Jerry Rawlings should just give us a break - Kweku Baako

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• Kwame Angel 10 years ago

  The man is an asshole. Should have been dragged to the beach long ago.

  The man is an asshole. Should have been dragged to the beach long ago.

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• Apara Hara. 10 years ago

  .... The story of Ghana is like the story of the biblical Moses and the Jews. It required a certain J.J Rawlings to play the role of the powerful Hebrew. It is a story of emancipation, bravery and patriotism. A story of belie ...
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  .... The story of Ghana is like the story of the biblical Moses and the Jews. It required a certain J.J Rawlings to play the role of the powerful Hebrew. It is a story of emancipation, bravery and patriotism. A story of belief, national commitment, sacrifice, hardwork and honesty to fellow citizens.
  Ft Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings Liberated the west African country from militarism, mis-governance, economic paralysis, hunger, and perpetual doom when he publicly executed the likes of Gen. Afriffa, Gen Akuffo, Gen Acheampong, and all those who plunged Ghana into untold hardship. Today, Ghana is laughing loud and thankful to God for using J.J to emancipate the country.
  Worse still, American congressmen have cautioned that Nigeria is on the verge of collapse and disintegration. In the last twelve months, some conglomerates have closed their plants in the country and relocated to Ghana. Among them are Dunlop and Mitchelen Plc. Only recently, more companies have informed the general public they would soon be folding operations in Nigeria to resettle in Ghana. The excuse of these companies is the same, energy crisis and political instability. Nigeria’s inability to stabilize the energy sector is the cause of her dwindling fortunes
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• KB 10 years ago

  Apara Hara you are an idiot

  Apara Hara you are an idiot

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• Koolovii koolovia 10 years ago

  You are a big fool and an idiot what makes Rawlings a brave man?The Generals he killed were brave army generals they were not cowards like Rawlings who have barricaded himself with the indemnity clause and talking nonsense.

  You are a big fool and an idiot what makes Rawlings a brave man?The Generals he killed were brave army generals they were not cowards like Rawlings who have barricaded himself with the indemnity clause and talking nonsense.

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

  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/DEATH,
  THEN GH WILL BE THE SAME. ...
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  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/DEATH,
  THEN GH WILL BE THE SAME.
  TRAITS OF A DUMB GHANAIAN
  1.LEAPS BEFORE HE LOOKS, THEN SAYS.."MEWUOO! AWURADE BUA ME OOOOO
  2.HAS NO GRATITUDE. FASTFOOD BRAIN. EASILY FORGETS
  3.HAS NO FORESIGHT. FAST FOOD MENTALITY
  4.LACKS MENTALITY TO PLAN LONGTERM
  5.COMPOUND INTEREST IS A MYTH
  6.BELIEVES AND PLACES FAITH IN INNATE, ILLOGICAL IDEALS LIKE JUJU, FAMA NYAME, 3B3Y3 YIE WAI.
  7.DESPISES RESEARCH
  8.PREFERS TO ACT, SPEAK, AND REASON EMOTIONALLY, THAN LOGICALLY
  9.COMFORTABLE WITH MEDIOCRITY
  10.DESPISES CONTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
  11.FUN OR PARTY TODAY, SUFFER LATER
  12.INSTANT GRATIFICATION
  13.PREFERS TO ARGUE, DEBATE INCESSANTLY WITHOUT REAL, CONCRETE, COLD HARD FACTS!
  14.COMFORTABLE WITH MEDIOCRITY
  15.INCAPABLE/LOOKS DOWN ON DOING CHARITABLE DUTIES
  16.LACKS INITIATIVE
  17.PREFERS TO STEAL, LIE, CHEAT, TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS
  18.SUCCESS DOES NOT = HARDWORK AND CAREFUL PLANNING
  19.HATES TO ASK
  20.ALLERGIC TO CHANGE. INCAPABLE OF CHANGING FOR THE BETTER E.G TOO CORRUPTION, NO URBAN PLANNING, BAD INFRASTRUCTURE.....
  21.ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THE EASY ROUTE, SHORTCUT TO SUCCESS
  22.HEY SMALLBOY!....BRA HA!
  23.BELIEVES SUCCESS IS ATTRIBUTED TO AWURADE NSHIRA(GOD'S BLESSING) AND NOT HARDWORK, DISCIPLINE AND CAREFUL PLANNING.
  24.DOES NOT BELIEVE IN LEAVING ASSETS/PROPERTY FOR THEIR OFFSPRING.
  25. ALWAYS PROCRASTINATING...M3Y3, M3Y3..AH, MESE M3Y3. MASSA, IF YOU R GOING TO PRESSURE ME THEN MENY3 BIOM!
  26.SPENDS LOADS OF MONEY ON THE LOTTERY. WITHOUT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE REALITIES OF PROBABILITY.
  27.BELIEVES IN LUCK, OVER HARDWORK AND DISCIPLINE.
  28.BUILDS ASSETS, SKYSCRAPPERS, STADIUMS IN THEIR MOUTHS AND BELLYS!
  29.PAY COLLECTION AND TITHES AT THE SAME CHURCH FOR DECADES. YET, NO STRUCTURAL
  CHANGES TO THE CHURCH BUILDING, NO CHURCH SCHOOL/DAYCARE, NO INFRASTRUCTURAL UPGRADES LIKE ROADS NETWORKS, CHURCH HOSPITAL,
  CHURCH FARM, CHURCH HOUSING, CHURCH RADIO, MECHANIC SHOPS, LOANS FOR MEMBERS, NO FOOD BANKS AND OR JOBBANKS TO HELP THEIR NEEDY CHURCH MEMBERS...REALLY!?
  30. PREFERS HEDIOUS, EXPENSIVE HAIR WEAVES, CANCER CAUSING LIPO LIPO & MAKEUP, SKIN BLEACHING, EXPENSIVE FASHIONISTA DRESSES....(YET, SHE AINT GOT NO MONEY IN THE BANK!!!)
  31. GOVT APPOINTEES: PERSONAL/SELFISH MONETARY GAINS OVER THE COLLECTIVE INTEREST. HOW DO U THINK COUPS, UPRISINGS, PUBLIC DISSIDENTS OCCUR??
  32. BELIEVES WRONGFUL ACCUMMULATION OF WEALTH IS BETTER THAN A MAN'S LEGACY. WICKEDNESS, CALLOUSNESS, PROFESSIONAL FOOD POISONERS!
  33. BLACK PPL DONT READ. IF YOU WANNA HIDE SOMETHING FROM THE BLACPERSON, PUT IT IN A BOOK!
  34. INCAPABLE OF PLANNING: NO STREET NAMES, NO NUMBERED BUILDINGS, NO CITY PARKS, NO LIBRARIES, NO PAID PARKING IN THE CBD, NO STREET LIGHTS?..WHEN? ARE WE WAITING ON JESUS?
  35. GHFUO, IF YOU WONT TOLERATE FOOLISH PEOPLE. YOU THINK GOD WILL? CAN GOD TOLERATE OUR STOOPID ACTIONS AND BEHAVIORS?
  36. BILL GATES IS TRYING TO GET RICHER! USAIN BOLT IS TRYING TO GET FASTER! WESTERN NATIONS ARE BECOMING MORE EFFICIENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY. WHAT IS GH GOVT. DOING?
  37. NO DISCIPLINE IN DUTIES, NO DIGNITY IN SELF. SO YOU DO THINGS ANYHOW (IN JOE PESCI'S VOICE...LOL)
  HAPPY, HEALTHY N A WEALTHY 2014 FOLKS!
  38. WE HVE VULTURES AND VAMPIRES DISGUISED AS PASTORS, PRESIDENTS, MINISTERS, CHIEFS, ASSEMBLYMEN/WOMEN, DCE, MAYOR ETC...BLACK ZOMBIES!D
  40. ME P3 SRADIE NAM AND CHOFI, SAUSAGE, HOTDOG: FYI, CHOLESTEROL DEATHS KILL MORE PPL THAN GUN CRIMES IN NORTH AMERICA.
  41. PREFERS TO SEE THINGS NOT AS THEY RIGHTLY ARE, BUT HOW THEY WANT THEM TO BE.
  42. GOD IS TIRED OF LISTENING TO UR LOUD, CRAZY, TONGUES FILLED PRAYERS. GOD HAS A HEADACHE!....ITS TIME TO BE PRACTICAL, GHANAIANS.
  43. THE GH LACKS DISCIPLINE, LACKS DIGNITY.
  44. CONSTANT PREPEARATION, PREPARATION, PREPARATION IS KEY TO SUCCESS, NOT JUJU, NOT GOD GIVEN TALENT, NOT CHEW N POUR!
  45. PURPOSELY ENGAGES IN ACTIVITIES DETRIMENTAL TO HEALTH AND WELL BEING, BUT BELIEVES NYAME WO HO/GOD DEY. KWASIA!
  46. WE DONT TAKE CHANCES. WE ARE TOO CAUTIOUS! WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME A GH DISCOVERED SOMETHING? LIKE A CURE FOR MALARIA, OR HOW TO MAKE TUO ZAAFI IN 5 MINUTES?
  47. NO VISION, LACK OF AMBITION. SO WACK!
  48. CAN NOT CONTROL/TAME THEIR EMOTIONS. TRIGGER HAPPY EMOTIONS...SO WACK!
  49. WHEN WILL OUR GOVTS FINALLY PUT CORRUPTION COURTS IN PLACE? HOW MUCH REVENUE IS LOST PER YEAR DUE TO CORRUPTION? GH GOVT, ALWAYS PROCRASTINATING LIKE A FAGGOT....!!!
  50. OUR ATTITUDE/APPROACH TOWARDS WORK, PROTECTING, MAINTAINING OUR NATIONAL ASSETS IS VERY, VERY, VERY POOR!!!
  51. TOO MUCH TALKING, TOO MUCH PRAYING WITHOUT ACTION WONT GET US ANYWHERE....
  52. KWESI PRATT IS RIGHT: ALL GHPPL KNOW IS TALKING, PRAYING N DISTURBING GOD. THEY SHOULD DISCUSS IDEAS AND PUT THEM INTO PRACTICE!
  53. PRAY TO GOD TO PUT YOUR FUFU IN YOUR MOUTH AND SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
  57. MIND/BRAIN BLEACHING IS VERY, VERY REAL....
  OBENG VISIONWORKS
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  skype: CHEWBACCA (@NIAGARA FALLS)
  JOHN 10:10
  THE TRUTH WILL MAKE U RICH!

