“Opportunistic” politicians not learning from mistakes – Obed Asamoah

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Kojo T 9 years ago

Ghanaians will follow one path Politics is for money making Where are the real business people who will make real money?Äre we so Lazy"

Ghanaians will follow one path Politics is for money making Where are the real business people who will make real money?Äre we so Lazy"
princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

A politician stops to visit his mate who has a broken leg during their campaign.

His friend says, “My feet are cold, can you go and get me my slippers from upstairs please.”

The Politician goes upstairs, and there a ...
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A politician stops to visit his mate who has a broken leg during their campaign.

His friend says, “My feet are cold, can you go and get me my slippers from upstairs please.”

The Politician goes upstairs, and there are his mate’s gorgeous twin 18 year old daughters.

“Hi, girls. Your dad sent me up here to make love to you.”

The first daughter says, “That’s not true.”

He says, “I’ll prove it.”

He yells down the stairs, “Both of them?”

His mate yells back, “Of course, both of them.”
Mahmoud 9 years ago

If I may ask, is the NDC new party school another communist ideological institution? The Young Pioneers implanted by Nkrumah in our midst did more harm than good to the development of this country when they usurped power from ...
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If I may ask, is the NDC new party school another communist ideological institution? The Young Pioneers implanted by Nkrumah in our midst did more harm than good to the development of this country when they usurped power from 1972 to 2001.

Our experience with the quack neo-communists is that, they seize power unjustifiably through coups and counter coups, and Ghanaians only suffer dictatorship, tyranny, corruption and economic mismanagement under them. Being in power now for six years, the NDC has failed again to improve the economy simply because their fundamentals are wrong. In fact, they don't have what it takes to salvage the sinking economy.

Under normal circumstances, political parties are formed to produce leaders democratically. But in the case of NDC, a tyrant created the party with state power and resources to legitimize his illegitimate regime and cling to power fraudulently. NDC is therefore, an artificial and illegitimate party followed by stomach politicians and sycophants.
Mahmoud 9 years ago

Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into two: Patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice one party state and communism and in ...
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Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into two: Patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice one party state and communism and indulge in Leftist anti-Western propaganda using the small country's meager resources to challenge centuries' old, well-established Western countries. They even accepted that he should act as a savior of the Blackman around the world, while tyrannizing his own Black people at home because they have alternative views for development of their country.

Those who wanted him to concentrate more on the basic needs of the young nation and tone down his rhetoric against the powerful were called traitors, reactionaries, and agents of imperialism that should be liquidated and imprisoned dead or alive. Could you believe that the opposition members he was tyrannizing were the very people who started the struggle for our independence? They employed Nkrumah and paid for his ticket from the UK to come and work as General Secretary of the group, saving him from the tyranny of being unemployed in London. The independence struggle vanguards were senior civil servants in the Gold Coast. And as their struggle was gaining momentum and scope of the activities widening, they needed someone to work full time for the group; free from official work constrains to further spread message of the struggle.

Under their responsibility and protection, Nkrumah used the platform to become a public face of the group and his popularity soared. This was because, many people in those days perceived him as the person or the only person that was fighting for our independence. Subsequently, when he heard from the Governor General's female secretary, who was later sacked, that the British had been preparing to grant us independence, he increasingly used needless militant tactics to provoke the Whiteman, when it was clear that the wind of change was blowing, and also embarrass his employers in order to outsmart them. He then used the opportunity to break away from them, forming his own party and slapping them from behind to take power.

