Ghana ranked 7th most prosperous nation in Africa

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  • DOGON YARO 10 years ago

    Prosperous without light and water

  • j0Ey l0ndON 10 years ago

    What do you expect when kortibotors are stealing cables?

  • kabokabo 10 years ago

    They should and see by themselves if what is in the papers is what is on the ground.

  • yaw Paul 10 years ago

    You know, the NPP hates these kinds of news items concerning Ghana. Have you heard them making claims that the cede is the most hopeless currency in the world, that Ghana is the lost dangerous place to live and I can cite exa ...
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  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 10 years ago

    NIGERIA IS AFRICA'S NO 1 ECONOMY.

  • Max 10 years ago

    RIDICULOUS

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 10 years ago

    WE NIGERIANS LOVE AND ADORE ONLY CRIMINALS.GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY.

  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    10 Girls Raped In Ghana Daily
    Source:The Finder
    February 6, 2013

    Hardly a day goes by without a report on a child defilement case in the media, and according to child rights groups working on the issue, at least 10 girl ...
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  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    COWARD U AIN'T SEE SHIT YET , I'M GOING TO TAUNT AND KEEP BASHING UR ALATA ASS TILL U DIE OUT OFF UR EBOLA CUM HIV INFECTIONS. NIGERIANS ARE A CURSED TO MODERN CIVILIZATION.... IDIOTA KEEP TAKING UR MEDICATIONS COS U ARE ON A ...
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  • GBEWAA 10 years ago

    DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR IS WHAT CHARACTERIZES SUCH BASELESS RANKINGS BY SUCH CLUELESS "THINK TANKS" WHICH HAVE COMPLETELY LOST TOUCH WITH THE TRUE REALITIES OF HOPELESSNESS IN GHANA.

    THIS BOGUS "THINK TANK" SHOULD REMEMBER T ...
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  • Ghfuo: Be Bad &hang nyantakyi, NOW! 10 years ago

    This picture is not even from Ghana. Muahahahaha

  • jj 10 years ago

    nkwaseasem

  • DOBOO 10 years ago

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS Mr. President of Ghana. Please RELEASE ALL THE MARIJUANA SMOKERS IN GHANA in the spirit of Christmas. WEE IS JUST AN INNOCENT PLANT. IT'S HERE ON PLANET PLANET EARTH AND OUR PEOPLE ARE SMOKING ALL THE TIME. BE ...
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  • Nemesis no food for you 10 years ago

    THEY HAVE 1 BILLION BARREL OF OIL A DAY YET NEMESIS RADAR lias ROMANO HAS RUN TO FIND FOOD IN GHANA HAHAHA, HIS OTHER COMPANIES ARE DOING PROSTITUTION IN ANTWERP BELGIUM, NAPOLI IN ITALIAN AND ZARAGOZA IN SPAIN HAHAHAHA

  • ROMANO 10 years ago

    HEHEHEHEHEEEEEEEYYY..... NOW EVERYBODY KNOWS NEMESIS IS HIDING IN GHANA NOT UK....HAHAHAHAHAAAA

  • NOBODY 10 years ago

    yes you're right. Nigeria is Africa's No.1 economy when it comes to scams crimes. Afterall, isn't Nigeria the land of 200 million crooks?

  • Koo Nimo 10 years ago

    Yaw Paul the currency is Cedi not cede

  • yanks 10 years ago

    good come from these barbaric arabs?

  • SAMI 10 years ago

    THERE IS NO PROSPERITY IN A COUNTRY THAT CANT PROVIDE CLEAN SAFE WATER AND ELECTRICITY,THERE IS NO PROSPERITY WHEN WE PAY THE HIGEST PRICE FOR PETRO IN THE ENTIRE WORLD AND THERE IS NO PROSPERITY WITH HUGH CRIME RATE ,ABUSE ...
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  • MENSA 10 years ago

    THIS IS THE BIGGEST ARAB LIES SINCE THE FALL OF THE IRAQI KILLER SADDAM HOUSAIN
    WHILE THE US ARMY WAS IN BAGDAD AND SADAM HOSIAN MINISTER OF INFORMATION WAS CLAIMING THEY WERE KILLING SO MANY USA SOLDERS AND THE US SOLDE ...
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  • Jah Ras Bo @ lon 10 years ago

    7th? With all these oil, Gold, cocoa, timber, diamond, manganese? Oh Mahama, so without all these we would may be ranked 1000 hahaha

  • Nana Appiah 10 years ago

    Ghana ranks 17th in Africa.. Not 7th..
    It all depends on the Barometer or Matrix used in that Measurement. Ghana Owes so much right now, there is no way it could rank 7th in Africa.. Its going to even get worse with this cur ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    Have it your way, Matemeho Koryor.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    Lol, are all the kortibotors out there stealing cables now? Oh boy, God help us ooo! heheheheheehe.