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• ADUSE POKU 10 years ago

  Rawlings and the WICKED EVIL EWES are using the age old tattics of " DEFEND YOURSELF BY VERBALLY ATTACKING YOUR PERCEIVED ENEMIES." We know about all that.They are afraid for the evil they have wrought on AKANS.

  Rawlings and the WICKED EVIL EWES are using the age old tattics of " DEFEND YOURSELF BY VERBALLY ATTACKING YOUR PERCEIVED ENEMIES." We know about all that.They are afraid for the evil they have wrought on AKANS.

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• facts 10 years ago

  Rawlings is at the end of the road. Now the children of Utuka have spoken just to tell Rawlings that They are not ignorant of his evil deeds he committed against beloved citizens of this country. As corrupt as he is he contin ...
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  Rawlings is at the end of the road. Now the children of Utuka have spoken just to tell Rawlings that They are not ignorant of his evil deeds he committed against beloved citizens of this country. As corrupt as he is he continues to pin point others as corrupt. simply put his time is up.

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• Otsibu Darko 10 years ago

  AMEN!AND THANK YOU,KOOLOVI KOOLOVIA.

  AMEN!AND THANK YOU,KOOLOVI KOOLOVIA.

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• Otsibu Darko 10 years ago

  AMEN! AND THANK YOU, KB.

  AMEN! AND THANK YOU, KB.

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

  HE AND HIS CRONIES KILLED PPL WHO WERE STEALING GH MONIE. HE TOOK OVER AND WAT DID HE DO? STEAL, STEAL, STEAL, AND STILL STEALING THRU MAHAMA......SHOULD HE BE KILLED?......YOU BE THE JUDGE

  HE AND HIS CRONIES KILLED PPL WHO WERE STEALING GH MONIE. HE TOOK OVER AND WAT DID HE DO? STEAL, STEAL, STEAL, AND STILL STEALING THRU MAHAMA......SHOULD HE BE KILLED?......YOU BE THE JUDGE

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• GURUNDA 10 years ago

  YOU ARE DOUBLE SILLY. LET YOUR FATHER BE SLAUGHTERED LIKE HAPPENED TO ONE OF THE BEST MEN GHANA EVER HAD - KUTU ACHEAMPONG. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO A DAY WHEN ALL THE BULETS THAT KILLED THOSE PPLE BE RETURNED TO JJ.

  YOU ARE DOUBLE SILLY. LET YOUR FATHER BE SLAUGHTERED LIKE HAPPENED TO ONE OF THE BEST MEN GHANA EVER HAD - KUTU ACHEAMPONG. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO A DAY WHEN ALL THE BULETS THAT KILLED THOSE PPLE BE RETURNED TO JJ.

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• SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

  There is no slightest brain in your heard, you have to understand that the People of Ghana are not like you senseless material, that Rawlings is
  just lucky to be alive today, accept
  that.

  There is no slightest brain in your heard, you have to understand that the People of Ghana are not like you senseless material, that Rawlings is
  just lucky to be alive today, accept
  that.

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• KB 10 years ago

  This man should have been fried like kelewele long time ago. Why are we wasting time talking about him. The son of a dog. ashawoba Rawlings

  This man should have been fried like kelewele long time ago. Why are we wasting time talking about him. The son of a dog. ashawoba Rawlings

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• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
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  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

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• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

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• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

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• SHAMU 10 years ago

  Excuse me, is this man a real qualified journalist or he only write essays for his own personal need? Since ever I knew him critisizing The great JJ rawlings for more than 35 years, I have never seen a gentle, his excenlency ...
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  Excuse me, is this man a real qualified journalist or he only write essays for his own personal need? Since ever I knew him critisizing The great JJ rawlings for more than 35 years, I have never seen a gentle, his excenlency and award winning former president respond. Is this young man not sensible enough to understand that he is dealing with a decent, hones, God sent man?. Is unfortunate that, if it were to be a country like U S A he would have been asked to stop appearing on tv or publish anything at all. For example it happened in U S before over a report against Bush junior by Dan Rather. I am really proud to say, Rawlings is a real stateman that ghana would never get in this generation. Is a shame that such opportunistic people like this guy is always giving the chance to say whatever he wants simply because of how corrup our society is. No mental capable people to put stop to how and what this hopless guy does to Rawlings.

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• jake 10 years ago

  Kweku Baako is a moron and mentally bankrupt. He will not stop attacking His Excellency John Jerry at each turn. He is a spent force for all the lies he's published over the years.

  Kweku Baako is a moron and mentally bankrupt. He will not stop attacking His Excellency John Jerry at each turn. He is a spent force for all the lies he's published over the years.

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• K. Boateng 10 years ago

  Jake, it's so pathetic that Ghanaians have allowed this illiterate knucklehead Kwaku Baako to take them for a ride due to his personal agenda and hate against JJ Rawlings. I wonder why nobody in the NDC is standing up to this ...
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  Jake, it's so pathetic that Ghanaians have allowed this illiterate knucklehead Kwaku Baako to take them for a ride due to his personal agenda and hate against JJ Rawlings. I wonder why nobody in the NDC is standing up to this foolish guy whose antics earned him the so-called journalist of the year award without a journalism certificate. Kwaku Baako makes me sick to my stomach. He must rather leave Ghanaians alone because not all of us subscribe to his hate and nonesense. He can write and say things to appease his NPP paymasters but most of us are not amused. Didn't he say he would strip JJ naked? Where did crusade lead to? Didn't he and that shameless fake lawyer Gabriel Otchere Darko embark on a global tour, paid for by taxpayers, to go look for JJ's hiddien account and went back to Ghana empty handed? This man must bow his shameless head in shame.

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• soso 10 years ago

  YOU THINK WE DON'T KNOW THAT YOU TOOK AN ASHANTI NAME TO PRETEND YOU ARE ASHANTI. YOU ARE TROKOSI EWE FOOL LICKING THE ASS OF JJ RAWLINGS TO DEFEND HIM NO MATTER WHAT HE SAYS. EWE-NII ABOA!!!!!!!!!

  YOU THINK WE DON'T KNOW THAT YOU TOOK AN ASHANTI NAME TO PRETEND YOU ARE ASHANTI. YOU ARE TROKOSI EWE FOOL LICKING THE ASS OF JJ RAWLINGS TO DEFEND HIM NO MATTER WHAT HE SAYS. EWE-NII ABOA!!!!!!!!!

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• K. Boateng 10 years ago

  soso, sansani, gyantrani bi ba. Go tell your bleached face kejetia tuu-tuuni mother my dog shits in her rotten pussy. Demented fool, I'm never an Ewe but I prefer being one to be a primitive asante fool. In fact, I prefer dri ...
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  soso, sansani, gyantrani bi ba. Go tell your bleached face kejetia tuu-tuuni mother my dog shits in her rotten pussy. Demented fool, I'm never an Ewe but I prefer being one to be a primitive asante fool. In fact, I prefer drinking from the toilet bowl to being a precambrian asante like you. Kwaadonto, kowhini, asanteni manfrani aboa.

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• okofo 10 years ago

  K Boateng,if you want to worship that murderer, rawlings, go ahead and save our good ears from nonsense. if you're "sick to your stomach", Kweku Baako didn't cause that, you were born sick (not in your stomach), but possibly ...
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  K Boateng,if you want to worship that murderer, rawlings, go ahead and save our good ears from nonsense. if you're "sick to your stomach", Kweku Baako didn't cause that, you were born sick (not in your stomach), but possibly your neck up, otherwise you wouldn't defend a murderer of innocent people. shame on you!!
  
  If you're smart you'd figure out that rawlings has shielded himself by immunity from prosecution and subsequent persecution because of his GROSS MISDEEDS, otherwise, if he's the saint that you worship, WHAT DOES HE NEED THE IMMUNITY AGAINST PROSECUTION FOR?

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• Kponyo 10 years ago

  Shamu please go and learn some basic English comprehension so that next time when you write some of the gibberish that you regularly write, we can make some sense out of it. For Gods sakes! What school did you go to?
  
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  Shamu please go and learn some basic English comprehension so that next time when you write some of the gibberish that you regularly write, we can make some sense out of it. For Gods sakes! What school did you go to?
  
  If I could make any sense out your response, my guess is that you were trying to defend the indefensible criminal statement that was vomited by that misbegotten coward, Rawlings who went and hid under a bed when his amateurish coup attempt failed. Again when he was forced and reluctantly had to give up power, he dishonestly smuggled the indemnity clauses into the constitution to protect himself from what he obviously knew were clear crimes against humanity.
  
  So far, we have had unprincipled politicians like himself ruling this country whose sense of guilt prevents them from side-stepping all the obstructions that should see him put before trial, so he has been left off the hook.
  
  But mark my word, the time is coming when this over-bloated ruffian and scoundrel as well as those who assisted him to commit those crimes against humanity will be duly made to pay for their crimes.

