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cha 10 years ago

NDC must go - NDC thieves

NDC must go - NDC thieves
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am c ...
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AUTHOR: EBO QUANSAH---------------Dear reader, forgive me for diverting from the topic I promised yesterday. I have been compelled by Jerry Rawlings’ outburst in Nigeria about corruption, as if he himself is a saint. I am compelled to do this expose on the former junta head for those who do not know his role in promoting corruption as a national concept. Read on!
In June 1979, eight top military officers, including three former heads of state, were lined up and executed at the Teshie Military Firing range in two batches. Gen. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Gen. Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo, Gen. Robert Kotei, Lt-Gen. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa, Rear Admiral Joy Amedume, Air Vice-Marshall George Yaw Boakye, Emmanuel K. Utuka and Colonel Roger Felli were accused of corrupting the body politic.
In an interview with New Nation, a monthly magazine circulating in Nigeria and now defunct, the Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which supervised over the most famous case of extra-judicial killings in the history of the political evolution of Ghana, justified the action of his military junta as a necessary action to rid the body politic of corruption.
“They were jumbo-sized armed robbers whose killings left the world smelling nicer,” Flt-Lt. Rawlings was quoted by the magazine as saying in explanation.
Jerry Rawlings said the officers had to be killed, “because Ghana was faced with their type of thievery breed of criminals who were worse than Nigeria’s armed robbers” in the 1970s.
“Now, I’ll tell you what we have here. We have a breed that is, perhaps, worse than your armed robbers,” he told reporters of the New Nation in an exclusive interview. “They are the pen robbers. These species of vermin have for long perpetrated corruption with impunity.
“They have not only bled the nation white, but as a result of their thievery, Ghana has suffered hunger, loss of national spirit, loss of pride and respect in the military uniform. So, as you can see, while Nigerians have perceived their main social problems to be the proliferation of six Naira armed robbers, we, in Ghana, think that our problem is that of people who take widow’s mite from a bankrupt nation.”
In the words of the ex-junta head: “While you (Nigeria) content yourself at the Bar Beach by watching the executions of mal-adjusted labourers, mechanics or clerks, we in Ghana, have killed the jumbo armed robbers, call them generals or brigadiers – whose going to leave the world smelling sweeter.”
One interesting thing about this claim is that Jerry Rawlings and his righteous AFRC members could not account for monies lodged in AFRC Account 48, which was specially created to lodge huge monies paid by businessmen and other persons and institutions found guilty by a so-called people court to have corrupted the system. Monies from seized goods auctioned to the public at so-called control prices were also lodged in the account.
When President Hilla Limann took power after the AFRC had left the scene on September 24, 1979, the new Head of State complained that there was nothing in the coffers, insinuating that the famous Account 48 could not be traced.
When Flt-Lt. Rawlings, who had refused to accept the new government’s offer to go on course abroad, was questioned on the disappearance of the huge lodgings in the account, he replied that he was not an accountant. Incidentally, the fate of PNDC Account 48, established by the second junta led by the same person, has not been accounted for as you read this piece.
One of the most interesting developments in Ghana’s political evolution was the decision to abolish the General Certificate of Examinations -Ordinary and Advanced levels- by the Provisional National Defence Council. The main reason given was that the old educational system had favoured only the children of the elite class.
At a time ordinary folks of the land were enrolling their children in what became known as the Junior and Senior Secondary schools, whose certificates -BECE and SCCE- were not recognised beyond the four corners of the country, Jerry Rawlings enrolled his children at the expensive Ghana International School in Accra to read subjects that qualified them to sit for the GCE Ordinary and the Advanced levels his PNDC administration had prohibited the mass of Ghanaian children from.
I do not believe corruption is only putting state money in one’s pocket. Exploiting state resources for one’s advantage could even be a worse form of corruption. That is why I have an axe to grind with Jerry Rawlings for enrolling all his children abroad to study with the GCE Ordinary and Advanced levels, acquired outside the formal sector in the country.
What I call Jerry’s Stupid Schools has debased education up to the tertiary level, where lottery numbers, other than real academic work, determines qualification at the first degree level.
To add insult to injury, when asked to tell Ghanaians how he was funding the education of all the three children -Ezanator, YaaAsantewaa and Kimathi- in expensive universities in Britain and Ireland, Jerry Rawlings looked at Ghanaians in the face and answered that unknown benefactors were picking up the bills for their fees.
The Almighty is a kind Lord. It emerged that companies the state of Ghana was dealing with and which were milking Ghana dry, were picking up the bills of Jerry Rawlings’ children. And such a person has the audacity to complain about leaders being corrupt.
I dare state that corruption was elevated into an art under Jerry Rawlings. The circumstances under which he transformed himself from a military dictator into a civil constitutional President smells of corruption all the way to the Castle.
After eleven and a half years of the ‘Gospel According to Jerry Rawlings,’ a period he himself identified as the ‘culture of silence’, Jerry Rawlings and those who claim to believe in him used the resources of state to convert his military oligarchy and the entire governance system into a political party. With the Electoral Commission and the entire process under his thumb, Jerry Rawlings exchanged his military garb for a description as Constitutional President of the Republic of Ghana. God Almighty should remain where he is.
The eight year administration he led, as Constitutional President of this Republic, eulogised corruption as a state-sponsored event. State asserts were transferred to cronies under the guise of divestiture. As you read this piece, Nsawam Cannery, one of the flagship projects of the now defunct Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation, belongs to Caridem, a company floated by Mrs. Rawlings’ 31st December Women’s Movement, in a purchasing agreement that parceled the company to Caridem for a pittance.
Under the Government of the National Democratic Congress Mark One, corruption festered on a large scale. It would take volumes to chronicle corruption under the NDC. But four prominent issues stand out. Getting to the end of the first term of office, newspapers that had been freed from the bondage of the culture of silence began chronicling evidence of corrupt deals by leading members of the regime.
In 1996, the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice investigated one matter and established massive corrupt deals against Ibrahim Adam, then Minister of Agriculture, Colonel E.M. Osei Owusu, a former Minister of the Interior, P.V. Obeng, a Presidential Staffer, and Dr. Adjei Marfo, a Chief Executive Officer of a state-run company.
Instead of prosecuting them, the Government of Saint Rawlings rather issued a While Paper exonerating the corrupt elements, and rather indicted the media for highlighting the issue.
In Britain, Mabey and Johnson was prosecuted not too long ago for corruptly influencing Ghanaian politicians between 1994 and 1999 to gain bridge contracts, The news in these contracts is that barely one year after completing two bridges in Ghana, including one over River Oti, the Ghana Government had to contract experts from Britain to repair them as they threatened to cave in.
In 2002, the former Managing Director of Ghana Rubber Estates Limited, Mr. Etienne Arthur Marie Popeler, told an Accra Fast Track High Court that he gave millions of dollars to Mr. Dan Abodakpi, then Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms. Shirley Ayittey, then Treasurer of the 31st December Women’s Movement, in bribes before his French company, SIPH, could secure GREL.
The case of Ms. Cotton, an unemployed American, secured $20 million of scarce state cash from compromised state officials, ostensibly to grow rice for Ghanaians at Aveyime in the Battor area of the Volta Region. Even when Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States had sent a warning letter about the background of Ms. Cotton, and intimating that she was incapable of undertaking the task, state officials paid the money. As it turned out, the main motivating factor was the cut they all stood to make.
If corruption is endemic in the body politic after the so-called June 4, uprising, the genesis could be traced to Jerry Rawlings who executed eight Ghanaians officials on unproven trivial charges, and out-doored full- blown corruption as a state policy.
In other exposé next week, I intend to draw the link between the free for all looting that assails the body politic in the Mills-Mahama regime, and the adventure of Jerry John Rawlings as Head of State of this Republic. I shall return!
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

