Corruption in Ghana: Exposing hypocricy of Rawlings

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• kwame 10 years ago

  o ye aboa ba paa. show some respect. you think kofour is a saint? if you have nothing good to say shut you mouth up. kofour is corrupt as any body. Jesus said he who have no sin throw the first stone.

  o ye aboa ba paa. show some respect. you think kofour is a saint? if you have nothing good to say shut you mouth up. kofour is corrupt as any body. Jesus said he who have no sin throw the first stone.

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• kWADWO AMPONSH (GHANA) 10 years ago

  tHIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR THIS. WHO EVER IS TRYING TO BRING IN THIS TOPIC SEEMS TO BE BRINGING IT OUT AT THE WRONG TIME. wE KNOW AND BELIEVE WE HAVE ALL AS AFRICAN LOST A GREAT HERO. A GOOD STATES MAN OF AFRICA. WHAT DID NKRUM ...
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  tHIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR THIS. WHO EVER IS TRYING TO BRING IN THIS TOPIC SEEMS TO BE BRINGING IT OUT AT THE WRONG TIME. wE KNOW AND BELIEVE WE HAVE ALL AS AFRICAN LOST A GREAT HERO. A GOOD STATES MAN OF AFRICA. WHAT DID NKRUMAH DO? HE PLAYED A TACT FOR TACT GAME. HE IMPRESION ALL HIS ENEMIES, EVEN HIS OWN PARTY MEMBERS. HE KICKED THE WHITE MAN OUT OF GHANA AND WAS EVEN TRYING TO GET THEM OUT OF AFRICA AND RULE BY HIME SELF. WHAO WAS NKRUMAHS VICE PRESIDENT? DID HE EVER HAD ONE? FINALLY HOW LONG DID HE RULED? WAS HE THE ONLY BEST BRAIN IN AFRICA AND IN GHANA DURING THOSE TIMES? SO THIS IS WHAT WE ARE SPEAKING OF NELSON MANDELA AS THE BEST. HE ONLY RULED FOR 5YRS AND PASSED ON THE SEAT TO HIS VICE PRESIDENT THIS IS THE MAN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. WHO ON EARTH IN AFRICA, IS ABLE TO DO THIS. WELL LET ME TELL YOU ALL GHANAIANS THAT COME JESUS CHRIST IS MANDELA.

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• Kwadwo 10 years ago

  For allowing this low life to taunt and kill with impunity. Where in the world will Rawlings get away with all he has done?

  For allowing this low life to taunt and kill with impunity. Where in the world will Rawlings get away with all he has done?

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• SGT ANANI 10 years ago

  IS THAT ALL YOU COULD SITE FOR RAWLINGS? TRY K4'S AND SEE THE LIST. THANK THE LATE MILLS WHO DIDN'T WANT TO PLUNGE GHANA INTO ANY MESS KNOWING HOW MILITANT AND UNFAITHFUL YOU GUYS ARE AND WILL NOT BEHAVE LIKE THE NDC THAT SAW ...
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  IS THAT ALL YOU COULD SITE FOR RAWLINGS? TRY K4'S AND SEE THE LIST. THANK THE LATE MILLS WHO DIDN'T WANT TO PLUNGE GHANA INTO ANY MESS KNOWING HOW MILITANT AND UNFAITHFUL YOU GUYS ARE AND WILL NOT BEHAVE LIKE THE NDC THAT SAW THE TRIAL/JAILING OF THEIR MINISTERS DONE PEACEFULLY.

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• NAKED 10 years ago

  Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch ...
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  Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism.
  
  Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a landmass three and a half times the size of Germany, is a land-locked largely Saharan Desert country in the center of western Africa, bordered by Algeria to its north, Mauritania to its west, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Niger to its southern part. People I know who have spent time there before the recent US-led efforts at destabilization called it one of the most peaceful and beautiful places on earth, the home of Timbuktu. Its people are some ninety percent Muslim of varying persuasions. It has a rural subsistence agriculture and adult illiteracy of nearly 50%. Yet this country is suddenly the center of a new global “war on terror.”
  
  On January 20 Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron announced his country’s curious resolve to dedicate itself to deal with “the terrorism threat” in Mali and north Africa. Cameron declared, “It will require a response that is about years, even decades, rather than months, and it requires a response that…has an absolutely iron resolve…” [1] Britain in its colonial heyday never had a stake in Mali. Until it won independence in 1960, Mali was a French colony.
  
  On January 11, after more than a year of behind-the-scenes pressure on the neighboring Algeria to get them entangled in an invasion of its neighbor Mali, Hollande decided to make a direct French military intervention with US backing. His government launched air strikes in the rebel-held north of Mali against a fanatical Salafist band of jihadist cutthroats calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic-Mahgreb (AQIM). The pretext for the seemingly swift French action was a military move by a tiny group of Islamic Jihadists of the Tuareg people, Asnar Dine, affiliated with the larger AQIM. On January 10 Asnar Dine – backed by other Islamist groups – attacked the southern town of Konna. That marked the first time since the Tuareg rebellion in early 2012 that Jihadist rebels moved out of traditional Tuareg territory in the northern desert to spread Islamic law to the south of Mali.
  
