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Kenyatta vows to "hunt down" Awoonor's killers

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  • onipa ba kyere 10 years ago

    A very sad news

  • Enyonam 10 years ago

    ...and they say Islam means PEACE. You must be ashamed of yourself worshippers of Islam. They will always find excuses for these crimes wherever it happens .. Nigeria, Mali, Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, USA, UK the list goes on. ...
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  • GEORGE 10 years ago

    Using religion's name to kill is not only with Islam, it is happening right in Uganda with Lord resistance army carrying Bibles in their hands and killing. It happened in Northern Ireland and still happening in Israel when Pa ...
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  • PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

    Bring out the champagne, and evil man met a deserving end. To all the Akans whose businesses and properties were destroyed or confiscated, this toast is for you, adieus Kofi Awonaboto, good riddance. Praise be to Allah.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    Until a filthy nasty son of a PIG like you get caught in a situation like this you will not know how it feels to lose a family member to the muslim PIGS.

    ASHAWO-NIBA KWASEA

  • ZoRRo 10 years ago

    This mentally deranged religious group called MUSLIM must be eradicated from the earth, before there would be peace.

  • FOOLISH PEPENI HAHAHAHHA MAHAMA 10 years ago

    U ARE RIGHT; THEY ARE FUCKEN GREEDY PEOPLE LOOK THAT MAN CALL MAHAMA USELESS THIEF; FOOLISH BEINGS ON EARTH

  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    ASSHANTIS ARE E-V-I-L!... RIP PROF. AWONOOR!

    My Neutral view:

    Why are you people 'GLOWING' at the death of your fellow country man, irrespective of your differences? Do you people, AssShantis knows when you or any of yo ...
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  • J. J. LAWRENCE 10 years ago

    THE CORRUPT AND BIAS PRESIDENT OF THE 9 SUPREME COURT JUDGES, THE GREEDY BAS-TARD WILLIAM ATUGUBA IS THE NEXT TO DIE. MARK IT ON A DRY WALL!

  • Avogadro 10 years ago

    It is about time African leaders come to realize that the primary goal of a government is to uphold the laws and protect the people; i.e., everybody in that country. Some of us were whining when Uncle Sam’s Ambassador in G ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    or cut their penis off if jailed!

  • AFI-TEYE 10 years ago

    ONLY A FOOL,WICKED IDIOT WILL BELIEVE IN THIS FAITH CALLED ISLAM.
    WHY CAN'T THE REST OF THE WORLD ISOLATE THESE DEVILS,WICKED STUPID DEVILS ALWAYS FINDS ESCUSES TO BLINDLY JUSTIFY THEIR FAITH.DEVILS.

  • mack 10 years ago

    The law of Kama

  • ROYAL AKANLAND 10 years ago

    THEY JOINED US BUT THEY DON'T LIKE US.GOOD BLESS AKANS. PEOPLE WITH HEART

  • Retaliation 10 years ago

    Kwasea panin! Look de your expressions

  • Retaliation 10 years ago

    Kwasea panin! Look your expressions

  • FOOLISH PEPENI HAHAHAHHA MAHAMA 10 years ago

    U SEE EVEN AT IT TOOK U SO MANY TIMES BEFORE U GOT TO KNOW THERE IS NO AT HEY FOOLS FREE EDUCATION WILL BE OK FOR U USELESS BEINGS: HAHAHAHAHA LIKE THAT NIGAA ASHOLE MAHAMA

  • Retaliation 10 years ago

    Kwasea panin! Look at your expressions

  • PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

    For you to even make that quote, goes to show you agree with me. That Awonaboto Williams died a violent death because of his violent behaviour. Like the Nazis, that bigot provided the "intellectual" justification and assuranc ...
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  • ROYAL AKANLAND 10 years ago

    THE JUNE 4 REVOLUTION IS TO TAKE ECONOMY FROM AKANS

  • Menaki 10 years ago

    Awoonor and Rawlings were no where when the coup was been planned as a result of the economic hardships in the country. Rawlings was plucked from no where and was made speaker. Awoonor came later into the picture. Most of the ...
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  • Shallow 10 years ago

    So u re happy he is dead? Let me tell u dat, death is inevitable, and so u shouldn't be happy when someone dies in such way......Right??????