Author:-Hon. Martin A.B.K. Amidu.

...The Government exercised the latter option when we disagreed over the judgment debt and other Gargantuan crimes. The Government, and my colleague Ministers at the time know that there w ...
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Author:-Hon. Martin A.B.K. Amidu.

...The Government exercised the latter option when we disagreed over the judgment debt and other Gargantuan crimes. The Government, and my colleague Ministers at the time know that there was no provision for dismissal under my contract of employment as a Minister or that of any Minster.

I reserve the right as a citizen of Ghana to protect and defend my honour and integrity should this civilized challenge for the truth be ignored.

This is not the price I should be made to pay by the Government of Ghana for defending the Constitution of Ghana in the Waterville and Isofoton unconstitutional payments declared by the Supreme Court.
GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

MILLION ONLY COMES WITH A LOT OF INFIGHTING...LOL
SOMEONE WILL DIE SOON.

MILLION ONLY COMES WITH A LOT OF INFIGHTING...LOL
SOMEONE WILL DIE SOON.
HON SHAMO 10 years ago

THIS FOOL MAAMA SHOULD HAVE CONCENTRATE FUCKING HIS NUMERIOUS PUSSIES AND LEAVE OUR GHANA FOR US! WEAK, THIEF, WOMANIZER, KILLER GREEDY BASTARS

THIS FOOL MAAMA SHOULD HAVE CONCENTRATE FUCKING HIS NUMERIOUS PUSSIES AND LEAVE OUR GHANA FOR US! WEAK, THIEF, WOMANIZER, KILLER GREEDY BASTARS
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FUNNYTHAT 10 years ago

If you help Mahama to be elected that does mean you did that for a favour to your advantage?What sort of respect do they need? Have they forgotten they did that to provide their services to Ghana? What sortbof reward do they ...
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If you help Mahama to be elected that does mean you did that for a favour to your advantage?What sort of respect do they need? Have they forgotten they did that to provide their services to Ghana? What sortbof reward do they need.
Obeng Rago 10 years ago

YOUR COUNTRY IS IN GRAVE DIFFICULTY AND YOU FIGHT EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF WORKING TOGETHER..

