what he is teaching at the university,then better he should rather be a student to Kpegah.

  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    Supreme Court Judges shouldnt be above the Law. We have a system that we follow to put somebody in Prison.
    People go to Prison after everything within the system (rehab)fails.
    If somebody is found quilty dont mean Prison.
    ...
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  • amass 10 years ago

    dis mp s very stupid indeed.who say man no dey?if u er a man ,make contemptuous comments n see.His transfer s in good order.

  • ABRAFI 10 years ago

    I HOPE AFTER HIS JAIL TERM KEN KURANCHIE WILL LEARN TO BE CIVIL AND RESPECT HIS ELDERS AND PEOPLE IN AUTHOURITY.
    KEN KURANCHIE WAS AT HIS INSULTING BEST DURING PRESIDENT MILLS TIME. HE DID NOT SHOW ANY RESPECT. SOME OF OUR ...
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  • KOKOLIKO 10 years ago

    People like these are suppose to make laws for mother Ghana. He does not even know that the Policein the performance of their functions are not suppose to punish or detain convicts. He is an apology of a member of Parliament. ...
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  • BARIMA OKYERE- DARKO,N Y, NY. 10 years ago

    I FIND IT VERY INTERESTING WHEN SOME GODLY CREATED MEN REFUSE TO REASON AND STOOP SO LOW VERY
    1)WHEN DID IT OCCUR TO THAT MP,THAT PRISONERS IN GHANA ARE MOVED FROM PRISON TO PRISON? OOH! IS IT ...
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  • OKYEREKYEREFO BA 10 years ago

    OKYERE DARKO WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE IF PEOPLE DECIDE TO CALL THE 37TH MILITARY HOSPITAL 37 FOR SHORT? YOU SHOWED YOUR IGNORANCE BY SAYING YOU ARE 100% AKUAPEM. FIRST OF ALL, IT IS AKUW APEM NOT AKUAPEM. AS WE SAY ON THE ...
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  • posh 10 years ago

    Prisons can transfer imates wherever they want, go to America and see how prisoneers are tranferred without giving any information to their families. when they get to their distination, it is their duty to call their family m ...
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  • Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings 10 years ago

    What is normal, lil one ?

    Who ever told you that prisoners are transfered to 3 prisons within 5 days in the United States, and the transfers are carried on at 3 a.m., my stepson ?

    Tell us who ever took you for an ignora ...
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  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    Funny to hear from you that the removal of Ken Kurachie to another prison violates his so-called human rights.Prisoners are moved with one objective in mind and that is security.The Prison Service has the right to move prison ...
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  • KOKOLIKO 10 years ago

    The Noise People's Party (NPP) Who claim to be democrats are nothing but demons. The "rod" hit both sides but they are crying more because they know more of their supporters will end up in jail because of loose talk. Sir John ...
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  • Capes 10 years ago

    Folks we are still in the dark days. This buga buga treatment can only happen in Ghana in NDC era.
    Mahama thinks the investors are fools to come after reading all these inhuman stories, over their dead bodies they will com ...
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  • R U A CHILD? 10 years ago

    PRISONERS ARE KEPT IN PRISONS PERIOD. LOOK AT HOW THE NPP THUGS RUSH TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS SMASHING INNOCENT PEOPLE'S CARS etc. IS THAT WHY YOU WANT KORANCHIE THERE? THESE JOURNALISTS WHO TROOPED TO THE PRISON, ARE THEY SO N ...
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  • Gyabaa 10 years ago

    Ghanaians do not blame this man too much. Every good society we need rather strong opposition in order to build it. If Ghanaians do not need opposition, Ghana will be like one way street and the Government of the day will do ...
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  • zewu krebekuku 10 years ago

    Is mr ameyao a lawyer? Is he suggesting that ken should be kept in cid hq.so should other prisoners be kept at same place? Look at this idiots talking about human right.other prisoners have animal right.

  • KLENAM ETTOR 10 years ago

    THIS IS PURELY THE IGNORANCE OF A LAWMAKER.IS THE PRISON YARD AT THE CID HQTRS?SOME OF YOU ARE AT THE PARLIAMENT BECAUSE OF YOUR STOMACH DIRECTIONS..A PRISON IS FOR PRISONERS SO HE MUST BE SENT THERE PERIOD....

