Kofi Adams jabs Ocquaye, NPP over JJ ethnic charge

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cha 10 years ago

These thieves will oneday go to jail

These thieves will oneday go to jail
Ka Na Wu 10 years ago

Even God knows that Rawlings was and is tribalistic.

Even God knows that Rawlings was and is tribalistic.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

Well then, that God of yours may be having some issues with the heavens as well.

Well then, that God of yours may be having some issues with the heavens as well.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

Nana binladdo is not a unifier, but rather a divider. After Nana disgraceful hiding in London for more six months, Nana binladdo came back to Ghana just to create a confusion and divide the country on regional and tribal basi ...
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Nana binladdo is not a unifier, but rather a divider. After Nana disgraceful hiding in London for more six months, Nana binladdo came back to Ghana just to create a confusion and divide the country on regional and tribal basis. Some of us in eastern region can't understand why Nana should ignore a whole " okyehene " and rushed to "Manshia " and offered " Asantehene his highest respect and even said he respected he "Asantehene" more than that of his own grandfather and a paramount chief of Akyen Abuakwa " traditional area . Nana is a digrace to our area, he didn't bother to visit " Okyehene" who is closer to his Nana's Nima residence , from Nana' house to Kyebi , is closer than that of Manshia, but because he is arrogant, he chose to go to Manshia first. We the people of Akyen Abuakwa traditional area want to let Nana addo knows very well that we acknowledged the disrespect he showed to our Okyehene and his elders in the area, we shall respond to his call in the same measure at the right time coming 2016 election.
Close Observer 10 years ago

Thief, do you think if you tag your countrymen as terrorist, you will be exempted from that tag? You travel and the western world will see you too as a terrorist, because you claimed Ghanaians have that culture. The STUPID th ...
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Thief, do you think if you tag your countrymen as terrorist, you will be exempted from that tag? You travel and the western world will see you too as a terrorist, because you claimed Ghanaians have that culture. The STUPID things you say to remain in power, will stigmatize all of us, including you. FOOL! Amasa Namoale Thief. Your personal interest in politics is not everyone's interest if you care to know. If another person in politics poses a threat to your present position, it is up to YOU and your GOVERNMENT to work hard and improve on the LIVING CONDITION of GHANAIANS, and not to resort to this SENSELESS INSULTS. Fellow Ghanaians, BBC NEWS!!! here, is also known as AMASA NAMOALE, a PARLIAMENTARIAN. He spends most of the time he should use in performing his PARLIAMENTARY DUTIES to PROMOTE HATRED and TRIBAL POLITICS. He does not deserve to be in PARLIAMENT. Which Gas are waiting for what? Count the sensible ones like me out. Amasa JULOR k3 MANJWALOR.
oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana 10 years ago

Kofi, there is no way that you can deny this. Even the heavens know that your stupid JJ Rawlings brought this to Ghana. So, don't be stupid to defend that evil man JJ.

Kofi, there is no way that you can deny this. Even the heavens know that your stupid JJ Rawlings brought this to Ghana. So, don't be stupid to defend that evil man JJ.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

MAHAMA AND HIS CORRUPT NDC MUST TELL US WHAT EXACTLY THEY HAVE DONE WITH THE MASSIVE $20 BILLION THEY HAVE BORROWED IN JUST THE LAST 5 YEARS, IF HE IS SAYING,HE HAS NOT BORROWED FOR DRINK AND MERRY MAKING, WHICH MEANS CREATE, ...
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MAHAMA AND HIS CORRUPT NDC MUST TELL US WHAT EXACTLY THEY HAVE DONE WITH THE MASSIVE $20 BILLION THEY HAVE BORROWED IN JUST THE LAST 5 YEARS, IF HE IS SAYING,HE HAS NOT BORROWED FOR DRINK AND MERRY MAKING, WHICH MEANS CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE. HOW COULD YOU STEAL MONEY BELONGING TO THE POOR CHILDREN STRUGGLING TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREETS, DRIVE PAST THEM AND HAVE A LAUGH???---- GHANAIANS MUST WAKE UP!! OUR FUTURE LOOKS BLEAK. WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS. BAWUMIA HAS ADMONISHED NDC AS A PATRIOTIC CITIZEN BUT THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN. NDC HAS RATHER VOWED TO BORROW MORE TO PLUNGE GHANA INTO MASSIVE DEBT. HABA! NDC.
NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC OPPRESSORS. WE CAN'T PUT OUR TRUST IN THESE YOUNG NDC THIEVES (WITH NO WORK RECORD) WHO WANT TO LIVE LIKE KINGS OVERNIGHT, OWNING JETS, BIG MANSIONS, BANKS, ROLLS ROYCE, DATING MODELS ETC. AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR. BEING A PRESIDENT REQUIRES THE USE OF BRAIN NOT BRAWN. A PRESIDENT DOES NOT "THROW" PICK AXE!!! WHO CAN DO THE JOB BETTER THAN NANA, AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY, WHERE GREEDY CORRUPT , SHARP TEETH ROTTEN PLANK NDC SMALL BOYS, PARADING AS POLITICIANS, HAVE PLUNDERED OUR RESOURCES TO THE BONE, THAT OUR OIL ECONOMY INHERITED FROM THE GREAT KUFFOUR HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRY???? LONG LIVE GHANA!! LONG LIVE NANA ADDO. MORE GREASE TO YOUR ELBOWS!! EVERY THIEF IN GHANA, TODAY, IS SCARED OF BOLD AND MIGHTY NANA ADDO. NANA IS CLEAN !! CLEAN TO THE BONE!!!
Wayo 10 years ago

Where was Pr.Ocquaye when Kennedy Agyapong declared war on Ewes andd Ga?

Where was Pr.Ocquaye when Kennedy Agyapong declared war on Ewes andd Ga?
insight to the bone 10 years ago

some people dont realize outspoken people like sir john and ken agyapong dont need some position or party post to build their careers or remain influential . All they need to do is continue speaking the truth and defending th ...
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some people dont realize outspoken people like sir john and ken agyapong dont need some position or party post to build their careers or remain influential . All they need to do is continue speaking the truth and defending the interests of the Akan people and they will remain bigger and better than any fake pepeni president sitting in the flagstaff house . let the fight for justice continue , forward ever backward never the propaganda smears , lies from the engine room of the ndc will never take root as he who feels it knows the truth . we must prepare our people well to overthrow this corrupt ,racist tribalistic anti Akan oligarchy in a revolution of blood . In the NDC the only way to build one's career is the secretly promote hatred of the Akans and facilitate the division among the various tribes of the Akan exploiting on the differences and undermining the natural desire for development and progress.This phenomenon we see with some of the Gas like the mp namoale openly showing his hate here in the hope that he will get a ministerial appointment so he can continue in his extremely corrupt ways like before . the election engineer mathematics goes like this , the Akans are highly democratic in culture and as such will always exist a difference in opinion and divisions so to exploit that they take court idiots and clowns like yaw boateng gyan and gen mosquito and give them empty posts with no real power to chip off on the unity . then use the ahwois with hannah tetteh none who are even Fantis to facilitate divisions among the fantis and mislead the western and central regions. they then work on creating a political atmosphere and climate which says that ewes and northerners must be dominant everywhere as only they have the right to rule over the Akans and can be trusted not to betray the anti Akan agenda . A house divided can never stand this the root cause why NDC can never pool together the potential of the nation to effect sustainable development as without unity there can only be corruption and retrogression . in their so called winning strategy are the elements of their continuous failure as there is no true justice for the people , ultimately and paradoxically they dont see its their own people that will suffer the most and eventually disappear for the face of this planet as if they never were . Long live the republic of Akan
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?

I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to br ...
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WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?

I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to brush this issue under the carpet by some linked to the NPP as just a one off aberration. These people pretend or do not seem to know that Agyapong’s threats were not the first admonishing the killing of Ewes, something the readily available facts testify to. Facts I have been referring to from 1994 in cyberspace, recounting my own personal experiences with some of those advocates of Ewe killers in Nigeria during the early years of the PNDC. Of course, I have not as yet told the full story. But as Fela said, “I no kpata de finish!”