YOUR COUNTRY IS IN GRAVE DIFFICULTY AND YOU FIGHT EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF WORKING TOGETHER..
insight to the bone 10 years ago

today our country has the notorious reputation of being one of the most corrupt in the world thanks to pepeni and his band of thieves . we told everyone we knew he had no plan or program to develop the nation except pillage t ...
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today our country has the notorious reputation of being one of the most corrupt in the world thanks to pepeni and his band of thieves . we told everyone we knew he had no plan or program to develop the nation except pillage the little monies left and yet today the claim that they could not perform because of a petition . look at their ministers who anything more than 3 pages is a challenge to read talk less of projects whose summaries alone can be over 5000 pages , they are so lazy and selfish that nothing good can come from them . their chief ideologist of evil avenoor was killed and i had planned to go to his grave and urinate and relieve myself on him once every month but he cremated himself i guess i will do so instead on rawlings grave soon. workers are on strike because they know this azaa govt has no clue and in this day and age considering the wealth of the nation no one should work for less than 1000 cedis or 500$ but if free education was such a challenge how can they ever fathom such a reality . they are hopeless so we are preparing for our revolution and telling all righteous to sharpen their knives and bury their guns to wait for for the clarion call. they think they have fooled the Akans especially the fantis , a third of their votes came from the fantis but there is not a single substantiate minister who is a true fanti . they wage war against us Akans but when we come our and call foul they say we are liars . we are ready now so let them bring it on . long live the republic of Akan
Kwame 10 years ago

With people like Stan Dogbe openly insulting party stalwarts like Bagbin as liars, and others like Ofosu Kwakye calling for his resignation from a position which is only in name, one can only conclude that the Great NDC has ...
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With people like Stan Dogbe openly insulting party stalwarts like Bagbin as liars, and others like Ofosu Kwakye calling for his resignation from a position which is only in name, one can only conclude that the Great NDC has now gone to not only babies with sharp teeth but also to dogs, under Mahama's eyes
ASS HOLE FOLEY 10 years ago

SACK TRANSPORT MINISTER DZIFA ATTIVOR FOR STEALLING TAX PAYERS MONEY TO BUY 3 INFINITYS 4X4 SUV FPR HER CHILDREN IF U TALKING ABOUT CORRUPTION HERE MMMMMMMM

SACK TRANSPORT MINISTER DZIFA ATTIVOR FOR STEALLING TAX PAYERS MONEY TO BUY 3 INFINITYS 4X4 SUV FPR HER CHILDREN IF U TALKING ABOUT CORRUPTION HERE MMMMMMMM
CARDINAL 10 years ago

Bagbin is just laying the foundation to challenge Mahama for the Ndc Presidential candidate in 2016. Bagbin is like a hyena that has seen a wounded lion. It waits for the lion to get weaker before attacking and that is what B ...
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Bagbin is just laying the foundation to challenge Mahama for the Ndc Presidential candidate in 2016. Bagbin is like a hyena that has seen a wounded lion. It waits for the lion to get weaker before attacking and that is what Bagbin is waiting to do.

Bagbin is still pissed he was not given the Attorney General Ministerial position but a so called member of Presidential special projects without any funds to undertake them.
NANA 10 years ago

YOU EITHER FIGHT TO END OR RESIGN

YOU EITHER FIGHT TO END OR RESIGN
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Dagban UK 10 years ago

You are right Cardinal, i have the same feeling, BUT i dont think he can take NDC for a ride.

You are right Cardinal, i have the same feeling, BUT i dont think he can take NDC for a ride.
pala 10 years ago

it is mahama who is taking NDC for a ride. he thinks sule gariba hannah tetteh kpoda & the likes can carry him through

it is mahama who is taking NDC for a ride. he thinks sule gariba hannah tetteh kpoda & the likes can carry him through
Yaw 10 years ago

Others too will challenge the President. The NDC will not have less than 2 people challenging the President

Others too will challenge the President. The NDC will not have less than 2 people challenging the President
Senior citizen Bs. Germany 10 years ago

This sycopantic fanatics of the NDC must be careful of the way they are attacking the wise people of their party who have come public after a long silence of what is happening in their Government,of looting, create and share ...
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This sycopantic fanatics of the NDC must be careful of the way they are attacking the wise people of their party who have come public after a long silence of what is happening in their Government,of looting, create and share,system which in a very short time to come consequences that would bare fruits of desaster upon all of them and a shame in their body politics.
Seer 10 years ago

How can Mahama and his young disciples have field-day forever? The circumstance of Atta-Mill's death is mysterious and you know 'Fante ghost' is about hunting him. He thinks bribing his way through the Supreme Court after rig ...
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How can Mahama and his young disciples have field-day forever? The circumstance of Atta-Mill's death is mysterious and you know 'Fante ghost' is about hunting him. He thinks bribing his way through the Supreme Court after rigging the 2012 election would be enough to rule Ghana? November 18th TUC demo will begin the end of his short-lived reign just as Egypt's Morsi, this time the masses and not military intervention.
J B Fankey 10 years ago

Mahama is not a thief but heis working with thieves who want his downfall.