  • george 10 years ago

    eeeeey this report will make nnp people sick wooo.

  • Jamaica 10 years ago

    Wosoa rule out politics out of this survey

  • The 10 years ago

    Kortibotors fuck your mother good, you smelly trokosi incestuous stinking fool.

  • jOEy lOndOn 10 years ago

    Your soul belongs to your god but your arse belongs to belmarsh idiotiical twerp....

  • DOBOO 10 years ago

    Let's go SOLAR. Every house and building in Ghana can install SOLAR PANELS on their roofs. We'll have lights every night in Ghana. Teach the children how to build and solar panels in every middle, high school and University i ...
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  • MR TRUELY TRUELY 10 years ago

    CORRUPTION PROSPEROUS IS THE TRUTH IN GHANA

  • DOBOO 10 years ago

    get solar power its free

  • BIAFRA 10 years ago

    7th?
    You fools always say you are No. 1 in Africa in everything.

    7th?
    Same level as Somalia.

  • DARK CONTINENT 10 years ago

    "a chief concern for many governments is how to ensure that the fruits of growth benefit a majority of the population and contribute to true long term prosperity."

    There's a government in Africa that's concerned about the ...
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  • jj most corrupt 10 years ago

    We all know it.Ghana most blessed nation but poor leadership

  • Kwame C.Dankwah 10 years ago

    GRAND PAA IN CRITICAL BUT STABLE CONDITION

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Africa must be the hell the Bible talks about then!

  • Nii Lante 10 years ago

    Africa is the least developed and the poorest part of the world, anyway.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Africa is not the poorest. Africa is endowed with the most natural resources. Maybe Africa is the poorest in terms of thinking!

  • TIJANI 10 years ago

    Akuffo Addo: No Certificate, acting like (Abu) in the thief of Baghdad movie; an old man filled with a lot of foolishness, WEE smoker, Cocaine Peddler, Drug President for Drug Barons, Ugly Dwarf litigant, Nation Wrecker sitti ...
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  • Mahama is a thief 10 years ago

    You are the most stupid, jerk, idiot, foolish, son of a bitch, silly pig, nonentity animal on earth.Curse be onto the womb that brought you swine on to this world and told you that you are a Ghanaian. I pity you and your usel ...
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  • Oprege. 10 years ago

    Bro;

    U are too funny!

  • @@@@@@@@ 10 years ago

    Fools will try and hunt with fat sheep. KURO A AKRAMAN NNI MU NO NKWASEAFOR DE ODWAN SAYE NA EKOR AHA. MMOA MMA.

  • ROYAL SIKAMAN 10 years ago

    There is no hell than Africa if ghana is ranked as prosperous in the continent. AFRICA IS A JOKE AMONG THE CONTINENTS.

  • yaw Paul 10 years ago

    In America, there are persons who are still homeless even though it goes as the leading economy in the world. Let people be told that it is individuals who make themselves and not governments who make individuals. There could ...
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  • @JP 10 years ago

    Your IQ level just dimished, the mere fact you compare Ghana and U.S.There is homelessness in every part of the world. The low class in America knows that at the end of the day, they will get FOOD ASSISTANCE from the GOVERNME ...
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  • Efo Kosi Korvet 10 years ago

    You see it is some of these untruths which do not help our less fortunate folks. They are made to think that there is always a certain Father Christmas who will freely provide them with their needs. There is no such thing any ...
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  • Norsaid 10 years ago

    While it's reasonable to be a bit suspicious of leaders all over the world, our kind of suspicion is an illness. It's only a mentally derailed person who isn't happy to hear that he's at least not the worst among his peers.
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  • mensah abrampa 10 years ago

    Good governments create opportunities for its citizens. Where are the opportunities in Ghana? The US has not hadits bad times like the Great Depression but visionary leaders provided the infrastructural development in highway ...
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  • african 10 years ago

    Bastardo,tell me,what is Americans population and what is Ghana population,tell me,how many resources ghana have? And tell me how many resources europeans have,vacuum dont support the idiot leaders.right?