Hmm! As I found out when I was insulted “basabasa” by a man who turned out to be one of my many uncles, when I apparently misspoke on the hike in petrol prices in the 1993 budget, (on a bus from Anloga to Dzelukope in 1993), for being mistaken for a Quashiga hireling who had joined the “Eblutorwo” (Akans) preparing to come and kill them, my people back home were fully prepared and waiting for us quislings to start the attacks; I was assured. That was long before anyone heard of Justice Kpega as a political pundit! Phew! Me, a die-hard Nkrumaist in league with NPP assassins, to go and kill my fellow Anlos over whom my own forebears had ruled for centuries? Well, after all, it was in Lome, an Ewe centrepiece city even if many are of Ga-Anyi extraction, that they first congregated and started those lose talks against Ewes, thus forcing most Ewes in exile opposed to the PNDC to abandon the opposition to the PNDC and the anti-Ewe bent it had taken. So, many of us Ewes knew about their evil intents a long time ago, as they were eating our akple and fetridetsi and planning it in our kinsmen homes! Hardly any of them knew that much of the land of Lome is owned by people from Aflao and environs. Ignorant morons come in all shapes, you know. They were lucky no one poisoned them in Lome.:-)

Equally, I have read opponents to Agyapong’s utterances, including some Ewes, made some false and misleading statements, which shows that they are ignorant of the facts of the origins of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana, despite my persistent efforts and write-ups sketching that sordid history, from the pre-colonial to the post-independence era. I read someone situated in the 1979 elections period Victor Owusu’s scathing attacks on Ewes as “inward-looking” during the exchanges with Dr Agama in Parliament after the Apollo 586 sacking of mostly Ewes by the Busia regime which was overthrown in Jan. 1972!

Ignorance and superstition are recognised as key cogs in the vicious cycle of backwardness that is our lot as developing people but the extent most so-called educated Ghanaians wallow in these two inhibiting traits is just stupendous and disheartening!

Many try to claim that Rawlings introduced tribalism into Ghana by employing predominantly Ewes into sensitive public posts, especially the security sector; whereas the same claims of Ewe domination of posts had already been used effectively against Gbedema’s NAL by Busia’s Progress Party during the 1969 General Elections, as I had quoted from Dennis Austin’s book “Ghana Observed” but something all grown-ups at the time knew about. It was therefore unfortunate, that the late Prof Adu Boahen, as a historian who knew or ought to know better, fed into these fabrications of Ewe dominance, creating his own when he reportedly claimed in a British Council lecture in the 1980s that Prof. Akilagpa Sawyerr, a Ga who was given the VC post which he thought he deserved at the time, was an Ewe, and promised in his interview granted to Mahoney and his Africa Watch magazine to redress the presumed ethnic disparity when the NPP was elected into office. To me and many discerning Ewes, especially the Ewe elite, it was all déjà vu. But I was still surprised to find out that some decade long opponents of the PNDC voted for the NDC in 1992! It would not even surprise me if someone who knew Justice Kpegah’s political views very well in the 1980s came out to say that he was an arch-enemy of the PNDC in the Bar Association. I was visiting Ho in 1990 when the people of the VR angrily rejected the no party idea that the PNDC was then lobbying for, effectively halting the campaign for it. Those in B/A had already voted yes.

Yes! The NPP had itself to blame for their dismal reception in the VR, as they lost the plot with their tribal agenda reminiscent of the 1969 campaign. In Accra, they lost a lot of Ga support when the same Prof Adu Boahen at a rally, in trying to whip the anti-Ewe venom made that gaffe about Gas being pushed by the PNDC to be sleeping 10 persons to a room, after many of the main speakers had spoken in Twi! In 2000, they (NPP) won simply because of JJ’s unwholesome Swedru Declaration and the disrespectful Obed Asamoah led attempts to impose sitting candidates on their constituents, which nearly got him beaten at Dzelukope/Keta. Even my own Anlo Constituency voted for an independent linked to the NDC but not the NDC official candidate who was the re-imposed incumbent!

Fact is, I have been aware, just as many other people, since the early 1980s of various threats by some Akans opposed to the PNDC to have Ewes killed and had written about that many, many times on Okyeame and SIL. Perhaps, adding Gas to those to be killed is just the new dimension added by Agyapong, since it appeared, this time, the Gas, in Agyapong's warped mind, had acted in prosecuting the "Ewe agenda" by beating up Ursula on behalf of the Ewes! Well, warped minds think in strange, circular terms!

After all, the threats were so opened and so rampant that one Ewe, the late Dr Kodzi who died here in London in exile, pointed out the "Anlo-Ewes” in his own virulently anti-Rawlings PNDC book, "Ghana: Worse than Apartheid S. Africa," as the Ewes to be killed, for being the culprits of the complaints and angst of the Akans! That was long before anyone heard of Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe and his renewed “war” on “Anlo-Ewes,” a war his ancestor joined the Akyem Gen. Dompey to fight in "Krepi" against the Asantes and their allies and lost way back in the 1860s and got stranded there, lucky enough not to have been killed like others. That’s another story I had re-told elsewhere and needs a re-visit soon in order to let the populace know what makes bozos like Ahoofe tick. For a man, (I mean Dr Kodzi, not the jerk Ahoofe) who, due to his sterling stewardship when in charge of the Keta Govt Hospital, was much beloved by Anlos, regarded as an hononary Anlo and entrusted with pouring the libation at the Hogbeza celebration of the Noviha group here in London, that was something to write! How could he be sure that the would-be killers would not mistake him for an Anlo man, in spite of the pain he took to identify the other Ewe groups in his book? Well, the failure of the so-called Ewe elite - academic and traditional and the political - to deal rationally with this animus against Ewes is itself an intra-Ewe shambolic intellectual failure I shall deal with by and by. I have right here on my table the rantings of some other Ewes from northern Eweland, or Ewedome, as we Anlos refer to the area referred to by Europeans as Krepi, against the PNDC and Anlos in particular which I have not even as yet dealt with in my writings.

I must, however, make exception here, as Prof. Kofi Awoonor’s much distorted and maligned prison book (in league with Soyinka’s The Man Died) is probably the first book by a Ghanaian which tried to explain the tribal imbroglio and to point the way forward. His only mistake was that he fell prey to the standard Western simplistic, linear and reductionist methodology of reducing what is without doubt a complex articulation of interests and forces which cut across the ethnic divide with people from all ethnic groups found in both or all contesting camps for political ascendancy, or “hegemony”, as he put it, in Ghana. So, for instance, those who imprisoned him for helping Brig. Kattah to escape to Togo were not only “Akans/Asantes” but included Ewes, Gas, Gonjas, etc., as Kutu’s NRC comprised a cross-section of Ghanaian ethnic groups. And some members of other ethnic groups supported Busia and demonization of the Ewes, not only Asantes or Akans alone.

You have to be wilfully blind or totally ignorant of what has been happening in the opposition to the P/NDC camp in order to claim today that you are not aware of talk of and even attempts to foment what would have become an ethnic war in Ghana prior to 1992. I personally had to intervene and quelled a serious fracas on Okyeame between two well known non-Ewes when the “brave Asantes” were queried again by a non-Asante why they could not deal with the apparently Ewe P/NDC which allegedly committed atrocities on they Akans only, I suppose. I bet many can remember J.H Mensah's arrest in America for allegedly attempting to buy weapons to prosecute their “liberation war” to get their country back. It is no wonder the NPP gurus, many of whom shared in those nefarious ideas, talked about it, plotted to carry it, etc., are finding it very hard to distance themselves from this public utterance of it again. How can they desert their fellow journey man, without being double hypocrites? At least, there must be some honour among thieves!

There are many questions to ask and many issues to take up. Had my PC not kaput and eventually leading to the loss of a huge part of what I had painstakingly written with references while in Norway with additions in London, my intended book taking up those issues would have been out years ago.

Incidentally, my next intended article after writing "How Some "Ewes" Became a Part of Ghana" is titled "Who Are the Ewes". It is just a revisit to my first ever post to a cyber forum in early 1994, Okyeame precisely, which Azar should remember so well, as in spite of my providing a reference, he still challenged me to give that! It was sent as my contribution, incidentally, to another NPP instigated scare against poor but hard working Ewe and Ada fishing cum farming pioneers (won't call them settlers) displaced by the effects of the Akosombo Dam on the neglected downstream people who opened up the mosquito infested and disease-ridden Afram Plains. The claim was that the NDC wanted to carve a district for them there and thereby claim the land for them! Wives and children were hastily sent home in order to keep them out of harm’s way in the event of attacks on the communities. That was when I decided not to sit any longer on the fence, just like the majority of my fellow educated Ewes, who think responding to such attacks on Ewes is beneath them, since madmen, "dzimakplawo" and "gbemelawo" were responsible! That was the common “wisdom” repeated by Rawlings at Tsiame, when he was queried by the worried chiefs and people about the ongoing Ewe demonization in the opposition media and political platforms in the ‘90s.

Gratuitous counter abuse, especially directed at Asantes ad nauseam, is not the way to tackle the issues, as some are presently doing on Ghanaweb. In the ‘90s, the Ghanaian stage was left to a novice like Komla Dumor to deal with on Myjoyonline with his “Ayigbe Jokes” series., which horrified and mortified me when I first listened to it online in 1997 or so. A programme like that would have found him and Myjoyonline foul of the Anti-Vilification Laws of any of the Western Europe countries and sanctioned appropriately. I doubt though whether half of our “honourable” MPs have heard of such a law, but that is the way we must go and huge revision of the school curricula. But that calls for another article.

