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Oye Lithur didn’t bribe Judges – Date-Bah C’ttee

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  • Kofi Amponsah 10 years ago

    I'm just waiting to read the comments from everyone else on this matter

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    the sae.. self-seeking

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    ANATOMY OF A STOOPID GHANAIAN!
    A BETTER, PROSPEROUS, MODERN, FORWARD THINKING GH STARTS WITH YOU!
    IF YOUR LIVING SITUATION IS GOOD, THEN GHANA WILL BE GOOD.
    IF YOU ARE CONFUSED, DISORIENTED, UNORGANIZED, FEARFUL, IN DEBT/D ...
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  • kabokabo 10 years ago

    What does one expect from this cmtee? To admit that Oye bribed the Judges? No! There is a truth somewhere but when reveals it will cost the nation. Better let the sleeping dogs rest.

  • The 10 years ago

    The reason for the committee was to investigate what some one has alleged, as requested by the NPP scribe. If the committee has no power to subpoen the one who alleged to appear before it then the committee was of no use. I e ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    So, with all your experiences with Ghana's judicial pursuits you still hold belief this case could well be investigated?
    The committees sitting on cases in Ghana have no members credited with any intelligence or wisdom. Act ...
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  • SLICKWILLYWAB 10 years ago

    investigating a hearsay allegation? Was the other lady at the other end of the telephone conversation invited?

  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    How do you find out the truth in a statement when none of the people who engaged in the conversation is invited for questioning? This is the most foolish decision I have ever heard in my life. This is the joke of the year 201 ...
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  • Abuada 10 years ago

    This is pure mockery of justice in Ghana.

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    the year has started and now that its evident the people can not be fooled or lied to any longer by the ndc regime we now see the traitors of the Akan cause within the npp raising their heads talking shit . these people are s ...
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  • Yaw Poku, USA 10 years ago

    I do completely agree with you.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    This committee's assignment was just a foregone conclusion. Who expect the Date committee to conclude that Oye influenced the judgement? Dear Jackie did not attend the invitation so how does Date arrive at the conclusion? Hah ...
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  • Kwasi Longo 10 years ago

    I am sorely disappointed by this outcome. I expected much more from such an eminent jurist as Mr Justice Date Baah. How are the mighty fallen?

  • HUMPHREY 10 years ago

    Anyway, I expected this outcome because like any dictatorship in a given country, we do not need to spend a whole night in front of the TV waiting for the results of the elections.
    The only way to stifle a political imbrogli ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    And you think commissions function in Ghana?

  • Ike - London 10 years ago

    How to you set up a committee without the power to force a witness to appear and expect anything good to come out of it. Simply put, it was designed to fail and a complete waste of time.

  • The 10 years ago

    What was the petition to the CJ;

    "Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie petitioned the Chief Justice to investigate claims made in a leaked tape by sacked Deputy Communications Minister Victoria Hamah that the Minister of Gender, Children ...
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  • ENKAA AKYIRE 10 years ago

    DO YOU THINK CJ COMMITTEE IS STUPID TO COME OUT NEGATIVE. IT WILL BE SUICIDE FOR THE WHOLE JUSTICE COLLABORATORS. THE HONEY IS WASTED BUT THE BOTTLE EXITS THANKS TO GOD LET GHANAIANS THINK TWICE FOR THE BALLOT BOX OR THEIR TH ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    Nothing gets done at all. This place is called Ghana.

  • KAY 10 years ago

    WHY DID THE COMMITTEE NOT HAVE THE POWER OF A HIGH COURT TO FORCE THE VICKY LADY TO APPEAR BEFORE IT. THIS IS SHAMEFUL. DID WE EXPECT OYE TO SAY YES I "SAW" THE JUDGES SHAME

  • Martha 10 years ago

    This is poor work, how can you conclude Oye Lithur did not bribe judges when you did not interview Vicky,the one who said so. Judicial and executive collaboration to shame Ghana.