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• SHAMU 10 years ago

  I completely disappointed that, some of us are still pro Europeans. Why will I be worried of writing bad English? If you were to tell me that I can not speak my own dialect, I would have feel ashame of it. English? you seems ...
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  I completely disappointed that, some of us are still pro Europeans. Why will I be worried of writing bad English? If you were to tell me that I can not speak my own dialect, I would have feel ashame of it. English? you seems to get lost somewhere along the line. You need to be educated Kponyo.

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• KENKEY BOY 10 years ago

  My bro Shamu. Indeed your English is too bad. I will advise that you you don't put up any comments here. On top of that too, all your facts are not true. I have been around before independence, and know aqll that happened ...

  My bro Shamu. Indeed your English is too bad. I will advise that you you don't put up any comments here. On top of that too, all your facts are not true. I have been around before independence, and know aqll that happened ...

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• markwus 10 years ago

  that is one zongo guy who does not understands anything. if Rawlings is that brave why is he hiding under the indemnity clause. coward of a first degree

  that is one zongo guy who does not understands anything. if Rawlings is that brave why is he hiding under the indemnity clause. coward of a first degree

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• Nana Kwasi Nti 10 years ago

  Kweku Baako:
  
  Just shut up!! Aren't you the one who travelled to Europe and cammped somewhere to collect evidence with which you were going to expose Jerry?
  
  What happened? If you had blowned him wdie-open, will he be'bo ...
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  Kweku Baako:
  
  Just shut up!! Aren't you the one who travelled to Europe and cammped somewhere to collect evidence with which you were going to expose Jerry?
  
  What happened? If you had blowned him wdie-open, will he be'booming'?
  
  Kweku go to hell!!

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• K. Boateng 10 years ago

  Kwaku Baako should rather give Ghanaians a break for his hypocrisy, infantile hatred and stomach direction "journalism". Ghanaians are fed up with your baseless attack on the NDC/Rawlings, biases and one-direction journalism ...
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  Kwaku Baako should rather give Ghanaians a break for his hypocrisy, infantile hatred and stomach direction "journalism". Ghanaians are fed up with your baseless attack on the NDC/Rawlings, biases and one-direction journalism and rants on joyfm so shut up and go get your O'Level and Journalism Certificate and instead of disgracing education. You're a hoax.

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

  K Boat, are you happy Papa Jerry mentioned some people that wer good and innocent had to be sacrificed on air? Do you think, their children who are alive will be happy when he booms with such nonsensical statements? How do yo ...
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  K Boat, are you happy Papa Jerry mentioned some people that wer good and innocent had to be sacrificed on air? Do you think, their children who are alive will be happy when he booms with such nonsensical statements? How do you sacrifece/murder someone who was good and innocent? Jerry should rather apologize to such families instead of justifying his acts. Surely Boakye Gyan should also be blamed because he played a crucial role in the murder of such innocent people

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• K. Boateng 10 years ago

  duh!

  duh!

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

  Duh? I am not against Papa jerry but just want him to be diplomatic and know what to say at where. How would you have felt if your father was one of the INNOCENTS AND GOOD PEOPLE who had to be sacrificed/mudered?

  Duh? I am not against Papa jerry but just want him to be diplomatic and know what to say at where. How would you have felt if your father was one of the INNOCENTS AND GOOD PEOPLE who had to be sacrificed/mudered?

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• Apara Hara. 10 years ago

  When Jerry Booms in this manner, know he is a different person having been trained in the army.
  
  Death to a soldier means nothing. Only the civilian sees it differently.The only concern here is when such speech id directed ...
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  When Jerry Booms in this manner, know he is a different person having been trained in the army.
  
  Death to a soldier means nothing. Only the civilian sees it differently.The only concern here is when such speech id directed to civilians but the guy is an army man who has qualifications from imprisonment, torture and 'coup' strategies. Understand where he is coming from duh!!

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

  Apara, my problem with Jerry is the holier than thou attitude.. Besides Obama and Carter, almost all American presidents have been in the military before. Jerry needs to know that anytime he opens those wounds, it hurts many ...
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  Apara, my problem with Jerry is the holier than thou attitude.. Besides Obama and Carter, almost all American presidents have been in the military before. Jerry needs to know that anytime he opens those wounds, it hurts many people. Why can't he stop justifying such murders. Many of us know it was Boakye Gyan who was behind those killings, especially Afrifa. Why was Ankrah too not killed because he was part of the coup? Jerry needs to know his audience, when to speak and how to speak. Was he able to stop corruption when he himself was corrupt. Just imagine how he sold SOEs and who they were sold to and for what amount. Some sycophants see nothing wrong with those sales

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• okofo 10 years ago

  Ethnic preservation is gradually distroying Ghana.

  Ethnic preservation is gradually distroying Ghana.

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• K. Boateng 10 years ago

  keep following me, I've got some bones for you, doggy.
  
  Go ask your shameless school dropout friend Kwaku Baako as to how loud he shouted on top of his voice of the "let the blood flow" mantra at the time? Was Kwaku Baako n ...
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  keep following me, I've got some bones for you, doggy.
  
  Go ask your shameless school dropout friend Kwaku Baako as to how loud he shouted on top of his voice of the "let the blood flow" mantra at the time? Was Kwaku Baako not part of the Rawlings' cabal when the so-called innocent people were executed? Your angel Baako is equally culpable of whatever took place in those days so he should shut up and give us a break for he is no more a Ghanaian than the rest of us.

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

  CALL MENAMES THAT ARE DEROGATORY AND I DON'T CARE. EDUCATED AS YOU ARE, DO YOU THINK THE BOOM OF JERRY IS PROPER. YES TOU HAVE GOT BONES FOR ME. PIGGIE, I HAVE GOT SOME SHIT FOR YOU. NOW BAAKO IS MY ANGEL AND NOT ADDO?

  CALL MENAMES THAT ARE DEROGATORY AND I DON'T CARE. EDUCATED AS YOU ARE, DO YOU THINK THE BOOM OF JERRY IS PROPER. YES TOU HAVE GOT BONES FOR ME. PIGGIE, I HAVE GOT SOME SHIT FOR YOU. NOW BAAKO IS MY ANGEL AND NOT ADDO?

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• Apara Hara. 10 years ago

  ... The story of Ghana is like the story of the biblical Moses and the Jews. It required a certain J.J Rawlings to play the role of the powerful Hebrew. It is a story of emancipation, bravery and patriotism. A story of belief ...
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  ... The story of Ghana is like the story of the biblical Moses and the Jews. It required a certain J.J Rawlings to play the role of the powerful Hebrew. It is a story of emancipation, bravery and patriotism. A story of belief, national commitment, sacrifice, hardwork and honesty to fellow citizens.
  Ft Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings Liberated the west African country from militarism, mis-governance, economic paralysis, hunger, and perpetual doom when he publicly executed the likes of Gen. Afriffa, Gen Akuffo, Gen Acheampong, and all those who plunged Ghana into untold hardship. Today, Ghana is laughing loud and thankful to God for using J.J to emancipate the country.
  Worse still, American congressmen have cautioned that Nigeria is on the verge of collapse and disintegration. In the last twelve months, some conglomerates have closed their plants in the country and relocated to Ghana. Among them are Dunlop and Mitchelen Plc. Only recently, more companies have informed the general public they would soon be folding operations in Nigeria to resettle in Ghana. The excuse of these companies is the same, energy crisis and political instability. Nigeria’s inability to stabilize the energy sector is the cause of her dwindling fortunes
  .... read the full article

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

  Apara, was it right to sacrifice/ murder innocent and good people in the military. These are Jerry's own confession. We have reached a sta in our history where sleeping dogs should be allowed to lie. The forum at which Jerry ...
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  Apara, was it right to sacrifice/ murder innocent and good people in the military. These are Jerry's own confession. We have reached a sta in our history where sleeping dogs should be allowed to lie. The forum at which Jerry stooped too low to justify those killinwas just irresponsible.Apara, imagine your father was innocent and good but had to be murdered and the person who sign that death warrant wants to justify it at all cost. Jerry just needs to behave like a diplomatic former president and not just boom even in front of High school children

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• Apara Hara. 10 years ago

  Given the current level of corruption in the country now, I think it was right for him to make such comments, Why must he hide them?

  Given the current level of corruption in the country now, I think it was right for him to make such comments, Why must he hide them?

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• Rasheed 10 years ago

  I just learnt that you enjoy eating shit, so I have gathered a lot for you. Okay?. My number is 0244251400

  I just learnt that you enjoy eating shit, so I have gathered a lot for you. Okay?. My number is 0244251400

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• K. Boateng 10 years ago

  You need to grow up beyond whining and smell the coffee; be real in life and stop the hypocrisy because not all of us reason like your NPP simpletons you people take for granted and deceive on a daily basis.
  
  Is there any ...
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  You need to grow up beyond whining and smell the coffee; be real in life and stop the hypocrisy because not all of us reason like your NPP simpletons you people take for granted and deceive on a daily basis.
  
  Is there any differences between JJ's boomings and Akuffo Addo's all die be die statement, and calling on Akans to stand up against the rest of Ghanaians, just for his myopic political gains? Show me your stand against Akuffo's tribal and love for war mentality; yes, point out your disgust against Akuffo Addo's polarizing nonsense to me, Mr Neutral Frank Agyena-Karikari. Also, while denouncing and having an issue with JJ's booms, show me your denounciation of Kennedy Agyapong's call on asantes to kill Gas and Ewes; show it to me. It's so nauseating some of you shallow minded Akans think we own the country so our so-called Akan leaders can say and do anything without a rebuttal but others have no voice in Ghana. What nonsense is that? Despite JJ's so-called boomings and his allege killing of innocent people, didn't we have your NPP leader Akuffo Addo trooping to his (JJ's)house in 2012 pouring all praises on him? Didn't we hear Akuffo Addo calling JJ a man of peace and having impeccable integrity? Are you now challenging what your NPP leader MR. WILLIAM ADDO DANKWA AKUFFO said of JJ Rawlings in the presence of JJ Rawlings to the hearing of all Ghanaians on camera?
  