Well, simply, many do not know how to deal with the madmen who repeatedly take their loins cloth while in the bath house! I know how! After all, I know the story of how the Anloga man dealt with the mad man of Tegbi and remained sane; the mad man who used to way lay the “asisiawo” - the market women - from the Keta market with a club and the question: axor a ava lo, alo axor a ekpo?, i.e., do you want penis or do you want club? And one day he raped and killed the heavily pregnant wife of the Anloga man. Of course, it is a taboo to deal with mad men in our society.

Ahoofe and his ilk’s tribalistic insults directed at Anlo-Ewes in particular and Agyapong's call to mayhem can be placed in perspective if you are informed about their origins. They used the tribal card so well in 1969 and think they can continue using it forever. No! Some of us decided long ago that ourselves and children shall not remain objects of demonization and vilification for the political objectives of some people who are still suffering from the mental warpedness that the slave trade had foisted on our ancestors. We shall therefore make sure that these appeal to ethnic differences backfire big time on their stupid faces!

I am therefore re-sending and shall continue re-posting this short piece I had put together especially for the readership of Ghanaweb and shall continue with my series on the Ethnic imbroglio in Ghana. Agyapong's outburst is simply the tip of the canker that permeates our body politic that must be dealt with at its roots. They are not the only Akans who suffer from what I have dubbed “Ewe angst and fears”, which afflict the generality of Akans due to how they are weaned and socialised. What do you expect from people who, as kids, are frightened to drink their Mist Alba, behave themselves or go to bed early with the Ewe bogeyman imagery?

Andy C. Y. Kwawukume

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THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
Dza le le leeeeeee!
Me zu kluvi
The road to Kontsiabu
Strewn with gold dusts.
Only those without
in their eyes gold dusts
felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…

then you’d know that the time to narrate the doleful tales of the pre-colonial era, where it all began, has arrived; but you’d get a glimpse now.

Not to waste time apportioning blame, the Akans (and Gas, if I may add them), started these tribal abuse and attacks on Ewes many decades ago; nay, centuries back, as I said earlier. But as mentioned above, I won't delve as yet into the pre-colonial times when it was free for all, with even some Ewe states joining in marauding and plundering other Ewe states for the slave markets of the Gold Coast. I had indeed provided a write up on that sordid era on Ghanaweb’s SIL in the 1990s, which is available. One German businessman with biz connections to Ghana who used to read the nonsense on SIL wrote a private mail to me saying that he was always wondering why Africans sold each other into slavery to Europeans and Arabs; reading my detailed historical account enlightened him on how and why it happened for the first time. That story must be re-told all over Africa in other to understand the roots of the conflicts that bedevilled the continent after independence.

In Ghana, the colonial times modern version started after the WW1 when Anlo, Tongu and Peki migrants from within the Gold Coast and those from the newly acquired TVT from the Germans started moving to the Akan and Ga areas to either fish, farm or seek paid employment. Ewes from Togo and Benin Republic (Dahomey) escaping from French repressive rule came later. Some Ewes, esp. the educated ones, also got jobs with the commercial houses and the colonial administration. Some, such as Gbedema and Nkulenu, started their own private businesses. Soon, they were becoming prosperous in their chosen fields and/or rising up in the ranks wherever they were employed due to the usual hard working nature of most migrants. After all, the far superior German missionary vocational educational set up, compared to the British, had equipped them much better with skills in the crafts and building, such as carpentry and masonry, which were in much demand by the colonial authority and the other natives of the Gold Coast and Asante. That was when trouble began and the attacks started, as far back as the 1930s.

Below is a brief quote from S. Greene about how the Fantes started perceiving Anlo-Ewe fisher folk; a perception or prejudice which is not much different from what permeates the Akan ethnic group as a whole up to today (not only a few bigots on Ghanaweb). Ewes find out to our chagrin or amusement, often as a kid, that that was how our fellow country men and women perceive us. The encounter is therefore a personal story too.

Not much has changed in the prejudiced minds of too many Akans, as we daily witness on Ghanaweb, even though many too have developed over the years an obsession or desire to marry Ewe girls, failure which often brought in its wake stories of tribalism heaped against Ewes. As I told some Akan teacher colleagues in Nigeria, it was the scary and “irrational” Akan “wofa” (uncle) inheritance system, stupid! Horrible stories of how Ewe widows were in particular dispossessed and treated shabbily were enough to dissuade any idea of marriage to even a most love besotted Akan man! It is no wonder that, with the interstate law of inheritance in place, marriage to Akan men has been on the increase.

I know an Ewe from the Peki area who swore that it’d never be possible to change the jaundiced perception of Akans of Ewes from his own experiences attending Mpraeso Teacher Training College, and then teaching at Mpraeso and in Kumasi. He said one particular woman - a cook in the school - they used to go to church with wouldn’t believe that he did not have any “akpeledzi” under their bed! I said it was possible and gave an example of my own experiences in Nigeria. I managed to convince my fellow Akan teachers that I don’t indulge nor believe in those things - juju or voodoo or even any god (white or black), and wouldn’t drink “ogogoro” with them – when there is original Gordon’s gin and lime cordial to have – and they somehow lost some “respect”, (or was it fear?) for me. They’d say I wasn’t a proper Anloman and fool around with me!

Between 1982-4, when their Anti-Ewe diatribes had reached fever point and they were advocating massacring Ewes as done to the Ibos in Nigeria who they claimed were also allegedly dominating Nigeria in the 1960s, I thought of putting some fear into them by creating some “kporsi” (“see-and-run”) to scare them. Fact is, practically every smart Ewe knows how to scare Akans and Gas even though they don’t have “foko” (anything), as we say in Anlo but I will keep that out of this write up. Good I didn’t do so, otherwise they’d be giving testimonies up to today about what an Anlo teacher did to them in Nigeria – they’d have packed out and run from their rooms on the ground floor of the storey building we were hiring. I “protected” myself practically by chocking the door handle with a chair, as I had seen in movies, before I went to bed, in order to prevent them from making me the first casualty of their let-us-kill-Ewes mania! Funny some of them even became staunch PNDC supporters, only to change their minds again years later when I met some on a visit to Ghana.

Anyway, enough with the digression into the personal narrative and to Sandra Greene.

From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:

"Increased Anlo identification with their northern Ewe-speaking neighbours may have also been enhanced by the experience many had while participating in migrant fishing. After World War I, numerous groups of Anlo men and women traveled to other coastal areas, including the Fante area of the Gold Coast, in order to pursue their commercial fishing activities. For many, this was probably the first time they had traveled outside their home area, and/or to a district where they were a distinct linguistic minority. In these locations, they conducted themselves as they had in their own home villages, but those among whom they come to live - often temporarily, just for the fishing season - came to view the Anlos' prosperity with jealousy and suspicion. Stories circulated that associated the Anlo with "blood-curdling" crimes. R.W. Wyllie indicates, for example, that from at least the 1930s "Fanti [children] learned to view the Anlos as thieves, kidnappers, sorcerers, and ritual murderers." The social tensions that accompany these beliefs - and the very fact that these beliefs were held by a non-Ewe speaking people - must have heightened the Anlo's awareness of their linguistic and cultural background and generated some sense of identification with their Ewe-speaking peoples whom they would have encountered in the Gold Coast."

The encounter with the Gold Coasters was enough to turn any Ewe into a paranoid schizophrenic, developed a siege mentality (become “inward-looking”?) and very resentful towards any idea of union with the Gold Coast, not to mention marry an Akan.

As some of you know, the Anlo area through Tongu to the Peki area had been part of the Gold Coast colony proper, effectively from 1874 though the British “bought” and claimed the area from the Danes in 1850; hence the freedom to move to other parts of the Gold Coast and Asante later. Besides, many southern Ewes are descendants Ga-Adangbe, Elmina and Denkyira fugitives dating back respectively to 1687 when the Akwamus first thrashed the Gas for cutting the “bolobolo” (foreskin) of their prince sent to the Ga Mantse Okai Koi’s court to understudy courtship, and 1700, when the Asantes defeated the Denkyiras and took over Elmina from the Denkyiras. Going back to Ge (Accra) and Sima (Shama) with their new kinsmen was just like returning to the ancestors' land. In fact, it was the descendants of those fugitives who were the first migrants, having maintained links with their ancestral lands during their long period in exile. Reindorf had written about that back and forth movement among the Ga fugitives long ago. That’s how Osu-Anecho came to be founded and how all Ewes got the derogatory epithet “Ayigbe” (Ayi refuse), whether they were descendants of fugitives or not. The “dzulor” bit the Gas added originally referred to the Okai Koi stool regalia which the Ga-Ewes in Togo refused to return to Accra and still claim to be its protectors. Remember the trips with pre-colonial undertones their chiefs made to Ghana when the NPP took over power in 2000?