  • ADONGOBA AKOLOGU 10 years ago

    Is he the only person who has been to prison on this issue?Why is no body mentioning Atubiga's name?Surely he was imprisoned too.Be it one day,two days or three days,the law made him sleep where he never wanted to sleep dent ...
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  • Veronica Alhassan 10 years ago

    Atubiga is tribalistic and ready to bite and kill with impunity. He even swore that should the SC hand victory to NPP, he would hit back "boot for boot". Why should he be metioned. He is a diabolical torrorist.

  • SIMPA CARPENTER 10 years ago

    And he was accordingly jailed for three days but importantly showed remorse for his careless,irresponsible utterances which he himself acknowledged,something our dear Ken failed to do(contempt charge)Had he(Steven) not done t ...
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  • Kofi Lawson 10 years ago

    Selective analyses. Why single out Ken as if he is more human than Stephen? Such useless comments are not good for Ghana. You better advise him to reduce his pride.

  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    Why didn't the dishonourable MP rather say Ken Kuranche should have been moved to the Golden Tulip?

  • Alhaji Alhassan-Salaga 10 years ago

    We should all throw our mind back to the 1960s when political commentators, MPs, chiefs,and sundry were picked up and thrown into jail just like thst. Let your mind wander to the late Ex-President Nkrumah's notorious Preventi ...
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  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    The Preventive Detention Act was an extremely,useful act which ensured that terrorists and nation-wreckers were kept behind bars.Were you alive when bombs were being thrown at Nkrumah resulting in the death of several innocen ...
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  • scarecrow 10 years ago

    which ever place to keep him,be at CID headquaters or HO prisons makes no difference because he will meet mosquitoes everywhere he is imprisoned.

  • william 10 years ago

    These days in the name of freedom fighters some people are seeking cheap attention!Luckily.Rule of law will prevail, N'sha Allah.

  • CONCERNED GHANAIAN 10 years ago

    Ken is a loser who learns with his mouth open. Please tell him what he did was wrong and stop treating him like a hero because he is absolutely a scumbag. Freedom of speech is not a sole property of Ken to be used to foment t ...
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  • Obaa Yaa 10 years ago

    ugly man he should rot in prison

  • Obaa Yaa 10 years ago

    after all the court was brought about by the hungry npp. he should have been given 10 years to be wise and sensible. silly ugly arrogant man like that

  • Naa Oko 10 years ago

    That Kuranchie man is very arrogant and speak roughly without second thought. I believe all Ghanaians are aware and like that this idiot is put in his right shoes. When NPP was in power, he was saying bad things about them. N ...
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  • Daavi 10 years ago

    Prison for both guys was simply ridiculous and unwarranted. The police or powers that be should be careful not to plunge this dear country into a civil war.

  • D/Sgt. Nuamah 10 years ago

    Do the courts sentence people to CID HQ? Mr MP

  • common sense 10 years ago

    This MP defrauded innocent people in Australia and was lucky to escape Jail. AND HE IS HERE SPEWING CRASS STUPIDITY.Where did he learn his law????

  • Ken Ntiamoa 10 years ago

    Transfer of a prisoner in the middle of the night to another location could be a very frightening experience for the prisoner.
    Very unverving.

    Ken

  • John 10 years ago

    We have a problem in our hands in Ghana if a member of parliament thinks that contempt of court is a simple matter that should be keep the contemnor in a CID headquarters. The socalled senior lecturer blinded by the Npp a ...
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  • Sam/Dallas 10 years ago

    Why are u talking like a child, the man was send there as a form of punishment not a vacation.

  • DR. KWABENA ASANTE 10 years ago

    It is quite interesting when people in power skew issues to meet their whims and caprices. Are the prison officials claiming that tranferring Ken Kuranchie from one prison to another is for his own safety? Come again! How man ...
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  • donkobby 10 years ago

    what is this idiot saying?was ken imprisoned or remanded?

  • mimi 10 years ago

    Have we forgotten Kwame Peprah was transferred to about two prisons before he was released. Ken his not the first and will not be the last. His mouth has brought trouble to him. He should learn to think because he speaks.

  • ASSEMBLY OF GOD 10 years ago

    THANK YOU FOR TEACHING THE JUDGES AND OTHERS WHERE KEN KURANKYE SHOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT. YOU ARE VERY WISE. BUT SINCE I AM WISER THAN YOU I SUGGEST THAT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT AT THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE TO HAVE MEALS WITH PRESIDE ...
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