  As French journalist Thierry Meyssan noted, French forces were remarkably well prepared: “The transitional President, Dioncounda Traore, declared a state of emergency and called to France for help. Paris intervened within hours to prevent the fall of the capital, Bamako. Far-sightedly, the Elysée had already pre-positioned in Mali troops from the 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (“the Colonials”) and the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, helicopters from the COS (Special Operations Command), three Mirage 2000D’s, two Mirage F-1’s, three C135’s, a C130 Hercules and a C160 Transall.” [2] What a convenient coincidence.
  
  By January 21 US Air Force transport planes began delivering hundreds of French elite soldiers and military equipment to Mali, ostensibly to roll back what we were told was an out-of-control terrorist advance south towards the Mali capital. [3] French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told media the number of its ‘boots on the ground’ in Mali had reached 2,000, adding that “around 4,000 troops will be mobilized for this operation,” in Mali and outside bases. [4]
  
  But there are strong indications the French agenda in Mali is anything but humanitarian. In a France 5 TV interview, Le Drian carelessly admitted, “The goal is the total reconquest of Mali. We will not leave any pockets.” And President Francois Hollande said French troops would remain in the region long enough “to defeat terrorism.” The United States, Canada, Britain, Belgium, Germany and Denmark have all said they would support the French operation against Mali. [5]
  
  Mali itself, like much of Africa is rich in raw materials. It has large reserves of gold, uranium and most recently, though western oil companies try to hide it, of oil, lots of oil. The French preferred to ignore Mali’s vast resources, keeping it a poor subsistence agriculture country. Under the deposed democratically-elected President Amadou Toumani Toure, for the first time the government initiated a systematic mapping of the vast wealth under its soil. According to Mamadou Igor Diarra, previous mining minister, Malian soil contains copper, uranium, phosphate, bauxite, gems and in particular, a large percentage of gold in addition to oil and gas. Thus, Mali is one of the countries in the world with the most raw materials. With its gold mining, the country is already one of the leading exploiters directly behind South Africa and Ghana. [6] Two thirds of France’s electricity is from nuclear power and sources of new uranium are essential. Presently, France draws significant uranium imports from neighboring Niger.
  
  Now the picture gets a little complex.
  
  According to usually reliable former US military experts with direct familiarity with the region, speaking on condition of anonymity, US and NATO Special Forces actually trained the same “terrorist” bands now justifying a neo-colonial US-backed invasion of Mali by France. The major question is why would Washington and Paris train the terrorists they are now acting to destroy in a “war on terror?” Were they really surprised at the lack of NATO loyalty from their trainees? And what is behind AFRICOM’s American-backed French takeover of Mali?

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• Kojo 10 years ago

  So was JA Kufour corrupter not? Why is it that anytime corruption and Kufour are mentioned NPP up in arms? If you mean Rawlings is corrupt and therefore he should not talk about corruption then the same applies to you. After ...
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  So was JA Kufour corrupter not? Why is it that anytime corruption and Kufour are mentioned NPP up in arms? If you mean Rawlings is corrupt and therefore he should not talk about corruption then the same applies to you. After all who does not know who the looting brigade in this country is. And they are the loudest shouting corruption corruption on rooftops all over. Mention drilship, mention hotel wawa, mention Ghana at 50, mention Ghana airways, Mention Ghana Telecom etc and see how NPP will react and yet they want us to believe they care about corruption in Ghana.if this is not hypocrisy then what is it?

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• Ras Adams 10 years ago

  Barima, talk well... U where born and alive, the time J,J was in power. Why shouldn't comeout?. I mean,for him. Stay blessed.

  Barima, talk well... U where born and alive, the time J,J was in power. Why shouldn't comeout?. I mean,for him. Stay blessed.

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• Nana Asare 10 years ago

  DOES rawling THINKS GHANAIANS HAS FORGOTTEN HE STOLE OUR 50CEDIS NOTES THAT HE THOUGHT WAS TOO BIG A DENOMINATION FOR THE ECONOMY OF GHANA THEN WENT ON TO INTRODUCE 10,000 GHANA CEDIS?, WAS NOT HIS BAD RULING OF GHANA FOR 19Y ...
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  DOES rawling THINKS GHANAIANS HAS FORGOTTEN HE STOLE OUR 50CEDIS NOTES THAT HE THOUGHT WAS TOO BIG A DENOMINATION FOR THE ECONOMY OF GHANA THEN WENT ON TO INTRODUCE 10,000 GHANA CEDIS?, WAS NOT HIS BAD RULING OF GHANA FOR 19YEARS THAT LED GHANA TO HIPC?,THIS DIRTY MOUTH SHOULD SHUT UP FOREVER

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• NANA Poku 10 years ago

  What does he rawlings want in this world? People are following him for killing afrifa without trying him, so he thinks he 's the toughest? NO

  What does he rawlings want in this world? People are following him for killing afrifa without trying him, so he thinks he 's the toughest? NO

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