  Listen weasel Karikari, the shenanigans that Kwaku Baako and his NPP cabal used to win power in 2000 is over; Ghanaians now know their insides-out and out-side in so they can't use JJ to deceive them for power anymore, take it or leave.

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• jake 10 years ago

  Karikari has piles infested arse that may have spread to his brains. Hence like Baako, they take a piece of of an event twist it to suit their masters.

  Karikari has piles infested arse that may have spread to his brains. Hence like Baako, they take a piece of of an event twist it to suit their masters.

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• Rasheed 10 years ago

  You so high that, you cannot even spell sacrifice correctly.

  You so high that, you cannot even spell sacrifice correctly.

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• jake 10 years ago

  infested pile arse like you should stop your partisan comments. Better change your monicker again, you are boring and so unbright.

  infested pile arse like you should stop your partisan comments. Better change your monicker again, you are boring and so unbright.

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• GHANAMAN 10 years ago

  Kwaku just want us to know he is alive. LoL. He is just doing that with dead news.

  Kwaku just want us to know he is alive. LoL. He is just doing that with dead news.

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• jake 10 years ago

  full of it. Lies, lies . paid to lie, and paid lies

  full of it. Lies, lies . paid to lie, and paid lies

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• tomtom 10 years ago

  It is just a matter of time Rawlinges will be paid in same coins one unfortunate day.

  It is just a matter of time Rawlinges will be paid in same coins one unfortunate day.

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• Tibaa 10 years ago

  Stop making the devil out of Rawlings!!!
  
  It is very nauseating for arm-chair critics to delve into the Rawlings phenomena with eyes blinded by partisan politics and with conscience adulterated by greed and self-aggrandize ...
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  Stop making the devil out of Rawlings!!!
  
  It is very nauseating for arm-chair critics to delve into the Rawlings phenomena with eyes blinded by partisan politics and with conscience adulterated by greed and self-aggrandizement.
  
  Of course Rawlings is not a saint, and he neither the devil most people wanted us to believe.
  
  I wish there could be another Rawlings in the current stinky and nasty politics in Ghana.

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• Kofi 10 years ago

  No one is "making the devil out of Rawlings", he is the devil incarnate already. His muderous behaviour has made him crazy. He needs to live long and suffer the mental anguish he is going through.

  No one is "making the devil out of Rawlings", he is the devil incarnate already. His muderous behaviour has made him crazy. He needs to live long and suffer the mental anguish he is going through.

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

  Rawlings' bashing will stop if he stops playing that holier than thou attitude. People everywhere make mistakes but it is proper such mistakes are admitted instead of justifying them. Yes that stinky mess was even under Papa ...
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  Rawlings' bashing will stop if he stops playing that holier than thou attitude. People everywhere make mistakes but it is proper such mistakes are admitted instead of justifying them. Yes that stinky mess was even under Papa Jerry's regime

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• Rasheed 10 years ago

  Why you like to attack our president?. What has he done to you, my son.

  Why you like to attack our president?. What has he done to you, my son.

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• fredsaid 10 years ago

  Rawlings thought he can order the killing of innocent people in his own words who had to be sacrificed like animals to relieve his own rage of madness. in the name of the anti corruption crusade of probity accountability an ...
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  Rawlings thought he can order the killing of innocent people in his own words who had to be sacrificed like animals to relieve his own rage of madness. in the name of the anti corruption crusade of probity accountability and justice, he ended up giving birth to the most corrupt party and government of all time in Ghana dubbed by a high court judge as the creating, sharing and looting brigade from woyome, waterville, aa automobile, from subah to akonfem, from ghost tree planting, to subah, isofoton, and from gyeeda to fortiz merchant bank.
  
  As much as the blood of abel cried for justice after his innocent blood had been shed by cain his brother so are the blood of the innocents including the following listed here crying for justice and the almighty has surely heard their cry and they will get justice.
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  In addition to the 3 judges (who were not proven to have committed any crimes in a court of law) the following also were, innocently killed and today the innocent (from all tribes) blood ; still speaks and cries for justice:
  
  Greater Accra Region
  
  Major Sam Acquah, Madam Larmioko Adjebu, Azure Frafra, Akwei Allotey, Bokari Moshe, Alberta Rockson, Kwame Danso, Emmanuel Ashitey, Joseph Oduro, Samuel Kotey, Nash, Mnuanuan Alhassan, Gadzi Jamesi, Alex Aggrey, Joseph Kwaakye, Abukari Mukaila, E K Frimpong, Emmanuel Abbey, Rose Tetteh, Demawuna Grushie, Julius Odartey, Bonney Lartey, Okoe Allotey,
  Mohamed Alhassan, Frank Yaro
  
  Ashanti Region
  
  Kwaku Kramo, Kwabena Nti, John Chinkwa, Akosua Addae, Kwame Kum, Gabriel Tseyi, Abdulai Moshie Abdu, Ibrahim, Osumanu Sissala, Kofi Gyaaman, Kwadwo Boateng, Benjamin Whyte, Dagarti Seidu, Raphael Avorga, Azzure Kussasi, Johnson Oware, Amma Agyeiwah, Alhamadi Maiga, Kwabena Dapaah, Osei Kwame, Kwaku Opoku, Kwame Opoku, Agnes Korkor, Kpele Bimoaba, Kwadwo Nsafoa, Abena Afra, Mohammadu Halifu, Kwame mekye, Amma Asantewaah, David Darko, Agyaba, Oanduku Mantse,Akua Takyiwaa, Moro Moshie, Mama Kanjarga, Cpl Joana Essien, Ali Grushie, Odiyifu Samuel Asare. Abu Kramo, GNTC 75 yr old Watchman at Kronum, Abena Kyerewa,
  
  Eastern Region
  
  Mrs Mary Solomon (wife of proprietor, Solomon Commercial College) under Yaw Akrasi Sarpong’s watch (then Eastern Regional Secretary and now Drug Enforcement Agency Boss) with no legal justification, Kwame Tetteh, S.K. Ampadu, Amma Ansah, Akosua Wiafe, Afuah Boahemaa, Osei Kofi, Mary Arkumaki, Adwoa Kyeraa, Vida Abla Amenuvor, Kudzonu Torgbe, James Olugan, Kwettey Narki, Cpl S K Sarpong, Kwasi Mensah, Kwabena Doh, Salifu Zabrama, Supt Owusu Siaw, Kwadwo Ampofo, Yaw Mosi, Adzo Adabla, Ossumanu, Bussanga, BB Bismark and family member (Aburi)
  
  Tema
  
  Joseph Boateng, Anthony Dagarti, Jacob Ashmond Mensah, Justice Quainoo Paul, Aklugu Tugo, Abu Piss, Emmanuel Kwesi Nukpor
  
  Brong Ahafo Region
  
  Oboti Konkonba, Abubakari Yakubu, Keana Tere, Kwabena Yendor, Saidu Gonja, D.K Deku, Adamu Moshie, Kwabena Oppong, Abu Bayou, Kwasi Ankoma, Kofi Amponsah, Abena Boaduwoah
  
  Volta Region
  
  Akakpovi Ahiaka (of Atidzeve), Samson Kwao (of Anloga), Ht anson Ankrah, Avorga Ahiagba, L/Cpl Owusu Peprah,
  Agbodzihu Kudzordzi, Kwesi Boateng, Mawulawoe Forfoe, Hugeh, Dwame Amevor Kpedo, Agbotsi Duxo, Sherri Kwame Feleme,Grace Bagadu, Apedo Damalie, Labadi Kabre, Justin Kwame Egbadzor, selina Dankah, Winfred Degli, Kwame Dortogbi, Korkuvi Agbenyegah, Kwa rshie Azi , Atsu Gator, Nene Kinikini I, Kohi Sowrlo, Afatsao Gomado, Estey Amegayibor, Amos Kwasi Fiaybenya,
  
  Western Region
  
  Commander Barnor, Commander Adjavon, Petty Officer Hughes (shot by navy personnel), Joseph Yinta, Anthony Beyeeman, Kwesi Essuon, Awusu Walla, Sgd Joseph Aikins, Kwesi Sam, Atta Panyin,
  Kwadwo Boamah, Kwesi Badu, Adwoa Nduah, Adjoba Woke, Kwame Dankwa, Kwame Poku, Kofi Nketia, No. 177168 A/ABJW, Ghanny Kow Ackon, Afua Harkowah, Barnaba Kwadwo, Kyaya, Armah Kojo, Kwasi Atta, Ama Attah, Grumah, Kwame Boateng, A djoa Sasa, Kwesi Ahwer
  
  Central Region
  
  Kojo Mensah, Edua Edua, Kofi Ankoma, Osumanu Sokoto, Kwame Addo, Kofi Badu, Kwasi Oguaman, Adwoa Ebuakwa, Michael Asante, Nana Korankye Sarfour II, Kwaka Aduoni, Kwasi Manu, Kwame Ketewa, Esi Essong, Kennedy Amissah, Kobinah Ntamaah
  
  Northern Region
  
  Misay Fulani, Hajia Bibata Kponlana, Seidu Allando, Jatawari Fulani, Challa Kokomba, Adama Mahama, Bawa Njasolo, Tia Nsaigri, Zakari Ibrahim, Baba Gazelle,
  
  Upper Region
  
  Yakubu Dogbeli, Azawe Achana, Aluguchaab ,Akansianab, Matiki Abugri, Jalawari Fulani, Kumajo Tonye, Emmanuel Kweku Ali, Alebadigi Adindamu, Bawa Aflblikame, Inni Dagoro, John Sasane, Amedagoro Aderi.
  