  • Retaliation 10 years ago

    W'agyimi papa.....u ll die in de same way

  • KK, London 10 years ago

    Woy3 nam. You unrepentant son of that bitchy prostitute.

  • Merlic, London 10 years ago

    These anamo Ashanti buulu and unrepentant twits. Just go gleeful at the death of a fellow Ghanaian but remember that what goes around, comes around and what so ever goes up will surely have to come down. It is like Ghanaians ...
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  • ISSAK 10 years ago

    May GOD grant you knowledge in YOUR given life because people like you is what we lack into this world(GEORGE)
    NOT illiterate person like ENYONAM.

  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    ASSHANTIS ARE E-V-I-L!... RIP PROF. AWONOOR!

    Why are you people 'GLOWING' at the death of your fellow country man, irrespective of your differences? Do you people, AssShantis knows when you or any of your so-called leaders ...
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  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    I MEAN A LOST TO GHANA IN PARTICULAR, AND AFRICA IN GENERAL. RIP PROF.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Nemesis, shame unto you for saying Ashantis are evil. Did you ever lived in Ashanti region or among the Asante people? They are very affable and very much tolerant of all ethnic groups. I lived in Ashanti region during all my ...
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  • Music man 10 years ago

    "There is no region that has accepted people from all ethnic groups than Ashanti. They have Anlotown, Fante Newtown. Almost all the ethnic groups that live in most Asante towns have their own "Little chiefs." Even people from ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Yes, people travel because of economic activities but will people do so to places where the host are evil and hostile to them? How many Ghanaians will want to live in North Korea. Music man, I wished you have lived among the ...
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  • Music man 10 years ago

    Yes I have met some great Asantes and also some good non Asante Ghanaians. There is good and evil every where. Some of the most destructive vile, tribalistic, intolerant, comments to be made in the media have also come from ...
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  • Ashanti pride 10 years ago

    IN fact, you my friend NEMESIS are not wise at all. Do not judge anyone or any people you know nothing about. Are you Ghanaian? NO!! So why do you speak against Ashantis? Such INSOLENCE! Name calling is for children who don't ...
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  • Ashanti Woman 10 years ago

    Nemesis or what do you call it, did you check yourself first before attacking the Ashantis? Are we Ashantis EVIL than you? Go solve the problems back home in Nigeria and there wont be any breath left in you to talk nonsense t ...
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  • Kobla 10 years ago

    Just a point of interest, what is a true Muslim or Christian? I have never met one nor ever heard of one.

    What I know for sure is that for several centuries under the banner of Christianity, hundreds of millions of Africa ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    I am a Christian but my best friend is a moslem. I understand and respect his religion. Islam, as a religion is against violence. So is Christianity and the other religions I know of. It is the political, social and economic ...
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  • Gina 10 years ago

    You can continue to romanticize in your religious fantasies and day dreams. The true matter of the fact still remains that the worse crimes in human history were committed under the banner of various forms of religion - parti ...
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  • PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

    Serves him right, that Atetenkrona would-be warlord met a very deserving end. I am so happy a tribal bigot got a taste of his own medicine. God na punished him well well. Next will be Tsatsu and Kojo Tsikata. You evil people ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Pilty, did you ever hear the expression "to err is human." Yes, Awoonor caused some mess and apparent show of tribal tension in Ghana but we need not rejoice at his death. Some of his unguarded pronouncements had effects on h ...
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  • ISSAK 10 years ago

    Offcouse ISLAM means PEACE,and you can't used the act of other to describe all the worshipers of the faith(ISLAM)
    How will you describe Christianity when it allows GAY right,Homosexuality,Lesbianism,ect...?
    ENYONAM,you sho ...
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  • Ghana 10 years ago

    Don’t forget Pakistan and Afghanistan. Yesterday a suicide bomber blow himself up in a Pakistani church. The reason Morsi was removed is because the don't want fanatic Islam.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Enyonam, Islam as a religion does not promote or preach violence. It is the nature of some individuals who think that they can use religion as an easy tool to achieve their political or economic aims. It is just sad that some ...
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  • Mends, The Lone Ranger. 10 years ago

    I knew Awoonor as a brilliant lecturer but, his political thinking is nothing to write home about. He was not only a tribalist but a bigot who preached hatred, and I'm surprised about how his end came, at the hands of people ...
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  • Abaa Pee 10 years ago

    He was not killed by the NPP.......but in far away Kenya, the other Ewe mafiosi criminals will follow suit...good riddance.