  • Matoza wash D.C 10 years ago

    Oh my broda talk n talk ooo come n see D.C e capital of U.S n see how homeless black n white are sitting in front of shelters for food n place to sleep at nite.gud Samaritans come around with hot meals for e homeless everyday ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 10 years ago

    What do you expect Africa to be when as a continent it was forcefully taken over by the imperialists, its resources pillaged and its human power used as slaves to power the development of the rich nations in the world.Mistake ...
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  • Matoza wash D.C 10 years ago

    Tank u kwabena ohemeng

  • K BOATENG 10 years ago

    good news

  • KK 10 years ago

    This is the worse continent on Earth. However some countries are worst. We are bad. This is what the ranking is about. Of all the horrible countries on earth, Ghana is bad but better than other bad countries. What are we cele ...
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  • RUBY MAHAMA 10 years ago

    I think you are kortiboto yourself, how can you talk like that in this 21st century if you don't come from a primitive part of the world.Does this article talk about what you are saying ? You lived in your bugs infested room ...
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  • kkp 10 years ago

    keep on dreaming

  • Say the TRUTH 10 years ago

    YES A PROSPEROUS NATION IN TERMS OF RESOURCES BUT IN REALITY GHANA IS IN A VERY BIG MESS AND WALLOWING IN POVERTY AND EXTENSIVE CORRUPTION (STEALING OF ALL RESOURCES BY THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT AND STATE OFFICIALS)!!!!

    GHANA ...
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  • Naaba kugri 10 years ago

    You always happy of a negative news. But bitter when it's good news. God won't ask your opinion on anything like it or hate it it's a good news for some of us positive thinking Ghanaians. God bless our homeland Ghana

  • jack 10 years ago

    I agreed with u, say the true! As long as i am good that is all the matter. And this how i look at it as a stand point for ruling government in Ghana.(quit been so selfish because GOD does not like ugly)

  • Criminal mahama. 10 years ago

    What is good about this if the people can't fill the so call prosperous nation.

  • Akwasi 10 years ago

    First in independence and 7th prosperous nation in Africa. What a shame.

  • OKOROMANSA 10 years ago

    BUT MAHAMA HAS DESTROYED GHANA AND ALL OF ITS PROSPECTS. OTHERWISE GHANA COULD BE FIRST IN SO MANY OTHER THINGS. RAWLINGS HAS BROUGHT THIS CANKER OF A PARTY CALLED NDC TO BEAR ON GHANAIANS.

  • Geshon Yao Adadivoh 10 years ago

    THIS CANNOT BE TRUE!!!

  • Adjei 10 years ago

    What is the position of Nigeria?

  • Aggie 10 years ago

    Ghana will continue to prosper, despite enemies of progress in the country who only wish doom.

  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    Jerry Rawlings brought violence to Ghana. Before him, it was all jaw, jaw. There were not even noticeable police presence at any party congresses. He introduced murder as a punishment for perceived crimes. Ghana would have be ...
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  • DOBOO 10 years ago

    Wishing Prosperity and Happiness to all Ghanaians these holidays season. Keep the peace and protect the poor. Take care of our elderly folks and our children. Ghana is a beautiful Nation. support our leaders to make Ghana a b ...
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  • Dessy 10 years ago

    Ghana government should table legislature banning"End Revenge Porn" (consensual images),child pornography and girls under age on Social media;Facebook,whatsapp,viber ..etc.

  • Augustine 10 years ago

    Could be True but corruption is eroding all benefits to the people.

  • KANAWU KASABA 10 years ago

    AFRICA IS REALLY REALLY SICK THEN AND VERY VERY WORSE THAN IMAGINED

  • ISSA ABONGO 10 years ago

    IF GHANA IS AFRICA'S SEVENTH BEST NATION, WITH ALL THE FILTH AND GHETTOS, CHOLERA ETC. THEN AFRICA IS REALLY DOWN IN THE GUTTER.

