BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago
Tweaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tweaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAAME 10 years ago
Amasa Namoale ! Tweeeeaaaaaaakai
Amasa Namoale ! Tweeeeaaaaaaakai
NANA Ø !! 10 years ago
Where was this dumb prof when all Ghana cash was looted after three to four coups by his tribe folks ? JJ had to rebuild Ghana from zero. Ghana "abre agu" for real with all these Gyimi-gyimie booklongs.
Where was this dumb prof when all Ghana cash was looted after three to four coups by his tribe folks ? JJ had to rebuild Ghana from zero. Ghana "abre agu" for real with all these Gyimi-gyimie booklongs.
don`t care!!! Hmmmm 10 years ago
Someone told me that people change like seasons, but I don't believe it, there is a big difference, seasons never change for personal interests....false or true==>>Koo Agyeman Badu Akosa
By ur utterance i wonder whether yo ... read full comment
Someone told me that people change like seasons, but I don't believe it, there is a big difference, seasons never change for personal interests....false or true==>>Koo Agyeman Badu Akosa
By ur utterance i wonder whether you`re true cppian...
Educated people change themselves according to the situation, but the experienced people can change the situation according to them...and thatz what the saint did 4 ghanaians..
Hmmmmm!no more 3 night in a queue(a lot of people wanting something)just to buy a box of matches;how about those et cetera....Hmmmm!
“that was leadership!I leave that to the audience”.
Conqueror 10 years ago
Peopel like Akosa stood at the sidelines because they had no clue Ghana was deeply in crisis when JJ striked. When Tinapa, sugar, soap, milk and even toilet rolls were called essential commodities. JJ brought real freedom to ... read full comment
Peopel like Akosa stood at the sidelines because they had no clue Ghana was deeply in crisis when JJ striked. When Tinapa, sugar, soap, milk and even toilet rolls were called essential commodities. JJ brought real freedom to the Ghanaian. The Ghanaian has thick skin and won't change from corruption that is why e find ourselves where we are now waiting for another JJ.
Gye Nyame 10 years ago
I concur with Akosa on this one. JJ's time was 20 years of wasted time. JJ focused on harassing his people and settling vendettas instead of building the infrastructure and developing the country as was done by his counterpar ... read full comment
I concur with Akosa on this one. JJ's time was 20 years of wasted time. JJ focused on harassing his people and settling vendettas instead of building the infrastructure and developing the country as was done by his counterparts in Malaysia and Singapore. The answer to your question is simply BAD leadership.
JJ is living fat on government, even though he has multiple private houses/toilets now; he harassed folks for having more than one toilet at home. Even simple furniture, he can’t buy himself, he is waiting on the government to furnish his house. Enough said about JJ the better.
Conqueror 10 years ago
Yes, because people did dubious things, took advantage of the system and amassed wealth. It is the same thing happening now and YOU do not have the eyes to see untill a "JJ" comes and you all will start hailing him. It's a sh ... read full comment
Yes, because people did dubious things, took advantage of the system and amassed wealth. It is the same thing happening now and YOU do not have the eyes to see untill a "JJ" comes and you all will start hailing him. It's a shame how we can't be honest to ourselves but blame someone else.
Gye Nyame 10 years ago
Exactly, that is the wasted years I am talking about, killing and harassing people was not the answer, he should have strengthened the systems and put strong mechanisms in place to prevent a repeat of the rot. Here we are b ... read full comment
Exactly, that is the wasted years I am talking about, killing and harassing people was not the answer, he should have strengthened the systems and put strong mechanisms in place to prevent a repeat of the rot. Here we are back to square one so where is the gain? And the sad part is he joined the rot himself. JJ is just a big hypocrite, that is all.
Ai man 10 years ago
JJ and his boys came without an iota of an idea how to reform the system, all they wanted to do was to end corruption but how do u do this without any plan or strategy? An this was where his govt failed to tranform Ghana but ... read full comment
JJ and his boys came without an iota of an idea how to reform the system, all they wanted to do was to end corruption but how do u do this without any plan or strategy? An this was where his govt failed to tranform Ghana but the biggest blame goes to the educated folks who should have helped him but what did they know with our chew and pour type of education?
The problem still persist to today where we have a lot of educated ppl that cant solve any problem. How do u expect our nation to progress when we have graduates that are incapable of reasoning outside of chew and pour?
BRAVE MAN 10 years ago
As you all keep putting the blame on past leaders for the lack of development facing Ghana from Nkrumah, Acheampong, Afrifa, Rawlings, KU4, MIlls etc have you stopped for a second and asked yourself if there is any successful ... read full comment
As you all keep putting the blame on past leaders for the lack of development facing Ghana from Nkrumah, Acheampong, Afrifa, Rawlings, KU4, MIlls etc have you stopped for a second and asked yourself if there is any successfully managed black nation or society on earth?
All fully black dominated societies on earth are almost mismanaged and in chaos. And the problem is low IQ! Africans didnt fully evolve during the human evolutionary process thats why Africa remains the richest continent on the planet yet remains the poorest. Poverty in Africa is not the continent, its the ppl that live on it.
You see people, natural resouces does not develop a nation, human ingenuity and creavity is what it takes to change the natural environment. It takes an amount of creativity to turn nothing into something and this part of human ingenuity and creativity is heavily missing in the African. When it also comes to leadership we are at the bottom of it.
Ghana's own is even worse as our universities keep churning out chew and pour students that have no problem solving skills. How do you expect such a nation to deelop? It aint goint to happen people, we need to turn to the white man and learn as much as we can learn from them and hoepfully that will change things on the continent.
Other than the confusion and self destruction will continue. We weren ready when Nkrumah emotionally thought we were.
Frempong Adjei 10 years ago
You are stupid when you said Africans has low IQ. Studied in Europe and my colleagues who are whites comes to me and ask me to copy my assignments. In class i score higher than them and in fact i am making and developing new ... read full comment
You are stupid when you said Africans has low IQ. Studied in Europe and my colleagues who are whites comes to me and ask me to copy my assignments. In class i score higher than them and in fact i am making and developing new machines for whites organizations and teach them.
BRAVE MAN 10 years ago
Ability to memorize is totally different from creativity and intelligence. And that is why Africa remains so poor, we worship people that have the ability to memorize and call them intelligent folks, give them all the leaders ... read full comment
Ability to memorize is totally different from creativity and intelligence. And that is why Africa remains so poor, we worship people that have the ability to memorize and call them intelligent folks, give them all the leadership posiotions when they dont know jhack.
Get into your head that there is a huge difference b/n ability to memorize and education on one hand and the ability to be a visionary and a creative individual on the other hand.
Some of the greatest European and American scientist were not "memorizing" folks. They think and reason.
yanks 10 years ago
you develop? name one. and why can't you make money out of it or you're too stupid to make use of your own invention to make money. and this is why your iq is very low.
you develop? name one. and why can't you make money out of it or you're too stupid to make use of your own invention to make money. and this is why your iq is very low.
Mensah 10 years ago
Have you heard of Botswana? fool
Have you heard of Botswana? fool
Armah 10 years ago
Where the HIV rate is almost 30% of the population? Where the king has 100 wives and counting? Where the king owns a fleet of cars, mansions, and many millions in Swiss accounts? where most of the inhabitants live on less tha ... read full comment
Where the HIV rate is almost 30% of the population? Where the king has 100 wives and counting? Where the king owns a fleet of cars, mansions, and many millions in Swiss accounts? where most of the inhabitants live on less than $2 a day?
If this is the most successful black nation in the world an an example for Ghana and the rest of the black world to follow then blacks truly have an IQ problem.
Today's leaders 10 years ago
Bravo to you Brave man. You said it all. Africa have seriously IQ problem.
We have to learn a lot from the white in terms of leadership if we want to turn things around and that is where Nkromah didn't know about and misunde ... read full comment
Bravo to you Brave man. You said it all. Africa have seriously IQ problem.
We have to learn a lot from the white in terms of leadership if we want to turn things around and that is where Nkromah didn't know about and misunderstood the UGCC group. One may not know if Nkromah acted on his own selfish interest, just to be called Ghana man of independence or he wasn't aware of our lever of intellect since wan not in the country and as he left when young, I guess and as at that time had not occupied any position of that sort to know what it takes to led a nation
Only the Thruth 10 years ago
JJ was a dump high school failure. What did he know.What we know is, he is a killer,Arsonist,Thief (Nsawam Cannery),hypocrite,Confused,Deranged, and probably suffering from amnesia.
JJ was a dump high school failure. What did he know.What we know is, he is a killer,Arsonist,Thief (Nsawam Cannery),hypocrite,Confused,Deranged, and probably suffering from amnesia.
KWAKU SEI 10 years ago
AGREED, IT IS UP TO GHANAIANS TO CHOOSE A MATURED LEADER WITH VISION AND MISSION PREPARED FOR THE JOB AS PRESIDENT NOT THE FORTUNATE OR UNPREPARED TO WASTE GHANA'S TIME IN DEVELOPMENT LIKE JJ AND MAHAMA.BOTH WERE NOT SERIOUS ... read full comment
AGREED, IT IS UP TO GHANAIANS TO CHOOSE A MATURED LEADER WITH VISION AND MISSION PREPARED FOR THE JOB AS PRESIDENT NOT THE FORTUNATE OR UNPREPARED TO WASTE GHANA'S TIME IN DEVELOPMENT LIKE JJ AND MAHAMA.BOTH WERE NOT SERIOUS WITH TRANSFORMING GHANA'S ECONOMY CAUSING GHANA TO DEPEND HIGHLY ON IMPORTATION AND DEPRECIATION OF THE CEDIS
BE BOLD 10 years ago
Yes, what he (JJ) did is what has caused what is happening. He taught us how to steal and be corrupt. JJ has ruined Ghana for good and the earlier we accept it the better for us to rebuild. He was no leader but a thief.
Afte ... read full comment
Yes, what he (JJ) did is what has caused what is happening. He taught us how to steal and be corrupt. JJ has ruined Ghana for good and the earlier we accept it the better for us to rebuild. He was no leader but a thief.
After so many years JJ continues to live fat on government, even though he has multiple private homes. Good leaders do not behave like that.
NANA AKUFO ADDO- NPP 10 years ago
JJ RAWLINGS IS GHANA'S SAVIOUR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
JJ RAWLINGS IS GHANA'S SAVIOUR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
i shld care!!! 10 years ago
we started queueing for milk & sugar before Nkrumah was kicked out! unless, of course, you belonged to an elite cpp family!
my father's cocoa was taxed to provide free education for some who had to be 'bribed' to go to schoo ... read full comment
we started queueing for milk & sugar before Nkrumah was kicked out! unless, of course, you belonged to an elite cpp family!
my father's cocoa was taxed to provide free education for some who had to be 'bribed' to go to school, while he could not pay school fees for my siblings.
MAAME 10 years ago
Akan rulers never killed no one okay! your JJR came to destroy and kill ghanaians especially akans are you pleased with that ? Before our mothers never sold their own clothing for food but when this trokosiman came to power t ... read full comment
Akan rulers never killed no one okay! your JJR came to destroy and kill ghanaians especially akans are you pleased with that ? Before our mothers never sold their own clothing for food but when this trokosiman came to power through Boakye Djan and Akatapori ghanaians had Rawlings chain.Ghana's farms and mountains were burning like the fire was from heaven that time was the beggining of ghana's down fall.When somebody God disapproves ascend to power that was one of the signs, "YES" Ghana started to retrogress during Rawlings brutal regime, before him ghana was a heaven because our parents never complained over school fees, schorlarships being CMB or government were given to deserving students even schools were offering bursery to smart students from poor homes, what do we see now? Since these our brave soldiers offered this half trokosi guy the chance our country has deteriorated.
Nimdee2k 10 years ago
Akan people just sell you to the whiteman for SALT. All Ghanaians are to be blamed for our shortcomings. It is or has never been on one person responsibility to save the country. We're always looking at the government to m ... read full comment
Akan people just sell you to the whiteman for SALT. All Ghanaians are to be blamed for our shortcomings. It is or has never been on one person responsibility to save the country. We're always looking at the government to make a change. What if we stop issuing bribes to get ahead one another and try to live in a society of liberty and justice for all? Ghana was already retrogressing under IK Acheampong. I'm an Akan and I lived on Kumasi when I.K Acheampong was gradually selling the country for profit. It didn't start with JJ Rawlings. It started with all of us. We all have to accept the blame for us to move to society of prosperity.
I think we have become the "Whiteman's Burden" (William Easterly).
Norway discovered Oil and now every Norwegian is worth $100K. Ghana discovered oil and the country is debt. Look at the irony and you tell me that it is JJ's fault.
Conqueror 10 years ago
If peopel we call professors in Ghana talk like this how do you expect Ghana to move forward. The blackman will only criticize his neighbor without him producing nothing himself.
What has Akosa done to improve Ghana? Tweaaa!
If peopel we call professors in Ghana talk like this how do you expect Ghana to move forward. The blackman will only criticize his neighbor without him producing nothing himself.
What has Akosa done to improve Ghana? Tweaaa!
TOHUGU 10 years ago
Afirifa used Moses Yeboah, S.B Arthur and Mensah Poku to kill Kotoka, and when they were caught he feigned not knowing anything about it. He had them killed by firing squad. Unfortunately for him one of them happened to be Bo ... read full comment
Afirifa used Moses Yeboah, S.B Arthur and Mensah Poku to kill Kotoka, and when they were caught he feigned not knowing anything about it. He had them killed by firing squad. Unfortunately for him one of them happened to be Boakye Gyans uncle, hence Boakye Gyan's pressure on Rawlings to have Afirifa killed by firing squad during the AFRC era. Please make sure you know what you are writing about Mr. Tribalist.You are the reason Ghana has known no progress.
Real Ghanaian 10 years ago
Let me me put it to you that, Moses Yeboah and Boakye Gyan and Moses Yeboah may all be Brongs, but are not blood relatives. Rawlings killed Afrifa because of Kotoka. The Prof is right on this one. Rawlings and his revolutiona ... read full comment
Let me me put it to you that, Moses Yeboah and Boakye Gyan and Moses Yeboah may all be Brongs, but are not blood relatives. Rawlings killed Afrifa because of Kotoka. The Prof is right on this one. Rawlings and his revolutionary goons had no clue on nation building. In times of duress any action taken against your enemy- perceived and real, is deemed acceptable. Till today, majority of Ghanaians have not realized how wasteful and far back the Rawlings years set Ghana. If some are still calling for a Rawlings-like revolution to clean up the system, then I can only conclude that they are either mis/uninformed or simply clueless.
Rawlings worked for the government all his life, so the source of his income should be easily verifiable. He is leading a life way beyond his means- at least based on accumulated genuine income, yet he is quick to accuse others of corruption.
King 10 years ago
The Koo GYIMIE GYIMIE like NANA are the reasons why our politicians takes us for granted.Those Idiot will support any position that their favorite people stood or standing for.Assuming we choose to go with that your stupid n ... read full comment
The Koo GYIMIE GYIMIE like NANA are the reasons why our politicians takes us for granted.Those Idiot will support any position that their favorite people stood or standing for.Assuming we choose to go with that your stupid non supportive claim that JJ had to rebuild the Ghana from Zero,we were still better than those countries named in the article yet they had a breakthrough .Stupid guy like is insulting the professor yet you could not support your bullshit claim with even one sensible point.Ponk
okofo 10 years ago
And what does your mind tell you JJ re-built in Ghana?
And what does your mind tell you JJ re-built in Ghana?
Don Blunt 10 years ago
The only obvious achievement by Rawlings was doubling his Body weight, leaving us to wear his chain
The only obvious achievement by Rawlings was doubling his Body weight, leaving us to wear his chain
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago
You're more than right!!