This explains the strong partisanship in the country and why Nkrumah didn't want the Liberation Vanguards to ever come to power in his life time. Maybe, he was afraid of his own ghost. Unfortunately, and despite all these facts, his supporters still want us to believe that he initiated, spearheaded and single handedly fought for our independence, and therefore name every national project after him as if we were in a kingdom.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, he had the gut to recommend his fellow journalists to be executed by PNDC. Pratt even recommended Baako to be killed by the regime, thank God Baako was instead touchered violently and severely but his life was spared. This is what Kwesi Pratt can do. Now Pratt is a secret agent to NDC and US Embassy in Ghana. May God forgive Pratt and spare him the untold evils that will come upon him and his generations. The souls of those journalist killed through Pratt's recommendations to PNDC will never forgive Pratt. Now Pratt has the guts to take Diplomatic Passport and smuggled his weak-headed children to work at the Ministries under Mills NDC, may God forgive Pratt and his dependance and spare them of the evils ahead of them...
Mumuni 9 years ago

This is the typical mentality of mate meho. George Washington and Nelson Mandela did not fight alone to raise their countries to their status BUT you keep crying that KN usurped your honours. Danquah-Busia is sometimes called ...
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This is the typical mentality of mate meho. George Washington and Nelson Mandela did not fight alone to raise their countries to their status BUT you keep crying that KN usurped your honours. Danquah-Busia is sometimes called Danquah-Busia-Dombo but mostly Danquah-Busia. Think about that, it is not the Nkrumaists.
onetribe 9 years ago

Ndc is in a super crap league on its own. It is unique. Nkrumah had his pluses and minuses. With ndc they are unique in being a special kind of champagne socialist.

Ndc is in a super crap league on its own. It is unique. Nkrumah had his pluses and minuses. With ndc they are unique in being a special kind of champagne socialist.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

Every NDC so-called politicians are opportunists no professional politicians

NDC Ministers for instance Kwakye Ofosu can be seen as opportunist but rook his position like someone applying for a job as a clerical Officer in ...
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Every NDC so-called politicians are opportunists no professional politicians

NDC Ministers for instance Kwakye Ofosu can be seen as opportunist but rook his position like someone applying for a job as a clerical Officer in an organisation.

NDC so-called politicians are all
thieves and brigands.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE)...

HELPLESSNESS, HOPELESSNESS & FEELING OF DESPONDENCY HAVE GRIPPED MANY IN GHANA TODAY.
GHANA HAS BEEN RAPED BY THESE NDC IDIOTS. WE DO NOT NEED ANY NATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM, WE NEED A ...
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Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE)...

HELPLESSNESS, HOPELESSNESS & FEELING OF DESPONDENCY HAVE GRIPPED MANY IN GHANA TODAY.
GHANA HAS BEEN RAPED BY THESE NDC IDIOTS. WE DO NOT NEED ANY NATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM, WE NEED A NATIONAL COURT OF JURISDICTION TO PUT MAHAMA AND HIS CABINET ON TRIAL. GHANA'S HOPELESS ECONOMIC SITUATION, TODAY, IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. NDC HAS OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS PRESIDED OVER THE BIGGEST RESOURCES IN OUR HISTORY INCLUDING CRUDE OIL & STEALTH TAXES. THEY HAVE ALSO CONTRACTED THE BIGGEST LOANS IN OUR HISTORY. IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR THIS AND THE ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBLES, THEN,THEY MUST BE PROSECUTED. THEY MUST GIVE THE MONEYS BACK TO THE TREASURY. WE DO NOT NEED ANY ECONOMIC FORUM. SET UP A COURT IMMEDIATELY. IT HAPPENED IN THAILAND RECENTLY, PRIME MINISTER YINGLUCK SHINAWATRA WAS REMOVED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT FOR ABUSING POWER. LOOK AT GHANA;-- EMBRAER PLANE SCANDAL, STX KOREA,NDC US$20 MILLION PARTY HQ., US$4 MILLION DODGY JUDGEMENT DEBT TO MRS RAWLINGS AND HER COMPANY, SUBAH, GYEEDA, WOYOMI, ISOFOTON, WATERVILLE, AFRICA AUTOMOBILE, CP, SADA, FORTIZ/MERCHANT BANK,BRAZIL WORLD CUP SCANDAL, FREE EXPENSIVE CARS FOR CHIEFS, AKONFEM AND A HOST OF OTHER DODGY JUDGEMENT DEBT PAYMENTS. BUYING VOTES WITH CASH, LAND CRUISERS & LAPTOPS JUST TO WIN ELECTIONS. WHY NDC?????? WHY??? OUR SUPREME COURT COULD NOT HELP BUT DESCRIBED IT AS "ALLIANCE TO CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE" WHAT A SHAME? ?? AND YOU CALLING GHANAIANS TO A WASTEFUL ECONOMIC FORUM. NDC, THE MONEY IS WITH YOU, GIVE IT BACK TO GHANA. NPP, I SALUTE YOUR COURAGE FOR NOT ATTENDING. NPP REMAIN SMART AND VIGILANT!!!
FUNNY THAT 9 years ago