  MAY THEIR SOULS REST IN PEACE

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• OBRONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
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  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• The Boy 10 years ago

  If you are not an idiot, why don't you equally advice this fool to shut up his foul smelling mouth!

  If you are not an idiot, why don't you equally advice this fool to shut up his foul smelling mouth!

  reply
• ASEM 10 years ago

  Uncle Jerry is just been hunted by the past. I am sure if you ask NANA, she ill tell you Unco having having night meres.
  Let us try not to take him serious else it will generate into something else.

  Uncle Jerry is just been hunted by the past. I am sure if you ask NANA, she ill tell you Unco having having night meres.
  Let us try not to take him serious else it will generate into something else.

  reply
• jake 10 years ago

  tells a host lot about you...Wabon paaa

  tells a host lot about you...Wabon paaa

  reply
• Mahama Dlamini 10 years ago

  to take care of people like Rawlings, Tsikata, corrupt supreme court judges, corrupt politicians and private/public servants.!!! a complete house cleaning exercise

  to take care of people like Rawlings, Tsikata, corrupt supreme court judges, corrupt politicians and private/public servants.!!! a complete house cleaning exercise

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

  reply
• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
  read full comment

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

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• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
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  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

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• OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted histor ...
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  "First of all let me correct your friend. I think he or she must be very young and knows only of JJ Rawlings. It is sad that even our history has been distorted by the people who for hatred of their own kind, distorted history to make it downplay the achievements of Kwame Nkrumah.
  
  AT least I have had a chance to not only meet Nkrumah personally as a child from 5 feet away standing in front of him as a 6 years old, listening to his reasoning for FREEDOM from the British, and then see the changes he brought in our lives in terms of pipe-borne water, roads, schools and even electricity by the time I was going to Secondary School. At Abetifi Boys Boarding we had a huge Generator that was turned on at night only between 1957-60 when I was there, but later changed to electricity.
  
  Rawlings could have done something for Ghana were it not for the greed of his own wife, as I have studied and heard, and the people around him he started with, meaning PV Obeng, Ato and Kwamena and Kwasi Ahwoi, The Tsikatas, Kwesi Botchwey, Totobi Kwakye, Kwamena Bartels and others.
  
  Their greed translated into setting up what Profs. Acemoglu and Robinson call “extractive political and economic” institutions, meaning power is still in the hands of the same people making the laws and getting contracts. Ghana has a constitution that allows only one man, the President to appoint over 4,000 Town and Metropolitan city mayors, District Chief Executive and Regional Governors. Why do you think a Biometric registration system that cost Kenya $10 million cost Ghana $150 million?
  
  My friend, the greatest damage that has been done to Ghana has come from Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC in the last constitution. Ghana is not a democracy at all. No! Forget it! Ghana has incurred over $13 Billion in loans from China alone and yet there has never been a detailed list of the Projects for which these loans are procured. Why? From your knowledge from UK to America, is that your understanding of how democracy works?
  
  I think Osofo’s waiting for a Messiah is the thinking of the people, as Ghanaians and Africans are really very religious and have a very strong belief in the unknown. However a better word would be superstitious! As a child growing up 60 years ago we believed in dwarfs and ghosts and good and bad one who made some people rich and could solve certain mysteries. In the last 4 weeks when a Manager working for me got her Laptop and Smart phone stolen, the police, unable to use any modern detective systems told her it could be spiritual theft!
  
  Such irrational belief systems make people stop half way when it comes to finding solutions to problems and occurrences, including malaria and other health problems. When a people think like that you cannot blame colonial Gov. Lord Frederick Lugard who observed that our peoples’ thoughts and emotions were for the day and had “no apprehensions for the future”. Somehow or the other this inability to solve problems correlated to a lower IQ, which many would not even like to consider. Intelligent people fathom problems and find solutions. Less intelligent people, unable to find solutions, resort to the blaming others, their fate, the supernatural, the devil, spiritual or at best give it to God, aka “fama-Nyame”.
  
  Dr. Kodzo has explained it well as to why we don’t seem to take any actions.
  
  NOW to YOUR QUESTION: What can we do?
  
  See, Nana, I have never met you but I can judge you of the higher intelligence group. That is the first question one asks in order to improve on one’s fate or destiny or events that occur.
  
  1. The first thing you do is compare and analyze and find out how others did it. For ever problems i the world, somebody has solved it before or there are methods by which they can be solved.
  
  As a Failure analyst in my career, when say a Computer, chip, Memory device, Circuit, etc, fails, the first thing you do is find a good device and compare the characteristics of the good one. That is why I think everybody who cares should read Lee Kuan Yew’s “From Third World to First”. The world we live in is not or was not created at random as some people think. No! there is a formula for everything God created, and you will find that a Good Computer or Cell phone or smart Phone will have certain input and output currents or voltages, frequencies, and other electrical characteristics. So is Nation Building! It took Lee Kuan Yew only 35 years from 1965 to 2000 to do what it had taken America 200 years to do, in terms of UN and WB statistics such as GDP per capita, under-5 Mortality rate, Literacy rate, Agricultural Productivity rate, etc.
  
  2. Having found why we are behind, the actual implementation is not that difficult. There are Management gurus and people with experience and technology to help us set up systems to monitor corruption, to detect thefts at the ports and even if need be a terrorist on the streets and to help us design budgets!
  
  
  You cannot do any of these without the legal mandate, and that comes from a constitution that authorizes one person or a TEAM of people to manage.
  
  Without changing the political system we have now, there is no way Ghana will make any development UNLESS and UNTIL the Messiahs shows up. Sure, it is possible to have one person win election and select say 5 people with whom to work to change Ghana in ten years. In fact I think we can do it in less time since all we have to do is attract the right dedicated Ghanaians itching to come home and use their talent or hire others.
  
  Nothing we are doing makes a difference unless we change the POLITICAL system we have now were all decisions are made by one person and he can choose to declare he paid $150 million for something we all know should cost say $10 million.
  
  
  At one time in our lives one man said: “SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM” (and all other things shall be added). Kwame Nkrumah was right.
  
  All the ideas we are giving to our friends in power will get to nowhere and all the 12 pages of suggestions I submitted to President Mills was perhaps thrown in the trash, and all you guys are writing today will not make an impact till Ghana CENTRALIZED ELECTED DICTATORSHIP is changed.
  
  The greatest Political lost opportunity has been the rule of J.A. Kufuor. He will go down in history as one of the most selfish and useless leadership. He had the chance to change the constitution and he did not.
  
  I am tired! I am selling my house and I am out! "

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• YAW ODURO 10 years ago

  In fscism there is no remorse and Rawlings will continue to infruiate people until his demise. Revolution in any form carries unwanted gratitude and those responsible for such ingratitude always tend to shudder on on their sh ...
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  In fscism there is no remorse and Rawlings will continue to infruiate people until his demise. Revolution in any form carries unwanted gratitude and those responsible for such ingratitude always tend to shudder on on their shoulders for responses from public . We could take a good look from Hitler of Germany, and Mao Dezung from China, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein as well as, Castro of Cuba, so also is Rawlings who must continue to talk his way out, till his dying day...........Hugo Chavez of Venuzuela did it and died out.

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• Agyeman 10 years ago

  Shoot the Rawshit thug in a public execution to pay for his past crimes and throw his stinky ass in the ocean Bin Laden style.Nobody should have to listen to this scum of a man.

  Shoot the Rawshit thug in a public execution to pay for his past crimes and throw his stinky ass in the ocean Bin Laden style.Nobody should have to listen to this scum of a man.

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• Mullah Omar 10 years ago

  Bravo Agyeman. Well said.With his wee-induced gibberish and unintelligible rambling, that boiled lobster is an embarrasement to our proud nation both at home and abroad. An assasins bullet through his NOISY BIG MOUTH should s ...
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  Bravo Agyeman. Well said.With his wee-induced gibberish and unintelligible rambling, that boiled lobster is an embarrasement to our proud nation both at home and abroad. An assasins bullet through his NOISY BIG MOUTH should stop him imposing his warped views on Ghanaians forever.

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• GHANA IS MESS 10 years ago

  Kweku, you are right that bastard need to shut up....enough of his nonsense,we are sick and tired of him, idiot,

  Kweku, you are right that bastard need to shut up....enough of his nonsense,we are sick and tired of him, idiot,

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• SAKARA 10 years ago

  Kweku Baako MR KNOW ALL YOU ALSO GIVE US A BREAK IN GHANA OK? JJ ALL THE WAY

  Kweku Baako MR KNOW ALL YOU ALSO GIVE US A BREAK IN GHANA OK? JJ ALL THE WAY

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• oppong 10 years ago

  seriously I have always been thinking about what role this kweua baaku has played in the development of Ghana. He is believed to be an indian hemp addict but beyond that what can he point to as his contribution to the develop ...
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  seriously I have always been thinking about what role this kweua baaku has played in the development of Ghana. He is believed to be an indian hemp addict but beyond that what can he point to as his contribution to the development of Ghana. They say he is also a school dropout.
  The question is apart from useless criticisms and the priding of himself as having every document in this world his custody, which documents have never been made available to the state for any investigation, what is he? please just leave Rawlings alone.kwe

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• shoe 10 years ago

  Don't mind this JJ Rawlings.How was Gheddafi ended and he must aware that those who sow a whirlwind reap a whirlwind.He will one day end up in a gutter when nailing his own coffin.Rawlings brutalities and atrocities are still ...
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  Don't mind this JJ Rawlings.How was Gheddafi ended and he must aware that those who sow a whirlwind reap a whirlwind.He will one day end up in a gutter when nailing his own coffin.Rawlings brutalities and atrocities are still pending in the kingdom ledger to be opened before the white throne judgement .The only statesman who does not respect himself.His death is imminent woe through him it may come

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• jake 10 years ago

  Jerry ( My Former President) brought democracy to Ghana, so that fools like you also have a say. But you idiots choose to insult him instead, the TRUTH HURTS PAA and JJ should continue hammering home the need to eradicate cor ...
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  Jerry ( My Former President) brought democracy to Ghana, so that fools like you also have a say. But you idiots choose to insult him instead, the TRUTH HURTS PAA and JJ should continue hammering home the need to eradicate corruption and the consequences of it not. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME???