You're more than right!!
MENSAH 10 years ago
Doubling his body weight and leaving us with HIS CHAINS &:
THE INDEMNITY CLAUSE TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM BEING KILLED,LIKE,HE UNNECESSARILY AND UNLAWFULLY,DID TO OTHERS.
Doubling his body weight and leaving us with HIS CHAINS &:
THE INDEMNITY CLAUSE TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM BEING KILLED,LIKE,HE UNNECESSARILY AND UNLAWFULLY,DID TO OTHERS.
Spiky 10 years ago
The difference between you and Prof Akosa is that HE IS a professor and you are not, and as such you can't see what professors see. He did not insult anybody, not even Rawlings whose two-decade rule offered very little to Gha ... read full comment
The difference between you and Prof Akosa is that HE IS a professor and you are not, and as such you can't see what professors see. He did not insult anybody, not even Rawlings whose two-decade rule offered very little to Ghanaians compared to the leaders he mentioned. He did what professors do: interpret the world and/or provide insights that help to change society for the better; shift society towards excellence not mediocrity which you seem to glamorize. Ghana will surely be a better place to live in if we had more professors (thinkers), than sycophants.
BE BOLD 10 years ago
Amen!
Amen!
TOGBE GANYO 10 years ago
IA VERY SORRY FOR THESE SOCALLED PROFFERSORS, PRIEST, PASTORS, PROFFECTS AND POLITICIANS WHO HAVEN'T SEEN WHAT JJ RAWLLINGS HAS DONE FOR GHANA.RAWLINGS HAS STABILIZED GHANA FOR THESE THIEVSE TO COME AND ROB.
IA VERY SORRY FOR THESE SOCALLED PROFFERSORS, PRIEST, PASTORS, PROFFECTS AND POLITICIANS WHO HAVEN'T SEEN WHAT JJ RAWLLINGS HAS DONE FOR GHANA.RAWLINGS HAS STABILIZED GHANA FOR THESE THIEVSE TO COME AND ROB.
ALHAJI KANKANE 10 years ago
YOUR NAME SHOWS HOW STUPID YOU ARE,WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THIS COWARD IDIOT TOOK THE MOVEMENT OF THIS COUNTRY.LET ME TELL YOUR RAWLINGS DIDN´T STABILIZE GHANA BUT RATHER STABILIZED HIS POCKETS,STOFFEN HIS POCKETS WITH GHANA GOL ... read full comment
YOUR NAME SHOWS HOW STUPID YOU ARE,WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THIS COWARD IDIOT TOOK THE MOVEMENT OF THIS COUNTRY.LET ME TELL YOUR RAWLINGS DIDN´T STABILIZE GHANA BUT RATHER STABILIZED HIS POCKETS,STOFFEN HIS POCKETS WITH GHANA GOLD.THAT MAN,YOUR SAINT RAWLINGS SIZE WAS HALF OF NKETIA ASIEDU´S PRESENT SIZE,BUT LOOK AT HIS SIZE NOW,JUST LIKE A SICK PIG.BEFORE HE USED TO BUY GARI AND BEANS ON CREDIT BUT NOW HE IS ONE OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY.HE LOOTED WITHOUT SHARING NOT LIKE THIS PRESENT NDC WHERE THEY LOOT AND SHARE.AFTER ALL HIS LOOTINGS HE TURNS AND POINTS HIS STEALING HANDS TO INNOCENT PEOPLE.WHAT A HYPOCRITE AND AN IDIOT SELFISH MAN.IN HIS HOMELAND THEY HAIL HIM AS A HERO FOR STEALING AND BECOME A BILLIONAIRE.WHAT A COUNTRY AND ITS TRIBES.WONDERS WILL NEVER END.WITH ALL HIS 19 YEARS IN POWER NOTHING WAS ACHIEVED BUT DUE TO TRIBALISM AND FOOLISHNESS THEY ALL HAIL HIM IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AS A SAINT BY HIS PEOPLE WITHOUT FIRSTLY THINKING ABOUT THE COUNTRY.GHANA HAS LONG WAY TO PROSPERTY WITH THESE PRIMITIVE AND BACKWARDS MENTALITY.LETS CALL SPADE THE WAY WE SEE IT BUT NOT A HAMMER.
ALI 10 years ago
why is it that these dumb headed NPP animal before JJ came along? When we were buying raw Kenkey to cook it ourselves. The stench from their kotibotos has clouded their minds to the extent that they think we were born yesterd ... read full comment
why is it that these dumb headed NPP animal before JJ came along? When we were buying raw Kenkey to cook it ourselves. The stench from their kotibotos has clouded their minds to the extent that they think we were born yesterday or we have become senile that we can no longer remember where we came rom.
ALHAJI KANKANE 10 years ago
ALI FREE YOUR MIND FROM INSULTS,HOW MANY TRIBES ARE KOTIBOTOS IN THE NORTH? APART THE MOSLIMS IN THE NORTH ALL THE REST ARE ALL KOTIBOTOS,I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHICH COMMENT HAS PROMPTED YOU TO VOMIT ALL THESE OUTRAGEOUS INSULTS. ... read full comment
ALI FREE YOUR MIND FROM INSULTS,HOW MANY TRIBES ARE KOTIBOTOS IN THE NORTH? APART THE MOSLIMS IN THE NORTH ALL THE REST ARE ALL KOTIBOTOS,I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHICH COMMENT HAS PROMPTED YOU TO VOMIT ALL THESE OUTRAGEOUS INSULTS.COOL YOUR TEMPER BECAUSE YOUR HEALTH IS MORE IMPORTANT YOUR INSULTS AND IF YOU SMOKE ANY DRUG STOP IT.AND BECAREFUL YOU DON'T GET HEART ATTACK.
ALHAJI KANKANE 10 years ago
TYPE FAULT:COOL YOUR TEMPER BECAUSE YOUR HEALTH IS MORE IMPOTANT THAN YOUR INSULTS.
TYPE FAULT:COOL YOUR TEMPER BECAUSE YOUR HEALTH IS MORE IMPOTANT THAN YOUR INSULTS.
Anti-NDC 10 years ago
hwe ne gyimii bi.
hwe ne gyimii bi.
samuel Ghana Ba 10 years ago
what a stupid proffessor.hope he not lecturer in any of our universities.You have not given us any proves bcos they lack.Tweaaaaaaaa,gimi gimi
what a stupid proffessor.hope he not lecturer in any of our universities.You have not given us any proves bcos they lack.Tweaaaaaaaa,gimi gimi
Kwame 10 years ago
From Kalabule, throwing of urine on even Policemen at Makola market,corruption and looting of state resources,electricity in only 8 regional capitals, Light offs after 6pm, we came to electricity in all district capitals incl ... read full comment
From Kalabule, throwing of urine on even Policemen at Makola market,corruption and looting of state resources,electricity in only 8 regional capitals, Light offs after 6pm, we came to electricity in all district capitals including the 2 but now 3 northern regions, 110 district hospitals,more secondary schools and science resource centres, 12 hours to Tamale instead of 3 days as it used to be, respect for the police and military.
This can certainly not be retrogression. Yes, there was the bad side of Jerry Rawlings' rule, but our politicians can learn to be a little truthful.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago
These akan's npp motorbikes thieves must give the good people of Ghana a total break, who is eager to know if kwame London addo is coming back or not? Who give a shit damn? Kwame London can go to hell and Ghanaians don't give ... read full comment
These akan's npp motorbikes thieves must give the good people of Ghana a total break, who is eager to know if kwame London addo is coming back or not? Who give a shit damn? Kwame London can go to hell and Ghanaians don't give a hoot about that ok? Who is kwame London addo? Nana London is a regular person like everybody else in Ghana, he is only a tribal leader, he is not a leader in any political party in Ghana as at now, not even his own akan's npp party , so do we have to give a news when that idiot kofi nyarko too is coming back from Holland? What at all Ghana is heading to in terms of pampering kwame London addo? Tweeeaaaa! !!!
Close Observer 10 years ago
It is the responsibility of every responsible and sane citizen of any country to defend and love his country. Hardly would you find people who would turn their back at their own country or more specifically WORK HARD TO UNDER ... read full comment
It is the responsibility of every responsible and sane citizen of any country to defend and love his country. Hardly would you find people who would turn their back at their own country or more specifically WORK HARD TO UNDERMINE THE UNITY of their OWN COUNTRY. Today, THE PEOPLE OF GHANA have an individual by name AMASA NAMOALE (who is known on the web as BBC NEWS!!!!!) A PARLIAMENTERIAN, who is working hard to DISINTERGRATE HIS OWN COUNTRY by PROPAGATING TRIBAL POLITICS, TRIBAL DISCRIMINATION and HATRED FOR OTHER TRIBES, even as he remains a present MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE. He spends a greater part of the time he should be using to perform his civic responsibility to engage in this evil act against his own country. He doesn't care what damage that will cause to the UNITY and PEACE of his country since for him, it is 'politics' and DAMN PATRIOTISM. He is a BAD CITZEN and does not deserve to be in parliament. Let us continue to condemn his repulsive act till he reforms. LET US RESPECT AND LOVE PEOPLE OF OTHER TRIBES. LONG LIVE GHANA
insight to the bone 10 years ago
Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the ... read full comment
Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the Israelis we are the chosen people of God and he in his great design has made us diverse but unified in spirit. the ashantis like the tribe of Judah are and will remain an integral part of our being to to attack any one part we all end up feeling it sooner or later. they have succeed in turning some of our chiefs and kings against us and work for their evil ungodly agenda but we still see clearly . God has brought us into the 21st century and with that a new system of governance and state of mind based on democracy since it is HE alone who blesses the individuals with the gift of leadership wisdom and justice irrespective of status at birth. he has shown us the blue print of the way forward in the bible and other holy books and the time has come to free ourselves from this man made bondage called Ghana. just as in the Ukraine we must fight so the truth will come out , fear not the battle as they will crumble like the walls of Jericho . cast away our so called fake leaders and politicians who are nothing but cowards and like our enemies fear even their own shadows . yes God has put a million fears in their empty bodies as he who does not fear the Lord , the Lord will ensure all fears of the world will reside in him. They threaten us with superstition , juju and what have you and we say fuck you and go to hell as the divine power is with us . Yes all the tribes of Akan are fingers on the same hands and God has ordained we remain united so our strength and light will be visible throughout the whole world and universe , our time has come . everyday its becoming clearer and clearer to all children of Akan that we must prepare mentally for a battle of freedom . they come with tricks that say we must take a non Akan as our leader because its nice ? do they not think that out of 30 million Akans we can not find sensible down to earth leaders and warriors to lead our own people to our own destiny? a govt of the people and by the people is what the 21st century democracy is all about . let them continue to play with the consensus and other figures that justify their fantasy and enable them to marginalize the participation of the Akan majority in the Affairs of their own land , to marginalize us thus preventing us to afford a better standard for our people . The had of God has given them pestilence after pestilence but they refuse to let our people go , soon they will be swept away like chaff in the hurricane of fury . Long live the republic of Akan and don't you forget it as now the Fanti speakers, Twi speakers, Ashantis and other tribes of Akan are now one .
Amoah 10 years ago
How can Akosa support killing of opponents in prison by Kwame Nkruah the murderous tyrant. He calls himself a professor but supports one-part state and dictatorship. Nkrumah never had a Vice President because he ruled Ghana s ... read full comment
How can Akosa support killing of opponents in prison by Kwame Nkruah the murderous tyrant. He calls himself a professor but supports one-part state and dictatorship. Nkrumah never had a Vice President because he ruled Ghana single-handedly and with terror
Him 10 years ago
who gives the fuck about democracy. The shit is not paying, if nkrumah will do the job, wont care if he terminates the rest of the 20 stupid million ghanaians.
who gives the fuck about democracy. The shit is not paying, if nkrumah will do the job, wont care if he terminates the rest of the 20 stupid million ghanaians.
Anti-NDC 10 years ago
hwe ne kwasea bi. are you drunk or what? what do you mean. hey boy, come again.
hwe ne kwasea bi. are you drunk or what? what do you mean. hey boy, come again.
Peter 10 years ago
This is a true statement of fact that we tend to throw away. This is a good point for those Ghanaians who have stagnated in thinking should now wake up to reason. Proff.Akosa touched the nerve with viable examples.
This is a true statement of fact that we tend to throw away. This is a good point for those Ghanaians who have stagnated in thinking should now wake up to reason. Proff.Akosa touched the nerve with viable examples.
AFEVIA 10 years ago
IT IS REALLY SAD THAT PROF AKOSA WOULD MAKE SUCH A COMMENT. HE SHOULD KNOW BETTER. WHAT A LAZY PROF. DID HE RESEARCH ABOUT THE CONDITIONS THAT FAVOURED THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE BEFORE COMING OUT WITH SU ... read full comment
IT IS REALLY SAD THAT PROF AKOSA WOULD MAKE SUCH A COMMENT. HE SHOULD KNOW BETTER. WHAT A LAZY PROF. DID HE RESEARCH ABOUT THE CONDITIONS THAT FAVOURED THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE BEFORE COMING OUT WITH SUCH A LAME COMPARISON? NO WONDER THE CPP UNDER HIM PERFORMED WONDERFULLY. UAE, MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE WERE FAVOURED BY MASSIVE INVESTMENTS FROM THE WEST. CAN THE SAME BE SAID OF GHANA UNDER RAWLINGS? THE LIKES OF PROF AKOSA CAN RULE GHANA FOR 100 YEARS AND GHANA AND I BET YOU THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE.
CHARITY 10 years ago
TO AFEVIA: MASSIVE INVESTMENTS FROM THE WEST CAME LATER. WHEN THE WEST SAW GOOD GOVERNANCE IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE THEY INVESTED THERE. KWAME NKRUMAH ONCE GAVE SINGAPORE MONEY TO HELP THEM OUT. DO THE RESEARCH AND YOU WILL ... read full comment
TO AFEVIA: MASSIVE INVESTMENTS FROM THE WEST CAME LATER. WHEN THE WEST SAW GOOD GOVERNANCE IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE THEY INVESTED THERE. KWAME NKRUMAH ONCE GAVE SINGAPORE MONEY TO HELP THEM OUT. DO THE RESEARCH AND YOU WILL FIND THIS IN HISTORY BOOKS. THIS WAS A TIME WHEN SINGAPORE WAS A POOR COUNTRY. SO GHANA HAS HELPED SINGAPORE BEFORE. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GHANA AND SINGAPORE IS GOOD GOVERNANCE. ABOUT INVESTMENTS, THE WEST DO NOT LIKE MILITARY GOVERNMENTS. THEY PREFER DEMOCRACY.
ADONGO 10 years ago
ONLY DUMB FOOLS SUPPORT RAWLINGS!!!HE CONNED STUPID GHANAIANS FOR 19yrs AND HE STILL HAS STUPID FOLLOWERS!!!
ONLY DUMB FOOLS SUPPORT RAWLINGS!!!HE CONNED STUPID GHANAIANS FOR 19yrs AND HE STILL HAS STUPID FOLLOWERS!!!
Londonman 10 years ago
compare Ghana to ather african countries b4 you vomit your words, akosaman.
compare Ghana to ather african countries b4 you vomit your words, akosaman.
Albert 10 years ago
You mean after the fisrt 4year term in office you never realised the retrogression to talk about it and he worn the second election? poor you, mr. prof.
You mean after the fisrt 4year term in office you never realised the retrogression to talk about it and he worn the second election? poor you, mr. prof.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago
I also blame JJR for wasting a good chance he had during those AFRC/PNDC period to refine Ghanaians. But could he have achieved a miracle?