  • Chambass Saeed Abdallah 10 years ago

    that's great but it should be reflect in our pocket God bless mother Ghana

  • OBINNA 10 years ago

    GHANA NEEDS GOOD GOVERNANCE. GOOD GOVERNANCE AND TRANSPARENCY ON THE EXECUTIVE'S PART CAN HELP IMPROVE THE ECONOMIC LOT OF GHANAIANS AND IMPROVE OUR STANDINGS. WE SHOULD BE,AT LEAST, #3 OR 4. NOT #7.

  • jungle 10 years ago

    This is complete bullshit and only a demented person will believe that. Africa is a failed continent period.

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    AND some STUPID Ghanaians will believe this and be rejoicing!!!!!! Free- Range Toilets, Dumsor2,Filth everywhere and Scarcely Pipeborne water......and we are Nr. 7th?????

  • kretz 10 years ago

    Really! Then I feel sorry for Africa if Ghana is the 7th most prosperous nation in Africa. Is what we are seeing or feeling Ghana today is considered prosperous? Is that Africa's standard of prosperity? Wow, then we have a lo ...
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  • Foolish blackman 10 years ago

    Why do blacks always relax for fucking whites to fool them? Blacks are fools

  • Pipo 10 years ago

    My friend whites nobody can fuck them your hole country is belong to whites, you are fucking peanuts 20 Ghc, 50Ghc, if you call that fucking, whites fuck your Cocoa,your oil,your gold. What left for you penuts.
    Ghanaians can ...
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  • jimmy 10 years ago

    The most stupid president of our generation Mugabe and his indecent country Zimbabwe with stupid citizens carrying HIV couldn't be found on the top 20. However such an idiotic president with a rat smell mouth could speak abou ...
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  • Yaw Manu 10 years ago

    Oh Yeah, with all the Dumso, Dumso, Dumso.

  • truth 10 years ago

    Now NDC you folks sit your butts down and work.

  • K47 10 years ago

    Go. Go Ghana.we will definitely make it..no shaky.shame onto NPP.they don't want to hear anything good about Ghana

  • perscoba 10 years ago

    by the Legatum institute..yes another arab council who eats shit come to tell us that dumsor and children sitting under trees for school and all that is wrong with Ghana POSITIONS Ghana THAT HIGH? oH YES IT ELECTION TIME ...
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  • Curteous. 10 years ago

    Great! by next year Godwilling we will be 3rd.

  • jon dhramany marhhamha 10 years ago

    Ghana could have been the first under a better leader

  • Emeka 10 years ago

    hw can dis be true when yr soon called mahama has peddled all se cedis in Ghana. fools u can't try did in naija

  • GBEWAA 10 years ago

    DELUSION OF GRANDEUR IS WHAT CHARACTERIZES SUCH BASELESS REPORTS BY SUCH CLUELESS "THINK TANKS" WHICH HAVE COMPLETELY LOST TOUCH WITH THE TRUE REALITIES OF HOPELESSNESS IN GHANA.

    THIS THINK TANK SHOULD REMEMBER THAT THE VA ...
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  • jimmy 10 years ago

    Did you see bosh cars and houses as one of their yardsticks or criteria of rating the countries?

  • Captein 10 years ago

    Kenya is uniquely in crisis and no wonder the country fell through the cracks of below 10 th ranking.
    The recent surge of Al -Shabaab alone could even send her into a free fall.
    Besides, Westgate Mall example which showed a ...
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  • NA 10 years ago

    Good topic but poorly written.

  • Kafui Dagasu 10 years ago

    Here is another joke for the weekend. How can a country which relies on raw materials for export and has chronic corruption as its flagship be a prosperous country? This is to please John Mahama who is alleged to have bought ...
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  • FRANK SHERIFF+ BIG SHERIFF+ 10 years ago

    ON ON WE SHALL REACH THE TOP

  • Paul 10 years ago

    "Rwanda was the best improver, gaining five ranking places to end up as the eighth most prosperous country in Africa. The country was found to have the sixth highest ranking in regulation and government effectiveness, the eig ...
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  • DotseSedem@speakurmind.HO 10 years ago

    this is a big fat lie. best n most prosperous lie to be told in 2014. Ghana for where tweeea kaeee

  • WAWINDO 10 years ago

    OH Ghana,This one too you pay them to publish good news about crisis Ghana.Expensive fuel, No light,No water,Corruption is everywhere.Apuuuu tweaaaaa.

  • Bolga STRONGMAN 10 years ago

    ...against are boiling over this positive news about Ghana under the able leadership of MAHAMA...

