EOCO is the most corrupt institution in Ghana – John Boadu

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Kwaku 10 years ago

EOCO is like Kwakwei julor what a statement?We are finished if it is true,by the way were they the same EOCO who were instructed to arrest GFA by Nii Lante and Kojo Bonso?

EOCO is like Kwakwei julor what a statement?We are finished if it is true,by the way were they the same EOCO who were instructed to arrest GFA by Nii Lante and Kojo Bonso?
insight to the bone 10 years ago

here we go again with the theater of propaganda tricks making it appear they want to do the right thing by criticizing themselves , its all lies , dont fall for the hype .we respected the call for a truce after they came cryi ...
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here we go again with the theater of propaganda tricks making it appear they want to do the right thing by criticizing themselves , its all lies , dont fall for the hype .we respected the call for a truce after they came crying to us to give the pepeni some slack and stop calling him kwasea which he is and aboa which is also a known fact . when they saw we were quiet they went back to blaming the innocent for their own incompetence and lack of any plan or idea of how to move things forward which we already knew they would do . instead they rain the airwaves with their vomit and feces claiming that some petition was the cause of their non performance and their inability to recognize the Akans or better put the fantis supposedly gave them a third of the vote but not a single cabinet minister is a fanti. they rob the 800,000 Akan cocoa farmers of their money by not paying them the true value of their produce but less than half to keep them in poverty. they say they fight corruption but every pepeni is running around selling time with the president for 500 cedis to 5 million dollars . they have put so much fear in the civil servants with their bullying and bossing around that healthy decisions can no be made rather foolish ideas and wishful thinking are commonplace . everywhere you go Chinese , Indians , Turkish , Brazilians and Arabs led by the Lebanese raping our economy dry . the result being the Akans are now politically one although the gap between the fantis and ashantis is still there due to the mistrust and selfishness of some. the revolution or war to rid ourselves of this pepeni/ayigbe pestilence is around the corner so we work diligently to prepare , long live the republic of Akan
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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.
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!
Afiafitor 10 years ago

Those so-called investigators at EOCO are more corrupt than the word itself Cases that will not earn them kick-backs will die naturally. Full of ayigbe including their head, get money quick is their main object. Afiafitor

Those so-called investigators at EOCO are more corrupt than the word itself Cases that will not earn them kick-backs will die naturally. Full of ayigbe including their head, get money quick is their main object. Afiafitor
IVY 10 years ago

HE LOVES EOCO TO TAKEOVER ALL OUR JUDGEMENT CASES

HE LOVES EOCO TO TAKEOVER ALL OUR JUDGEMENT CASES
JIMAKPLER 10 years ago

EOCO IS USELESS - ITS OFFICIALS HEADED BY THAT EWE THIEF ARE ALL CORRUPT LIKE JOHN MAHAMA

EOCO IS USELESS - ITS OFFICIALS HEADED BY THAT EWE THIEF ARE ALL CORRUPT LIKE JOHN MAHAMA
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

That particular institution called EOCO is not a democratic and independent institution but a political wing of of NDC hence it is
a total corrupt institution.

Any institution in our country as at
now has been turned in ...
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That particular institution called EOCO is not a democratic and independent institution but a political wing of of NDC hence it is
a total corrupt institution.

Any institution in our country as at
now has been turned into a total
corrupt institution.
Kofi 10 years ago

Certainly EOCO is corrupt. they took bribe from someone who used ghost names to amass wealth. the guy has never been arrested because he had a lot of monye to bribe EOCO, CID, and controller general staff. Sad state!

Certainly EOCO is corrupt. they took bribe from someone who used ghost names to amass wealth. the guy has never been arrested because he had a lot of monye to bribe EOCO, CID, and controller general staff. Sad state!
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

Bawumia is the only idiot from the north,does he think he will get a chance in "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY? He should go and ask the late ALIU MAHAMA THIEF KUFOUR'S VICE. When kufour was travelling allover the world, vice president AL ...
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Bawumia is the only idiot from the north,does he think he will get a chance in "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY? He should go and ask the late ALIU MAHAMA THIEF KUFOUR'S VICE. When kufour was travelling allover the world, vice president ALIU was the one does the dirty job for "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY. At the end of all this struggling by ALIU, the evil "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY NPP denied him the presidency,and humble VICE PRESIDENT ALIU got heart attack which ends him up in his early GRAVE.
ALHAJI BERKO 10 years ago

IT SEEMS YOU ARE STILL TAKING THE SUBSTANCE EVEN THOUGH YOU`RE SUFFERING FROM ITS EFFECTS. AGAIN I AM ADVISING THAT A VISIT TO THE PSYCHIATRIST WILL HELP YOU. PLEASE...

IT SEEMS YOU ARE STILL TAKING THE SUBSTANCE EVEN THOUGH YOU`RE SUFFERING FROM ITS EFFECTS. AGAIN I AM ADVISING THAT A VISIT TO THE PSYCHIATRIST WILL HELP YOU. PLEASE...
Modibo Keita 10 years ago

Why was Amidu arrested, for what? What is wrong with the govt, why was he released. John, would you please tell us more about this? interesting isn`t it? Oh Ghana.