Ghanaian dissidents in the UK and the US campaigned relentlessly against foreign a ... read full comment
I also blame JJR for wasting a good chance he had during those AFRC/PNDC period to refine Ghanaians. But could he have achieved a miracle?
Ghanaian dissidents in the UK and the US campaigned relentlessly against foreign assistance to the government required to kickstart important projects.
Coming back to democracy, though a good thing in itself, is mistaken in Ghana to mean recklessness, too much freedom, indiscipline and thievery. The counter still continues, and very badly so.
MAAME 10 years ago
JJR, was primitive and uncouth and extended this poisonous disease to ghanaians.He insulted our chiefs and leaders during his time and didn't have the vision to rule this nation apart from being bully and brutish.
JJR, was primitive and uncouth and extended this poisonous disease to ghanaians.He insulted our chiefs and leaders during his time and didn't have the vision to rule this nation apart from being bully and brutish.
Yaa Nkosuo 10 years ago
I couldn't agree with you more.
The Revolution like any other military regime or Government has its achievements as well as pitfalls.
Standard of living in Ghana was a nightmare, the evil practice termed "kalabule" permea ... read full comment
I couldn't agree with you more.
The Revolution like any other military regime or Government has its achievements as well as pitfalls.
Standard of living in Ghana was a nightmare, the evil practice termed "kalabule" permeated every fabric of society; you were better off selling tomatoes in themarket than going to school. Teachers were fleeing the country for teaching posts even in Sierra Leone ( can you imagine that?)
Buy things improved in the mid 80s.
The ideals of the Revolution - rooting out
corruption were achieved temporarily.
Our greatest regret or is dismay, was that the so-called Goals/achievements were short-lived and corruption is worse now than before the Revolution.
The question on our lips therefore is
"Was it necessary at all?"
Have we achieved anything from the 2 Revolutions?
Opportunity which they claimed was denied them is now in their hands and they are basking in it.
Why should others Not accuse them of Discrimination and Bias?
Yaa Nkosuo 10 years ago
...... But things improved in the mid- 80's
.... Or is itdismsy,....
...... But things improved in the mid- 80's
.... Or is itdismsy,....
MINOR CASE 10 years ago
Is that AFRC/ PNDC apologist, Clement Sangaparee listening, this coming from Nkrumahist ?
Is that AFRC/ PNDC apologist, Clement Sangaparee listening, this coming from Nkrumahist ?
FUCK OFF 10 years ago
Is Akosa God? Why should anyone listening? FUCK YOU again
Is Akosa God? Why should anyone listening? FUCK YOU again
Kojo Motwani 10 years ago
Prof, well said and well delivered.
JJ- Lack of fatherhood and leadership.
No VISION.
Prof, well said and well delivered.
JJ- Lack of fatherhood and leadership.
No VISION.
samson 10 years ago
YES, WE ALL KNOW THAT RAWLINGS WAS A HUGE FAILURE DESPITE BRINGING TO A HALT THE WANTON LOOTING OF GHANA AND DISSIPATION OF GHANA'S RESORCES BY SUCCESSIVE AKAN MILITARY HEADS OF STATE OF GHANA.
RAWLINGS WAS A FAILURE MAINL ... read full comment
YES, WE ALL KNOW THAT RAWLINGS WAS A HUGE FAILURE DESPITE BRINGING TO A HALT THE WANTON LOOTING OF GHANA AND DISSIPATION OF GHANA'S RESORCES BY SUCCESSIVE AKAN MILITARY HEADS OF STATE OF GHANA.
RAWLINGS WAS A FAILURE MAINLY BECAUSE OF HIS ASANTE WIFE WHO, ALONG WITH THE ASHANTIHENE, STILL DO BUSINESS WITH GHANA'S GOLD AS THEIR PERSONAL PROPERTIES, AND THAT STATUS QUO CONTINUES TO THIS DAY.
BUT WHEN YOU MENTION THE FAILURES OF RAWLINGS, YOU MUST ALWAYS MENTION THE FAILURES OF THOSE WHO CAME IN AFTER JJ RAWLINGS, PARTICULARLY J.A. KUFUOR WHO BECAME A DEBT COLLECTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSMEN IN GHANA, AS WELL AS TURNING THE OSU CASTLE INTO AN OFFICE FOR RECEIVING KICKBACKS AND DEBT COLLECTION.
SO "PROFESSOR" AKOSA, ALWAYS LOOK AT A COIN ON BOTH SIDES. NOT ONLY ON ONE SIDE.
Chimp 10 years ago
Ungrateful Black negro. The only GIFT a black hs to give is to RECEIVE.
if GIVING was a gift, then blackman's AKOSA gift to you is to allow you give him all what you have. Akosa the black niger.
Ungrateful Black negro. The only GIFT a black hs to give is to RECEIVE.
if GIVING was a gift, then blackman's AKOSA gift to you is to allow you give him all what you have. Akosa the black niger.
ADWEN 10 years ago
At his age without any political and managerial experience, what could Rawlings have achieved? Nothing: and that was exactly what he did.
He just used his charisma to fool the masses. Rawlings was and is still is an empty rh ... read full comment
At his age without any political and managerial experience, what could Rawlings have achieved? Nothing: and that was exactly what he did.
He just used his charisma to fool the masses. Rawlings was and is still is an empty rhetoric. What would have stopped JJ Rawlings from even naming all the streets in all the capital cities of Ghana? Rawlings never had and he still hasn't got the intellectual depth to reason through solutions to Ghana's problems. How do you expect JJ Rawlings to understand the futures deal and the rise of gold prices which lead to margin calls on Ashanti Goldfields? Managing and is not based on empty rhetorics.
samson 10 years ago
I DO NOT KNOW WHY MOST OF THOSE CRITICIZING JJ RAWLINGS RULE ARE AKANS.
MEANWHILE, THESE AKANS ALWAYS FORGET THAT JJ HANDED OVER POWER TRUTHFULLY TO AN AKAN CALLED J.A. KUFUOR, AND JJ'S WIFE IS AN ASANTE WOMAN AND AN AKAN ... read full comment
I DO NOT KNOW WHY MOST OF THOSE CRITICIZING JJ RAWLINGS RULE ARE AKANS.
MEANWHILE, THESE AKANS ALWAYS FORGET THAT JJ HANDED OVER POWER TRUTHFULLY TO AN AKAN CALLED J.A. KUFUOR, AND JJ'S WIFE IS AN ASANTE WOMAN AND AN AKAN FOR THAT MATTER.
BOTH OF THESE TWO AKANS (KUFUOR AND KONADU) STILL ENJOY THEIR FAIR SHARE OF GHANA'S WEALTH BY CORRUPT CONSTITUTIONAL AND MANY OTHER UNDISCLOSED MEANS.
WE SHALL ALL CONTINUE TO SWIM IN THE SHIT!!
Brother 10 years ago
It is a fact that Rawlings could have taken us far with over twenty years. That is why a coup against Nkrumah was misplaced. What did it achieve? It is also true that, it would have been difficult to achieve better considerin ... read full comment
It is a fact that Rawlings could have taken us far with over twenty years. That is why a coup against Nkrumah was misplaced. What did it achieve? It is also true that, it would have been difficult to achieve better considering the campaign that was going against him. Every government in Ghana now can never ever achieve anything better than talk why because the other will campaign even internationally against it. And since our patriotism has gone to the dogs, we will once again sell any good person for a bowl of fish.
MAAME 10 years ago
Akans don't hail a murderer, akans don't worship an arrogant.Akans believe in good governance , akans believe in freedom and justice, development in freedom.Akans hate dictatorship , akans don't support their own who is evil ... read full comment
Akans don't hail a murderer, akans don't worship an arrogant.Akans believe in good governance , akans believe in freedom and justice, development in freedom.Akans hate dictatorship , akans don't support their own who is evil they will tell you, you are wrong.Mind you, samson akans are the most contributors of ghana's economy, even you ! Who have nothing to give ghana want something from ghana , this is sickening.Federal government is the best for ghana so all these hatred, jealousy and enviness will stop.If your area is dry who cares? You need to make it fertile for your people to live a good life , that is where your ancestors brought you so you don't blame akans.There is not much tribal hate in Nigeria like in Ghana coz of the federalism.Ghana needs to practice that, I'm for that , because the hate is too much.It was nonsense for this centralised system, where by people are practising animal farm against those whose resources are being used, it is absolutely nonsense.Akans must come together and vote these people out so as to protect our resources.
Kojo! 10 years ago
Shut up, you dung munching cheap whore, what do you know?
Who worships a voodoo stool called sikagua kofi? Has it occured to you that the stool has to be washed with human blood periodically?
Stool zombie! Stop wailing ... read full comment
Shut up, you dung munching cheap whore, what do you know?
Who worships a voodoo stool called sikagua kofi? Has it occured to you that the stool has to be washed with human blood periodically?
Stool zombie! Stop wailing your braindeadness here. Wu nim feeeeeeee!
gh 10 years ago
My brother JJ did not hand power to kuffour but the people who voted for him.
My brother JJ did not hand power to kuffour but the people who voted for him.
KANE 10 years ago
LIKE WHAT HAPPENS ACROSS AFRICA, JJ COULD HAVE USED THE POWER OF INCUMBENCY TO PERPETUATE HIS HOLD ON POWER IN GHANA.
JJ DID NOT. THAT'S WHY KRUNFUOR KUFUOR HAD THE CHANCE TO WIN.
LIKE WHAT HAPPENS ACROSS AFRICA, JJ COULD HAVE USED THE POWER OF INCUMBENCY TO PERPETUATE HIS HOLD ON POWER IN GHANA.
JJ DID NOT. THAT'S WHY KRUNFUOR KUFUOR HAD THE CHANCE TO WIN.
BB King 10 years ago
Yes,it was a question of bad leadership at the time.People who have nothing to live on came in as armed robbers of today and enriched themselves and took Ghana for ride.And they still live on the tax-payer's money.And we did ... read full comment
Yes,it was a question of bad leadership at the time.People who have nothing to live on came in as armed robbers of today and enriched themselves and took Ghana for ride.And they still live on the tax-payer's money.And we did allowed them to formed a political party to still lead us to astray ,whereby we did'nt allwowed the men of 1966 and 1979 to form a party.
KOFI ADJEI 10 years ago
Look Akosa, be honest with urself, JJ had done very well since he took over power for all the 19 yrs rule. Nobody can be perfect, but JJ picked Ghana from dowmhill to where he put it and handed over to JA Kuffour and JA to At ... read full comment
Look Akosa, be honest with urself, JJ had done very well since he took over power for all the 19 yrs rule. Nobody can be perfect, but JJ picked Ghana from dowmhill to where he put it and handed over to JA Kuffour and JA to Atta Mills and now Mahama rule. If JJ had not done that there will have been deep troubles in Ghana. He saved Ghana from falling and wasting away. So Akosa and whatever u call urself, be sincere and speak the truth all the times. When u were heading Health Service as a doctor what was ur success,u messed up and u were fired bt JA Kuffour, so Akosa should give us a break. Thank you. Kofi Adjei
Ritewing 10 years ago
This silliness from persons like Kofi Adjei and others, has contributed to our present sorry situation.
I personally do not subscribe to Prof Akosa's political philosophy. but what he said about JJ nineteen years rule ... read full comment
This silliness from persons like Kofi Adjei and others, has contributed to our present sorry situation.
I personally do not subscribe to Prof Akosa's political philosophy. but what he said about JJ nineteen years rule is about right. The Prof. was even generous.
JJ bred Attah Mills, Mahamah and the Ndc, the party in power that is ruining whatever is left in our country. A government which connives with foreign companies to steal our
monies. Woyome, Isofoton, Gyeeda, Ankomfem, Jospong, etc. etc. Monies stolen from our treasury by this Ndc government within their second coming in 2009, could have changed the face of this country. As Ghanaians, we should be concerned about our country. And be worried about what the continuing stagnation and retrogres sion the Prof. spoke about in his lecture, would bring to Ghana.
The Kofi Adjeis of our country should think about Ghana and the generations to come and not support individuals who have failed the nation.
PAT 10 years ago
HE ALSO BRED THIEVES LIKE WOYOME, BETTYMOULD, BARTON ODRO, KUMBUOR, ETC ETC NOW LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE......GOVT FULL OF THIEVES THIEVES THIEVES.....ide biii kekekeeee...gyeeda, sada, subah, waterville, isofotone, stx, etc etc. ... read full comment
HE ALSO BRED THIEVES LIKE WOYOME, BETTYMOULD, BARTON ODRO, KUMBUOR, ETC ETC NOW LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE......GOVT FULL OF THIEVES THIEVES THIEVES.....ide biii kekekeeee...gyeeda, sada, subah, waterville, isofotone, stx, etc etc...
Jeff, UK 10 years ago
He was just being tossed around like a yoyo by people who thought they knew what running a country was about.
He was just being tossed around like a yoyo by people who thought they knew what running a country was about.
bokassa 10 years ago
Thank you sir.
Thank you sir.
RastafaraI 10 years ago
he only knows how to kill
he only knows how to kill
Naa Bea 10 years ago
The evidence and facts speak for themselves. And yet Mr Rawlings has no shame criticising his predecessors. Might that be his way of diverting attention from his woeful 19 plus years at the country's helm of affairs?
The evidence and facts speak for themselves. And yet Mr Rawlings has no shame criticising his predecessors. Might that be his way of diverting attention from his woeful 19 plus years at the country's helm of affairs?
Asea Ho 10 years ago
Did this man lived in the 70s to '84s. We queqed for everything icluding trolls. Hoarding just to influence prices of essential commodities was the order of the day. Democracy was for the elite. The road network was very horr ... read full comment
Did this man lived in the 70s to '84s. We queqed for everything icluding trolls. Hoarding just to influence prices of essential commodities was the order of the day. Democracy was for the elite. The road network was very horrible than today?
Professor Akosa should speak to issues and not to try to gain political sympathy by bashin JJ.
Koo 10 years ago
Listen Mr,
The Rawlings government did not make essential commodities easy to get or built Ghanaian roads. It was some individual business men and women who out of their sweat imported these commodities to float the market. ... read full comment
Listen Mr,
The Rawlings government did not make essential commodities easy to get or built Ghanaian roads. It was some individual business men and women who out of their sweat imported these commodities to float the market. Remember that the routine for Rawlings and his subsequent governments was/is to suffocate business in Ghana especially those of the Akans. The fact that he Kwasea Rawlings is married to an Akan Asthmatic sickler does not make Rawlings an Akan. We even do not want such a breed in our society. Let me tell you that if JJ was one of my goats to slaughter, he will be the first to slaughter. He is basically nothing. Under Rawlings government, the railway industry and road transportation died.
OBIBINI 10 years ago
Rawlings was a useless person to lead the nation.That is why the nation is as it is now.If such an idiot like Rawlings can rule Ghana all that long what do you expect the nation to be?
Rawlings was a useless person to lead the nation.That is why the nation is as it is now.If such an idiot like Rawlings can rule Ghana all that long what do you expect the nation to be?
Joe 10 years ago
This is really true. This is really true. Kutu Acheampong was far better than Rawlings
This is really true. This is really true. Kutu Acheampong was far better than Rawlings
Abongo 10 years ago
You see how stupid you are hahahaha I just don't know that we still have block headed people like you in Ghana
You see how stupid you are hahahaha I just don't know that we still have block headed people like you in Ghana
FUCK OFF 10 years ago
JJ was DEALING with Coup makers, 2 million Ashawo Asante women and Ghanaians sacked from Nigeria.
JJ was DEALING with Coup makers, 2 million Ashawo Asante women and Ghanaians sacked from Nigeria.