I can make long comments on the above quote but suffice it to say that it was the beginning and end of the love affair which started as unification with the Gold Coast movement ending up as the drive to secede from the Gold Coast. So we read from the December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine a letter sent to the colonial government of the Gold Coast:

“We PEOPLE of Togoland, descended from two principal countries, Elmina
(Ane) and Accra (Ge), both of the Gold Coast Colony, ask to have British government because it is the government of our fathers, whose customs are our customs, and a British Colony is half-an-hour distant from us.
We ask to have British government because it is the government of our kith and kin, our race and our tribe.
We ask for British government because of our relationship with our people on the west, which must assert itself..” (culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)

And so on it went. One may wonder why the petitioners did not even acknowledge the Ewes, Dagombas, Konkombas, Akans and the host of other ethnic and tribal groups in Togo who also have their “kith and kin” within the Gold Coast and the Northern Territories. I guess this piece of history may come as a surprise to the ingrates who make a living of always reminding us that Ewes come from Togo, some of whom carried a video to Lome to trace the roots of Fiifii Kwetey there, instead of doing so in Accra! Well, he said he was from Nogokpo, which rubbed a sore spot for me, but that’s another story.

THE EWE BACKLASH

By the 1940s, Ewes, Anlos in particular, in the Gold Coast had had enough of the vilification and undeserved demonisation their successes were arousing. The returnee Anes and Ges (Gas), now fused as the Genyi, as Anlos refer to them, through intermarriages, also soon discovered that they were not welcome, or often welcomed with shouts of “Ayigbe dzulor”! Disenchantment set in and secession from Ghana became a far better option. The result was the 1956 plebiscite and the rest is history.

Then come the post Feb 24 1966 coup era, when Busia and his PP turned this traditional vilification of Ewes into a political tool to win the 1969 general elections. It was preceded by an internal struggle within the NLC to share the spoils of office after the coup. An extended quote from Dennis Austin, that great chronicler of Ghana history, captures the gist of it, so here we go:

“A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was express1ed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema’s reappearance in political life but in relations to events after the 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone burst out singing, but when the music died down away it was noticed that the NLC (it seemed) was commanded by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankrah (a Ga), was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of Defence Staff, Michael Otu, the evidence to many was overwhelming. It was all an Ewe plot. Soon Ghana would be run for the benefit of an energetic minority, operating first within the armed forces, and now behind Gbedemah. ‘Appoint an Ewe to a public corporation or to a government department and within a year the entire hierarchy down to the messenger will be an Ewe.’ So the argument ran. And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their own barren region, have been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and the police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government department and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be in view of their number. But a belief does not, of course, have to be true before people hold it fervently.
Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable chance of fate, leader of the governing party I would be much less apprehensive of my Ewe opponents in front than of the large and expectant following behind. I would be fearful too of the ambitions of those now excluded from power, remembering the Songs of Innocence that:
The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caeser’s laurel crown” (D. Austin 1976:125)

Austin was writing with hindsight about what befell Busia’s regime, overthrown in a coup led by an Asante.

In Part 2, I intend to examine the hate campaign against the Ewes and the consequences or reactions from the 1970s which led to Kofi Awoonor’s infamous prison book, The Ghana Revolution, which he claimed he wrote in prison when gaoled for helping Brig. Kattah to escape from Ghana. It’d be necessary to focus on the Ghana Army, from its origins and recruitment trends since it is at the crux of the matter.
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Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, better known as C.Y. Andy-K, is a freethinker, Pan-Africanist and an ardent Nkrumaist.
cyandyk@ymail.com

References:

Dennis Austin (1976): Ghana Observed: Essays on the Politics of a W. African Republic.
Manchester Univ. Press.
Sandra E. Greene (1995): Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave
Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Heinemann and James Currey
Robert W. Wyllie. “Migrant Anlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A
Comparative Study.” Africa, XXXIX, 4 (1969), 396-410.
Nii Ayiteytsebi 10 years ago

Alan cash will be there to do the best you are imaging to be done. It will never be Nana Akufo. If that is your mind then Mahama will be highly welcome as president in the 2016

Prince, in the first place how many barrels o ...
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Alan cash will be there to do the best you are imaging to be done. It will never be Nana Akufo. If that is your mind then Mahama will be highly welcome as president in the 2016

Prince, in the first place how many barrels of oil does Ghana get daily from the so called rich much talked oil in Ghana? It is a shame that Ghana gets only 100 thousand barrels a day, and it has become every day talk of oil.

Nigeria gets 2.5 million barrels a day, even with that they do not blow their horns like the Ghana village tribes are doing daily. Villager Prince Kwasi, you need to find out things before vomiting shit out of your mind.
WHEN WE GROW WISE 10 years ago

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yaw 10 years ago

Read Proverbs 6 16-19 & Matt 12 36-37

Read Proverbs 6 16-19 & Matt 12 36-37
Auntie Rose 10 years ago

From today l have struck his title so will only call him Ocquah. JJ Rawlings won over the North, Volta, Eastern and Western regions over 19yrs with the gap created by former leaders.

He extended electricity and road develo ...
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From today l have struck his title so will only call him Ocquah. JJ Rawlings won over the North, Volta, Eastern and Western regions over 19yrs with the gap created by former leaders.

He extended electricity and road developments to those areas and in some parts of western regions like Enchi, Sefwi to reach farmers which former govts have ignored.ndc won their admiration with hard work not tribal sentiments as this ocquaye is propagating.
koffi parker 10 years ago

Npp should rather work hard to prove to Ghanaians they are capable to rule.Why attack NDC and Rawlings

Npp should rather work hard to prove to Ghanaians they are capable to rule.Why attack NDC and Rawlings
Okey Man 10 years ago

Mr. Adams, I respect you to the core. You have made a clear point by making the so-called political historian look to a one day old child as useless to humanity. NPP supporters can't say anything useful than usual insults bec ...
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Mr. Adams, I respect you to the core. You have made a clear point by making the so-called political historian look to a one day old child as useless to humanity. NPP supporters can't say anything useful than usual insults because they know you have spoken the fact out. Ashantis are goats
DB 10 years ago

And you think you have said something useful other than the usual insult. You are just as stupid as the people you call goats.

And you think you have said something useful other than the usual insult. You are just as stupid as the people you call goats.
Dan 10 years ago

Ashantis are goats but they fuck human beings. Trokosis are sheep (ewe) and fuck sheep.

Ashantis are goats but they fuck human beings. Trokosis are sheep (ewe) and fuck sheep.
Ugly Akufu Addo 10 years ago

But the sami Ashantis root came frm the north

But the sami Ashantis root came frm the north
ALPHA ROMEO 10 years ago

... and Ashantes fuck gorrllas, apes and monkeys, no doubt.

... and Ashantes fuck gorrllas, apes and monkeys, no doubt.
togbe of hotso 10 years ago

Anyone born from stinking ass pussy like your bastard mother will say such a statement. You hater idiot monger.The last time I did fuck ur mum i did not like.I dont know why ur stupid akpeteshie father like it. It stinks so b ...
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Anyone born from stinking ass pussy like your bastard mother will say such a statement. You hater idiot monger.The last time I did fuck ur mum i did not like.I dont know why ur stupid akpeteshie father like it. It stinks so bad.
DB 10 years ago

Nonsense, when you have a gun to your head do you have a choice? He won by playing the tribal card. How can any responsible former president claim to have the tape and evidence of the killers of the Ya Naa yet refuse to relea ...
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Nonsense, when you have a gun to your head do you have a choice? He won by playing the tribal card. How can any responsible former president claim to have the tape and evidence of the killers of the Ya Naa yet refuse to release it for the culprits to be punished? What was JJ doing then? Was he not playing the Northeners against the NPP? Who did majority of the businesses JJ destroyed and sold off belong to? Were they not ashanti's?

After 19 years of JJ where did that leave us? Was it not HIPC. JJ never won the north, volta or western region. Voltarians saw JJ as one of their own so identified themselves with his party. JJ overthrew the first legitimately elected Northern president(Liman). Even Idi Amin had followers not because they respected or loved him but because they feared what he would do to them. JJ falls in that category. He was feared but not respected, afterall he was the longest serving dictator in our history who could make people vanish or tied to a stake and shot, what choice did people have? He is a divisive figure who started the tribal politics we are experiencing today.
KOLA,LONDON MAIN PROPER 10 years ago

That is how you see it. But it was not up to JJ to point to the Northners that Yaa Naa was gruesomely murdered under the watch of the NPP Government. They Knew what went on and I have the fullest of events which went on as on ...
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That is how you see it. But it was not up to JJ to point to the Northners that Yaa Naa was gruesomely murdered under the watch of the NPP Government. They Knew what went on and I have the fullest of events which went on as one of his relatives who got shot is here with me right now in London.