There is no politician in the NDC party but irresponsible creatures.

There is no politician in the NDC party but irresponsible creatures.
princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

Once upon a time, there lived a poor hat seller in a small village in India. He earned his livelihood stitching hats and selling them in the neighboring villages. Once when going to another village through a forest, he fell a ...
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Once upon a time, there lived a poor hat seller in a small village in India. He earned his livelihood stitching hats and selling them in the neighboring villages. Once when going to another village through a forest, he fell asleep under a tree. When he woke up, he was surprised to find his basket empty and all the hats missing. Then he noticed a troop of monkeys sitting in the tree wearing his hats. He came up with a brilliant idea to retrieve his hats. He lifted the hat on his head and threw it to the ground. Out of their aping habits the monkeys followed suit. The hat seller then collected all the hats and triumphantly proceeded to the market.

As the years pass by, the hat seller has a grandson who too ends up being a hat seller. One day he has to pass through the same forest to sell hats in the village on the other side. As he is leaving, his grandpa tells him of the monkeys and how he outsmarted them and warns the grandson to be careful in the forest and remember his grandpa's trick if the monkeys cause any trouble.

So the grandson sets forth on his journey. While passing through the forest, he gets tired and falls asleep to wake up and find the basket empty and all the hats gone. Then he notices the monkeys on the tree wearing the hats. Smiling to himself he says, "Aha ! I know how to deal with this. I'll use my grandpa's trick ! So he hurls his hat to the ground expecting the monkeys to do the same. All this time, there is a young hatless monkey sitting in the tree. This monkey jumps down from the tree, quickly picks up the grandson's hat and puts it on his head. Then as he is scampering away, he says to the grandson sarcastically:

"HA! HA! DID YOU THINK ONLY HUMANS HAVE A GRANDPA!?"
still rastafari 9 years ago

Grandpas give best advice..............

Grandpas give best advice..............
NANA ARABA 9 years ago

WISDOM OF THE MONKEYS! GHANAIAN LEADERS WHERE IS YOUR WISDOM?

WISDOM OF THE MONKEYS! GHANAIAN LEADERS WHERE IS YOUR WISDOM?
fiction 9 years ago

Obed u r talking abt ur own carrecter de most dishonest n opportunistic politician in de history of ghana just keep ur mouth shut bcus u v no moral right to talk abt opportunistic persons other dan urself u v no shame to writ ...
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Obed u r talking abt ur own carrecter de most dishonest n opportunistic politician in de history of ghana just keep ur mouth shut bcus u v no moral right to talk abt opportunistic persons other dan urself u v no shame to write such a book
Papa Abouchie 9 years ago

Obed,do not forget what you also did.
You did worst things than 200 of this time men brought together. Remember PV Obeng Versus Kofi Koomson, when you led solid 19 lawyers to defend PV on a corruption case. Try hard and reme ...
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Obed,do not forget what you also did.
You did worst things than 200 of this time men brought together. Remember PV Obeng Versus Kofi Koomson, when you led solid 19 lawyers to defend PV on a corruption case. Try hard and remember.
ADE 9 years ago

You these yesterday people are behaving as though Ghanaians have forgotten your past. where is the Three Hundred Million CEDIS you kept under your bed? You see,that is not all. You were like Bank of Ghana or World Bank in yo ...
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You these yesterday people are behaving as though Ghanaians have forgotten your past. where is the Three Hundred Million CEDIS you kept under your bed? You see,that is not all. You were like Bank of Ghana or World Bank in your pocket. Have you finish spending all the looted money from the economy and you want comeback for more? Stupid man keep away from Mahama administration otherwise you will be smoked out.
USMAN 9 years ago

Have you soon forgotten how you stashed billions of money under your bed and claimed it is for campaign. Okujato Ablakwa is following your foot steps.