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• Very Concerned 10 years ago

  A wonderful reflection by Mr. Baako.Projection is a true characterization of Rawlings' perennial vituperations. Ghanaians who have ears to hear and eyes to see should should be mindful of Mr. Baako's reflections. Many fled Gh ...
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  A wonderful reflection by Mr. Baako.Projection is a true characterization of Rawlings' perennial vituperations. Ghanaians who have ears to hear and eyes to see should should be mindful of Mr. Baako's reflections. Many fled Ghana in 1979. Caregivers, fathers, uncles and brothers, among many, disappeared or were executed at Teshie : Okatakyie Afirifa's, Yaw Boakye's, en.Odartey Willingtons, Gen.Utuka. They"fell" from the wounds inflicted through the thuggrey of rag tag solders minted in the mould of Rawlings and his cohorts.Even some who werer exonerated by presidential commissions were executed (murdered?. Hmm !!! Let's not forget that some of the children, spouses, nephews of those victims ARE STILL ALIVE !! As at the time of writing this piece, I for one have no knowledge as to who the judges, prosecutors or defence lawters participated in the case of these men. We know, however, that the so called legal luminary, Tsatsu Tsikata was one of the defence lawyers for Rawlings at his (Rawlings,s) trial for his aborted coup in 1979. Who was tge judge at Okatakyie's trial? Who was the defence attorney? Where did thid trial take place? WQe painfdully know that these murdered individuals were buried in mass graves!!! And this unremarkable narcissistic hoodlum has the gall to make such nonsensical effusions on radio and television day in and day out about, corruption, probity and accountability??. Short memories indeed. Rawlings should heed Mr. Baako's counsel and let sleeping dogs lie !!!

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• Johnny USA 10 years ago

  Another gold chain and looters.

  Another gold chain and looters.

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• De-Napoli 10 years ago

  Are you not one of those people who were calling for more blood to flow,why a sudden U-TURN? Hypocrites!

  Are you not one of those people who were calling for more blood to flow,why a sudden U-TURN? Hypocrites!

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• HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

  Kweku Baako you should give President John Rawlings his prop. Could your monkey ass say these things when he was in power. From all subtleties, you should give him some respect.

  Kweku Baako you should give President John Rawlings his prop. Could your monkey ass say these things when he was in power. From all subtleties, you should give him some respect.

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• MAHAMAH MUMUNI DRAMANI 10 years ago

  A WOMAN WITH DIRTY WORDS.POSITION IS NOT PERMENANT SO WHEN YOU HAVE IT USE IT WISELY!WHAT RESPECT DOES RAWLINGS NEEDS?NOT EVEN FROM A GOAT.WE HAVE TO DRAG HIM COURT TO ANSWER HIS EVIL DOINGS,HE IS NOT ABOVE THE HIGHER COURT O ...
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  A WOMAN WITH DIRTY WORDS.POSITION IS NOT PERMENANT SO WHEN YOU HAVE IT USE IT WISELY!WHAT RESPECT DOES RAWLINGS NEEDS?NOT EVEN FROM A GOAT.WE HAVE TO DRAG HIM COURT TO ANSWER HIS EVIL DOINGS,HE IS NOT ABOVE THE HIGHER COURT OF THE LAND.HE CAN DECK HIMSELF WITH MIGHTINESS AND FOOLISHNESS,NO ONE CARES WHEN THE TIME RIPES HE WILL SEE HIS FOOLISHNESS.

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• Yaw 10 years ago

  Stupid Baako, shadow journalist without credetials

  Stupid Baako, shadow journalist without credetials

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• KBL 10 years ago

  Your Exce Fmr Prez RAWLINGS ITS HIGH TIME YOU STOPPED THESE TYPE OF HYPE. THOUGH WE ALL SUPPORTED YOU AT THAT TIME BUT WE ARE ALSO ADVISING YOU TO STOP TALKING ABOUT IT AS YOU WISH. MAY BE ITS BETTER TO WRITE A BOOK THAN TO ...
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  Your Exce Fmr Prez RAWLINGS ITS HIGH TIME YOU STOPPED THESE TYPE OF HYPE. THOUGH WE ALL SUPPORTED YOU AT THAT TIME BUT WE ARE ALSO ADVISING YOU TO STOP TALKING ABOUT IT AS YOU WISH. MAY BE ITS BETTER TO WRITE A BOOK THAN TO BE DOING WHAT IS NOT THE BEST WAY

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• Ebo 10 years ago

  JJ must be mindful of how the people mastered courage and butchered their stubborn leader in Libya. That leader was all powerful Ghadaffi - Much, much more powerful than JJ. So it is a matter of time. Let him carry on as an i ...
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  JJ must be mindful of how the people mastered courage and butchered their stubborn leader in Libya. That leader was all powerful Ghadaffi - Much, much more powerful than JJ. So it is a matter of time. Let him carry on as an idiot to witness his end one of these days

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• Abongo 10 years ago

  As for you guys don't know what is on the way coming. Jerry is far far above Baako or what ever he called himself. When that day comes, Ghana i believe will be half empty. And to say it all Kweku Baako some of us are ready to ...
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  As for you guys don't know what is on the way coming. Jerry is far far above Baako or what ever he called himself. When that day comes, Ghana i believe will be half empty. And to say it all Kweku Baako some of us are ready to fight for Jerry

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• Abongo 10 years ago

  H3 Baako dzi me ga ble wo

  H3 Baako dzi me ga ble wo

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• Dzifa 10 years ago

  Rawlings doesn't know who his father was ,or is. As matter of fact his mother let him loose like a dog without a master. He did and still does things as one who has gone mad. He didn't have any parental guidance and control a ...
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  Rawlings doesn't know who his father was ,or is. As matter of fact his mother let him loose like a dog without a master. He did and still does things as one who has gone mad. He didn't have any parental guidance and control and his children are also watching him disgrace himself continually,FOOOLS!

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• shoe 10 years ago

  Do not compare Rawlings to Moses in terms of deliverance.Rawlings came not to deliver but to steal destroy and to kill.In his speech listen to what Rawlings said,THERE IS THE NEED TO SHED BLOOD AND IT STARTS WITHIN THE GHANA ...
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  Do not compare Rawlings to Moses in terms of deliverance.Rawlings came not to deliver but to steal destroy and to kill.In his speech listen to what Rawlings said,THERE IS THE NEED TO SHED BLOOD AND IT STARTS WITHIN THE GHANA ARMED FORCES

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• Alhaji Katongo. Berekum. 10 years ago

  Until Ghanaian learn to know that they are Ghanaian education is meaningless. Is only Ghana that a barstard like jj who can rule 18 millions cowards at that time.

  Until Ghanaian learn to know that they are Ghanaian education is meaningless. Is only Ghana that a barstard like jj who can rule 18 millions cowards at that time.

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• KB 10 years ago

  This murderer should zip it. A bastard and ofrijato. Any sensible human will not support this idiot except those whose mothers were fucked and leaked by a dog will support him. This crazy murderer slaughtered a mother who had ...
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  This murderer should zip it. A bastard and ofrijato. Any sensible human will not support this idiot except those whose mothers were fucked and leaked by a dog will support him. This crazy murderer slaughtered a mother who had just given birth. How can anyone with little sense in his or her head support him. This goes to show how stupid some Ghanaians are. Rawlings I hate you with every fiber of my being. you are worse than Satan

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• Victor A, Young 10 years ago

  Ghanaweb has strangely removed the news article from its site. Rawlings and his gang of murderers took Ghanaians hostage; he imposed curfew on Ghanaians and during these horrible and frightful moments, Rawlings' men harassed ...
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  Ghanaweb has strangely removed the news article from its site. Rawlings and his gang of murderers took Ghanaians hostage; he imposed curfew on Ghanaians and during these horrible and frightful moments, Rawlings' men harassed people, they hauled petty traders esp. daughters of Ghanaians to the army barracks and mis-used these pretty daughters; some of these girls had children without fathers. Many people have gone missing from then never to be seen again. Rawlings needs to be prosecuted for crimes he committed agaist Ghanaians families. He doesn't have the right to kill anyone; he accused Ghanaians for crimes that he cannot substantiate. Interestingly, he's committed serious crimes more than those he accused.

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• MAHAMA LOOT ND SHARE 10 years ago

  NDC ARE ALL CRIMINALS,THAT IS WHY MAHAMA KILLED MILLS,BECOS JJ KILLED MOST GHANIANS,HE STILL TALKING NONSES,ABOA JJ OFUI,SHAME UNTO THEM ALL,FOOOOLS

  NDC ARE ALL CRIMINALS,THAT IS WHY MAHAMA KILLED MILLS,BECOS JJ KILLED MOST GHANIANS,HE STILL TALKING NONSES,ABOA JJ OFUI,SHAME UNTO THEM ALL,FOOOOLS

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• kokonsa 10 years ago

  Very Silly statement coming from a madman indeed. Do U thing this guy is normal, hell no, he is not.This is the beginning of his madness, just watch him from now on.