Mahama is not a thief but heis working with thieves who want his downfall.
ASIEDU NKETIA 10 years ago

PLEASE KEEP FIGHTING EACH OTHER AFTER MILKING THE STATE DRY.

PLEASE KEEP FIGHTING EACH OTHER AFTER MILKING THE STATE DRY.
onipaba 10 years ago

let the dogs fight

let the dogs fight
NANA 10 years ago

CORWARD

CORWARD
Eba 10 years ago

He is not a coward dumb ass

He is not a coward dumb ass
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

When, as that bulubulu buffoon just did by calling the president our dear and beloved president and leader, you have to know they up to no good and are only around you to sing praises to win your silence as they engage in t ...
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When, as that bulubulu buffoon just did by calling the president our dear and beloved president and leader, you have to know they up to no good and are only around you to sing praises to win your silence as they engage in the 5th gear of looting and stealing.

If the president is not a useless one, he should get rid of them all.
Agyeman 10 years ago

Mahama,the most visionary nad cleanest president of Ghana ever.Our diamond in the rough from Damongo,we love you.

Mahama,the most visionary nad cleanest president of Ghana ever.Our diamond in the rough from Damongo,we love you.
KK 10 years ago

Mahama better learn fast. You were elected to represent a national party and to lead a country with reps from all part of the country. Mahama surrounding his inner circle with people from mostly one part of the country is a f ...
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Mahama better learn fast. You were elected to represent a national party and to lead a country with reps from all part of the country. Mahama surrounding his inner circle with people from mostly one part of the country is a failure to start with despite their education level. Mahama need to do a quick cabinet and ministerial review or fail woefully.
ZENABU 10 years ago

VERY VERY FUNNY THAT NDC DIDNT KNOW THAT IT TAKES PRECIOUS CASH TO EFFECT EFFECIENT GOVERNANCE....AFTER WASTING STATE FUNDS AND EMPTYING OUR COFFERS, THE POVERTY CREATED HAS BROUGHT ABOUT SERIOUS DISQUIET ALL OVER GHANA.....I ...
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VERY VERY FUNNY THAT NDC DIDNT KNOW THAT IT TAKES PRECIOUS CASH TO EFFECT EFFECIENT GOVERNANCE....AFTER WASTING STATE FUNDS AND EMPTYING OUR COFFERS, THE POVERTY CREATED HAS BROUGHT ABOUT SERIOUS DISQUIET ALL OVER GHANA.....IF MONEY WAS USED WISELY THERE WUD STILL HV BEEN CASH TO RUN GOVT SMOOTHLY BUT WHEN A CORRUPT TEAM IS IN POWER ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE......its amazing that john mahama/attamills govt for d past five years have only indulged in serious looting and waste of public funds without thinking one minute about the repercurssions.....how cld this present ndc dubiously dole out gargantuan payments to cronies and criminals to the tune of one billion dollars without disturbing the economic foundation of ghana......and how cld this ndc criminally build six classroom blocks at around 350,000 ghc each as opposed to the npp building same at 80,000 previously.....then how could this ndc overspend the 2012 budget to the tune of 8.7 billion dollars just for john mahama to win elections and yet they expect the economy to remain resilient......then look at gyeeda, sada, rlg-zoolion-ndc collusion to drain the state of scarce hard cash and yet they expect the economy to remain resilient......and how on earth cld they allow small boys like okudzeto ablakwa to dubiously negotiate fake jdebts for cronies and to even demand 1.5 billion dollars for africa auto ltd.......listen to what eddie annan is demanding from AMA as if govt has not owed anybody before, like our numerous contractors who have not been paid for years now........JOHN MAHAMA DOES ALL THIS AND EXPECT THE ECONOMY TO REMAIN RESILIENT?........THIS IS VERY STRANGE AND EVEN A KID KNOWS SUCH PRACTICES WILL CERTAINLY DESTROY WHATEVER ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS WE HAD...NOT EVEN THE GREAT USA CAN SURVIVE SUCH EXTREME MISUSE, THIEVERY, BROAD DAYLIGHT ROBBERIES. BUT NDC AND JOHN MAHAMA THINK GOVCE IS ONLY TO DO WITH ide biiiiii keke with mouth twisting slogans whilst deepening the poverty of fantis, ewes, northerners who are the poorest in ghana and expect the ndc govt to better their lot ....yes the very ndc govt which is so busy neglecting their strongholds of the ewes, fantis and northerners despite the huge vote ndc enjoyed from them........and worst of all this is the fact that john mahama is deeply involved in all of the crimes listed above so he has no authority to deal with anybody involved.....even woyome cld warn john mahama about who to appoint or not.........WE DESERVE PITY AND CONSIDERATION FROM JOHN MAHAMA BCOS HE IS THE VERY PERSON CAUSING OUR PROBLEMS NEEDLESSLY...ide biii
e akuteye 10 years ago

Mahama came through error and there's no he can turn the country round.