Have you soon forgotten how you stashed billions of money under your bed and claimed it is for campaign. Okujato Ablakwa is following your foot steps.
Papa yaw 9 years ago

No

No
Mahmoud 9 years ago

Rawlings and his men used communist platform and the plight of Ghanaians to preach and ascend to power. After the coup, he turned around and demolished communism completely in Ghana leaving his beloved Cuban-style communist d ...
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Rawlings and his men used communist platform and the plight of Ghanaians to preach and ascend to power. After the coup, he turned around and demolished communism completely in Ghana leaving his beloved Cuban-style communist dictatorship intact. He then introduced a cut throat blood sucking capitalism into the country, and he now lives like the billionaire that he is.

Ironically, Junior Jesus might have taught Bishop Daniel Obinim how to misuse the name of God to exploit his followers just as he himself did decades ago.
still rastafari 9 years ago

Congratulations Obed Asamoah

Congratulations Obed Asamoah
Philip 9 years ago

Congratulations for what?

Congratulations for what?
Mumuni 9 years ago

Who is more opportunist than Obed? We have not forgotten when he kept NDC money under his bed and his gril friends and his police guides “served themselves”? When he couldn’t get his way, his next move was his own party ...
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Who is more opportunist than Obed? We have not forgotten when he kept NDC money under his bed and his gril friends and his police guides “served themselves”? When he couldn’t get his way, his next move was his own party. How did that go? Go ask him!
Philip 9 years ago

You are the number one opportunistic politician ever. The pot calling the kettle black.

You are the number one opportunistic politician ever. The pot calling the kettle black.
STEVOOOO... 9 years ago

just like criminals like BETTYMOULD and BARTON ODRO duped Ghanaians to the tune of over one billion dollars in dubious judgement debts.....

just like criminals like BETTYMOULD and BARTON ODRO duped Ghanaians to the tune of over one billion dollars in dubious judgement debts.....
concerned citizen 9 years ago

hmmm he is also part of them did he forget. his term in office how poor ghanians struggled to make earn meat.what did he do as a politician.back then and now he is back again to rub innocent ghanians with his book .what can y ...
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hmmm he is also part of them did he forget. his term in office how poor ghanians struggled to make earn meat.what did he do as a politician.back then and now he is back again to rub innocent ghanians with his book .what can you do for ghanians with the wealth that you accured.
kwasi kyei baffour 9 years ago

You are one of the politicians who will not learn,you left ndc,but came back to the party.do you have principles? You are a political acrobat.

You are one of the politicians who will not learn,you left ndc,but came back to the party.do you have principles? You are a political acrobat.
OHENE ANTWI from ghana media group 9 years ago

i do agree with the former attorney general on some of his statement,that most politicians are prepared to sacrifice principles and values for their parochial interest.
not only the politicians but ghanaians in general are ...
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i do agree with the former attorney general on some of his statement,that most politicians are prepared to sacrifice principles and values for their parochial interest.
not only the politicians but ghanaians in general are not prepared to learn from their mistakes and it seems to me that we keep doing the same thing without adopting to a new form of attitude.
And therefore we are prepared to sacrifice principles or values if we can get along. You see something is wrong, you don’t say because you are afraid when you say it; it may jeopardize your position,” he stated.
one question that keeps ringing a bell in my ear which is are we not sure that posterity will be ashamed of us if we do not build a firm foundation for them?
i rest my case...

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