  • Akutuwura 10 years ago

    Rubbish upon rubbish!!!!!

  • Hubert Oboye 10 years ago

    Yes Awoonor was the worst tribalist in Ghana....see how he ended up. All Ewe inward-looking bigots should learn a lesson from the tragic end of this so-called intellectual who would stop at nothing showing his hatred for Asha ...
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  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    With all these senseless killings, Ewes still fear Akan more than these Muslim terrorist. I remember how some Muslims youth ransacked some chiefs palace in the Volta Region and took some valuable things away with no Akan inv ...
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  • Lafia 10 years ago

    a stupid old man showed up here claiming ghana has bad image when that racial russian man was involved in car accident in ghana just last week. see what happen to awoonor in kenya? how will that stupid dirty old man describe ...
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  • Yahoo 10 years ago

    Ghana has a bad image today period. Mentality change ?

  • Dele g 10 years ago

    AT LEAST 59 DEAD AND 175 INJURED, LATEST CONFIRMATION.

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    In deed they are coward to attack the
    deffenceless people and go free.

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    There is nothing you can do,but be
    careful,they are thirsty of blood.

  • OSBON 10 years ago

    WHAT IS GHANA GOVERMET DOING ABOUT THIS? OH GOD. RIP. KOPFI.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    The world must take on these evil and heartless people wherever they are.Matter of fact humans don`t deserve this planet.
    Well done to the police and the military in Kenya.
    Rest in peace Prof.

  • GEORGE 10 years ago

    When such animals are caught they need to be slaughtered in public to set an example to other animals like them. They do not deserve prison. What they are doing is unIslamic, Islam does not teach violence. The problem with th ...
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  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    Ghana mourns an illustrious son. May Prof soul rest in perfect peace.

  • Kponyo 10 years ago

    It is indeed sad and a pity that an innocent Ghanaian should get caught up in the cross-fire of a problem which he had nothing to do with.

    This unfortunate incident should teach us Ghanaians not to get involved in the impe ...
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  • Gina 10 years ago

    But isnt it this same Kenyan President who was responsible for political violence that led to the deaths of thousands of Kenyans just a couple of years ago? The world is a funny place.

  • Yahoo 10 years ago

    Another ignorant Ghanaian blaming colonialism for the terror in Nairobi.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    You got it all wrong. There is no imperialist agenda in trying to restore peace and stability in Somalia. Secondly, terrorists are not fighting against imperialism. Terrorists are simply people who have allowed their hearts t ...
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  • Gina 10 years ago

    My heart bleeds for ignorant people like you for living in this viscious world and being so naive. You are like a blind man standing alone in the middle of the Sahara desert at midnight.

    It would serve your purpose well to ...
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  • Kill all Mouslems in the world now 10 years ago

    I strongly condemed this babaric act by the so call Moslems. Is this relgion a peaceful one NO! i think one day the whole world should dddddeclar Islam or moslem religion as void, and all who perfom or take part in this relig ...
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  • Samuel,Atlanta.U.S.A. 10 years ago

    African leaders must come together to rid the continent of search reckless nation wreckers. They can unleach their evil plan anywhre on the continent again.My condolence to all those who lost their lives in the attack.

  • ABU-SOF 10 years ago

    Those who call themselves muslems and goes on killing innocent people are not muslems they only cloth with the word moslems, becouse it is stated in the Holy Quran that if you kill a life it is as if you have kill the whole o ...
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  • Missy 10 years ago

    Kenya should work hard on their security net work instead of spending huge sums of money paying their MPs. They seem to have a lot of security lapse. Prof rest in perfect peace

  • Yao 10 years ago

    BEAR ON MIND THAT HE HAS NOT TAKEN YOUR GRAVE AWAY, SO BE VERY CAREFUL. YOU REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU IN THE NEXT MINUTE.INSTEAD OF YOU TO ASK FOR GOD,S MERCY AND FORGIVENNESS YOU ARE THERE MAKING SUCH FOOLISH ...
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  • Yao 10 years ago

    be ashamed of ur comments n think twice!