Mahama came through error and there's no he can turn the country round.
Takase Mark 10 years ago

small pressure wait and see.

small pressure wait and see.
AMB 10 years ago

Mr President pls call Bagbin and talk to him. He is your friend and means well for the party. Ignore the comments of babies like Stan and an inexperienced butnarrogant girl like Hanna Tetteh

Mr President pls call Bagbin and talk to him. He is your friend and means well for the party. Ignore the comments of babies like Stan and an inexperienced butnarrogant girl like Hanna Tetteh
qwe 10 years ago

Thanks Bagbin that is wisdom speaking..God bless you

Thanks Bagbin that is wisdom speaking..God bless you
nii 10 years ago

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Ebei 10 years ago

Mahama should remember Rehoboam. After king Solomon's death, his son, Rehoboam, surrounded himself with young men who gave him bad advise. The aftermath is history. Mahama should listen to seasoned elders of the party.

Mahama should remember Rehoboam. After king Solomon's death, his son, Rehoboam, surrounded himself with young men who gave him bad advise. The aftermath is history. Mahama should listen to seasoned elders of the party.
Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

jon mahama is a thief. He must be diminished and shattered before he knows it. All his ministers are thieves and must all be done away with. A thief is a thief is a thief is a thief and the name is jon dramani mahama.

jon mahama is a thief. He must be diminished and shattered before he knows it. All his ministers are thieves and must all be done away with. A thief is a thief is a thief is a thief and the name is jon dramani mahama.
Truth 10 years ago

Bagbin is wrong. Does he want to tell us that only those who mounted that the campaign platform brought Mahama to power? This egoistic attitude must stop. He did not behave well no matter how legitimate his concerns are.

Bagbin is wrong. Does he want to tell us that only those who mounted that the campaign platform brought Mahama to power? This egoistic attitude must stop. He did not behave well no matter how legitimate his concerns are.
Natural Mystic 10 years ago

Politicians in Ghana quarrel about how to loot the treasury and not how to develop the country.

Politicians in Ghana quarrel about how to loot the treasury and not how to develop the country.
Hafiz. Techiman 10 years ago

Bagbin or who ever, the NDC shall succeed. So because prez Mahama takes the best part of criticism and leaves the chafes. Mahama is aware of what Bagbin is doing. The fact is that Mahama is accessible. Is a fact.

Bagbin or who ever, the NDC shall succeed. So because prez Mahama takes the best part of criticism and leaves the chafes. Mahama is aware of what Bagbin is doing. The fact is that Mahama is accessible. Is a fact.
fredsaid 10 years ago

So this is the president who claims to have specialised in communications for his degree and further studies in Russia. If he cannot communicate comprehensively and effectively with his own party and get everybody on board a ...
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So this is the president who claims to have specialised in communications for his degree and further studies in Russia. If he cannot communicate comprehensively and effectively with his own party and get everybody on board as a Better Ghana Agenda Team A how the hell can the government of this nation be an 'ALL INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENT' inviting members of other parties and considering them for appointments as is done in other civilised countries where talent is acknowledge irrespective of where you come from or what party you belong to, as Obama did in appointing a member of the Republican Party in his defence ministry??

There is no chance in hell if you simply cannot unite and bring everyone in your party together. My poor mother who never even had the benefit of a primary school education, could effectively bring about reconciliation , resolution and unity among families or family members who were in dispute. She did not need a degree in communications to do this; just common sense and compromise; this is what our president lacks.
OSEI TUTU 10 years ago

India gained its Independence in 1947 & Ghana, 10 years later (1957)

Today, India is vending a SATELLITE to MARS!!!!

GHANA CANNOT EVEN CLEAN SHIT OFF OUR GUTTERS!!!!!

India gained its Independence in 1947 & Ghana, 10 years later (1957)

Today, India is vending a SATELLITE to MARS!!!!

GHANA CANNOT EVEN CLEAN SHIT OFF OUR GUTTERS!!!!!
fredsaid 10 years ago

We borrow 4 billion dollars in a year and can't account to the nation for it . We can't supply water and electricity nor can we clean shit in the streets and gutters and coward ghanaians sit on their backsides without a si ...
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We borrow 4 billion dollars in a year and can't account to the nation for it . We can't supply water and electricity nor can we clean shit in the streets and gutters and coward ghanaians sit on their backsides without a single protest.
In other countries like Brazil and Burma people hit the streets in protests to register their displeasure of bad policies
pala 10 years ago

just as his predecessor president john mahama messed up with his discriminatory appointments. it was obvoious the president was determined to distanced himself form some starlwarts in the NDC by disingeniously creating the im ...
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just as his predecessor president john mahama messed up with his discriminatory appointments. it was obvoious the president was determined to distanced himself form some starlwarts in the NDC by disingeniously creating the impression he wants to give opportunity to the youth and gender.
it was absolutely disappointing. unlike the professor's case where jerry took the matter up in various ways, this time jerry is quiet so others have started talking. and with hannah tetteh gboda & co showing gross insolence, there cant be a subsiding of the matter now.
so far as i am concerned it was babgbin who gave NDC a glimmer of hope when NPP toook power with massive goodwill, energised and alll the big guns in NPP NOT LEFT out in kuffours administration.
president mills and president mahama seemed not comfortable to accommodate the crack ones in the NDC such as spio, babgbin, kumbour, tony, amidu, twumasi, fiifi, etc
KOLIKO 10 years ago