The point in discussion is if whether JJ actually pitted Northerners, Ewesand others against NPP and Asantes, which is a resounding NO as Auntie Rose mentioned above. NPP has allowed itself to seen as Asante/Akyem Political Party even considering the wrangling within the Party now.
facts 10 years ago

Kofi Adam is blinded by partisan protectionism. Rawlings and people like his spokesman Kofi Adams did everything possible to bring all other tribes against Ex. President Kufour and his tribesmen. He infact exploited the Ya N ...
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Kofi Adam is blinded by partisan protectionism. Rawlings and people like his spokesman Kofi Adams did everything possible to bring all other tribes against Ex. President Kufour and his tribesmen. He infact exploited the Ya Na's issue to sway some NPP supporters to NDC WITH some Akan NDC members.
akonoba 10 years ago

Ndc is not democratic. JJ did coup to become president. Mills was imposed on NDC. Mahama was selected by NDC. Position in NPP is by vote.

Ndc is not democratic. JJ did coup to become president. Mills was imposed on NDC. Mahama was selected by NDC. Position in NPP is by vote.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

Yes, of course, he is certainly blinded by partisanship and protectionism some quintillion percent. But, that of Prof Ocquaye is sanctified as well as justifiable before the Supreme Being, huh?

Yes, of course, he is certainly blinded by partisanship and protectionism some quintillion percent. But, that of Prof Ocquaye is sanctified as well as justifiable before the Supreme Being, huh?
Tibaa 10 years ago

If I were Kofi Adams, I would not have even responded to the stupidity of a statement from a guy who call himself, a "professor."

At times I wonder if the so-called "intellectuals" actually think before they make such horr ...
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If I were Kofi Adams, I would not have even responded to the stupidity of a statement from a guy who call himself, a "professor."

At times I wonder if the so-called "intellectuals" actually think before they make such horrible statements.
John 10 years ago

Today those who created the division are rejoicing,but I can assure them that by the time tribalism reaches its peak the party with the majority tribe will dominate and rule for a longtime.We shd not encourage this tribal stu ...
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Today those who created the division are rejoicing,but I can assure them that by the time tribalism reaches its peak the party with the majority tribe will dominate and rule for a longtime.We shd not encourage this tribal stupidity which will not help this country.The Akans tribe who are closely around 60% and mostly known for supporting NPP can punish the minority tribe if we encourage this nonsense.
Pumpuni 10 years ago

"The NDC has had leadership from within Volta region, from the Ewe background, from the North and also from the South, with Prof Mills. We have had a Fante being a President. We’ve had indeed three Fantes being Vice Preside ...
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"The NDC has had leadership from within Volta region, from the Ewe background, from the North and also from the South, with Prof Mills. We have had a Fante being a President. We’ve had indeed three Fantes being Vice President from our stock."
Nonsense, were they not Ghanaians?
Are our elections about tribal leaders or Ghanaian leaders?
Frank Thompson 10 years ago

Ocquaye's idiocy is now bordering on lunacy. These are the people who will destroy NPP. How can a buffoon like this call himself a professor

Ocquaye's idiocy is now bordering on lunacy. These are the people who will destroy NPP. How can a buffoon like this call himself a professor
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Fuck you Kwasia, who will destroy the NPP? Ofui, disguised Ewes like you who claim Fante only expose yourself because you hate the truth. Gyimii, who are you to tell us the person that destroy the NPP? Remember, you fools sai ...
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Fuck you Kwasia, who will destroy the NPP? Ofui, disguised Ewes like you who claim Fante only expose yourself because you hate the truth. Gyimii, who are you to tell us the person that destroy the NPP? Remember, you fools said the same thing about Sir John.
jo 10 years ago

It seems to me that the ghanaweb team is trying to be fishy here
For some time now when ever u post a comment, it cannot be read
Try and observe

It seems to me that the ghanaweb team is trying to be fishy here
For some time now when ever u post a comment, it cannot be read
Try and observe
A concerned citizen...222222 10 years ago

Barking for JJ all thetime

Barking for JJ all thetime
Albert 10 years ago

......."Barking for JJ all thetime", yes, he needs it. let someone also back the brainless professor and let the nation know that his assertion is poor and that he Kofi Adams has damadged him seriously

......."Barking for JJ all thetime", yes, he needs it. let someone also back the brainless professor and let the nation know that his assertion is poor and that he Kofi Adams has damadged him seriously
Ka Na Wu 10 years ago

Because he needs his chop money.

Because he needs his chop money.
Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

This man called Mike Ocquaye is an opportunist!! He wrote "Politics of Ghana 1972-79 where he stated certain facts of the AFRC and JJ but which he licked with his anus after either second or third thought to be able to live f ...
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This man called Mike Ocquaye is an opportunist!! He wrote "Politics of Ghana 1972-79 where he stated certain facts of the AFRC and JJ but which he licked with his anus after either second or third thought to be able to live fine within the NPP party!! Where was this Mike Ocquaye when the Ga man who was the former Attorney General under Kuffour, and who defended the mad man Sir John they call him at the Supreme Court said there is a perception that the NPP is an Akan Party!!! Isn't it true??? Why has the NDC at various times elected people from different ethnic groups all over the country and not the same pedestal and platform given the NPP and other tribes not from the Akyem and the Ashanti stock!! NPP is a tribal entity which adops MateMeho villains' methodologies!! Ghana belongs to all people!!
DB 10 years ago

Nonsense, did NDC elect people from various regions or they were imposed on the party and Ghanaians?

JJ imposed himself on Ghanaians. Was Mills elected by NDC or was he imposed on NDC at the Swedru declaration? Was Mahama ...
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Nonsense, did NDC elect people from various regions or they were imposed on the party and Ghanaians?

JJ imposed himself on Ghanaians. Was Mills elected by NDC or was he imposed on NDC at the Swedru declaration? Was Mahama elected or the presidency feel in his lap when the sitting president died? Look at the history of NDC carefully and ask yourself, if NDC were to go to Congress to elect a flagbearer, will they come out united? Has NDC ever elected and ashanti as flag bearer? No, and they never will. So what are you talking about?
kalli 10 years ago

Well demonstrated.what an all die b die statement from an NPP leader

Well demonstrated.what an all die b die statement from an NPP leader
KOLIKO 10 years ago

ITS THIS KINDS OF NONSENSICAL COMMENTS THAT BRING HATRED TO YOUR FOOLISH GABBAGE NPP

ITS THIS KINDS OF NONSENSICAL COMMENTS THAT BRING HATRED TO YOUR FOOLISH GABBAGE NPP
AWUDU 10 years ago

HOW CAN A WHOLE PROFESSOER TALK LIKE THIS?THE MEER AND EMPTY ARROGANCE OF AKANS BRINGING THEM HATRED

HOW CAN A WHOLE PROFESSOER TALK LIKE THIS?THE MEER AND EMPTY ARROGANCE OF AKANS BRINGING THEM HATRED
GOWAN 10 years ago

Talking about the Presidents and Vice Presidents that Kofi Adams was foaming at the mouth to explain, it is on record that Kow Nkensen Arkaah was pummeled into the grave by the leadership of the NDC from Volta Region.
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Talking about the Presidents and Vice Presidents that Kofi Adams was foaming at the mouth to explain, it is on record that Kow Nkensen Arkaah was pummeled into the grave by the leadership of the NDC from Volta Region.
During the tenure of Atta Mills, he was also buried by the leadership of the NDC from the North and Volta region.
How come all the Akans from the NDC gov't, who assume the high office die? That is a question Kofi Adams should be answering. Atta Mills was even not accorded the decency of an investigation to ascertain the circumstances leading to, and caused his demise, so steps could be taken to forestall any such occurrence.
The assertion of Prof. Ocquaye that the NDC gov't is anti-Akan, and this has been spearheaded by Jerry John Jeremiah Rawlings is very apt. This fact has not being lost on Ghanaians.
However, that is even not the issue. The very crux of the matter is whether the NDC party and gov't currently led by John Mahama has the ability, competence and the mental acuity to address the crisis that they have willingly plunged the country, and the answer is a resounding NO!!!
There's no semblance of any better Ghana agenda anywhere in Ghana except within their family and friends looting brigade, and going forward the NDC gov't needs to be voted out pronto, to usher in a new team, with the demonstrated ability, track record and vision, to solve the problems, and those are the hardcore uncontestable facts.
OSEI WIAFE 10 years ago

THE ONLY THING JJ DID NOT SEPARATE AKANS FROM THE EWES WAS ACTIVITIES IN HIS BEDROOM. POLITICALLY, HE USED THE COLONIALIST METHOD:DIVIDE AND RULE. KWAME NKRUMAH ALSO DID THE SAME BY CREATING THE BRONG AHAFO REGION. WE ALL KNO ...
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THE ONLY THING JJ DID NOT SEPARATE AKANS FROM THE EWES WAS ACTIVITIES IN HIS BEDROOM. POLITICALLY, HE USED THE COLONIALIST METHOD:DIVIDE AND RULE. KWAME NKRUMAH ALSO DID THE SAME BY CREATING THE BRONG AHAFO REGION. WE ALL KNOW WHAT RAWLING DID AND WHAT HE DID NOT DO. HE KILLED OUR DEAR LEADERS, YAW BOAKYE, KATAKYIE AAA.
Mars 10 years ago

It also not the best to market politic in tribal way as ndc also use to do, it will hv be more better to choose qualify person who deserve it, let promote good bureaucracy thar institute best rules to fight corruption n limit ...
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It also not the best to market politic in tribal way as ndc also use to do, it will hv be more better to choose qualify person who deserve it, let promote good bureaucracy thar institute best rules to fight corruption n limit the interest of the president from the nation
Che 10 years ago

Well, you are right but , how many Akyems, Kwahus or Ashantis have ever held any prominent position?