Salifu 10 years ago
This man is professor only by title.
He lacks the skill of imparting knowledge and facts to his audience without resorting to cheap politics. If all he remembers of JJ Rawlings's rule are retrogression and stagnation, then p ... read full comment
This man is professor only by title.
He lacks the skill of imparting knowledge and facts to his audience without resorting to cheap politics. If all he remembers of JJ Rawlings's rule are retrogression and stagnation, then perhaps he should do us a favour and tell us under whose rule did the country become progressive and dynaic. It is sad when people we hold in high esteem in society such as University Professors talk so loosely and so cheaply. It is also an affront to the title of professorship. Whichever university this guy teaches at, I will make damn sure my children never go there !!!
Seko 10 years ago
this is the best message posted to this WEB for many years. Prof. You are always making me proud. I do not hate Rawlings and do not think any other president is better than him. But the truth is that he failed this coungtry b ... read full comment
this is the best message posted to this WEB for many years. Prof. You are always making me proud. I do not hate Rawlings and do not think any other president is better than him. But the truth is that he failed this coungtry big time. That why some of us feel he shoulf show remorse and stop the insults on other leaders.
Abongo 10 years ago
You and your profersor are fools idiots
You and your profersor are fools idiots
Sammy 10 years ago
well, prof, i share the same sentiments with you. democracy could limit African leaders to take some painful decisions but military could do same without much ado. the moral revolution should have been industrial revolution. ... read full comment
well, prof, i share the same sentiments with you. democracy could limit African leaders to take some painful decisions but military could do same without much ado. the moral revolution should have been industrial revolution. kalabule graduated to 419 and then to sakawa. our relative development, i mean our development, relative to the west was negative as i also saw it during his time. well of course, you need to stagnate and when you refused to move forward, you move backwards - negative development.
Nimdee2k 10 years ago
I concur with you!!!
I concur with you!!!
ghanaba 10 years ago
THIS IS WRONG ANALYSIS BY THE PROFESSOR.J.J. WILL PASS AS THE BEST PRESIDENT OF GHANA AFTER DR NKRUMAH.THE PROF SHD GET HIS FACTS RIGHTS.
THIS IS WRONG ANALYSIS BY THE PROFESSOR.J.J. WILL PASS AS THE BEST PRESIDENT OF GHANA AFTER DR NKRUMAH.THE PROF SHD GET HIS FACTS RIGHTS.
Abongo 10 years ago
As for you, you are an ass hole, a fool a dummy and these descriptions fits you well' When world leaders are shaking hands with JJ you are still sleeping. Idiot wake up
As for you, you are an ass hole, a fool a dummy and these descriptions fits you well' When world leaders are shaking hands with JJ you are still sleeping. Idiot wake up
GHANANI 10 years ago
.Somebody who could not even pass the 'o' level exams running the affairs of Ghana?That was Rawlings who was the president of Ghana.Just look at what he did to messers Siaw and Appiah-Menka-leading industrialists who created ... read full comment
.Somebody who could not even pass the 'o' level exams running the affairs of Ghana?That was Rawlings who was the president of Ghana.Just look at what he did to messers Siaw and Appiah-Menka-leading industrialists who created jobs for ghanaians and wealth for the nation?Military regimes in Ghana just came to destroy the nation.Soldiers only know how to destroy.
OBTT 10 years ago
Well said Prof. You're absolutely spot on.
Well said Prof. You're absolutely spot on.
ALI 10 years ago
Your prostitute mother threw you away and kept you, a piece of placentaYour kindmen the sticking kotiboto Akan have been the problem of Ghana since its inception. You were lucky JJ used bullet to kill your stupid nation wreck ... read full comment
Your prostitute mother threw you away and kept you, a piece of placentaYour kindmen the sticking kotiboto Akan have been the problem of Ghana since its inception. You were lucky JJ used bullet to kill your stupid nation wreckers. Next time we will use a much cheaper method to get rid of you all, Gas chambers.
BB 10 years ago
If only all the intellectuals in ghana can be frank as prof. Akosa, ghana will make progress in no time.
If only all the intellectuals in ghana can be frank as prof. Akosa, ghana will make progress in no time.
freshnaro 10 years ago
Listened to prof's speech last night with raft attention. He talked sense all night. Ghana is where it's today because of jerry's dictatorship. While Malaysia et al were developing under such long term regimes, my beloved cou ... read full comment
Listened to prof's speech last night with raft attention. He talked sense all night. Ghana is where it's today because of jerry's dictatorship. While Malaysia et al were developing under such long term regimes, my beloved country Ghana was obviously taken aback. #truetalk prof.
ALI 10 years ago
WHY IS IT THAT ALL AKAN PROFESSORS RANGING FROM J.G. DANKWAH ALL THROUGH DR. BUSIA RIGHT TO AKOSA ARE DO DUMB. NO WONDER MANY OF THEM CAME TO SCHOOLS OF HIGHER LEARNING UNABLE TO SPELL THEIR OWN NAMES OR EVEN PRONOUNCE THE WO ... read full comment
WHY IS IT THAT ALL AKAN PROFESSORS RANGING FROM J.G. DANKWAH ALL THROUGH DR. BUSIA RIGHT TO AKOSA ARE DO DUMB. NO WONDER MANY OF THEM CAME TO SCHOOLS OF HIGHER LEARNING UNABLE TO SPELL THEIR OWN NAMES OR EVEN PRONOUNCE THE WORD VARANDER OR BREED.
Fadi Ka Fuuta 10 years ago
I have never heard u make clear sense in all your utterances than now .Not many people know how Rawlings has taken Ghana 20 years backward .Ghana would have been better off without the smell of Rawlings .Yet to cover his wick ... read full comment
I have never heard u make clear sense in all your utterances than now .Not many people know how Rawlings has taken Ghana 20 years backward .Ghana would have been better off without the smell of Rawlings .Yet to cover his wickedness against Ghana and Canadians,he constantly rain insults against his successors to divert peoples attention from his errors .We need people like u to let Ghanaians know how backward this son of the white man has inflicted on mother Ghana.God wil judge him at the appropriate time .G
Smart Frempah Uk 10 years ago
Prof you got it wrong. Talk about the immediate and current administrations If Rawlings couldn't change Ghana what bars his predecessors? Ghanaians will never change and corrupt leaders come and go. You remind me of people w ... read full comment
Prof you got it wrong. Talk about the immediate and current administrations If Rawlings couldn't change Ghana what bars his predecessors? Ghanaians will never change and corrupt leaders come and go. You remind me of people who continue and wished Dr Nkrumah still ruled
dan 10 years ago
YOU DID NOTHING FOR GHANA ALL THE TIME YOU WERE IN OFFICE
YOU DID NOTHING FOR GHANA ALL THE TIME YOU WERE IN OFFICE
FUCK OFF 10 years ago
FUCK YOU!~
Twea---------------
FUCK YOU!~
Twea---------------
PETER 10 years ago
SUCH HISTORIES MIGHT CAUSE SORROWS. HOW DO WE AVOID WASTING TIME TO REBUILD GHANA, IT STARTS TODAY AND WITH THE PRESIDING PRESIDENT MAHAMA.
SUCH HISTORIES MIGHT CAUSE SORROWS. HOW DO WE AVOID WASTING TIME TO REBUILD GHANA, IT STARTS TODAY AND WITH THE PRESIDING PRESIDENT MAHAMA.
Smart Frempah Uk 10 years ago
Opps correction - I meant what bars his successors
Opps correction - I meant what bars his successors
AKWAPIMBA,LAS PALMAS DE G.C.,SPAIN 10 years ago
-YES,YOU ARE RIGHT.JERRY RAWLINGS FOOLED GHANAIANS WITH HIS RULE.NEVER DESCOVERED OIL AND GAS.MADE GHANA TO BE BACKWARD.WE FOLLOWED HIM TO SAVE THE POOR BUT NOT CLEVER TO HANDLE THE ECONOMY.I WAS ALSO FOOLED BY J.J.RAWLINGS.
-YES,YOU ARE RIGHT.JERRY RAWLINGS FOOLED GHANAIANS WITH HIS RULE.NEVER DESCOVERED OIL AND GAS.MADE GHANA TO BE BACKWARD.WE FOLLOWED HIM TO SAVE THE POOR BUT NOT CLEVER TO HANDLE THE ECONOMY.I WAS ALSO FOOLED BY J.J.RAWLINGS.
Iman Erskine 10 years ago
Dear Prof Akosa, it is about time. What took you so long. J J Rawlings is the worse thing that happened to Ghana.Hold no bars and say it like it is. For 20 yrs Ghana retrogressed under his murderous leadership and nothing was ... read full comment
Dear Prof Akosa, it is about time. What took you so long. J J Rawlings is the worse thing that happened to Ghana.Hold no bars and say it like it is. For 20 yrs Ghana retrogressed under his murderous leadership and nothing was achieved. J J was a high school graduate who murdered his way to the top. None of the developed countries /investors will want to deal with a murderous ruler of that caliber. It is therefore imperative and correct to say that the root cause of all the rut and corruption,the lies and propaganda that permiates the air and country is traceable to J J Rawlings. J J Rawlings did not move the country an inch. What he did was the sale of state assets to his cronies, including his wife. In so doing his cronies own things that generate money in GHana today as the masses are left impoverished and without jobs. People must be bold and bring this to fore so that we will all know the truth. And before he left the scene he populated the security forces and the judiciary with his cronies that he is well insulated today. Dr Nkrumah , for the short time that he ruled moved the country very far, especially in education. J J came and reversed all that, that he and his cronies send their children abroad for schooling, go abroad for medical care. J J Rawlings, your murderous ways, your propaganda,your thuggery,the deceit, the injustices including the murder of judges who refused to agree with you is now exposed. You promised "probity and accountability" and left behind a nation wasted and ruined. Listen, history will judge you and the truth will come out. You are a destroyer and not a builder. Prof Akosa, thank you for this truth.
KB 10 years ago
This Wicked JJ SHIT RAWLINGS should be shot in the head like he did to other people. After all these killings he wasn't able to acomplish anything. Prof nailed it
This Wicked JJ SHIT RAWLINGS should be shot in the head like he did to other people. After all these killings he wasn't able to acomplish anything. Prof nailed it
TOHUGU 10 years ago
Was it a question of leadership? Is the question being asked by Dr.Big lips and mouth Akosa, as he blames J. J. Rawlings for Ghana's stagnation.He seeks to compare Ghana with Singapore and Malaysia who have made great strides ... read full comment
Was it a question of leadership? Is the question being asked by Dr.Big lips and mouth Akosa, as he blames J. J. Rawlings for Ghana's stagnation.He seeks to compare Ghana with Singapore and Malaysia who have made great strides under their respective leaders who ruled during Rawlings' era in
Ghana. It is so unfortunate that Big-lips-and-big-mouth Akosa with all his education does not seem to know what help transform those nations he is comparing Ghana under Rawlings with.
The main important factor that helped those two nations was the unity of their citizenry. They were united behind their leaders against the foreign powers that sought their stagnation and retrogression. With such a united from they were able to develop their countries.
The opposite happened in Ghana under Rawlings, individuals Akosa and his cohorts instead of joining forces with Rawlings' government to build a beautiful Ghana, they allowed jealousy, envy, hatred,nepotism, tribalism and superiority complex to consume to such an extent that they rented themselves for a few dollars to foreign agents to be used to create discord in the country thereby making governance very difficult.They made sure the country RETROGRESSED and STAGNATED.
tsiagbe mensah 10 years ago
One of the qualities of political leadership is to unify the country behind you. Tohugu, a Rawlings supporter admits that Ghana stagnated under Rawlings because the country was divided. THAT'S THE POINT. Rawlings failed to un ... read full comment
One of the qualities of political leadership is to unify the country behind you. Tohugu, a Rawlings supporter admits that Ghana stagnated under Rawlings because the country was divided. THAT'S THE POINT. Rawlings failed to unite the country, had no vision and bullied his way to rule ghana for 19 years. His record is a NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT. I don't know how Ghanaians were able to tolerate such brutality and mediocrity for so long! We are all paying for it.History will show that, after the shamefull rule of Ankrah, AfrifaAkyeampong,Akufo (reactionary military tin generals),it was under President HILLA LIMANN when Ghana was just about to take off politically and clean the economy when Rawlings stepped in. Ghana lost on two counts: economically, our country was sold to the IMF and we lost our state assets and destroyed any hope of economic revival. We also lost politically, because the country was overwhelmingly behind Dr. Limann (Check the electoral results--you will be impressed). By electing Limann,a Northener and a minority, with huge electoral margins, Ghana had overcome the "tribal politics" of most African countries. Then--BOOM--comes Rawlings and destroys the budding new and respectable Ghana. It took 20 years to recover. By that time, a lot had been lost--AND WE ARE PAYING FOR IT RIGHT NOW. THE COUNTRY'S LEADERSHIP IS CONFUSED (both NPP and NDCregimes) Those who came after Rawlings are not sure what to do.
The field is wide open for a true leader to emerge. ONLY the people can chose their destiny by choosing leaders who reflect the people's will.
TOHUGU 10 years ago
You are absolutely wrong. Rawlings did everything possible to bring us together but arrogant folks like Akosa and his minions kicked against it with all kinds of sabotages. They colluded with foreign agents to destabilize his ... read full comment
You are absolutely wrong. Rawlings did everything possible to bring us together but arrogant folks like Akosa and his minions kicked against it with all kinds of sabotages. They colluded with foreign agents to destabilize his government. Please stop lying, Rawlings had a great VISION but Akosa and his cohorts had DI-VISION on their minds. Let us be honest at least for once.