  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    Sir John has been quoted in the press to have said he was satisfied with the investigation, which was a complete farce.

    I was wondering if he was given some money. If Victoria refused invitation to appear before a Commiss ...
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  • Koo Dwomo 10 years ago

    How do you judge a case without the prime suspect, the fat ass "bitch" Victoria Hammah. If the "frog" face Oye Lithur of a woman thinks she is vindicated, God is not looking from too far. If my wife is this ugly, I don't thin ...
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  • Adom 10 years ago

    How can Judgement be passed without hearing from ms Victoria Hammah?Victoria is healthy and in Ghana so i do not understand why she could not be brought to court to tell the whole Ghanians and the world why she said so.People ...
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  • Kodwo 10 years ago

    The fact that in this particular sitting, there was no evidence to support the case does not mean the allegation iss not true.

    After all the star witness, Victoria Hammah did not appear.

    I feel sorry for our motherland, ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    Why Victoria Hammah declined to appear
    at the Committee if she has nothing to hide, who advised her not to appear when the Committee invited her to appear before it if she has nothing to hide and why should she be sacked aft ...
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  • BEN KOFI,CALIFORNIA-USA. 10 years ago

    OYE LITHUR,S APPEARANCE ALONE TELLS SHE HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN HER HEAD TO DELIVER TO GHANA.SUCH CAN,T BE A ROLE MODEL.SHE WAS MADE A MINISTER BASED ON NEPOTISM AND HER HUBBY,S LINKS WITH THE EQUALLY STUPID PRESIDENT.IT,S ...
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  • Nii Lantey 10 years ago

    There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the NPP leaders and supporters have a pinhead brain. No wonder u imbeciles could support a clown like Sir John who was publicly disgraced at the supreme court in this silly petitio ...
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  • destroyers party n d c 10 years ago

    enjoy sleeping in yur kiosk and stop fooling yourself koboloit is a person . of yur calibre who are destroying our nation idiot .yur are a big disgrace to yur family

  • Obournana 10 years ago

    Because like your loose talks no one can substantiate a gossip. Why the so-called lawyer sir john "Kwajohn" take it to court but the chief justice? Because it was a useless case. Has anybody acted on his gossips?

  • KHAVI 10 years ago

    IT IS GOOD FOR OUR DEMOCRACY.GHANA HAVE A COMPETENT JUDGES IN THE SUPREME COURT AND NO ONE CAN INFLUENCE THEM, EXCEPT SOME FEW ONE'S THAT ONLY THINK ABOUT THEIR STOMACH.

  • KING 10 years ago

    MASTER, YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE POINT.ATUGUBA WHO IS WORRIED ABOUT HIS STOMACH IS BOUGHT.

  • VIP CONI 10 years ago

    The truth is like a cork, you can't hide it under water. But Date-Bah Committee, Atuguba & Co and you KHAVI are try hard to hide it. Yes, One day All OF YOU YOUR ARMS WOULD BE EXHAUSTED AND WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD THAT CORK ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    When are we as a country going to stand up against the Danquah/Busia tradition of Unproductive Obstructionism? Asante\akyem people are just a cancer to the socioeconomic future of mother Ghana

  • HONEST CITIZEN 10 years ago

    The heading of this article is wrong.Nothing was proved by the committee because the star witness refused to appear before them.She is a very wise lady, and decided not to make any comment on whatever she said on the tape. Sh ...
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  • ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT 10 years ago

    SOMETIMES WHEN I SEE THE BEHAVIOURS OF SOME GHANAIANS I FEEL SORRY. THE BEHAVIOURS OF BOTH LITERATES AND ILLITERATES ARE THE SAME, FROM THE PRESIDENT TO KAYAYO. EVEN TRAINED ANIMALS THAT I HAVE SEEN IN LONDON BEHAVE WELL AND ...
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  • Nice Man 10 years ago

    Sir who? Sir confused John? This guy is mad! He is the reason Nana's campaign did not yield the desired fruit. He negated what ever positives Nana achieved in his campaign. Show him the door and civility will return to polit ...
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  • Nexium 10 years ago

    Judges being paid to give bias rulings and faulty statements.