  • Jane London 10 years ago

    A well written speech, unlike the 'kiddy' stuff President Mahama presented to the country in the wake of the Electoral Petition Results.

    That petition could have tipped Ghana into a more serious confusion than this, but Ma ...
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  • NANA YAW 10 years ago

    Kenya should invade Somalia right now.

  • MAKEMAKE 10 years ago

    Where is the Mau-Mau? Kenya is now soft.
    Can't they take on the al-shebab terrorists?

  • KING LOMOTEY 10 years ago

    Just do what the Israelis do. Respond immediately, then hold a conference later on to condemn the terrorists. Case close.

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Do you live under a rock? .Kenya already invaded Somalia and taken huge parts of their land for its own security.

  • Kwabena Sika Osarfo Kantnaka 10 years ago

    Islam the religion of DEATH! Satan must be very proud of them!

    I will NEVER have any respect for Islam until the good Muslim's start to speak out against this behavior. Problem is they will not because they are COWARDS

    ...
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  • ZoRRo 10 years ago

    Very well put, I share your views. The ideals of the Muslim religion itself are good, but it has been hi-jacked by CRIMINALS who have no value for life including theirs, and the good Muslims are scared of them.

  • AFUA 10 years ago

    THANK YOU JESUS FOR DYING ON THE CROSS

  • Explorer 10 years ago

    Rest in Peace.

  • BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ. 10 years ago

    DEAR H.E.DR.MR.PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA,
    TO REGRETTABLY REFER TO THE ABOVE RELATED SUBJECT-MATTER WHICH TOUCHES AND CONCERNS "KENYATTA VOWS TO HUNT DOWN AWOONOR'S KILLERS AND TO C ...
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  • YEBOPOWER 10 years ago

    How. Kenya's security personnel suck. Their uniforms and guns are just disgusting. The are outdated . No wonder the terrorist had better weapons. Wake up Africa and invest in your security services. Invest in intelligence etc ...
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  • Adu 10 years ago

    RIP prof. It is not all Akans who hated u.....Akans are wise and it is only de fool who says ''they mean my friend, they don't mean me''

  • concern ghanian 10 years ago

    EVERYBODY THINK HIS/HER RELIGION IS THE CORRECT ONE, EVEN IN THE MUSLIM RELIGION PEOPLE BELIEVE DIFFERENTLY. MY QUESTION IS, WHY DO YOU KILL SOMEONE THAT YOU THINK HIS LOST INSTEAD OF SHOWING HIM THE WAY? KILLING YOURSELF FOR ...
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  • KWAME KWAME 10 years ago

    ITS A SHAME FOR THESE PEOPLE, BUT WHAT I DONT UNDERSTAND IS, WHY IS IT THAT THESE TERRORISTS ARE MUSLEMS?

  • aan 10 years ago

    May his soul rest in peace. Folks, our borders cannot be changed. We remain Ghanaians within our borders. In the diaspora, we remain Ghanaians due to our borders. Please let us tone down this tribalistic rhetorics. History is ...
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  • Nutifafa Gidiglo 10 years ago

    It is true that witches and wizards are in Ghana.You can read the stupid comments people give here. Of course,u will know where they are coming from. Jubilating over the dead. Oh,people,u are still primitive and wicked.Won't ...
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  • Merlic, London 10 years ago

    The act of jubilation over the dead is shocking but it is not surprising that those rejoicing over of this grievous act are one and the same kookosae people. Is it their culture to act like ‘mponkye’? Gladly not a Ghanaia ...
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  • NANA YAW 10 years ago

    Kenya should take the whole of Somalia.
    She should own the land,period.

  • Aj USA 10 years ago

    With all said and done AMA ghana Did lost an ILLUSTIOUS son, Yester Day. May he rest in peace prof Awoonor