  Very Silly statement coming from a madman indeed. Do U thing this guy is normal, hell no, he is not.This is the beginning of his madness, just watch him from now on.

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• TROKOSI HATER 10 years ago

  IT IS NOT HARD.TAKE A GOOD AIM AT ANY OF HIS KIDS.I BET HE WILL BE QUIET AFTER THAT.

  IT IS NOT HARD.TAKE A GOOD AIM AT ANY OF HIS KIDS.I BET HE WILL BE QUIET AFTER THAT.

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• HUSSEIN K 10 years ago

  KWEKU BAAKO SHOULD LEARN HOW TO ACCEPT OTHER PEOPLES VIEWS, NOW THAT HE HAS STOP EATING PORK AND LEAVE JJ AND WHATEVER VIEWS HE HAS ABOUT HIM ALONE AND RATHER THANK GOD FOR YOUR LIFE

  KWEKU BAAKO SHOULD LEARN HOW TO ACCEPT OTHER PEOPLES VIEWS, NOW THAT HE HAS STOP EATING PORK AND LEAVE JJ AND WHATEVER VIEWS HE HAS ABOUT HIM ALONE AND RATHER THANK GOD FOR YOUR LIFE

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• Ewe pride 10 years ago

  Leave our tribal messiah alone he saved Ghana from ashanti abuse and rape of our resources.In fact Rawlings the hero should have ensured a mass ethnic cleansing when he was in power to save our nation Ghana from this evil gre ...
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  Leave our tribal messiah alone he saved Ghana from ashanti abuse and rape of our resources.In fact Rawlings the hero should have ensured a mass ethnic cleansing when he was in power to save our nation Ghana from this evil greedy ashanti invader tribe who belong to their ancestral nations of Mali and Ivory Coast.Evil motherfvckr ugly ashanty tribe.

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• ghanaba 10 years ago

  u re a big fool, an animal who does not diserve lif. ur relatives ll die the same way. Gods curse be on u.

  u re a big fool, an animal who does not diserve lif. ur relatives ll die the same way. Gods curse be on u.

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• Agyeman 10 years ago

  Well said my fellow countryman.

  Well said my fellow countryman.

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• PIAMONKOO 10 years ago

  JJ HAS MADE BAAKU RICH.NOW YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT HIM TO MAKE MORE MONEY YOU ARE SAYING HE SHOULD GIVE YOU A BREAK.

  JJ HAS MADE BAAKU RICH.NOW YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT HIM TO MAKE MORE MONEY YOU ARE SAYING HE SHOULD GIVE YOU A BREAK.

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• Tokyo 10 years ago

  Just a break. He should. Just fuckiing piss off. Tweahh. !!

  Just a break. He should. Just fuckiing piss off. Tweahh. !!

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• MenayeAFUAforiwa 10 years ago

  This stupid insane man is creating more troubles for his children and those unborn. If JJ RAWLINGS thinks his hands are clean on these murders he should throw the challenge for the Clause shielding him from prosecutions be a ...
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  This stupid insane man is creating more troubles for his children and those unborn. If JJ RAWLINGS thinks his hands are clean on these murders he should throw the challenge for the Clause shielding him from prosecutions be annulled and see what will happen to him. He shouldn't hide behind the Indemnity Clause and make provocative statements against those he murdered. One day, one day his end will come.

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• KB 10 years ago

  Why Ghanaians waste their time on this moron JJ. He is just a waste.

  Why Ghanaians waste their time on this moron JJ. He is just a waste.

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• Johnny USA 10 years ago

  KWEKU WAS PART OF THE KILLING 1979, ARE WE NOT ALL SAYING LET THE BLOOD FLOW.NOW YOU KWEKU NOW BLAMING JJ? GOD WILL ANSWER YOU KWEKU BAKU.

  KWEKU WAS PART OF THE KILLING 1979, ARE WE NOT ALL SAYING LET THE BLOOD FLOW.NOW YOU KWEKU NOW BLAMING JJ? GOD WILL ANSWER YOU KWEKU BAKU.

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• TEE 10 years ago

  TOGOLESE PROSTITUTE SON OF A BITCH MASS MURDER WILL SOON FACE JUSTICES PERIOD

  TOGOLESE PROSTITUTE SON OF A BITCH MASS MURDER WILL SOON FACE JUSTICES PERIOD

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• HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

  HISTORY TELLS US THAT ASHANTES ARE NOT
  PATRIOTIC GHANAINS.THEY CAME INTO GHANA 1900 JUST TO LOOT AND DESTROYED GHANA
  OUR BRAVE FATHERS AND UNCLES WORKED HARD TO BUILD OUR NATION GHANA THEY JUST WANT TO STEAL AND GO FOR FREE ...
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  HISTORY TELLS US THAT ASHANTES ARE NOT
  PATRIOTIC GHANAINS.THEY CAME INTO GHANA 1900 JUST TO LOOT AND DESTROYED GHANA
  OUR BRAVE FATHERS AND UNCLES WORKED HARD TO BUILD OUR NATION GHANA THEY JUST WANT TO STEAL AND GO FOR FREE.NO WAY>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THE NEXT REVOLUTION
  ASHANTES WILL RUN AWAY FORE EVER FROM GHANA. JERRY RAWLINGS IS A BRAVE CITIZEN OF GHANA

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• Cantankerous 10 years ago

  What does the ex tyrant and mass murderer got to offer Ghanaians? The criminal will yet face justice rest assured.His arrogance remains unabated because of his appar impunity for now

  What does the ex tyrant and mass murderer got to offer Ghanaians? The criminal will yet face justice rest assured.His arrogance remains unabated because of his appar impunity for now

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• kusasi 10 years ago

  believe it or not,the prosecution of rawlings in Ghana will be the end of pieace in the country

  believe it or not,the prosecution of rawlings in Ghana will be the end of pieace in the country

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• peace 10 years ago

  pay me I kill him

  pay me I kill him

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• Bediako NJ 10 years ago

  THE CHILDREN OF THE GENERALS KILLED SHOULD NOT LET THIS GUY IN PEACE.THE SILENCE OF THESE CHILDREN HAS ENBOLDEN THIS INSENSITIVE MAN TO BE WHAT HE SEE HIMSELF TO BE.BOOM TALK AND WHAT HAVE YOU. AFTER KILLING THESE SOLDIERS FO ...
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  THE CHILDREN OF THE GENERALS KILLED SHOULD NOT LET THIS GUY IN PEACE.THE SILENCE OF THESE CHILDREN HAS ENBOLDEN THIS INSENSITIVE MAN TO BE WHAT HE SEE HIMSELF TO BE.BOOM TALK AND WHAT HAVE YOU. AFTER KILLING THESE SOLDIERS FOR WHAT CRIME? RAWLINGS AND HIS COHORTS RULED TO COMMIT CRIMES 100 TIMES WORSE THAN THESE GENERALS THAT HE KILLED.COL FELLI TOOK A BANK LOAN OF TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR HIS FAMILY. FOR THIS CAUSE RAWLINGS KILLED HIM. RAWLINGS NOW OWNS MANSIONS IN GHANA, NOT HOUSES. RAWLINGS SENT ALL HIS CHILDREN TO THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES IN UK, WHERE DID HE GET THE MILLIONS TO PAY FOR THEIR TUITION IN THESE EXPENSIVE UK UNIVERSITIES?RAWLINGS SOLD STATE PROPERTIES LIKE THE NSAWAM CANARY TO HIS WIFE, RAWLINGS DID NOT AND HAVE NOT ACCOUNT FOR THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPECIAL COURT OF AFRC. LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GHANA TODAY.SALES OF MERCHANT BANK, WOYOME SAGA ALL BY RAWLINGS NDC, READER ASK YOURSELF, : WHO NEEDS TO DIE TODAY TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM IMPLOSION. DO WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL RAWLINGS AND HIS COHORTS FOR THESE MENTIONED SINS. ACHEAMPONGS ERA AND THE RAWLINGS AND HIS PNDC NDC WHICH HAS CAUSED MORE HARM TO THE COUNTRY. IS IT NOT TRUE THAT RAWLINGS AND HIS MEN KILLED THESE GENERALS FOR NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT HE RAWLINGS AND HIS COHORTS HAVE DONE TO THE COUNTRY. THE CHILDREN OF THE KILLED GENERALS NEED TO WAKE UP

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• Koo Boye 10 years ago

  Jerry Rawlings is the most stupid man alive today.What is wrong with this man?Does he think before he opens his mouth?One of these day somebody is going to take care him and drag all his children along with him.He better be c ...
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  Jerry Rawlings is the most stupid man alive today.What is wrong with this man?Does he think before he opens his mouth?One of these day somebody is going to take care him and drag all his children along with him.He better be careful because Ghanaians, even though patient are becoming fed up with his nonsense.He needs to be circumspect in his rhetorics to avoid unleashing the anger of those he offended in those days.

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• STEVOOO 10 years ago

  THE NDC JJ CREATED IS BUSY CREATING LOOTING AND SHARING AND YET HE KEEPS SPEAKING OF ONLY THE OPPOSITION WITHOUT CONDEMNING HIS PRESENTLY THIEVING NDC IN POWER.NO WONDER HE SAID IT IN THE VOLTA REGION BCOS HE CUDNT HAVE SAID ...
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  THE NDC JJ CREATED IS BUSY CREATING LOOTING AND SHARING AND YET HE KEEPS SPEAKING OF ONLY THE OPPOSITION WITHOUT CONDEMNING HIS PRESENTLY THIEVING NDC IN POWER.NO WONDER HE SAID IT IN THE VOLTA REGION BCOS HE CUDNT HAVE SAID IT ANYWHERE AND GOTTEN THE STUPID AND FOOLISH APPLAUSE HE GOT FROM THE STUPID AND FOOLISH STUDENTS.