FUMINTSU 10 years ago
WHEN THESE SO CALLED LOUD MOUTHED AKAN POLITICIANS OPEN THEIR 'SOMETHINGS' THEY FORGET THAT WE HAVE ALL LIVED THROUGH IN GHANA AND CAN SEE AND HEAR.... BASICALLY INSECURITY AND THREATS TO SECURITY SALIENTLY AFFECTED GHANA DEV ... read full comment
WHEN THESE SO CALLED LOUD MOUTHED AKAN POLITICIANS OPEN THEIR 'SOMETHINGS' THEY FORGET THAT WE HAVE ALL LIVED THROUGH IN GHANA AND CAN SEE AND HEAR.... BASICALLY INSECURITY AND THREATS TO SECURITY SALIENTLY AFFECTED GHANA DEV UNDER THE PNDC. LITTLE OR NO FOREIGN INVESTMENT. AKANS WOULDNT COOPERATE YET THEY WANT TO RULE..THEY DONT WANT TO BEND DOWN YET THEY WANT TO FARM.. RAWLINGS RECORDED 39 COUNTER COUPS ATTEMPTS SILENTLY MANAGED. AT A STAGE, SOME OF HIS AKAN MILITARY SENIOR OFFICERS AND COMMANDERS WERE RECRUITED INTO THE CIA CAMPS UNTIL THEY WERE NIBED IN THE BUD,,,THANKS TO MICHAEL SUSSUDY'S LONG CORK THAT HELPED UNEARTH THESE SABOTEURS. COCOA FARMS GOT RAISED DOWN BY BUSH FIRES..NIGERIA REPATRIATED OVER 2.3 MILLION GHANAIANS...DROUGHT CAME IN SAME TIME...DOCTORS LIKE YOU EMBARKING ON STRIKES THAT FORCED HIM TO GO FOR CUBBAN DOCTORS.THIS MAN RAWLINGS LED A CRUSADE INTO THE COCOA PRODUCING AREAS USING STUDENTS TO REPLANT HAUL COCOA BEANS AND REVAMPED THE COCOA INDUSTRY...LITTLE OR NO AID TICKLED IN AS THE IMF USED GHANA AS A GUINEA PIG TO TEST ALL HER ECONOIMIC MODULES...AID WAS JUST ENOUGH TO WET THE ECONOMIC THROAT BUT NOT TO QUENCH THE TASTE...YET SEE WHAT HE DID.... COMPARED TO THAT OF THE 8 YEARS OF PREZ KK4 RULE!!!INSTEAD OF ASKING WHAT NPP DID WITH THE 567 MILLION AMERICAN GRANT?? THE ERASURE OF THE HIPIC DEBTS AND ALL THE LOANS AND GRANTS THAT CAME INTO THE COUNTRY YOU ARE ASKING WHAT RAWLING DID??? SEE YOU GUYS MUST STOP PROVOKING GHANAIANS!!
kwame dublin 10 years ago
Yes prof you have hit the right nail on the head - this is what I have been saying but ghanians will not listen--the fact of the matter is the guy jj wasted our time for 19 years and left us with NDC as an albatross on our ne ... read full comment
Yes prof you have hit the right nail on the head - this is what I have been saying but ghanians will not listen--the fact of the matter is the guy jj wasted our time for 19 years and left us with NDC as an albatross on our neck with nothing to write home about over their rule in this country -- now jj himself can see the hardship his ndc has piled on ghanians and wish they go out of power--what a shame for ghanians to have entertained this boo shit of ndc wasting Ghana's time. I rest my case --Ghanians will chase them out forever
WHAT DO U EXPECT 10 years ago
jerry Rawlings staged his coup to lift himself and his family out of poverty, and he succeeded in doing so. He still chooses which President to praise and which President to criticize, depending on who is willing to dole out ... read full comment
jerry Rawlings staged his coup to lift himself and his family out of poverty, and he succeeded in doing so. He still chooses which President to praise and which President to criticize, depending on who is willing to dole out state funds for the upkeep of his family and himself. Kufuor, who is only second to Nkrumah in terms of performance, suffered his insults because he would not agree to feed the Rawlingses for life, and so did Atta Mills who would not give Rawlings and his family the funds they required to sustain their lavish lifestyle. Now he has a President who is willing to give and play ball, so his eyes are closed to the misery being unleashed on Ghanaians.
Mr amin 10 years ago
Goverment should urge GAPHA to stop indxing import duties charge in dollers, NCA should also stop indexing in dollers pls lets respect the cedi and make it valuable.
Goverment should urge GAPHA to stop indxing import duties charge in dollers, NCA should also stop indexing in dollers pls lets respect the cedi and make it valuable.
Aliabtiik 10 years ago
Prof Akosa is very right.Under Rawlings Ghana declined and finally derailed.The current problems and hardship is a direct result of his mismanagement and lack of direction of the country during his rule.He should shut up in n ... read full comment
Prof Akosa is very right.Under Rawlings Ghana declined and finally derailed.The current problems and hardship is a direct result of his mismanagement and lack of direction of the country during his rule.He should shut up in national affairs now.
Nimdee2k 10 years ago
Akan people just sell you to the whiteman for SALT. All Ghanaians are to be blamed for our shortcomings. It is or has never been on one person responsibility to save the country. We're always looking at the government to make ... read full comment
Akan people just sell you to the whiteman for SALT. All Ghanaians are to be blamed for our shortcomings. It is or has never been on one person responsibility to save the country. We're always looking at the government to make a change. What if we stop issuing bribes to get ahead one another and try to live in a society of liberty and justice for all? Ghana was already retrogressing under IK Acheampong. I'm an Akan and I lived on Kumasi when I.K Acheampong was gradually selling the country for profit. It didn't start with JJ Rawlings. It started with all of us. We all have to accept the blame for us to move to society of prosperity.
I think we have become the "Whiteman's Burden" (William Easterly).
Norway discovered Oil and now every Norwegian is worth $100K. Ghana discovered oil and the country is debt. Look at the irony and you tell me that it is JJ's fault.
Paa Kodwo 10 years ago
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
RAWLINGS HAD HIS FAULTS,AND THE OTHER TWO HEAD OF STATES OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE HAD DIFFERENT VISION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR COUNTRIES.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE.
IT IS TIME FOR US PUT THE ... read full comment
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
RAWLINGS HAD HIS FAULTS,AND THE OTHER TWO HEAD OF STATES OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE HAD DIFFERENT VISION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR COUNTRIES.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE.
IT IS TIME FOR US PUT THE PAST BEHIND US AND TO START TO BUILD THE NATION.
ONLY TECHNOLOGICAL DRIVE WILL PUT OUR NATION ON A SOUND ECONOMIC TRACK.
ITS ALL ABOUT INPUT AND OUTPUT AND NOT MERE PREACHINGS, PAST HISTORY AND SERMONS.
IT IS TIME WE START TO
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KING OF KING 10 years ago
Ghana under jj regime was really fantastical but when that idiot black ashantiman came then he turndown everything together begins to sell the nation property without reason just to corrupt rawlings kill one for million to su ... read full comment
Ghana under jj regime was really fantastical but when that idiot black ashantiman came then he turndown everything together begins to sell the nation property without reason just to corrupt rawlings kill one for million to survive i support that idea if supposing that we were under tribalism ashantis hohoohooo by now ghana would have been in tribal war since
MENSAH 10 years ago
How many people travelled during the eighties from Ghana?
TOO MANY TO COUNT.
WHY?
THE BAD GOVERNANCE OF JJ RAWLINGS.
I don't blame those who might have not got the chance to travel anywhere,supporting JJ RAWLINGS.
No o ... read full comment
How many people travelled during the eighties from Ghana?
TOO MANY TO COUNT.
WHY?
THE BAD GOVERNANCE OF JJ RAWLINGS.
I don't blame those who might have not got the chance to travel anywhere,supporting JJ RAWLINGS.
No one outside Ghana,who happens to be a Ghanaian would ever support RAWLINGS' RULE.
WRONG PEOPLE,RULING INNOCENT,GOD-FEARING,HOSPITABLE,COMPASSIONATE GHANAIANS.
That's all I can comment about Rawlings rule.
EDEM 10 years ago
PROF WELL SAID, BUT THE ISSUE IS IN GHANA SOME PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH. AND WILL VOTE FOR THIEVES TO GOVERN MOTHER GHANA. JJ HAS NOTHING TO SHOW FOR THE TIME HE WAS IN POWER. JJ AND JOHN MAHAMA ARE OUR WORST PRES ... read full comment
PROF WELL SAID, BUT THE ISSUE IS IN GHANA SOME PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH. AND WILL VOTE FOR THIEVES TO GOVERN MOTHER GHANA. JJ HAS NOTHING TO SHOW FOR THE TIME HE WAS IN POWER. JJ AND JOHN MAHAMA ARE OUR WORST PRESIDENTS. IS THIS WHAT YOU CALL EDE BEE KEKE.
christian brotherhood 10 years ago
THERE IS CATARACT ON AKOSA'S EYES,WHAT A BLIND PROFESSOR INDEED.
THERE IS CATARACT ON AKOSA'S EYES,WHAT A BLIND PROFESSOR INDEED.
Voice of Reason 10 years ago
STAGED THE 1979 AND 82 COUP D'ÉTAT TO FEATHER HIS OWN NEST AND NOT TO BUILD GHANA......BOTH DR.MAHATHIR AND LEE KUAN YEW ARE LEARNED UNLIKE BUGABUGA RAWLINGS WHO COULD NOT PASS COMMON 'O' LEVEL....TWO DECADES WASTED
STAGED THE 1979 AND 82 COUP D'ÉTAT TO FEATHER HIS OWN NEST AND NOT TO BUILD GHANA......BOTH DR.MAHATHIR AND LEE KUAN YEW ARE LEARNED UNLIKE BUGABUGA RAWLINGS WHO COULD NOT PASS COMMON 'O' LEVEL....TWO DECADES WASTED
SALIM-SALAGA 10 years ago
How? when there factors such as man-made and natural disasters
How? when there factors such as man-made and natural disasters
Kofi- Adu Bediako 10 years ago
The prof is absolutely right,Rawlings surrounded himself with wrong people,chosen from his own surroundings and based on where you come from in Ghana.
It is history however,it is better for him to keep quite,rather than lav ... read full comment
The prof is absolutely right,Rawlings surrounded himself with wrong people,chosen from his own surroundings and based on where you come from in Ghana.
It is history however,it is better for him to keep quite,rather than lavishing around.
Till today nobody has held him accountable,for his long reign.He sold all the state enterprises without accounting to any one.
The constitutions he presented to Ghana is more than rubbish.Where on earth do the president appoint almost all regional and District administrators.Even the electoral commissioner etc.
Ghana should begin to educate its citizens from the primary school ,what it means to give your vote to a party.
We are now been ruled by youth and imature boys,most of whom have even never hold any public office.
Under this Govt no serious investor will invest in Ghana.It is the hard truth.
ron 10 years ago
You are just a headless professor who don't know what he's about.
You are just a headless professor who don't know what he's about.
Voice of Reason 10 years ago
THANK YOU PROF.....I HAVE SAID IT TIME AND AGAIN THAT RAWLINGS IS A CURSE TO GHANA......HE IS THE CAUSE OF OUR PRESENT STATE OF POLARIZATION AND INSIDIOUS TRIBALISM THAT IS CURRENTLY ENGULFING THE COUNTRY
THANK YOU PROF.....I HAVE SAID IT TIME AND AGAIN THAT RAWLINGS IS A CURSE TO GHANA......HE IS THE CAUSE OF OUR PRESENT STATE OF POLARIZATION AND INSIDIOUS TRIBALISM THAT IS CURRENTLY ENGULFING THE COUNTRY
Cantankerous 10 years ago
The Rawlings years were years of wasted opportunities and arrested development.
The Rawlings years were years of wasted opportunities and arrested development.
Niimo 10 years ago
Every Ghanaian ,that rise up to power,use the country resource and wealth as a piggy bank,their way of thinking is too elementary ,did anyone knows the salaries of these so called leaders?
Every Ghanaian ,that rise up to power,use the country resource and wealth as a piggy bank,their way of thinking is too elementary ,did anyone knows the salaries of these so called leaders?
G. K. Berko 10 years ago
These comparisons of Ghana to Malaysia and Singapore are being done without the proper context.
While we have seen such comparisons with the base timeline set at the beginning of our Independence, these as done now by the ... read full comment
These comparisons of Ghana to Malaysia and Singapore are being done without the proper context.
While we have seen such comparisons with the base timeline set at the beginning of our Independence, these as done now by the Professor miss the the relevant factors by a large margin.
In fact, those done with the base line set at time of attaining Independence were much fairer than these by Professor Akosah.
However, both sets of comparisons were totally missing vital ingredients that rendered those comparisons inaccurate, unless for the ultimate symptoms of the causal factors.
In the case of the first set, we often heard of just the fiscal components and how they translated into infrastructural and Economic differences. But the Folks making those comparisons deliberately left out the political environment within which those fiscal and Economic measures operated.
The truth is that had Nkrumah not been undermined by the West and bogged down with vicious tug-of-war with the Opposition, Ghana could have fared much better. Even under his ill-advised dictatorship, had he been left to continue with the Economic Plans as they were and provided with the credit he asked from the West, he could have done much better to consolidate the foundation that future Enterprises would have fared very well on.
Singapore was under a similar dictatorial environment but the West kept supporting her and she had the stability to grow. And so did Malaysia's term of dictatorship not suffer much of Western sabotage and hectic internal distraction.
I know how those favoring Kotoka's coup would object to this fact. However, evidence largely overlooked to affirm that fact exists elsewhere, too. Right in our backyard, in the Ivory Coast. Houphouet was no democratic leader. But when he had as much stability to implement most of his programs, that Nation soared. Ghana still did enjoy a free market Economy even as Nkrumah was shouting out his Scientific Socialism. So, folks must not be deceived into thinking that any Socialist policy in Ghana caused us the lagging behind Singapore and Malaysia.
In the second set of comparisons by Professor Akosah, he left out the significant factor of what our Economic or Financial status was when Rawlings took over. Ghana's Economy was nowhere near in strength or growth rate as Singapore's or Malaysia's was at the time of their independence. Therefore using just the temporal spatial equivalence in years of incumbency as a determinant in these comparisons do not tell the true picture.
As an overall assessment, however, we all regret our lagging behind whatever the causes. But in any attempt to nail down the factors which caused our stagnation, we ought to be fair and bold to mention the external coercion that undermined all our efforts. In fact, the same political forces that hindered full implementation of Nkrumah's programs did come back to taunt Rawlings in his first part of reign. The West was very antagonistic to his regime until he showed concrete signs of adopting their suggestions for recognition and aid through the IMF/World Bank.
So, we have to understand that so long as the West decides to hinder our growth, we would never get it smooth-sailing to progress.
All the above, however, do not excuse any undemocratic behaviors of the CPP or the Rawlings' Regimes. The overwhelming factor in both cases has been Western support or lack thereof. Same with China upsurge.
Long Live Ghana!!!
Conventional Youth 10 years ago
The truth is that had Nkrumah not been undermined by the West and bogged down with vicious tug-of-war with the Opposition, Ghana could have fared much better. Even under his ill-advised dictatorship, had he been left to conti ... read full comment
The truth is that had Nkrumah not been undermined by the West and bogged down with vicious tug-of-war with the Opposition, Ghana could have fared much better. Even under his ill-advised dictatorship, had he been left to continue with the Economic Plans as they were and provided with the credit he asked from the West, he could have done much better to consolidate the foundation that future Enterprises would have fared very well on.
Singapore was under a similar dictatorial environment but the West kept supporting her and she had the stability to grow.
And so did Malaysia's term of dictatorship not suffer much of Western sabotage and hectic internal distraction.
Conventional Youth 10 years ago
Sir GK Berko, I am curious and willing to research into scientific socialism.
Please Sir, I would like to know the risk factors and the severity of scientific socialism's components in prudent governance.
Sir GK Berko, I am curious and willing to research into scientific socialism.
Please Sir, I would like to know the risk factors and the severity of scientific socialism's components in prudent governance.
BRAVE MAN 10 years ago
You said nothing but the truth
You said nothing but the truth
TOHUGU 10 years ago
THANKS FOR CLARIFICATION. HOPEFULLY AKOSA AND HIS COHORTS WILL SWALLOW THEIR PRIDE AND COME TO YOU FOR TUTORIALS.
THANKS FOR CLARIFICATION. HOPEFULLY AKOSA AND HIS COHORTS WILL SWALLOW THEIR PRIDE AND COME TO YOU FOR TUTORIALS.
QUEEN 10 years ago
Can you imagine this Rawlings who used to eat only "YOKO GARI" managing a country? Now he is living in Ridge. Tweaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !
Can you imagine this Rawlings who used to eat only "YOKO GARI" managing a country? Now he is living in Ridge. Tweaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !
Niimo 10 years ago
Good thinking professor
Good thinking professor
Axis 10 years ago
Leadership is not about cane-ing women in public because of "ideal milk" and "tinapa" ..... and then turn around and sell state properties to your spouse, whilst not knowing what is going on with your cronies and the Aveyime ... read full comment
Leadership is not about cane-ing women in public because of "ideal milk" and "tinapa" ..... and then turn around and sell state properties to your spouse, whilst not knowing what is going on with your cronies and the Aveyime Rice project.
With that Malaysian and Singaporean comparisons, there's a valid point here.
Period.
Afua , US 10 years ago
Hei Prof. Akosa this has said it all JJ should stop pointing his figure to others,he should had done more during his long reign as his other colleagues that you mention in Malaysia
and others.