MAHAMA IS THE MOST UNGRATEFUL SOUL EVER EXISTED.HE SIDELINE PEOPLE LIKE OFOSU AMPOFO.KOKU ANYIDOHO.ALEX SEGBEFIA.TONY AIDOO AND SURROUND HIMSELF FAMILY NORTHNERS AND BABIES WITH ADULT TEETH

MAHAMA IS THE MOST UNGRATEFUL SOUL EVER EXISTED.HE SIDELINE PEOPLE LIKE OFOSU AMPOFO.KOKU ANYIDOHO.ALEX SEGBEFIA.TONY AIDOO AND SURROUND HIMSELF FAMILY NORTHNERS AND BABIES WITH ADULT TEETH
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

A pet store had a parrot they were selling as a "talking bird." A customer walked in and asked, "What does this parrot say?" The store owner replied, "Light a match under the parrot's left foot and see for yourself." The cust ...
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A pet store had a parrot they were selling as a "talking bird." A customer walked in and asked, "What does this parrot say?" The store owner replied, "Light a match under the parrot's left foot and see for yourself." The customer did and the parrot started singing, "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way..."
"Now try the right foot," said the owner. The customer moved the match under the parrot's right foot and the parrot started singing, "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..." "That's neat," the customer said. "But what if I hold the match BETWEEN the parrot's feet?" "I don't know," said the owner. "Try it." So the customer lit another match and held it between the parrot's feet. The parrot hesitated, then started singing, "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..."

MAHAMA HAS BECOME THE CHRISTMAS PARROT WITH HIS NUTS ROASTING ON FIRE.
Apoore 10 years ago

NDC Government why? why are you people trying to adminshes the good works of late Mills.
Mahama Wake up from the slumber.

NDC Government why? why are you people trying to adminshes the good works of late Mills.
Mahama Wake up from the slumber.
asonaba kofi 10 years ago

the president should sit up and listen and not allow what the babies with the sharp teeth did to rawlings which nearly destroyed the party untill he assumed power.alan bagbin is one of the most respected politicians of our ti ...
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the president should sit up and listen and not allow what the babies with the sharp teeth did to rawlings which nearly destroyed the party untill he assumed power.alan bagbin is one of the most respected politicians of our time.for him to come out like that means something is going badly wrong and needs to be addressed.
a K 10 years ago

Ghana is finished

Ghana is finished
MYSELF 10 years ago

Most NDC supporters who are crying are not from the North. This thing mahama is a disgrace to human being. He is giving our beloved nation GHANA bad name. I thought Rawlings was worse in discriminating against other tribes wh ...
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Most NDC supporters who are crying are not from the North. This thing mahama is a disgrace to human being. He is giving our beloved nation GHANA bad name. I thought Rawlings was worse in discriminating against other tribes when he was in power but this thing mahama is the worst. mahama the election armed robber like his people. FUCK OFF mahama.
Kwame 10 years ago

Mr. Alban Babin and others have some infantile disorder. I am of the view that however matters are they are supposed to bring them to the hearing of the president and not run out of the bath naked chasing their pants.
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Mr. Alban Babin and others have some infantile disorder. I am of the view that however matters are they are supposed to bring them to the hearing of the president and not run out of the bath naked chasing their pants.
Some time ago it seems to some of us that the bashing of Ewhes is only from the opposition party New Patriotic Party, but then Babin has let the cat out of the bag, that the Ewhe and Gha phobia is not only unique to NPP, but some elements in the NDC who are of the view that since they lost elections Ghana must come to an end.
I learn that the Ghana Association of Industries, Ghana Employers' Association and the Trades Union Congress are meeting today to plan a strategy of bringing down utility bills, and I think that industrialist will also be planing how to bring down the cost of their products. However it looks like utility providers are also producers or industrialist in that they also produce water and electricity. The issue is that what can we do as a nation to produce cheat utilities, and not only cheap one, but efficient and effective utilities that will be available all the time.
I use to write that during my six years stay of study in the then Soviet Union there has not been even a single hour when water was not flowing in the taps (though water was free), thus heating of homes was also free, electricity was sold, but the cost is low and every consumer was thought how to compute and pay his or her bills at the end of the year.
I have come to realize that the capitalist system is a wasteful one because minutes and hours talking about issue that can be resolved within a few days.
It looks like our industrialist and employers are not interested in the issue of water and electricity themselves. We have the sun which can generate three types of electric power and even distil water. Has any employer or industrialist tried to enhance any of the powers of the sun. South Korea produces 75% of her electricity from nuclear and France 85% and uranium is mined in Africa, but apart from South Africa not a single African county has been enhancing the power of uranium.
In this world of ours we are well aware that anyone who want you to suffer can cut off your pipe, that i the reason why we all have water tanks in our homes. How can an industrialist who want to generate electricity does not take that fact into consideration.
It also look like those who use crude oil and gas turbines to generate electricity are only interested in burning of fuel, but not to cool down the system with water and use that to generate almost the same amount of power from fuel. This lust to burn fuel has led to the blowing up of some power generators. Has some of the engineers in the sector have interest in the crude oil and gas industry?
In 2012 I called on Prof. Evans Atta Mills to sack Mr. Martin Amidu. I love Ghana so much that even if a person from my party is not in power I hold the view and patriotic right that he must be protected from all sorts of predators. Mr. Alban Babin control your infantile disorder.
Concerned Ghanaian 10 years ago