Why was Amidu arrested, for what? What is wrong with the govt, why was he released. John, would you please tell us more about this? interesting isn`t it? Oh Ghana.
alfred 10 years ago

why Ghana? all institutions dont function

why Ghana? all institutions dont function
adama seidu 10 years ago

Ghanaians are very lucky to have angels in the camp of the npp the off springs of the up/pp parties. I am very tired and sick of their every day noises on roof tops about corruption here and there. in their time Ghanaians exp ...
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Ghanaians are very lucky to have angels in the camp of the npp the off springs of the up/pp parties. I am very tired and sick of their every day noises on roof tops about corruption here and there. in their time Ghanaians experienced the best government to have happened to Ghana. let us give Ghana to them to rule forever so that we will have our peace forever else they will soon start throwing bombs on us as their forefathers did in the 60s!
adama seidu 10 years ago

Ghanaians should not take these characters in the npp for granted. they are capable of doing anything to get what they want. like their forefathers including jb danquah,prof busia,edward akuffo addo,jake obetsebi lamptey, tai ...
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Ghanaians should not take these characters in the npp for granted. they are capable of doing anything to get what they want. like their forefathers including jb danquah,prof busia,edward akuffo addo,jake obetsebi lamptey, taigo tagoe and co, they resorted to use of bombs and all kinds of weapons to force out Kwame Nkrumah because Ghanaians did not trust them. I can foresee that the npp been the off springs of those evil and demonic people,will be resorting to the use of such evil and wicked actions to force out the current president. they may bring in bombs to achieve their evil agenda just like in the days of jj rawlings, jh mensah a bloody old man in their mist tried to bring in mercenaries to over throw the government by armed force.
kusi 10 years ago

boadu I think you are insane have you so soon forget all that happen in thief k4 era stupid idiot

boadu I think you are insane have you so soon forget all that happen in thief k4 era stupid idiot
papa yaw 10 years ago

stop eating from the pockets of the so called corrupt NDC gangs at Afikiko if you always accuse them of being corrupt which they are too.Shameless opportunist

stop eating from the pockets of the so called corrupt NDC gangs at Afikiko if you always accuse them of being corrupt which they are too.Shameless opportunist
Bongo Boy 10 years ago

Who is in charge of the national audit office? Mahama's cronies

Who is in charge of the national audit office? Mahama's cronies
Bongo Boy 10 years ago

Back to Taliban years

Back to Taliban years
USMAN 10 years ago

EOCO is supervised by useless university graduates.

EOCO is supervised by useless university graduates.
NAA4U 10 years ago

ONLY TODAY THAT EOCO IS THE MOST CORRUPT INSTITUTION. EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY IS CORRUPT EXCEPT THE NPP AND THEIR CRONIES WHO LOOTED ALL STATE RESOURCES.

ONLY TODAY THAT EOCO IS THE MOST CORRUPT INSTITUTION. EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY IS CORRUPT EXCEPT THE NPP AND THEIR CRONIES WHO LOOTED ALL STATE RESOURCES.
Mma 10 years ago

Corruption was born and raised by Kuffour when he stole everything that Ghana had at the time including a whole ship. He owns a mighty house now, his son owns a hotel and his daughter owns accra shopping mall which has caused ...
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Corruption was born and raised by Kuffour when he stole everything that Ghana had at the time including a whole ship. He owns a mighty house now, his son owns a hotel and his daughter owns accra shopping mall which has caused terrible traffic to those of us in spintex. NPP has no moral right to talk about corruption. Bastards
ADRENALIN 10 years ago

JOHN BOADU WHAT DID YOU TELL KUFUOR WHEN HE DECORATED AND AWARDED HIMSELF ALL KINDS OF NONSENCE. GHANA IS NOT FOR YOU PEOPLE. THIEVES.

JOHN BOADU WHAT DID YOU TELL KUFUOR WHEN HE DECORATED AND AWARDED HIMSELF ALL KINDS OF NONSENCE. GHANA IS NOT FOR YOU PEOPLE. THIEVES.
ADRENALIN 10 years ago

LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE JOHN BOADU WHO TALKS AS IF HE HAS FIT{EPILEPSY].

LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE JOHN BOADU WHO TALKS AS IF HE HAS FIT{EPILEPSY].
Papa Yaw 10 years ago

No

No
Whatever 10 years ago

Can the toothless, connniving SFO which existed under Kufour be compared to this aggressively swift EOCO which is even freezing assets of some troubled NDC figures?

Can the toothless, connniving SFO which existed under Kufour be compared to this aggressively swift EOCO which is even freezing assets of some troubled NDC figures?
Yaw Adu-Asare 10 years ago

What does John Boadu plan to do about EOCO?

What does John Boadu plan to do about EOCO?

EOCO is the most corrupt institution in Ghana – John Boadu

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