Hei Prof. Akosa this has said it all JJ should stop pointing his figure to others,he should had done more during his long reign as his other colleagues that you mention in Malaysia
and others.
Kanawu II 10 years ago
Prof you are 100% right. Only fools think we have advanced since Dr Nkrumah's time. We are going in circles. Bribery & Corruption are the only words Ghanaians know.
Prof you are 100% right. Only fools think we have advanced since Dr Nkrumah's time. We are going in circles. Bribery & Corruption are the only words Ghanaians know.
KWAKU ASUMAH 10 years ago
A good many observers have remarked that if God fearing, opened, trusted and uncorrupted leaders (politicians) could come at once the NDC would not be ready for it. I submit that the NPP are even more unprepared. Moral princi ... read full comment
A good many observers have remarked that if God fearing, opened, trusted and uncorrupted leaders (politicians) could come at once the NDC would not be ready for it. I submit that the NPP are even more unprepared. Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. Corruption and incompetence will never be defeated by radio talk show or discussion...Our greatest defense against Corruption and incompetence is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness...We must...seek to remove...conditions of poverty, injustice, party discrimination and tribal segregations in our dear country, Ghana. Allah has not put us on this rich land to be poor. KWAKU ASUMAH-KUCHOCHO
Ibn Batuta Abugri 10 years ago
Mr., do you remember when Ghanaian professionals were leaving Ghana to Nigeria and elsewhere and people queuing for things like toilet paper? JJ saved and brought democracy and free speech to Ghana under which you are using ... read full comment
Mr., do you remember when Ghanaian professionals were leaving Ghana to Nigeria and elsewhere and people queuing for things like toilet paper? JJ saved and brought democracy and free speech to Ghana under which you are using to talk your nonsense and you call yourself a professor!!
S K, Agbey 10 years ago
why won't ghana stagnate under Rawling when professors like you are booklong or bookish? Instead of providing quality ideas and advice and reference to the form 4 leaver and helping him govern progressive thereby moving ghana ... read full comment
why won't ghana stagnate under Rawling when professors like you are booklong or bookish? Instead of providing quality ideas and advice and reference to the form 4 leaver and helping him govern progressive thereby moving ghana into 1st class state, you were dozing off or scheming your way into some position of honour or chasingg the skir........... so why complain now? The past is gone, let us put it behind us and forge ahead collectively for a better ghana where we can all pat or beat our chest bold in self gratification that l have contributed to mother ghana growth and beauty. No more blame game on past leaders, they have done their best and need to be accorded as such.
Kanawu III 10 years ago
Liars, thieves armed robbers cocaine dealers are the people around Mahama now.
Liars, thieves armed robbers cocaine dealers are the people around Mahama now.
Badu agyemang 10 years ago
If the people were patriotic the message RAwlings preached would have transformed Ghana . We need to change our mentality and attitude.
If the people were patriotic the message RAwlings preached would have transformed Ghana . We need to change our mentality and attitude.
Axis 10 years ago
.... was preached?
How to shoot generals who could stand in your way of riding an entire nation like a horse?
And when the coast is clear sell properties belonging to the state to your wife?
Is that the message that ... read full comment
.... was preached?
How to shoot generals who could stand in your way of riding an entire nation like a horse?
And when the coast is clear sell properties belonging to the state to your wife?
Is that the message that was preached, with bloodshed?
JOSEPH BOADI-BOATENG 10 years ago
Clever analysis, Axis. I like people like you who are able to think outside the box.
Clever analysis, Axis. I like people like you who are able to think outside the box.
joy 10 years ago
Its Africa Blood
Its Africa Blood
Osofo 10 years ago
You talk 2 much. Talk about issues and not witch hunt
You talk 2 much. Talk about issues and not witch hunt
Danny 10 years ago
I think prof has hit the nail right. He was always persecuting businessmen. Thant explains why entrepreneurship stagnated during rawlings regime
I think prof has hit the nail right. He was always persecuting businessmen. Thant explains why entrepreneurship stagnated during rawlings regime
Koffi Parker 10 years ago
Rawlings alone cannot do it even if we give him 50yrs it starts with you,until we are willing to chance for better we are wasting our precious time
Rawlings alone cannot do it even if we give him 50yrs it starts with you,until we are willing to chance for better we are wasting our precious time
Abdallah Baako 10 years ago
jj played his part just as the past heads of state.In my opinion,JJ achieved a lot;it was during JJ rule that massaive infrastructure were buily across the length and breadth of the country.Strengely enough,the old professor ... read full comment
jj played his part just as the past heads of state.In my opinion,JJ achieved a lot;it was during JJ rule that massaive infrastructure were buily across the length and breadth of the country.Strengely enough,the old professor got it wrong.Or he wanted to please some people
ALA 10 years ago
Check his credentials!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check his credentials!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kwaku Abrefa 10 years ago
WELL SAID PROF. AKOSA, YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE NAIL, AND YET WE STUPID GHANAIANS STILL VOTE FOR THE NDC….HMMMM, WE ARE REALLY LOST!!!
WELL SAID PROF. AKOSA, YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE NAIL, AND YET WE STUPID GHANAIANS STILL VOTE FOR THE NDC….HMMMM, WE ARE REALLY LOST!!!
James 10 years ago
Prof. Akosa, you should be ashamed of yourself for making this remarks. If you don't have anything to tell Ghanaians please shut up!
Prof. Akosa, you should be ashamed of yourself for making this remarks. If you don't have anything to tell Ghanaians please shut up!
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
William Sorkpor, USA 10 years ago
Prof Akosa has not done his homework.
We all love our first president.
And until one is able to dig deeper into the direction in which the country was steered in the days that immediately followed independence; one is ... read full comment
Prof Akosa has not done his homework.
We all love our first president.
And until one is able to dig deeper into the direction in which the country was steered in the days that immediately followed independence; one is bound to attribute the present problems to the wrong people, and the wrong reasons.
Unfortunately Prof Akosa is making this blunder.
The Prof was comparing the accomplishments of former President Rawlings with that of the presidents of Malaysia, and Singapore.
And he blames the stagnation of Ghana on the former President Rawlings.
This is coming from a man who champions the ideology of our beloved first president.
How ironic!
Perhaps Prof Akosa needs to be reminded that unlike former President Rawlings: the former presidents of Malaysia, and Singapore did not inherit a country which leader has wasted all her foreign reserves, and her goodwill on the unity of Asia.
Paradoxically Prof Akosa was making his pathetic statement in commemoration of Dr J.B. Danquah.
Did he stop to ask himself what would have been the plight of Ghana today if Dr. J.B. Danquah had been the first president of Ghana?
We would never know.
But at least we know that he would not have lived the dreams of foreigners like George Padmore, W.E.B. Dubois, and company in pursuit of pan-Africanism, -- thus blowing our precious foreign reserves.
I do not mean to point a disappointing finger at the reign, and accomplishments of the first leader of the Conventional Peoples Party,-- I have no party affliation.
All I'm saying is for us to guard against using our microphones or megaphones to miswrite history, and wrongly inflame the people with half-truths and wicked lies.
Granted, the information that Africa needs to correct its past mistakes and bring prosperity to its people are not in Africa. Instead they are in the libraries of U.K., USA, Netherlands, France, etc.
I strongly urge Mr. Akosa to travel and learn before projecting himself.
May Lord Almighty continue to bless our beloved Great Ghana:
Amen!!!
Asem 10 years ago
Its pity that you failed to identify your party affiliation because you opened the door for all to know. DR Danquah was not the blind Pan Africanist, instead he believed in individual freedom and liberty had no political phyl ... read full comment
Its pity that you failed to identify your party affiliation because you opened the door for all to know. DR Danquah was not the blind Pan Africanist, instead he believed in individual freedom and liberty had no political phylosopy linked to Padmore or Dubois. Check your facts instead of others. JJ suppressed liberties and critical thinking for new ideas, for a country full of thinkers. Sorkpor to you jj does no wrong a man with high school education.
William Sorkpor, USA 10 years ago
Thanks for taking your time to read my take on this matter.
With all due respect allow me to say that you misread piece.
I did not say Dr. J.B. Danquah was a pan-Africanist.
I was making the point that Prof Akosa wa ... read full comment
Thanks for taking your time to read my take on this matter.
With all due respect allow me to say that you misread piece.
I did not say Dr. J.B. Danquah was a pan-Africanist.
I was making the point that Prof Akosa was wrong to scapegoat former President Rawlings for Ghana's anemic and mediocre socio-economic development.
Let me reiterate: the present woes of Ghana's socio-economic development must be properly traced back to our first president.
He was misled to waste all the foreign reserves, and the goodwill we inherited from the British on the dreams and agenda of foreigners, -- George Padmore, W.E.B. Dubois, and C.L.R. James -- in the name of pan-Africanism.
Can you point to a single economic benefit that we derived from all the money that our first president spent on the pan-African movement?
Akosombo Dam, Tema Motorway, and the factories that he built for the industrialization of our country's economy were financed with debt.
He engaged in those plans after he had wasted our precious foreign reserves on pan-Africanism.
Even the industrialization that he started failed because, he would not surround himself with masterminds.
Our first president was an economist. But he did not run the country like an economist. His mind was not on the country.
It's hard to imagine how any country can import machinery, raw materials, pay labour cost for the production of finished goods, and then turn around to import finished goods at the same time; without destroying its fiscal health.
That was exactly how our first president managed the economic affairs of our country.
He could have done better, had he not devoted all his time and our precious resource blindly to uniting Africa.
If Dr J.B. Danquah had been our first president: Do you think he would have ignored his countrymen who had the knowledge of how the country operated under the British, and then bring in foreigners who did not know anything about the country to advise him on how to run the country?
JJ may be "a man of high school education". But he had the wisdom to know that Ghana could not carry the whole Africa on her back.
Come to think of it; JJ is not the first person with a high school education to lead a country.
Have you ever heard of President Harry Truman of the United States?
Do you know his level of education?
With all due respect you don't have to be highly educated to lead a country.
You need the ability to surround yourself with masterminds, develop a vision for the country, communicate your vision to the masterminds, work with them to accomplish your vision, and motivate the people to believe in themselves and the country.
JJ successfully did that, -- even with his high school education.
That is why we have democratic rule in Ghana today. We must be grateful that we have viable and enviable democratic ideals, and institutions in Ghana today.
You don't need me to remind you that we owe it to the selflessness of JJ.
He is not a "book-long".
Beware of the "book-longs". It's not all of them who have anything to offer our beloved Great Ghana.
We need leaders with substance, and pragmatic vision to lead our country.
May Lord Almighty continue to bless our beloved Great Ghana:
Amen!!!
Conventional Youth 10 years ago
Wasted Foreign reserves,by who,how and why, my objective?
Wasted Foreign reserves,by who,how and why, my objective?
William Sorkpor, USA 10 years ago
At the time of independence, the per capita income of a Ghanaian worker was half that of his or her British counterpart.
How much is it today?
What do you attribute the big gap to?
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At the time of independence, the per capita income of a Ghanaian worker was half that of his or her British counterpart.
How much is it today?
What do you attribute the big gap to?
At the time of Independence, Ghana's foreign reserves were the envy of any of the former colonies, -- both British and French -- in Africa.
How many months of imports can our foreign reserves cover today?
When did we start destroying the economic fabrics of our country?
Money does not grow on trees.
Economics is not an art. It's a science.
A government that understands this and, adheres to all the basic parameters and indicators will generate wealth for its people.
Right from the beginning of our independence we have treated our economy like a candle in the wind.
As a result, we have not been able to create wealth for our people.
We have therefore resigned ourselves to the belief that, this is how things have always been with our country.
Not so!
The destruction and the poverty started under our own local leaders.
To be more specific the destruction started under our first president.
He simply neglected the development of our country; until it was too late for him to bring prosperity to the people of Ghana.
We must face up to it. It is only then, that we can make sure that it never happens again.
If we fail to face up to it, we shall continue attributing it to the wrong reasons. This will not help us.
May Lord Almighty continue to bless our beloved Great Ghana:
Amen!!!
nana ekow @ghana 10 years ago
Let focus on the future not the past
Let focus on the future not the past
TOHUGU 10 years ago
These ungrateful pig called Akosa and his cohorts think because of their archaic education they have the inalienable right to rule Ghana. These egocentric Tribalists feel and think it is only those who attend University and ... read full comment
These ungrateful pig called Akosa and his cohorts think because of their archaic education they have the inalienable right to rule Ghana. These egocentric Tribalists feel and think it is only those who attend University and are Ashantis, that can govern Ghana. They are so puffed-up that even if Jesus Christ were to come to Ghana to rule, they will reject Him on the grounds the He is not educated and is too radical in His stand for the TRUTH. Whether Akosa and all his cohorts -who are blinded by nepotic, tribalistic,jealousy, envious and malicious spirit- like it or not, all the sound-minded people of Ghana who went through the painful period of retrogression and stagnation under AFIRIFA CUM BUSIA CUM ACHEAMPONG/ AKUFFO can attest that J.J. Rawlings has moved Ghana way forward. Ghana's current Democracy is his legacy.Any woman marrying an Ashanti man can be assured of her and her children having
some inheritance should the husband die.This was brought about by Rawlings. No wonder he is hated by Akosa and his cohorts who perhaps were denied the inheritance they had hoped of getting when their uncles died.
concern citizen 10 years ago
Prof. should gives us a brake.He should not compare himself to Rawlings.He stood as president aspirant sometime ago and nobody voted for him .To be a president is not easy.
Prof. should gives us a brake.He should not compare himself to Rawlings.He stood as president aspirant sometime ago and nobody voted for him .To be a president is not easy.
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
That's the truth! But the sons of men would not accept it!
That's the truth! But the sons of men would not accept it!
Wofa Koo 10 years ago
Well-said. Jj must keep silent.JJ brutalized Ghana
Well-said. Jj must keep silent.JJ brutalized Ghana
Tony H 10 years ago
No one should listen to these blackies of ashanties, descendant of males gorrillas from the forest who empregnated their women due to low sperm count notoriously known for ashanti men. Compered to the Sudanese, these ashanits ... read full comment
No one should listen to these blackies of ashanties, descendant of males gorrillas from the forest who empregnated their women due to low sperm count notoriously known for ashanti men. Compered to the Sudanese, these ashanits are imaginably darker, so are thier brain and thinking. Looking at K4 last time in NY, I was very embarrassed. Because of that, ashantis are complexed that they all want to let every one known that they are victimized by JJ Revo. Think or thoought about it??????
SPIDER IN HIS WEB 10 years ago
Nkrumah built all the factories for our development, the National Liberation Council under Ankrah, Kotoka and Afrifah put a stop to them. The National Redemption Council, the Supreme Military Council under Acheampong could no ... read full comment
Nkrumah built all the factories for our development, the National Liberation Council under Ankrah, Kotoka and Afrifah put a stop to them. The National Redemption Council, the Supreme Military Council under Acheampong could not run them. And finally, the Provisional National Defence Council, National Democratic Congress{NDC} under JJ Rawlings sold some of them to his cronies and stole some of them for themselves. This is the short history of Ghana. Any questions?
KK 10 years ago
Can anybody tell me what JJ achieved for Ghana apart from trying to raise his tribe? He is the worst leader Ghana have ever had. Acheampong he killed had vison and did a 1000x better than he did. I am happy Prez Mahama mentio ... read full comment
Can anybody tell me what JJ achieved for Ghana apart from trying to raise his tribe? He is the worst leader Ghana have ever had. Acheampong he killed had vison and did a 1000x better than he did. I am happy Prez Mahama mentioned that in his state of the nation address yesterday. Operation feed yourself, buy made in ghana goods, built dansoman estate, labone estates etc and manymore across every region in ghnana. Can anyone tell me what JJ can be known for after he dies? NOTHING!!!