  • KOJO DARKO, Indiana 10 years ago

    LAWLESS COUNTRY with BLACK ANIMAL BRAINS as LEADERS. What do you expect? ILLNESS, POVERTY, FAT UGLY ASSES, LIES, BAD ROADS,SCH UNDER TREES, CORRUPTION, NO NATIONAL AIRLINE, STINKING CITIES, FEW RICHED.

  • VIP CONI, UK 10 years ago

    I WILL ADD:- USELESS LEADERS FROM HEAD TO TOE MAKING AMA GHANA USELESS DESPITE ALL OUR
    VALUABLE RESOURCES.

  • HUMPHREY 10 years ago

    Anyway, I expected this outcome because like any dictatorship in a given country, we do not need to spend a whole night in front of the TV waiting for the results of the elections.
    The only way to stifle a political imbrogli ...
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  • Augie 10 years ago

    Does it mean that this stupid committee has no power to make sure that the good for nothing Mahama's girlfriend appeared before it? This is just a joke. Our country is in trouble. Stupid good for nothing politicians and lawye ...
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  • Papa Yaw 10 years ago

    How

  • T T 10 years ago

    If you look art this woman can

    she halp ghana

  • Mohammed 10 years ago

    eeh, Sir John and NPP, are you still struggling? just leave NDC alone to deliver its promises so that Ghanaians can maintain NDC in power come 2016

  • Ohene. 10 years ago

    No wonder your name is a stupid muslim name

  • Opoku Nti 10 years ago

    Ohene I am very much disappointed in you as a fellow NPPian. Yours is one of the insults that causes our defeat at elections.Please let's be civil to make NPP attractive to everybody.

  • Bright Asamoah 10 years ago

    Chief Justice please award costs against the NPP. This NPP party is wasting public money for nothing since they lost the 2012 General Elections. First they went to the Electoral Commissioner with a concocted allegation that ...
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  • DrG 10 years ago

    Of course it will be thrown out - the star witness did not show up, the Committee did nothing about it.

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    So what is effectively treason has been treated like a village chief sitting in his palace and inviting the most important witness and because she treated the investigators with contempt,case close?
    Did the one who set up th ...
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  • Nii Ankrah 10 years ago

    Welcome to THe Banana Republic of Ghana.This country is a joke

  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    Well done Dateh-Bah Committee. Your probe proves that all frivolous accusations would be fairly judged irrespective of the politics of the accuser(s). This is a warning to all political parties that we still have checks and b ...
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  • Sappey-Agboh, Atsiame - Avenorpeme 10 years ago

    The mind set of NPP apparatchiks and apologists never ceases to amaze me. As long as a judgement or finding fails to favour them, then it implies that the Ghanaian jurisprudence is not fit for purpose. Here they are, referrin ...
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  • Oko Kokuvi Anidu 10 years ago

    We will not forgive them . Lightning and thunder will strike them all in 2014. They know what they did and it will never be well with all who got involved in this

  • KOO 10 years ago

    Victoria Hammah so far has refused to report to this committee on its sittings yet they have concluded that there are no basis to substantiate the allegations.This is a big joke.If people in responsible positions want to be r ...
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  • Straight Talk 10 years ago

    It was absolutely nonsensical for the Chief Justice to form a committee without subpoena and prosecutorial powers and allow Miss Hamah to snub the committee. The outcome was predictable from the beginning and was clearly orch ...
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  • Oko Kokuvi Anidu 10 years ago

    The NDC has a lot of stupid and insane people from Mahama to people like you. The CJ only had to ensure TRUE justice and you call for what

  • Straight Talk 10 years ago

    OMG, What are you talking about? "The CJ only had to ensure TRUE justice" by making sure Victoria Hamah doesn't appear before the committee? What distorted logic is that? Please put on your thinking cap and stop the insults.
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  • The owners of Ghana. 10 years ago

    Madam cj let sir john pay the costs,not npp.this lawyers without cets are costing Ghana money end time. Akoffo Addo end sir john.