Well, you are right but , how many Akyems, Kwahus or Ashantis have ever held any prominent position?
Samuel 10 years ago

Tell me whether it was JJ who asked K4 to say that there was no one from Upper West Region competent enough to be a cabinet minister in K4's government.

Tell me whether it was JJ who asked K4 to say that there was no one from Upper West Region competent enough to be a cabinet minister in K4's government.
kofi boye 10 years ago

Massa...what of Brong..

Massa...what of Brong..
Afua US 10 years ago

Kofi save your breath on this saying of Ocquaye, they are confuse people in confuse party blaming everybody excerpt themselves

Kofi save your breath on this saying of Ocquaye, they are confuse people in confuse party blaming everybody excerpt themselves
MAHAMA LOOT ND SHARE 10 years ago

HAHAHAHAHA JJ DOG BOYS HATE THE TRUTH,WE ALL KNOW IT,SO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT,KWASEA BI NTI,USELESS NONSES TALKING,

HAHAHAHAHA JJ DOG BOYS HATE THE TRUTH,WE ALL KNOW IT,SO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT,KWASEA BI NTI,USELESS NONSES TALKING,
kenkana 10 years ago

BRA. KOFI TELL THEM THEY SHOULD ELECT AN EWE OR A NORTHERNER AS THEIR FLAGBEARER BEFORE WE WILL TAKE THEM SERIOUS.

BRA. KOFI TELL THEM THEY SHOULD ELECT AN EWE OR A NORTHERNER AS THEIR FLAGBEARER BEFORE WE WILL TAKE THEM SERIOUS.
DB 10 years ago

Nonsense, has NDC ever elected an ashanti as a flag bearer? You think imposing flagbearers on the people is democracy.

1. JJ forced himself on Ghanaians when he staged a coup and took power by force, he was never elected.
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Nonsense, has NDC ever elected an ashanti as a flag bearer? You think imposing flagbearers on the people is democracy.

1. JJ forced himself on Ghanaians when he staged a coup and took power by force, he was never elected.
2. Miils was forced on NDC by JJ, he was never the people's choice, JJ wanted someone he could control and manipulate and he saw Mills as such.
3. Mahama was a default president which was due to Mill's illness and untimely death.
4. Mahama was first sworn in as the constituition stipulates upon the death of the sitting president not because he was elected, he rode on the back of that to become president.

So Mr Adams, don't come here thumping your chest claiming NDC is nationalistic. Let us see you have people compete for the flagbearer position and not hand picked then we will see if NDC will remain intact after that.
senegal 10 years ago

what is wrong for NPP to be an akan or ashanti party?go to germany CSU is only in the south with CDU for southners yet they are ruling the country. everybody in the world knows that the DEMOCRATIC PARTY is for BLACKS and mino ...
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what is wrong for NPP to be an akan or ashanti party?go to germany CSU is only in the south with CDU for southners yet they are ruling the country. everybody in the world knows that the DEMOCRATIC PARTY is for BLACKS and minorty yet they are ruling. YOU PEOPLE ARE STUPID
Douglas 10 years ago

Mr Adams, I am very suprised that you could bring yourself so low to that thing of a person of such character called Ocquaye. Honestly, giving attention to this hopeless old man would rather make him think he is somebody impo ...
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Mr Adams, I am very suprised that you could bring yourself so low to that thing of a person of such character called Ocquaye. Honestly, giving attention to this hopeless old man would rather make him think he is somebody important. I am a hundred percent Akan but I do not agree with this man´s stupidity and division that he is trying to create among tribes in this country. I think he better do that with his Ga tribes. He is not a spokesman for the Akan ethnic groups. I thank God that this rubbish is not coming from any Akan speaking tribe, but a foolish Ga like Ocquaye. Why all this nonsense from people, who are supposed to know better! I wonder what kind of training this good for nothing foolish old man would give his children. Dirty bullshit! Professor my foot! Swines.
Cheeeeeeaw dce 10 years ago

Kofi Adam is really saying the truth and talking with confidence and setting examples. Can the NPP demostrate wat NDC is doing, with reference to Kofi's statistics. Kofi, keep it up with your facts.

Kofi Adam is really saying the truth and talking with confidence and setting examples. Can the NPP demostrate wat NDC is doing, with reference to Kofi's statistics. Kofi, keep it up with your facts.
ATTA 10 years ago

Sometimes when people like Kofi Adams makes a counter attack we don't have to even waste time to comment on him.All because their bombarded with atrocities
If we are to talk of division among the Ewes,Northerners and The Aka ...
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Sometimes when people like Kofi Adams makes a counter attack we don't have to even waste time to comment on him.All because their bombarded with atrocities
If we are to talk of division among the Ewes,Northerners and The Akans we will pinpoint at the NDC because they are the origin of division.
Yenara-asaseni 10 years ago

It is not JJ who divided us. It is Busia, Victor Owusu, Prof Adu Boahen and list is endless. Mike Oquaye is simply biased and dishonest!! Yes When has the Busia tradition produce a non Akyem or non Ashanti president and when ...
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It is not JJ who divided us. It is Busia, Victor Owusu, Prof Adu Boahen and list is endless. Mike Oquaye is simply biased and dishonest!! Yes When has the Busia tradition produce a non Akyem or non Ashanti president and when will they do so ...don't go back to the talk of competence. JAK was one of the most incompetent leaders we ever had!!
Mr. Mensah 10 years ago

KOFI ADAMS AYIKOO THIS ARE FACTS DIFFERENT ACADEMIC ADULTERATION FROM THE OLD PROF. IF THE NPP WANTS TO BE NATIONAL IN CHARACTER THEY SHOULD START NOW AND WATCH THEIR UTTERANCES . WHAT OF KENEDY AGYEPONG DECLARATION IS HE AL ...
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KOFI ADAMS AYIKOO THIS ARE FACTS DIFFERENT ACADEMIC ADULTERATION FROM THE OLD PROF. IF THE NPP WANTS TO BE NATIONAL IN CHARACTER THEY SHOULD START NOW AND WATCH THEIR UTTERANCES . WHAT OF KENEDY AGYEPONG DECLARATION IS HE ALSO FROM THE SCHOOL OF JJ?
Kwame Assining 10 years ago

It is a pity senility has taken the better part of the brains of the old Prof. I listened to the Prof a few times when he gave lectures at the Staff College and he was good. His argument this time lacks logic. His hatred for ...
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It is a pity senility has taken the better part of the brains of the old Prof. I listened to the Prof a few times when he gave lectures at the Staff College and he was good. His argument this time lacks logic. His hatred for Jerry Rawlings has clouded his thinking. Every problem in Ghana must be put on the doorstep of Jerry Rawlings. Poor old Prof Mike Ocquaye. Better to keep quiete and be thought wise than to speak and clear all doubts.
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Worried Citizen 10 years ago

Kofi Adams, stop mentally enslaving the Voltarians for your selfish ends. No Ahanti man is the causes of the problems in the Volta region. You are part of it, so help them and stop that nonsense.

Kofi Adams, stop mentally enslaving the Voltarians for your selfish ends. No Ahanti man is the causes of the problems in the Volta region. You are part of it, so help them and stop that nonsense.
Kanawu 10 years ago

Ex President Torgbui Tsifohor Jerry John Rawlings did not kill King Osei Tutu the first whiled crossing the river pra.Prof Ocquaye will cause Nana Addo Dankwa or any npp presidential candidate to loose the coming votes from t ...
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Ex President Torgbui Tsifohor Jerry John Rawlings did not kill King Osei Tutu the first whiled crossing the river pra.Prof Ocquaye will cause Nana Addo Dankwa or any npp presidential candidate to loose the coming votes from the Ewes and their northern brothers and sisters again with these pronoucement as a historian politician who supposed to know better.Ashantis should stop being arogant and disrespectful to other tribes,they should learn from other akan groups especially the Okwahus,very gentle people so that the hatred can stop,If you do not like the apple then dont shake the tree.
Ras Bo - London 10 years ago

It is very unfortunate to hear people who should know better spewing garbage and venom so dreadful even for their household to contain them.
I think this man should know the truth and rather use his age and experience to adv ...
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It is very unfortunate to hear people who should know better spewing garbage and venom so dreadful even for their household to contain them.
I think this man should know the truth and rather use his age and experience to advice and gather other than to divide.