SELFISH GHANAIANS SHOULD STOP THIS NDC/NPP THING. This corruption thing has been in Ghana for a long time and if there is any change in recent years, it is only due to the awareness created by the media.The problems we are fa ...
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SELFISH GHANAIANS SHOULD STOP THIS NDC/NPP THING. This corruption thing has been in Ghana for a long time and if there is any change in recent years, it is only due to the awareness created by the media.The problems we are facing as a country are caused by we the citizens. Our moral compasses are degraded to the highest extent thus, when we acquire official positions, we corrupt the whole system. We refuse to pay our bills, make illegal connections and cry foul when the service providers increase our tariffs. It would not surprise me if a large number of the people who are crying about the state of the economy are people who do not pay taxes, are connected illegally to electricity, or have tampered with their meters etc. We are supposed to be our own checks and balances and not the authorities only. The authorities are also naturally filled with the same kind of morally lacking personnel so the problem will persist until we instill some sense of moral accountability.
What really disgusts me is the attitude some people adopt by saying, "that is how the system is so you have to adapt to it". Who do you expect to make the changes for you?
TONY 10 years ago

P/NDCS, CRY YOUR OWN CRY. P/NDCS HAVE HOLD MAMA GHANA RANSOM FOR OVER 3 DECADES, THANKS TO J.J. REVOLUTION.

P/NDCS, CRY YOUR OWN CRY. P/NDCS HAVE HOLD MAMA GHANA RANSOM FOR OVER 3 DECADES, THANKS TO J.J. REVOLUTION.
adogriba 10 years ago

There is no pressure on the President because, those who make noise on radio are doing only to be considered again. There are not the only people who are capable of been ministers in the country. They did in the Mills adminis ...
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There is no pressure on the President because, those who make noise on radio are doing only to be considered again. There are not the only people who are capable of been ministers in the country. They did in the Mills administration and they were considered. But this same people are making their ugly noice again, but could not open their mouth in the Rawlings regime, they would have being beaten. See these people, Mahama will not beat you up but will not listern to you, that is his principles.
IBM 10 years ago

What is going on Mr. Prez?

If you cannot lead and unite your home (NDC) then how can you do that for our dear Ghana. Please, do not destroy the image and capability of Northerners by justifying the negative theories.

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What is going on Mr. Prez?

If you cannot lead and unite your home (NDC) then how can you do that for our dear Ghana. Please, do not destroy the image and capability of Northerners by justifying the negative theories.

I'm sorry, but you're becoming a mess!!
Nene Adekerker 10 years ago

Mahama becaraeful not to play Ayigbe tactics. It is Bagbin and others who made you what you are today so be careful. Why should that your journalist treat Bagbin and others like that

Mahama becaraeful not to play Ayigbe tactics. It is Bagbin and others who made you what you are today so be careful. Why should that your journalist treat Bagbin and others like that
KWESI 10 years ago

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LOOKING FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE TO TRAVEL TO THE USA. PROCESS WOULD TAKE 2 WEEKS TO A MONTH MAXIMUM TO COMPLETE.THE PRICE IS $10,000.
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opk, kumasi 10 years ago

How can Mahama have peace after bribing pastors, so called peace council, judges and EC to perpetuate his stay at the presidency. No peace for thieves, rogues and crooks.

How can Mahama have peace after bribing pastors, so called peace council, judges and EC to perpetuate his stay at the presidency. No peace for thieves, rogues and crooks.
BE WISE 10 years ago

Whose verdict was stolen? U lost a shameful defeat. Between NPP & NDC who loves bribery? U pple hv bribed almost all the journalists in the country to do yr dirty jobs for u. See how they hype everything abt.NDC & how they k ...
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Whose verdict was stolen? U lost a shameful defeat. Between NPP & NDC who loves bribery? U pple hv bribed almost all the journalists in the country to do yr dirty jobs for u. See how they hype everything abt.NDC & how they keep mute if it is abt NPP. Yr fake pastors are also at it. Shame on u. Ahye wo papa.
Agyapong 10 years ago