JOSEPH BOADI-BOATENG 10 years ago
Professor, you are perfectly right. It takes bold and clever people like you to find out following critical thinking, that this JJ man was not only a murderer but a clever thief who ruined mother Ghana.
Professor, you are perfectly right. It takes bold and clever people like you to find out following critical thinking, that this JJ man was not only a murderer but a clever thief who ruined mother Ghana.
Oheneba Osei Yaw Akoto 10 years ago
This man ought to be president. Rawlings that EWE bastard was nothing but a black plague.
This man ought to be president. Rawlings that EWE bastard was nothing but a black plague.
Tony H 10 years ago
Yes a brouhaha from another primitive from NPP (nation of primitive people) Dan B. I haven’t finished laughing at the just ended USA Nation Of Primitive People (NPP) confab in Charlotte NC, for Executives Committee (EC) ele ... read full comment
Yes a brouhaha from another primitive from NPP (nation of primitive people) Dan B. I haven’t finished laughing at the just ended USA Nation Of Primitive People (NPP) confab in Charlotte NC, for Executives Committee (EC) election that has ushered an ethnic bridge EC. While the N Carolina meeting has managed to find another Courage Kwashiegan painted style Ewe brother to bridge the ethnic divide with of course Twi as working language of the confab, this bastard of Botwe is sacking uncle Tamekloe form the Nation Of Primitive People (NPP) because of his humble opinion on the ethnic perception of npp. There is a tiger war going on in this Nation Of Primitive People. While some recognize the existance of the probe and are patching the holes, others like D Botwe are pointing more. In fact npp is not only an Akan tribal party, it is a clanic political party very dangerous for Ghana democratic emancipation and development. I have always eluded that the ashantis are offspring of gorillas from the forest due to low sperm count notably known from ashanti men, I was told by my grandfather who migrated to the region in the 30s to farm cocoa as "dibi me dibi" but was asked by his so-called land owners to impregnant countless of thier wifes in place of forest primates. So today big chunk of the akan population, devative of the big primates behaves and looks like them. Like gorillas, the ashanti/akans don’t mix with others. By the way, have you seen gorillas in company with others like monkey? Like gorillas, the ashanti/akans feel comfortable in their kinship, in their Nation Of Primitive People. Just read carefully the postings that this botwe man has generated, and you will understand their mentality. Don't blame them; they are happy in that kinship. After all "Happy people don’t change" to accommodate themselves to the reality. From Wofa Tony, NC, USA.
EC 10 years ago
And under the present NDC gov't led by John Mahama and Amissah Arthur, it is clear Ghana is crawling and groping around in the fetid decaying doldrums of retrogression with no escape route in sight. Nothing the P(NDC) colossu ... read full comment
And under the present NDC gov't led by John Mahama and Amissah Arthur, it is clear Ghana is crawling and groping around in the fetid decaying doldrums of retrogression with no escape route in sight. Nothing the P(NDC) colossus has touched has yielded any positive dividends for the country, and it is about time Ghanaians purposed it in their hearts and minds to send the P(NDC) gov't which has ruled Ghana for close to 3 decades to the dustbin of history. Countries such as Malaysia and Singapore which were ruled that long by their leaders transformed such societies into fully developed countries. The reverse is the case with the P(NDC) gov't. Ghana deserves better.
Osibisa 10 years ago
What do you expect when you have a moron who takes the gun to overthrow governments in other to rule a country.
What do you expect when you have a moron who takes the gun to overthrow governments in other to rule a country.
Tweaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amasa Namoale ! Tweeeeaaaaaaakai
Where was this dumb prof when all Ghana cash was looted after three to four coups by his tribe folks ? JJ had to rebuild Ghana from zero. Ghana "abre agu" for real with all these Gyimi-gyimie booklongs.
Someone told me that people change like seasons, but I don't believe it, there is a big difference, seasons never change for personal interests....false or true==>>Koo Agyeman Badu Akosa
By ur utterance i wonder whether yo ...
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Peopel like Akosa stood at the sidelines because they had no clue Ghana was deeply in crisis when JJ striked. When Tinapa, sugar, soap, milk and even toilet rolls were called essential commodities. JJ brought real freedom to ...
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I concur with Akosa on this one. JJ's time was 20 years of wasted time. JJ focused on harassing his people and settling vendettas instead of building the infrastructure and developing the country as was done by his counterpar ...
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Yes, because people did dubious things, took advantage of the system and amassed wealth. It is the same thing happening now and YOU do not have the eyes to see untill a "JJ" comes and you all will start hailing him. It's a sh ...
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Exactly, that is the wasted years I am talking about, killing and harassing people was not the answer, he should have strengthened the systems and put strong mechanisms in place to prevent a repeat of the rot. Here we are b ...
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JJ and his boys came without an iota of an idea how to reform the system, all they wanted to do was to end corruption but how do u do this without any plan or strategy? An this was where his govt failed to tranform Ghana but ...
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As you all keep putting the blame on past leaders for the lack of development facing Ghana from Nkrumah, Acheampong, Afrifa, Rawlings, KU4, MIlls etc have you stopped for a second and asked yourself if there is any successful ...
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You are stupid when you said Africans has low IQ. Studied in Europe and my colleagues who are whites comes to me and ask me to copy my assignments. In class i score higher than them and in fact i am making and developing new ...
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Ability to memorize is totally different from creativity and intelligence. And that is why Africa remains so poor, we worship people that have the ability to memorize and call them intelligent folks, give them all the leaders ...
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you develop? name one. and why can't you make money out of it or you're too stupid to make use of your own invention to make money. and this is why your iq is very low.
Have you heard of Botswana? fool
Where the HIV rate is almost 30% of the population? Where the king has 100 wives and counting? Where the king owns a fleet of cars, mansions, and many millions in Swiss accounts? where most of the inhabitants live on less tha ...
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Bravo to you Brave man. You said it all. Africa have seriously IQ problem.
We have to learn a lot from the white in terms of leadership if we want to turn things around and that is where Nkromah didn't know about and misunde ...
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JJ was a dump high school failure. What did he know.What we know is, he is a killer,Arsonist,Thief (Nsawam Cannery),hypocrite,Confused,Deranged, and probably suffering from amnesia.
AGREED, IT IS UP TO GHANAIANS TO CHOOSE A MATURED LEADER WITH VISION AND MISSION PREPARED FOR THE JOB AS PRESIDENT NOT THE FORTUNATE OR UNPREPARED TO WASTE GHANA'S TIME IN DEVELOPMENT LIKE JJ AND MAHAMA.BOTH WERE NOT SERIOUS ...
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Yes, what he (JJ) did is what has caused what is happening. He taught us how to steal and be corrupt. JJ has ruined Ghana for good and the earlier we accept it the better for us to rebuild. He was no leader but a thief.
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JJ RAWLINGS IS GHANA'S SAVIOUR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
we started queueing for milk & sugar before Nkrumah was kicked out! unless, of course, you belonged to an elite cpp family!
my father's cocoa was taxed to provide free education for some who had to be 'bribed' to go to schoo ...
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Akan rulers never killed no one okay! your JJR came to destroy and kill ghanaians especially akans are you pleased with that ? Before our mothers never sold their own clothing for food but when this trokosiman came to power t ...
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Akan people just sell you to the whiteman for SALT. All Ghanaians are to be blamed for our shortcomings. It is or has never been on one person responsibility to save the country. We're always looking at the government to m ...
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If peopel we call professors in Ghana talk like this how do you expect Ghana to move forward. The blackman will only criticize his neighbor without him producing nothing himself.
What has Akosa done to improve Ghana? Tweaaa!
Afirifa used Moses Yeboah, S.B Arthur and Mensah Poku to kill Kotoka, and when they were caught he feigned not knowing anything about it. He had them killed by firing squad. Unfortunately for him one of them happened to be Bo ...
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Let me me put it to you that, Moses Yeboah and Boakye Gyan and Moses Yeboah may all be Brongs, but are not blood relatives. Rawlings killed Afrifa because of Kotoka. The Prof is right on this one. Rawlings and his revolutiona ...
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The Koo GYIMIE GYIMIE like NANA are the reasons why our politicians takes us for granted.Those Idiot will support any position that their favorite people stood or standing for.Assuming we choose to go with that your stupid n ...
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And what does your mind tell you JJ re-built in Ghana?
The only obvious achievement by Rawlings was doubling his Body weight, leaving us to wear his chain
You're more than right!!
Doubling his body weight and leaving us with HIS CHAINS &:
THE INDEMNITY CLAUSE TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM BEING KILLED,LIKE,HE UNNECESSARILY AND UNLAWFULLY,DID TO OTHERS.
The difference between you and Prof Akosa is that HE IS a professor and you are not, and as such you can't see what professors see. He did not insult anybody, not even Rawlings whose two-decade rule offered very little to Gha ...
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Amen!
IA VERY SORRY FOR THESE SOCALLED PROFFERSORS, PRIEST, PASTORS, PROFFECTS AND POLITICIANS WHO HAVEN'T SEEN WHAT JJ RAWLLINGS HAS DONE FOR GHANA.RAWLINGS HAS STABILIZED GHANA FOR THESE THIEVSE TO COME AND ROB.
YOUR NAME SHOWS HOW STUPID YOU ARE,WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THIS COWARD IDIOT TOOK THE MOVEMENT OF THIS COUNTRY.LET ME TELL YOUR RAWLINGS DIDN´T STABILIZE GHANA BUT RATHER STABILIZED HIS POCKETS,STOFFEN HIS POCKETS WITH GHANA GOL ...
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why is it that these dumb headed NPP animal before JJ came along? When we were buying raw Kenkey to cook it ourselves. The stench from their kotibotos has clouded their minds to the extent that they think we were born yesterd ...
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ALI FREE YOUR MIND FROM INSULTS,HOW MANY TRIBES ARE KOTIBOTOS IN THE NORTH? APART THE MOSLIMS IN THE NORTH ALL THE REST ARE ALL KOTIBOTOS,I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHICH COMMENT HAS PROMPTED YOU TO VOMIT ALL THESE OUTRAGEOUS INSULTS. ...
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TYPE FAULT:COOL YOUR TEMPER BECAUSE YOUR HEALTH IS MORE IMPOTANT THAN YOUR INSULTS.
hwe ne gyimii bi.
what a stupid proffessor.hope he not lecturer in any of our universities.You have not given us any proves bcos they lack.Tweaaaaaaaa,gimi gimi
From Kalabule, throwing of urine on even Policemen at Makola market,corruption and looting of state resources,electricity in only 8 regional capitals, Light offs after 6pm, we came to electricity in all district capitals incl ...
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These akan's npp motorbikes thieves must give the good people of Ghana a total break, who is eager to know if kwame London addo is coming back or not? Who give a shit damn? Kwame London can go to hell and Ghanaians don't give ...
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It is the responsibility of every responsible and sane citizen of any country to defend and love his country. Hardly would you find people who would turn their back at their own country or more specifically WORK HARD TO UNDER ...
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Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the ...
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How can Akosa support killing of opponents in prison by Kwame Nkruah the murderous tyrant. He calls himself a professor but supports one-part state and dictatorship. Nkrumah never had a Vice President because he ruled Ghana s ...
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who gives the fuck about democracy. The shit is not paying, if nkrumah will do the job, wont care if he terminates the rest of the 20 stupid million ghanaians.
hwe ne kwasea bi. are you drunk or what? what do you mean. hey boy, come again.
This is a true statement of fact that we tend to throw away. This is a good point for those Ghanaians who have stagnated in thinking should now wake up to reason. Proff.Akosa touched the nerve with viable examples.
IT IS REALLY SAD THAT PROF AKOSA WOULD MAKE SUCH A COMMENT. HE SHOULD KNOW BETTER. WHAT A LAZY PROF. DID HE RESEARCH ABOUT THE CONDITIONS THAT FAVOURED THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE BEFORE COMING OUT WITH SU ...
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TO AFEVIA: MASSIVE INVESTMENTS FROM THE WEST CAME LATER. WHEN THE WEST SAW GOOD GOVERNANCE IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE THEY INVESTED THERE. KWAME NKRUMAH ONCE GAVE SINGAPORE MONEY TO HELP THEM OUT. DO THE RESEARCH AND YOU WILL ...
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ONLY DUMB FOOLS SUPPORT RAWLINGS!!!HE CONNED STUPID GHANAIANS FOR 19yrs AND HE STILL HAS STUPID FOLLOWERS!!!
compare Ghana to ather african countries b4 you vomit your words, akosaman.
You mean after the fisrt 4year term in office you never realised the retrogression to talk about it and he worn the second election? poor you, mr. prof.
I also blame JJR for wasting a good chance he had during those AFRC/PNDC period to refine Ghanaians. But could he have achieved a miracle?
Ghanaian dissidents in the UK and the US campaigned relentlessly against foreign a ...
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JJR, was primitive and uncouth and extended this poisonous disease to ghanaians.He insulted our chiefs and leaders during his time and didn't have the vision to rule this nation apart from being bully and brutish.
I couldn't agree with you more.
The Revolution like any other military regime or Government has its achievements as well as pitfalls.
Standard of living in Ghana was a nightmare, the evil practice termed "kalabule" permea ...
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...... But things improved in the mid- 80's
.... Or is itdismsy,....
Is that AFRC/ PNDC apologist, Clement Sangaparee listening, this coming from Nkrumahist ?
Is Akosa God? Why should anyone listening? FUCK YOU again
Prof, well said and well delivered.
JJ- Lack of fatherhood and leadership.
No VISION.
YES, WE ALL KNOW THAT RAWLINGS WAS A HUGE FAILURE DESPITE BRINGING TO A HALT THE WANTON LOOTING OF GHANA AND DISSIPATION OF GHANA'S RESORCES BY SUCCESSIVE AKAN MILITARY HEADS OF STATE OF GHANA.
RAWLINGS WAS A FAILURE MAINL ...
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Ungrateful Black negro. The only GIFT a black hs to give is to RECEIVE.
if GIVING was a gift, then blackman's AKOSA gift to you is to allow you give him all what you have. Akosa the black niger.
At his age without any political and managerial experience, what could Rawlings have achieved? Nothing: and that was exactly what he did.
He just used his charisma to fool the masses. Rawlings was and is still is an empty rh ...
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I DO NOT KNOW WHY MOST OF THOSE CRITICIZING JJ RAWLINGS RULE ARE AKANS.
MEANWHILE, THESE AKANS ALWAYS FORGET THAT JJ HANDED OVER POWER TRUTHFULLY TO AN AKAN CALLED J.A. KUFUOR, AND JJ'S WIFE IS AN ASANTE WOMAN AND AN AKAN ...
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It is a fact that Rawlings could have taken us far with over twenty years. That is why a coup against Nkrumah was misplaced. What did it achieve? It is also true that, it would have been difficult to achieve better considerin ...
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Akans don't hail a murderer, akans don't worship an arrogant.Akans believe in good governance , akans believe in freedom and justice, development in freedom.Akans hate dictatorship , akans don't support their own who is evil ...
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Shut up, you dung munching cheap whore, what do you know?
Who worships a voodoo stool called sikagua kofi? Has it occured to you that the stool has to be washed with human blood periodically?
Stool zombie! Stop wailing ...
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My brother JJ did not hand power to kuffour but the people who voted for him.
LIKE WHAT HAPPENS ACROSS AFRICA, JJ COULD HAVE USED THE POWER OF INCUMBENCY TO PERPETUATE HIS HOLD ON POWER IN GHANA.
JJ DID NOT. THAT'S WHY KRUNFUOR KUFUOR HAD THE CHANCE TO WIN.