  • abu DHABI 10 years ago

    AYEKOOOOOO J.M.MAHAMA,more votes for you in 2016.

  • jj 10 years ago

    nkwaseasem

  • Kwame Rought 10 years ago

    Africans are willing to allow themselves to be categorized by anyone but African!

  • Jamaica 10 years ago

    Rule out politics

  • Ghana ba 10 years ago

    What was Ghana's previous ranking?

  • paps 10 years ago

    wow!i wonder how the other countries Ghana overtook look like LORD HAVE MERCY.

  • AB atonsu 10 years ago

    Yes yes because Ghana is the only. Country that you'll sell sachet water (insu) and get 200% profit

  • kutsii. 10 years ago

    Oyiwa oooo Oyiwa !!!. NPP and the old evil grandpa dwarf from the Akyem forest shd read that and repent from his damn mother fuker criticisms of a failed state. As for the toothless old dwarf grandpa I will leave him to the ...
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  • excoba 10 years ago

    wrong decision.as they became leaders now they are doing youthful things, doing their feelings with the big money they now seen, as we vote for them instead developing the country they make us poor and misuse our money.

  • dogbe 10 years ago

    if ghana ranked 7 then africa has a big problem

  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 10 years ago

    No wonder this cooked nonsense is coming from Dubai where Mahama has been enjoying himself anytime he get the chance to do so. A country with unemployment hovering around 50%; average monthly use of electricity for homes and ...
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  • KWASI 10 years ago

    NOTHING ARABS SAY IS TRUTH DONT MIND THE ARABS PLEASE

  • mensa 10 years ago

    they are liying here also

  • Ndewura 10 years ago

    Npp people remove the wooden glasses from your face and see the Better Ghana. Npp is anti development.

  • Country lover 10 years ago

    If this is true then you have to feel sorry for the continent as a whole. WTF . UNLESS THIS IS A PRANK

  • NK 10 years ago

    If the 7th most prosperous nation in Africa has its residents living without electricity,portable drinking water,good health care,I can't imagine what the least most prosperous nation 's residents be living with....probably s ...
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  • Rust 10 years ago

    Stop disturbing us with all bullcrap about ranking. What we need is electricity, water, health, security, jobs and job security, education, sanitation, good governance and less corruption.

  • Constructivist 10 years ago

    Africa is really a backward continent indeed. This retrogressing country of ours is seventh. My God!

  • Norsaid 10 years ago

    You just need to travel outside Ghana to believe that we are in an African heaven where nobody goes to bed with a heavy load on his chest and not having the opportunity to express it.
    Elsewhere, all the insults here would hv ...
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  • STAFFORD 10 years ago

    Ghanaians living outside the country deserve some applause for their contribution and support of socio-economic developments.

  • NYAME BA LEE 10 years ago

    A hhhaaaahhaa, who did this corrupt study?that so called organization should go to Ghana and see what is happening on De ground before they make dis silly and unscrupulous ranking which is not doing any good to De Country. Kw ...
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  • Jj rawlings. 10 years ago

    The issue of which country is first or at the bottom is the lack of leadership and mismanagement of the country's resources . corruption is the main culprits among most African countries . Visionary leaders are needed throug ...
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  • loge isaac 10 years ago

    I believe per natural resources of Ghana she deserve a ranking

  • @@@@@@@@ 10 years ago

    ONLY WITCHES AND WITCH CRAFTS WILL BELIEVE THIS NONSENSE.WHAT SIN HAVE WE COMMITTED OR ANY CRIME? DEAR LORD! THAT THESE ANIMALS WILL BARK INTO INTO OUR EARS.GOD DAMN THE BASTARD.

  • Agbami 10 years ago

    And where is nigeria's name in the list,the self acclaim giant of Africa.

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    And the self titled giant of Africa is nowhere at the top.Goes to show that you can't do internet fraud,prostitute your citizens abroad or have many drug pushers across borders to make it to top.Nigeria is one hell of a mess, ...
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  • @@@@@@@@ 10 years ago

    ONLY WITCHES AND WITCH CRAFTS WILL BELIEVE THIS NONSENSE.WHAT SIN HAVE WE COMMITTED OR ANY CRIME? DEAR LORD! THAT THESE ANIMALS WILL BARK INTO INTO OUR EARS.GOD DAMN THE BASTARD.