It is a shame to current president that the presidency was not his but he forced his way into that position by all means even by possible assassination to get his way now you see what is happening. The price of evil is death. ...
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It is a shame to current president that the presidency was not his but he forced his way into that position by all means even by possible assassination to get his way now you see what is happening. The price of evil is death. The country is doom as long as NDC rule. Ghana is curse for allowing this corrupt Party leaders with no qualification or experience to rule. Our western donors have seen the people at the helm of affairs and they have pulled out until we get a better government. I have always say the party NDC is the Ghana problem. They do not want progress. Look how many years they have rule Ghana and the state of Ghana tells all the story. Wake up Ghanian citizens. I will prefer NPP better than NDC. NPP did a marvelous job to move the nation forward. It is clear that NDC are enemies of progress and it is sad.
Agyapong 10 years ago

Why the president stop wearing white he know he is doom to pressure mounting on him. Justice Atuguba will soon get his pay back.

Why the president stop wearing white he know he is doom to pressure mounting on him. Justice Atuguba will soon get his pay back.
citizen 10 years ago

NDC folks you know what, you are digging our own graves. If you will detract the president with your wranglings what do you expect? Lack of concentration and non performance. Sp please think twice and cease fire. The presiden ...
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NDC folks you know what, you are digging our own graves. If you will detract the president with your wranglings what do you expect? Lack of concentration and non performance. Sp please think twice and cease fire. The president should be performing gov't business and not solving problems among his own party members! The young ones, note that what an old man can see sitting down, a young man cannot see standing up! Good day!
Agya Kojo Atta 10 years ago

Just kick Stan Dogbe out of the Presidency.He should never be allowed to speak on behalf of the Presidency.HE IS TOO RAW AND DOES NOT FIT IN THERE.

Just kick Stan Dogbe out of the Presidency.He should never be allowed to speak on behalf of the Presidency.HE IS TOO RAW AND DOES NOT FIT IN THERE.
Opencheler (Italy) 10 years ago

Mahama must step down,because he Is not fit for the président.The situation in Ghana Is telling us that he is not fit atall!

Mahama must step down,because he Is not fit for the président.The situation in Ghana Is telling us that he is not fit atall!
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Earl Jones 10 years ago

Sometimes how we express ourselves say a lot about how we feel beyond the meaning of the words. You describe a man who is over 50 as a young. You also go on to say 'assist' as if he is incapable because of his age. This is un ...
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Sometimes how we express ourselves say a lot about how we feel beyond the meaning of the words. You describe a man who is over 50 as a young. You also go on to say 'assist' as if he is incapable because of his age. This is unfortunate and it reveals the deep seated prejudice that some members are harbouring against the president for being young. It must be a good thing that we have a non senile president who is able to think. Gone are the days of dead brains running our country? Intelligence and cognitive function starts to decline after the age of 25. By 65, most people will rely on experience to get by. Old dogs can't learn new tricks! As much as we value the sagacity of the septuagenarians, their place is at the council of state to advice us about lessons from History. But the sitting President must be one able to think contemporaneously and find solutions to contemporary issues whose solutions does not lie in the past but in the present and future. What experience for instance, will Kuffour bring to the table about using information technology to improve on the lives of Ghanaians? In fact, electing the over 70 seventies as president will be a hindrance to the implementation of contemporary solutions to contemporary issues. Ghana should never go back to letting stupid old retirees run our country. They are retarded, sorry retired, for a reason. They have served their country; thank you very much. Let young energetic brains run our country and stop calling our president ‘young’ and needing ‘assistance’.
Pelicles 10 years ago

How old is Mahama and the people around him? In our local parlance, we do say something like "Yenko bisa aberewa" meaning let's go and ask the old lady. Traditionally, we believe that the old is full of wisdom and these is a ...
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How old is Mahama and the people around him? In our local parlance, we do say something like "Yenko bisa aberewa" meaning let's go and ask the old lady. Traditionally, we believe that the old is full of wisdom and these is abundance of truth to support that. Elect a youthful leader and you will regret for that mistake. As long as our laws are being kept behind "close doors" and we vote base on tribal lines, Ghana will not see any good leader soon.

Mahama is young and why isn't he performing? Because he is not a born leader.
Salifu 10 years ago

this vision-less mahama.Its only Ghana he can be prez. illiterate electorates

this vision-less mahama.Its only Ghana he can be prez. illiterate electorates
EZEKIEL 10 years ago

THERE ARE TOO MANY CHIEFS and no "Indians" in Ghana politics !! No doubt, we are NOT progressing in the RIGHT DIRECTION! It is ONLY "the power" and then it STOPS THERE!! NO ideas, no enthusiasm and NO vision NO NOTHING apart ...
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THERE ARE TOO MANY CHIEFS and no "Indians" in Ghana politics !! No doubt, we are NOT progressing in the RIGHT DIRECTION! It is ONLY "the power" and then it STOPS THERE!! NO ideas, no enthusiasm and NO vision NO NOTHING apart from....how can I get rich quick ?

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