  • Straight Talk 10 years ago

    Please read the previous comment to decide who should pay the court cost.

  • TerriblY Spe cifi. 10 years ago

    Who care? Ghanaian's judges deserve to check their mental before their judgement, especially Atuguba.

  • Law Speaks 10 years ago

    Npp bribed Victoria Mammah to misbehave and tell lies for them to hide their shame against election petition dismissal.

  • Ohene. 10 years ago

    So When stupid Atuguba called sir john into SC hé could refuse to showe up. Like vic.

  • ROGUE LAWYER 10 years ago

    Everybody including those who pettition the CJ knew in their heart that it was impossible for that oye lithur to bribe the judes-

    BUT I AM CONVINCE AND CANNOT RULE IT OUT THAT OYE LITHUR HAD MADE SUCH A CONVERSATION TO VI ...
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  • YOOMOBEGA 10 years ago

    Victoria Hammah is really bright. She has already made her millions - both NDC & NPP are throwing money at her trying to get her to talk.

  • serlom kofi 10 years ago

    why are those who raise the issue above the roof when the rumoar came out now quite on the findings of the committee set up by the chief justice or that one need no announcement.3 times difet in one election. from the polling ...
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  • Adgo 10 years ago

    Big shame to the justice system in Ghana. I tell you we're finished as a Nation. How on earth can a witness refuse to appear for questioning, yet the committee would run the investigation to the end and as if that is not enou ...
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  • Akufo Addo weed smoker 10 years ago

    I hope they learn this time.

  • TEE 10 years ago

    GHANA NO JUSTIFICATION SO LETS MOVE ON TOWARDS 2016 ELECTION THAT IS THE BEHAVIOUR OF THESE LIARS CHEATERS AND CRIMINALS JUDGES

  • nana akufo addo 10 years ago

    another npp defeat

  • OSO 10 years ago

    Your initial comment before the sitting of this commette nillifies the honesty of this judgement.
    Ghanaian statesmen, what honourable LEGACY are you offering to the future of Ghana?! Make straight your ways and know GOD WILL ...
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  • KANTATA 10 years ago

    THE OIL IN GHANA BELONGS TO NPP & THE PARASITIC NDC POLITICIANS.

    GHANA'S OIL DOES NOT BELONG TO GHANAIANS, PERIOD.

    THAT'S WHY THEY KILLED THE "DARK HORSE" ATTA-MILLS TO FORCE A BYE-ELECTION WHICH WAS ALSO DISAPPOINTIN ...
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  • Master Kwaku 10 years ago

    With Vicky Hamma, the MAJOR witness, who could have confirmed the veracity of the episode, failing to accept the invitation of the Committee to appear before it, who expected a different Finding and Conclusion? Whoever did is ...
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  • Yamba 10 years ago

    Victoria Hammah has not appeared before the committe to give her side of the story and it's attendance evidence. Why then this hurried judgement?

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Vic Hammah who is alleged to have made the disclosure did not appear before the committee. What did the committee work with to arrive at the conclusion? If the committee could not get Hammah, they just had to report to the Ch ...
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  • Fred, London 10 years ago

    Why didn't the committee ask HSBC to provide the bank account details of the judges concerned? At least some banks were named in some reports where it was alleged $5m were paid into those accounts. This is just asking the ref ...
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  • ANANE 10 years ago

    How can you rule that there is no substance to the case when you could not subpoena the person in the center of the case and hear from her? What a fallacy of law. Dr, Date-Bah are you serious?

  • Asafuaste 10 years ago

    The Judges have spoken BUT God knows the truth and some of the Judges too know the truth. We shall all meet at HEAVEN's gate one day to account for our actions and inactions here on earth, shan't we?
    GOD is a better Judge.