I can now realised that the remnants of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah’s enemies are about to pass away if they don’t repent the curse brought upon them by their fathers will cause a lot of heart ache for their young generations. They are all rust and have nothing to offer than speak rubbish.

Mike I don’t think you read your bible well. Can you tell Ghanaians that you did not dip your hand into state budget when you were a minister? How you manage to over budget the rubbish jubilee house which will never house any of you until you all pass on with Indian friends when women were given birth on the floor at the korle bu at the time. Imagine the insensitive behaviour you and your occult father “Kuffour” put up? Today you guys are finding it hard to keep your heads up and you think by tainting others you will look fine eh!!! Alas! “"If anyone causes one of these little ones--those who believe in me--to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and thrown into deep sea” A WORD TO A WISE

You are a modern day Pharisee, Hypocrite!!!! It is not your family and loved who will grant you heaven but how pure your heart is. Be sincere and if you have nothing to say just shut up!!!!!
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

And why is it that any time they hit the reserved benches prepared exclusively for them by Ghanaians, the issue of tribalism get a political stage of display? One must not go visit Mars to obtain answers as to whose bill this ...
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And why is it that any time they hit the reserved benches prepared exclusively for them by Ghanaians, the issue of tribalism get a political stage of display? One must not go visit Mars to obtain answers as to whose bill this hot subject is credited to, mate. In here verifies plenty of testimony of credence to "NA WHO CAUSE AM" la....

Peace out!
BIRAHMA 10 years ago

I was astonished when the Host of the show on Radio XYZ said he agreed with Mike on that allegation when Mr Ayikoi Otoo is on record to have accused his own NPP of ethnic bias

I was astonished when the Host of the show on Radio XYZ said he agreed with Mike on that allegation when Mr Ayikoi Otoo is on record to have accused his own NPP of ethnic bias
w3 10 years ago

Take care yourself. Remember Smith?

Take care yourself. Remember Smith?
w3 10 years ago

What is problem Kofi. JJ did the same in the GAF and won. He used other ranks against officers, recruited more ewes including jujumen, voodooo priest in the army - field engineers etc - promoted all sorts of wicked people to ...
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What is problem Kofi. JJ did the same in the GAF and won. He used other ranks against officers, recruited more ewes including jujumen, voodooo priest in the army - field engineers etc - promoted all sorts of wicked people to higher ranks for his own benefit.
w3 10 years ago

Nana Konadu is a trophy card for the demon JJ

Nana Konadu is a trophy card for the demon JJ
Sam Amsterdam 10 years ago

Kofi Adams has said it all.Is it Papa J who said 'yen Akanfo'?

Kofi Adams has said it all.Is it Papa J who said 'yen Akanfo'?
kojo lee 10 years ago

Kofi should tell ghanians why the ewes in the n d c huanted kunadu agyman rawlings out of the n d c!?? Is it not because she was an ashanti? Is people like kofi Adams who will follow their stomach for crumbs of bread and lea ...
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Kofi should tell ghanians why the ewes in the n d c huanted kunadu agyman rawlings out of the n d c!?? Is it not because she was an ashanti? Is people like kofi Adams who will follow their stomach for crumbs of bread and leave their common sense at home when trawling killing ashantis and other akans. And destroying their bissiness where was he? Kofi do remember the slaughter of acheampong.afrifa. akufu etc...???
Correctguy. 10 years ago

Are these words coming from a Professor and is this the kind of knowledge he professes? God should bless Ghana with people who will never get moved by these divisionist so desperate to win power even if they antagonize every ...
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Are these words coming from a Professor and is this the kind of knowledge he professes? God should bless Ghana with people who will never get moved by these divisionist so desperate to win power even if they antagonize every body else but themselves. No body needs to tell them they are the only people who see themselves as more Ghanaian than any body else. We are the electorate and we are watching and listening.
Amenuveve Kobla 10 years ago

Kofi Adams is the true historian. Ocquaye doesn't know any history.

Kofi Adams is the true historian. Ocquaye doesn't know any history.
Senior Wisdom 10 years ago

So why don't you have as Ashanti or Akyem as leader or vice. You agree that NDC that the NDC is also a tribal party. Pathetic for Ghana

So why don't you have as Ashanti or Akyem as leader or vice. You agree that NDC that the NDC is also a tribal party. Pathetic for Ghana
Patience 10 years ago

Adam made a good point and gave a good example about the remarks NPP members passed.

Adam made a good point and gave a good example about the remarks NPP members passed.
BRANDY 10 years ago

STUPID KOFI ADAMS, ATTAMILLS, JOHN MAHAMA WERE ALL IMPOSED SO SHUT THE FUCK UP....NDC HAS NO FUTURE, AND IT WILL COLLAPSE LIKE A SAND WALL.....The NDC has had leadership from within Volta region, from the Ewe background, from ...
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STUPID KOFI ADAMS, ATTAMILLS, JOHN MAHAMA WERE ALL IMPOSED SO SHUT THE FUCK UP....NDC HAS NO FUTURE, AND IT WILL COLLAPSE LIKE A SAND WALL.....The NDC has had leadership from within Volta region, from the Ewe background, from the North and also from the South, with Prof Mills. We have had a Fante being a President. We’ve had indeed three Fantes being Vice President from our stock. We’ve had somebody from the North being a Vice President and we’ve had somebody from the North being a President. We’ve had somebody from the South, Fante, being a President. We’ve had somebody from the Volta also being a President.
Ugly Akufu Addo 10 years ago

Now they are trying to kill Bawumia n Afoko

Now they are trying to kill Bawumia n Afoko
Ugly Akufu Addo 10 years ago

What about K4 ?

What about K4 ?
apuuu 10 years ago

We blame Jerry Rawlings everything that goes wrong in Ghana because he deserves it Kofi Adams if the truth hurts go and kill yourself apuuu

We blame Jerry Rawlings everything that goes wrong in Ghana because he deserves it Kofi Adams if the truth hurts go and kill yourself apuuu
Analyst 10 years ago

NPP believes they have divine right to rule Ghana. This is why they have the impudence to accuse someone of the very wrong they are guilty of.
How can someone say Northerners and Ewes have ganged up against NPP when the NPP' ...
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NPP believes they have divine right to rule Ghana. This is why they have the impudence to accuse someone of the very wrong they are guilty of.
How can someone say Northerners and Ewes have ganged up against NPP when the NPP's running mate to their presidential candidate in the 2012 election and the former Vice President in the NPP government from 2000-2008 were Northerners?
Neither would it be right to say that, the Ashantis rejected the NDC because NDC lost there because many Ashantis voted for NDC anyway just as how many Voltarians and Northerners voted for NPP.
Elections are like a game; they can be won or lost and so whichever side one's party is after an election, it should not be taken as a 100% endorsement/rejection by the winner/loser. Everybody is free to vote the way he/she thinks right without any apologies.
ASANTE MOTHER FUCKERS 10 years ago

Ashantis think they have the right to rule Ghana. That is the real problem!!!

Ashantis think they have the right to rule Ghana. That is the real problem!!!
T.T 10 years ago

That is why ndc can win/steal election but can not govern and manage the economy.full of bull shit.idiot.

That is why ndc can win/steal election but can not govern and manage the economy.full of bull shit.idiot.
Cursed Govt 10 years ago

Because they believe most Ghanaians are stupid and will never grow wise

Because they believe most Ghanaians are stupid and will never grow wise
DD 10 years ago

It may be true that akans are the largest ethnic group in Ghana however, their number is not enough to win the NPP any election in ghana given they're 45 percent of the population. So to suggest otherwise is a warped analysis ...
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It may be true that akans are the largest ethnic group in Ghana however, their number is not enough to win the NPP any election in ghana given they're 45 percent of the population. So to suggest otherwise is a warped analysis brother John.
Nii Okai 10 years ago

Ghanaians should understand and know that Akan is not a tribe, so in the first place Prof Ocquaye is wrong either through frustration or just confused mindedness, to have used the Akan issue because Akan is not a tribe.

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Ghanaians should understand and know that Akan is not a tribe, so in the first place Prof Ocquaye is wrong either through frustration or just confused mindedness, to have used the Akan issue because Akan is not a tribe.

Prof Ocquaye could have talked of Ashantis, Akyems, Ahantas, Kwahus, Bonos etc to convince us of the facts that he visualised in link to the Northerners and Ewes in relation to the few above mentioned tribes.