Yes,it was a question of bad leadership at the time.People who have nothing to live on came in as armed robbers of today and enriched themselves and took Ghana for ride.And they still live on the tax-payer's money.And we did ...
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Look Akosa, be honest with urself, JJ had done very well since he took over power for all the 19 yrs rule. Nobody can be perfect, but JJ picked Ghana from dowmhill to where he put it and handed over to JA Kuffour and JA to At ...
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This silliness from persons like Kofi Adjei and others, has contributed to our present sorry situation.
I personally do not subscribe to Prof Akosa's political philosophy. but what he said about JJ nineteen years rule ...
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HE ALSO BRED THIEVES LIKE WOYOME, BETTYMOULD, BARTON ODRO, KUMBUOR, ETC ETC NOW LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE......GOVT FULL OF THIEVES THIEVES THIEVES.....ide biii kekekeeee...gyeeda, sada, subah, waterville, isofotone, stx, etc etc. ...
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He was just being tossed around like a yoyo by people who thought they knew what running a country was about.
Thank you sir.
he only knows how to kill
The evidence and facts speak for themselves. And yet Mr Rawlings has no shame criticising his predecessors. Might that be his way of diverting attention from his woeful 19 plus years at the country's helm of affairs?
Did this man lived in the 70s to '84s. We queqed for everything icluding trolls. Hoarding just to influence prices of essential commodities was the order of the day. Democracy was for the elite. The road network was very horr ...
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Listen Mr,
The Rawlings government did not make essential commodities easy to get or built Ghanaian roads. It was some individual business men and women who out of their sweat imported these commodities to float the market. ...
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Rawlings was a useless person to lead the nation.That is why the nation is as it is now.If such an idiot like Rawlings can rule Ghana all that long what do you expect the nation to be?
This is really true. This is really true. Kutu Acheampong was far better than Rawlings
You see how stupid you are hahahaha I just don't know that we still have block headed people like you in Ghana
JJ was DEALING with Coup makers, 2 million Ashawo Asante women and Ghanaians sacked from Nigeria.
This man is professor only by title.
He lacks the skill of imparting knowledge and facts to his audience without resorting to cheap politics. If all he remembers of JJ Rawlings's rule are retrogression and stagnation, then p ...
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this is the best message posted to this WEB for many years. Prof. You are always making me proud. I do not hate Rawlings and do not think any other president is better than him. But the truth is that he failed this coungtry b ...
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You and your profersor are fools idiots
well, prof, i share the same sentiments with you. democracy could limit African leaders to take some painful decisions but military could do same without much ado. the moral revolution should have been industrial revolution. ...
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I concur with you!!!
THIS IS WRONG ANALYSIS BY THE PROFESSOR.J.J. WILL PASS AS THE BEST PRESIDENT OF GHANA AFTER DR NKRUMAH.THE PROF SHD GET HIS FACTS RIGHTS.
As for you, you are an ass hole, a fool a dummy and these descriptions fits you well' When world leaders are shaking hands with JJ you are still sleeping. Idiot wake up
.Somebody who could not even pass the 'o' level exams running the affairs of Ghana?That was Rawlings who was the president of Ghana.Just look at what he did to messers Siaw and Appiah-Menka-leading industrialists who created ...
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Well said Prof. You're absolutely spot on.
Your prostitute mother threw you away and kept you, a piece of placentaYour kindmen the sticking kotiboto Akan have been the problem of Ghana since its inception. You were lucky JJ used bullet to kill your stupid nation wreck ...
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If only all the intellectuals in ghana can be frank as prof. Akosa, ghana will make progress in no time.
Listened to prof's speech last night with raft attention. He talked sense all night. Ghana is where it's today because of jerry's dictatorship. While Malaysia et al were developing under such long term regimes, my beloved cou ...
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WHY IS IT THAT ALL AKAN PROFESSORS RANGING FROM J.G. DANKWAH ALL THROUGH DR. BUSIA RIGHT TO AKOSA ARE DO DUMB. NO WONDER MANY OF THEM CAME TO SCHOOLS OF HIGHER LEARNING UNABLE TO SPELL THEIR OWN NAMES OR EVEN PRONOUNCE THE WO ...
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I have never heard u make clear sense in all your utterances than now .Not many people know how Rawlings has taken Ghana 20 years backward .Ghana would have been better off without the smell of Rawlings .Yet to cover his wick ...
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Prof you got it wrong. Talk about the immediate and current administrations If Rawlings couldn't change Ghana what bars his predecessors? Ghanaians will never change and corrupt leaders come and go. You remind me of people w ...
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YOU DID NOTHING FOR GHANA ALL THE TIME YOU WERE IN OFFICE
FUCK YOU!~
Twea---------------
SUCH HISTORIES MIGHT CAUSE SORROWS. HOW DO WE AVOID WASTING TIME TO REBUILD GHANA, IT STARTS TODAY AND WITH THE PRESIDING PRESIDENT MAHAMA.
Opps correction - I meant what bars his successors
-YES,YOU ARE RIGHT.JERRY RAWLINGS FOOLED GHANAIANS WITH HIS RULE.NEVER DESCOVERED OIL AND GAS.MADE GHANA TO BE BACKWARD.WE FOLLOWED HIM TO SAVE THE POOR BUT NOT CLEVER TO HANDLE THE ECONOMY.I WAS ALSO FOOLED BY J.J.RAWLINGS.
Dear Prof Akosa, it is about time. What took you so long. J J Rawlings is the worse thing that happened to Ghana.Hold no bars and say it like it is. For 20 yrs Ghana retrogressed under his murderous leadership and nothing was ...
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This Wicked JJ SHIT RAWLINGS should be shot in the head like he did to other people. After all these killings he wasn't able to acomplish anything. Prof nailed it
Was it a question of leadership? Is the question being asked by Dr.Big lips and mouth Akosa, as he blames J. J. Rawlings for Ghana's stagnation.He seeks to compare Ghana with Singapore and Malaysia who have made great strides ...
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One of the qualities of political leadership is to unify the country behind you. Tohugu, a Rawlings supporter admits that Ghana stagnated under Rawlings because the country was divided. THAT'S THE POINT. Rawlings failed to un ...
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You are absolutely wrong. Rawlings did everything possible to bring us together but arrogant folks like Akosa and his minions kicked against it with all kinds of sabotages. They colluded with foreign agents to destabilize his ...
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WHEN THESE SO CALLED LOUD MOUTHED AKAN POLITICIANS OPEN THEIR 'SOMETHINGS' THEY FORGET THAT WE HAVE ALL LIVED THROUGH IN GHANA AND CAN SEE AND HEAR.... BASICALLY INSECURITY AND THREATS TO SECURITY SALIENTLY AFFECTED GHANA DEV ...
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Yes prof you have hit the right nail on the head - this is what I have been saying but ghanians will not listen--the fact of the matter is the guy jj wasted our time for 19 years and left us with NDC as an albatross on our ne ...
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jerry Rawlings staged his coup to lift himself and his family out of poverty, and he succeeded in doing so. He still chooses which President to praise and which President to criticize, depending on who is willing to dole out ...
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Goverment should urge GAPHA to stop indxing import duties charge in dollers, NCA should also stop indexing in dollers pls lets respect the cedi and make it valuable.
Prof Akosa is very right.Under Rawlings Ghana declined and finally derailed.The current problems and hardship is a direct result of his mismanagement and lack of direction of the country during his rule.He should shut up in n ...
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Akan people just sell you to the whiteman for SALT. All Ghanaians are to be blamed for our shortcomings. It is or has never been on one person responsibility to save the country. We're always looking at the government to make ...
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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
RAWLINGS HAD HIS FAULTS,AND THE OTHER TWO HEAD OF STATES OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE HAD DIFFERENT VISION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR COUNTRIES.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE.
IT IS TIME FOR US PUT THE ...
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Ghana under jj regime was really fantastical but when that idiot black ashantiman came then he turndown everything together begins to sell the nation property without reason just to corrupt rawlings kill one for million to su ...
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How many people travelled during the eighties from Ghana?
TOO MANY TO COUNT.
WHY?
THE BAD GOVERNANCE OF JJ RAWLINGS.
I don't blame those who might have not got the chance to travel anywhere,supporting JJ RAWLINGS.
No o ...
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PROF WELL SAID, BUT THE ISSUE IS IN GHANA SOME PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH. AND WILL VOTE FOR THIEVES TO GOVERN MOTHER GHANA. JJ HAS NOTHING TO SHOW FOR THE TIME HE WAS IN POWER. JJ AND JOHN MAHAMA ARE OUR WORST PRES ...
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THERE IS CATARACT ON AKOSA'S EYES,WHAT A BLIND PROFESSOR INDEED.
STAGED THE 1979 AND 82 COUP D'ÉTAT TO FEATHER HIS OWN NEST AND NOT TO BUILD GHANA......BOTH DR.MAHATHIR AND LEE KUAN YEW ARE LEARNED UNLIKE BUGABUGA RAWLINGS WHO COULD NOT PASS COMMON 'O' LEVEL....TWO DECADES WASTED
How? when there factors such as man-made and natural disasters
The prof is absolutely right,Rawlings surrounded himself with wrong people,chosen from his own surroundings and based on where you come from in Ghana.
It is history however,it is better for him to keep quite,rather than lav ...
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You are just a headless professor who don't know what he's about.
THANK YOU PROF.....I HAVE SAID IT TIME AND AGAIN THAT RAWLINGS IS A CURSE TO GHANA......HE IS THE CAUSE OF OUR PRESENT STATE OF POLARIZATION AND INSIDIOUS TRIBALISM THAT IS CURRENTLY ENGULFING THE COUNTRY
The Rawlings years were years of wasted opportunities and arrested development.
Every Ghanaian ,that rise up to power,use the country resource and wealth as a piggy bank,their way of thinking is too elementary ,did anyone knows the salaries of these so called leaders?
These comparisons of Ghana to Malaysia and Singapore are being done without the proper context.
While we have seen such comparisons with the base timeline set at the beginning of our Independence, these as done now by the ...
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The truth is that had Nkrumah not been undermined by the West and bogged down with vicious tug-of-war with the Opposition, Ghana could have fared much better. Even under his ill-advised dictatorship, had he been left to conti ...
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Sir GK Berko, I am curious and willing to research into scientific socialism.
Please Sir, I would like to know the risk factors and the severity of scientific socialism's components in prudent governance.
You said nothing but the truth
THANKS FOR CLARIFICATION. HOPEFULLY AKOSA AND HIS COHORTS WILL SWALLOW THEIR PRIDE AND COME TO YOU FOR TUTORIALS.
Can you imagine this Rawlings who used to eat only "YOKO GARI" managing a country? Now he is living in Ridge. Tweaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !
Good thinking professor
Leadership is not about cane-ing women in public because of "ideal milk" and "tinapa" ..... and then turn around and sell state properties to your spouse, whilst not knowing what is going on with your cronies and the Aveyime ...
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Hei Prof. Akosa this has said it all JJ should stop pointing his figure to others,he should had done more during his long reign as his other colleagues that you mention in Malaysia
and others.
Prof you are 100% right. Only fools think we have advanced since Dr Nkrumah's time. We are going in circles. Bribery & Corruption are the only words Ghanaians know.
A good many observers have remarked that if God fearing, opened, trusted and uncorrupted leaders (politicians) could come at once the NDC would not be ready for it. I submit that the NPP are even more unprepared. Moral princi ...
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Mr., do you remember when Ghanaian professionals were leaving Ghana to Nigeria and elsewhere and people queuing for things like toilet paper? JJ saved and brought democracy and free speech to Ghana under which you are using ...
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why won't ghana stagnate under Rawling when professors like you are booklong or bookish? Instead of providing quality ideas and advice and reference to the form 4 leaver and helping him govern progressive thereby moving ghana ...
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Liars, thieves armed robbers cocaine dealers are the people around Mahama now.
If the people were patriotic the message RAwlings preached would have transformed Ghana . We need to change our mentality and attitude.
.... was preached?
How to shoot generals who could stand in your way of riding an entire nation like a horse?
And when the coast is clear sell properties belonging to the state to your wife?
Is that the message that ...
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Clever analysis, Axis. I like people like you who are able to think outside the box.
Its Africa Blood
You talk 2 much. Talk about issues and not witch hunt
I think prof has hit the nail right. He was always persecuting businessmen. Thant explains why entrepreneurship stagnated during rawlings regime
Rawlings alone cannot do it even if we give him 50yrs it starts with you,until we are willing to chance for better we are wasting our precious time
jj played his part just as the past heads of state.In my opinion,JJ achieved a lot;it was during JJ rule that massaive infrastructure were buily across the length and breadth of the country.Strengely enough,the old professor ...
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Check his credentials!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELL SAID PROF. AKOSA, YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE NAIL, AND YET WE STUPID GHANAIANS STILL VOTE FOR THE NDC….HMMMM, WE ARE REALLY LOST!!!
Prof. Akosa, you should be ashamed of yourself for making this remarks. If you don't have anything to tell Ghanaians please shut up!
Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Prof Akosa has not done his homework.
We all love our first president.
And until one is able to dig deeper into the direction in which the country was steered in the days that immediately followed independence; one is ...
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Its pity that you failed to identify your party affiliation because you opened the door for all to know. DR Danquah was not the blind Pan Africanist, instead he believed in individual freedom and liberty had no political phyl ...
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Thanks for taking your time to read my take on this matter.
With all due respect allow me to say that you misread piece.
I did not say Dr. J.B. Danquah was a pan-Africanist.
I was making the point that Prof Akosa wa ...
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Wasted Foreign reserves,by who,how and why, my objective?
At the time of independence, the per capita income of a Ghanaian worker was half that of his or her British counterpart.
How much is it today?
What do you attribute the big gap to?
At the time of Independence, Ghana ...
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Let focus on the future not the past
These ungrateful pig called Akosa and his cohorts think because of their archaic education they have the inalienable right to rule Ghana. These egocentric Tribalists feel and think it is only those who attend University and ...
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Prof. should gives us a brake.He should not compare himself to Rawlings.He stood as president aspirant sometime ago and nobody voted for him .To be a president is not easy.
That's the truth! But the sons of men would not accept it!
Well-said. Jj must keep silent.JJ brutalized Ghana
No one should listen to these blackies of ashanties, descendant of males gorrillas from the forest who empregnated their women due to low sperm count notoriously known for ashanti men. Compered to the Sudanese, these ashanits ...
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Nkrumah built all the factories for our development, the National Liberation Council under Ankrah, Kotoka and Afrifah put a stop to them. The National Redemption Council, the Supreme Military Council under Acheampong could no ...
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Can anybody tell me what JJ achieved for Ghana apart from trying to raise his tribe? He is the worst leader Ghana have ever had. Acheampong he killed had vison and did a 1000x better than he did. I am happy Prez Mahama mentio ...
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Professor, you are perfectly right. It takes bold and clever people like you to find out following critical thinking, that this JJ man was not only a murderer but a clever thief who ruined mother Ghana.
This man ought to be president. Rawlings that EWE bastard was nothing but a black plague.
Yes a brouhaha from another primitive from NPP (nation of primitive people) Dan B. I haven’t finished laughing at the just ended USA Nation Of Primitive People (NPP) confab in Charlotte NC, for Executives Committee (EC) ele ...
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And under the present NDC gov't led by John Mahama and Amissah Arthur, it is clear Ghana is crawling and groping around in the fetid decaying doldrums of retrogression with no escape route in sight. Nothing the P(NDC) colossu ...
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What do you expect when you have a moron who takes the gun to overthrow governments in other to rule a country.
all JJ had was passion... no Plan