  • Ugly Akufu Addo 10 years ago

    They lost general election, lost court , and their final one was on thursday , npp why do you continue losing stupidly ?

  • Breko 10 years ago

    The case was dismissed because Vicky Hammer refused to show up and cooperate in the inquiry, and the committee had no powers to subpoena and force her to appear although she was the main originator of this allegation. The Chi ...
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  • sa 10 years ago

    useless committee

  • nana new york 10 years ago

    WHO IS SINCERE IN GHANA ALL CORRUPT STOOGES AND ONLY CONCERNED WITH THEIR STOMACH

  • sam 10 years ago

    this zombi owusu afiriyie is creating a lot of problems in ghana

  • John 10 years ago

    WHATEVER YOU WILL SAY ABOUT THIS ISSUE OF NANA OYE LITHUR BRIBING JUSTICES OR NOT IS A POLITICAL DECEIT, THE CAT IS ALREADY OUT OF THE BAG. VICTORIA HAMMAH WHO KNOWS MORE ABOUT THIS HAS ALREADY DIVULGED THE INFORMATION. SO WH ...
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  • AA 10 years ago

    At times I wonder whether sir john is really a lawyer. He works on his emotions rather than on law

  • AA 10 years ago

    Is sir john really a lawyer?

  • Don Micky 10 years ago

    Vicky did not show up because the gentleman's recording which is of interest to the NPP was illegal

  • goofy 10 years ago

    there is full of stink shit going on in Ghana Supreme Court how do they came to find that there is no evidence when they did not interview Victoria Hammah no wonder we can not fright corruption everything goes under the ta ...
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  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY 10 years ago

    Will those NPP rats ever learn a lesson?

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    Politics has made some Ghanaians to lose their sense of judgement.
    For instance, if the SC judges had to be bribed, why should it be Nana Oye Lithur who would have to go to them to bribe them?
    NPP's never ending fighting ...
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  • Kwami - US 10 years ago

    If so, why is that NPP is becoming so factional or insurgential? Is it because the president is from the north that NPP is moving heaven and earth to unseat him? Maybe So. This shows in Sir John's comment that, come 2016 nana ...
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  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    I think this has nothing to do with the president being from the north or not.
    NPP is simply so desperate that they see/take anything at all as opportunity to win power. By this, they rather ridicule themselves.

  • james appiah 10 years ago

    Sir John is just going crazy.He feels that Nana Adoo is the only person who can rule Ghana hence his stupid utterances.

  • YOFK 10 years ago

    DONT WORRY CJ THE OUTCOME OF THE COMITTEE S HEARING WAS OBVIOUS.THE GOOD PEOPLE PF GHANA CAN READ IN BETWEEN THE LINES.

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    Sir John is hopeless General Secretary. look at what he went and pursued and lost.

  • Victor 10 years ago

    This farce reminds me of the Committee headed by Justice Georgina Wood that investigated the MV Benjamin Cocaine scandal. Some of the witnesses at one point decided they weren't going to cooperate with the Commission again.
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  • Agnes 10 years ago

    Ugly oye lithur

  • ghetto youth 10 years ago

    FOOLISH OLD PEOPLE IN GHANA.USELESS POLITICIANS. THIEVES.

  • BOSS 10 years ago

    NPP has lost again. It has lost every case about the 2012 election and has so developed a culture of losing in all cases. This culture is making it a party of integrity, and small in the eyes of people.The culture will lead i ...
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  • Sensible man. 10 years ago

    The Committee set up by the Chief Justice,Her Ladyship(am I right?),Mrs. Georgina Theodora Wood, chaired by His Lordship Prof. Date-Baah,JSC(rtd), to probe the veracity of what has become known in Ghana as "Vikileakes",in my ...
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  • Ship Dealer 10 years ago

    This Woman has nö Sharp .