Akan is a word uesd just to described or qualify those tribes who have simlarities in their languages that they speak. This never means they are a tribe per say therefore it is very stupid and of less intelligence for any educated Ghanaian to try to use the Akan issue to divide Ghanaians as the NPP have conceived and tried to use on many occaion to draw people of those tribes to vote for them.

No single tribe in Ghana can form a government via democratic process. Thanks to God it will never never be.
Again, Akan is not a tribe period, therefore there is no Akan man, but remember there ia Fante man, Ashanti man, Sefwi man, Akwapim man, a Ga man, An Ewe man, A Dagomba man etc, therefore it is better you guys stop the projection of the primitive backwardness mentality of the use of Akan like it is a tribe. Foolish Ghanaian minds which is fully village oriented of division, hatred, tribalism.

In short, people who spend good time on foolish issues like the foolish Akan issue. Educated but never look like!!!!!!!!!!
The Late Kofi Awoonor 10 years ago

Kofi Adams, you are too young to comment on this! Read my book.

Kofi Adams, you are too young to comment on this! Read my book.
BLACKMAN 10 years ago

BULL

BULL
yaw 10 years ago

Read Proverbs 6 16-19 AND Matt 12 36 -37 and you see what awaits you if you

Read Proverbs 6 16-19 AND Matt 12 36 -37 and you see what awaits you if you
Jt 10 years ago

My problem is that NDC do not have visionaries like Osagyefo. And most the ministers do not have any knowledge about they to minister. Anyway prz Mahama did not appoint a medical doctor as his Defence minister that is cool.

My problem is that NDC do not have visionaries like Osagyefo. And most the ministers do not have any knowledge about they to minister. Anyway prz Mahama did not appoint a medical doctor as his Defence minister that is cool.
Okro mouth 10 years ago

Look Adams man ! you get your daily bread from this man so you fight to defend him. He has made you what you are today...your brain is blocked so didnt make in school
JJ he started this culture of insulting heads, creating d ...
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Look Adams man ! you get your daily bread from this man so you fight to defend him. He has made you what you are today...your brain is blocked so didnt make in school
JJ he started this culture of insulting heads, creating division, EWE man introvert...we know ok !
NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

I thought this ignorant political bigot and zombie was going to be honest enough to say that among the said Fante Presidents and their Vices of the notorious bloody tyrant NDC both were humiliated and finally murdered in the ...
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I thought this ignorant political bigot and zombie was going to be honest enough to say that among the said Fante Presidents and their Vices of the notorious bloody tyrant NDC both were humiliated and finally murdered in the cold.

Akah by the way is not a Fante. In the first time of the history of Ghana's independence a sitting President, Rawlings violently attacked his Vice in a horrible way that led to tearing the coat of the whole Vice into shreds. Akah the first Nzemah Vice President of the NDC was later on attacked and killed a a suspicious hit and run way but till now his killers have never be brought to face justice of the land. That's one of the fesring moment still haunting the psychologically sick Rawlings to ensure indemnity in the national constitution which was drafted whilst he was the imposed President of Ghana.

Just like Akah, Mills was also suspiciously murdered and his dead body secretly rushed and shamefully dumped at the maternity ward of 37 military hospital to avoid the public attention and to cover the horrific and callous murder of a sitting President.

Kofi, why did you fell short mentioning and explaining the above as to what happened to the so called Southerners Presidents in NDC?

You see,you may fool some of the people some of the time but certainly not all the people all the time.

Definitely time will tell and the true colors of Rawlings and his CIA connection will be exposed!!!

Monsters!
TEE 10 years ago

STUPID FOOL EWE TOGOLESE OR NTANI PEPENI NORTHERNERS GHANA BELONG TO NATIVE GHANAIANS PERIOD

STUPID FOOL EWE TOGOLESE OR NTANI PEPENI NORTHERNERS GHANA BELONG TO NATIVE GHANAIANS PERIOD
Tony H 10 years ago

Those natives are from Nation of Primitive People (NPP)

Those natives are from Nation of Primitive People (NPP)
TEE 10 years ago

SON OF A PROSTITUTE TOGOLESE BASTARD BITCH DONT YOU KNOW GHQNA BELONG TO US GHANAIAN FUCK YOUR MOTHER RAWLINGS

SON OF A PROSTITUTE TOGOLESE BASTARD BITCH DONT YOU KNOW GHQNA BELONG TO US GHANAIAN FUCK YOUR MOTHER RAWLINGS
8520 10 years ago

long time ewes never like akans

long time ewes never like akans
777_8621 10 years ago

...even other country men eg Nigerians dont like Ashantis

...even other country men eg Nigerians dont like Ashantis
Lopez 10 years ago

Kofi Adams you are talking like an educated fool just for the sake of cheap politics, This is because your analysis does not make any sense. How can you inpute that because Ya-Na was killed during Kuffour's regime it implies ...
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Kofi Adams you are talking like an educated fool just for the sake of cheap politics, This is because your analysis does not make any sense. How can you inpute that because Ya-Na was killed during Kuffour's regime it implies that Kuffour has a hand in it or because you have Atta Mills as President makes NDC a diverse party. Can we also justify that because Atta Mills died under mysterious circumstances NDC is culpable. As a nation i think we should grow out of this tribal nonsense and think of how this country will develop. We all know NDC has always used this tribal card to win votes even though they don't have the competency to govern this country.
Kwami - US 10 years ago

The professor is more than a fool, not Kofi Adams

The professor is more than a fool, not Kofi Adams
Kwami - US 10 years ago

As a matter of fact, the professor is an uneducated fool who knows nothing about history. He should go back to the primary school and start studying history

As a matter of fact, the professor is an uneducated fool who knows nothing about history. He should go back to the primary school and start studying history
KAK 10 years ago

During the 1969 electionS, DR. K.A Busia did not winone in the Volta regon because he is from Brong Ahafo region. They voted for the National Alliance of Liberals simple because he is from Volta region. This same people went ...
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During the 1969 electionS, DR. K.A Busia did not winone in the Volta regon because he is from Brong Ahafo region. They voted for the National Alliance of Liberals simple because he is from Volta region. This same people went round to say that Busia did not appoint a minister from their region.But in 1969 only MPS were appointed as ministers and he did get one MP from there so how can he appoint a minister from there?
New Sheriff in Town 10 years ago

Kofi Adams is just so stupid by his "Akyem and part of Twi". We have such animals parading as human beings in Ghana. He is so inward looking he does not realize Prof Oquaye is neither Akyem nor "Twi". Jerry Rawlings turned th ...
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Kofi Adams is just so stupid by his "Akyem and part of Twi". We have such animals parading as human beings in Ghana. He is so inward looking he does not realize Prof Oquaye is neither Akyem nor "Twi". Jerry Rawlings turned the Fanti Vice president Arkaah into a punching bag and tore his suit of his small body. The NDC held the ailing Fanti President Atta Mills hostage. Took cover behind his dying soul and weak mental fortitude to steal the Ghana tax-payers money through dubious judgement debts, inflated contracts, inflated embrear aircraft prices and finally dispatched him to the other world when they believed Atta Mills had outlived his usefulness to their cause. The same faith is awaiting Amissa-Arthur and we the Fantes are watching to see what the NDC will do next. The should not deceive themselves in thinking we the fantes consider the Ahwois as Fantes. They are not. They are Sefwis
kantinka 10 years ago

look at this stup1d togolese man kofi adam. rawllings is the originator of that stup1d tribal discrimination. its time you people stop those stup1d discrimination.

look at this stup1d togolese man kofi adam. rawllings is the originator of that stup1d tribal discrimination. its time you people stop those stup1d discrimination.
OKOROMANSA 10 years ago

This notorious Kofi Adams is voicing out nonsense again. Very soon, Ghanaians would know who are the real tribalists - Akans or Ewes. Rawlings and his wife are hypocrites and murderers of the first order. They will pay for it ...
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This notorious Kofi Adams is voicing out nonsense again. Very soon, Ghanaians would know who are the real tribalists - Akans or Ewes. Rawlings and his wife are hypocrites and murderers of the first order. They will pay for it one day.
ANSAH 10 years ago

mike oquaye IS A USELESS FOOL. WAS HE NOT THE ONE osei kyei mensah bonsu REFERRED TO US NOT TO FIT AS A GA TO PARTNER akufool addo as vice presidential candidate.?

mike oquaye IS A USELESS FOOL. WAS HE NOT THE ONE osei kyei mensah bonsu REFERRED TO US NOT TO FIT AS A GA TO PARTNER akufool addo as vice presidential candidate.?
FA 10 years ago

WO YE KWAEAPII.LOOK ,YOU THINK GHANA GONNA BE FOR YOU GUYS FOREVER ? YOU WILL REGRET ONE DAY.

WO YE KWAEAPII.LOOK ,YOU THINK GHANA GONNA BE FOR YOU GUYS FOREVER ? YOU WILL REGRET ONE DAY.

Kofi Adams jabs Ocquaye, NPP over JJ ethnic charge

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