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• Suberu Salam 10 years ago

  kwaku baku allias maliki, people like you are extremely dangerous for a nation like ghana you are not sure where you belong npp or cpp or shall isay you are cnpp. if you have nothing to contribute to our ghana development ju ...
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  kwaku baku allias maliki, people like you are extremely dangerous for a nation like ghana you are not sure where you belong npp or cpp or shall isay you are cnpp. if you have nothing to contribute to our ghana development just shut upp and give the rest of us a break.
  you are parasite.
  suberu salam--- Stockholm sweden

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• Kpeblo 10 years ago

  At this age we all would think jj Rawlings will have some since but it looks like he is still stupid. You think the generals you killed were corrupt? What happened to all the cash that Ghanaians were asked to deposit in acct ...
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  At this age we all would think jj Rawlings will have some since but it looks like he is still stupid. You think the generals you killed were corrupt? What happened to all the cash that Ghanaians were asked to deposit in acct # 49? I hope he pays for all these nonsense one day in God' own time . God punish JJ Rawlings and others for taking human life .

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• JH New York 10 years ago

  We know that Kweku Baako was arrested by the AFRC mutineers,given brutal military drills and severely molested in prison together with some officials whose testicles were touched with fire and later hauled away under the cove ...
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  We know that Kweku Baako was arrested by the AFRC mutineers,given brutal military drills and severely molested in prison together with some officials whose testicles were touched with fire and later hauled away under the covers of darkness and killed.
  So when was Kweku Baako an AFRC activist. After his release from AFRC confinement or when ?. Don't rewrite history,please ! Anyway
  (I stand corrected).

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• JH New York 10 years ago

  severely tortured in prison together with.........

  severely tortured in prison together with.........

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• JH New York 10 years ago

  severely tortured in prison together with.........

  severely tortured in prison together with.........

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• Future Judge 10 years ago

  Foolish man. Use your stomach newspaper to tell your corrupt Ghanaian politicians to learn a lesson from that history rather than rubbishing it daily.
  
  The next time that history is repeated in Ghana all of you will die. Th ...
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  Foolish man. Use your stomach newspaper to tell your corrupt Ghanaian politicians to learn a lesson from that history rather than rubbishing it daily.
  
  The next time that history is repeated in Ghana all of you will die. The heat will be unprecedented. Mark it on the wall and keep on fooling around.

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• ATSIKASA ZOMABI 10 years ago

  What do you know ?Rawlings might have forgotten because of time.Ghanaians know what they went through in the hands of those crooks .We know what we know so shut the fuck up Kwaku Baako.Son of alcoholic Kofi Baako.

  What do you know ?Rawlings might have forgotten because of time.Ghanaians know what they went through in the hands of those crooks .We know what we know so shut the fuck up Kwaku Baako.Son of alcoholic Kofi Baako.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
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  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
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  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
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  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• Jj Ok 10 years ago

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

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• Jj Ok 10 years ago

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
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  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• Joseph kow Amissah saudi arabia 10 years ago

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• Jj On mj in.i 10 years ago

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

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• Joseph kow Amissah saudi arabia 10 years ago

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• Jj On mj in.i 10 years ago

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

  Kweku baako should keep quiet,was he ok with were the army was taking ghana to?he must give thanks to Rawlings for saving ghana

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
  read full comment

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• The Trucker 10 years ago

  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Ev ...
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  Yes .Somehow one can sense that the mood in the country is changing and is steadily hardening against the erstwhile tinpot dictator. Rawlings has long lost his menacing aura and he is now endured as an irritant than feared.Even this relatively benign hostility to dictator is likely to change swiftly if Ghanaians continue to have to endure the taunts and insults of the unbelievably arrogant Rawlings. Ghanaians are now being constantly reminded of his past crimes while was in office. Calls for him to be brought to justice have never been louder than they are at the moment. I am starting to fear for the ex tyrant. While a move against him within the legal context has become virtually unavoidable in the not too distant future the main worry now for Rawlings has to be that some of his enemies (probably now numbered in the hundreds) may now feel emboldened to make extrajudicial moves against him. Many of his opponents or offspring and relatives of his erstwhile enemies and victims are now in positions of great influence in Ghana and may coalesce together and move very drastically against him. They may well arrive at the conclusion that waiting for the law courts to act against Rawlings is likely to be time consuming and convoluted.They may then take matters into their own hands. Rawlings will find it well nigh impossible to survive a deadly attack from well organised and determined enemies.

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• BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ. 10 years ago

  WHO IS THIS ABDUL MALIK KWEKU BAAKP?,
  THAT IF HISTORY EXISTED AND I KNOW HISTORY EXISTS THEN ABDUL MALIK KWEKU BAAKO SHOULD BE THE FIRST PERSON TO LEARN OF WHAT TO SAY TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF GHANA AND TO STOP HIS VINDICTIVE P ...
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  WHO IS THIS ABDUL MALIK KWEKU BAAKP?,
  THAT IF HISTORY EXISTED AND I KNOW HISTORY EXISTS THEN ABDUL MALIK KWEKU BAAKO SHOULD BE THE FIRST PERSON TO LEARN OF WHAT TO SAY TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF GHANA AND TO STOP HIS VINDICTIVE PURPORTED DEMEANOR.
  THAT IT IS NO SURPRISED HE STYLED HIMSELF AS A DICTATOR WHO INTERPOSED ON THE PREMISES OF DAILY GRAPHIC CENSORING ARTICLES THAT ARE AGAINST HIS FINANCIERS AND THOSE HE IS USING CANNOT EVEN READ INTO HIS PURPORTED DEMEANOR TURNING HIMSELF THE ONLY BRAIN IN GHANA POLITICS AND PREVENTING MY ARTICLES FROM BEING PUBLISHED.
  THAT YOU CAN PURPORT TO HOLD YOURSELF AS THE ONLY "SAINT" IN GHANA BUT HISTORY WOULD SOON EXPOSE YOU.
  THAT IF YOU ARE/WERE THE TRUE SPOKES PERSON OF HON. NANA AKUFO ADDO THEN I CHALLENGE YOU TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
  {i}WHETHER OR NOT DURING THE NPP GOVERNMENT ERA AMERICA GAVE GHANA $547 MILLION?
  {ii} WHAT PURPOSE WAS THE GRANT GIVEN FOR?
  {iii}WHETHER THE GRANT WAS USED FOR THAT INTENDED PURPOSE?
  {iv}WHETHER OR NOT AMERICA GOVERNMENT PAID $10 MILLION THROUGH THE NPP GOVERNMENT TO BE GIVEN TO ME?
  {v} WHETHER OR NOT DURING THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL RUN-OF ELECTIONS THAT NPP GOVERNMENT WHEN HON.NANA AKUFO ADDO WAS THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND FOREIGN MINISTER TRANSFERRED HUGE MONEY TO CANADA?
  {vi} WHO WAS THE MONEY TRANSFERRED TO IN CANADA?
  {vii} WHAT PURPOSE WAS THE HUGE GHANA MONEY TRANSFERRED TO CANADA?
  {viii}WHETHER OR NOT IN 2003 THAT I DULY MADE A REPORT TO H.E.FORMER PRESIDENT JOHN AGYEKUM KUFUOR GOVERNMENT TO INTERVENE IN A CASE OF 4 NEW YORK POLICE OFFICERS BRUTALISED ME WHEN I DETECTED AN ALQUADAE CELL IN NEW YORK PLOTTING AGAINST H.E.MR.FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W.BUSH TO HELP SOLVE THE CASE DIPLOMATICALLY?
  {ix} WHETHER OR NOT HON.SECRETARY TO THEN FORMER PRESIDENT KUFUOR WROTE A LETTER DIRECTING MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND GHANA EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON, DC TO HELP ME RESOLVE THE MATTER SO THAT JUSTICE WAS DONE?
  (x) WHETHER OR NOT HON.NANA AKUFO ADDO WHO WAS THEN GHANA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HELPED SOLVED THE MATTER?
  (xi) WHETHER OR NOT AMERICA PAID ANY MONETARY COMPENSATIONS TO THAT EFFECT?
  THAT ABDUL MALIK KWEKU BAAKO AND THE NPP TO ANSWER THESE RELATED QUESTIONS FIRST BEFORE ABDUL MALIK KWEKU BAAKO PURPORTED "CASTING STONES AT OTHERS".
  BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ.
  INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT.

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• yaw 10 years ago

  He will definitely go crazy before he dies. We are still preying. Those guys were shot with a single bullet. J J will go through pain, suffering, agony and will even craw like a snake.

  He will definitely go crazy before he dies. We are still preying. Those guys were shot with a single bullet. J J will go through pain, suffering, agony and will even craw like a snake.

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• br 10 years ago

  Mr. Rawlings is a very lucky person to be still alive, eating and drinking as he wishes. The people his AFRC executed did not have a chance. They were killed because Mr. Rawlings hated them.
  
  To take somebody,s life is a ...
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  Mr. Rawlings is a very lucky person to be still alive, eating and drinking as he wishes. The people his AFRC executed did not have a chance. They were killed because Mr. Rawlings hated them.
  
  To take somebody,s life is a serious issue and it is not something to laugh about. It is only God who gives live and takes it away. I hope that when judgement day comes your way after you have departed this world, you would be able to explain to God why you executed innocent lives you did not create.
  
  I thank Ghanaians for being peace loving and forgiving. Remember what happened to your late friend Gadaffi in Libya? Just food for thought!!!

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