Judiciary must hang head in shame – Kufuor

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  • Mr Good 10 years ago

    Good talk, Mr. President

  • Barima Osei 10 years ago

    JA Kuffuor, you know very well what you and your NPP administration did in this country between 2001 and 2008. Infact you became the symbol of corruption. Come again

  • opuni 10 years ago

    Barima Osei do you have evidence? If yes then bring it out else shut up

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Arrest Justice Atubuga, the corrupt Judge.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    Hahaha, Mr. Corruption started at the cradle of biblical Adam, what is your business with the hot new making waves?

  • Siaw 10 years ago

    Opuni,don't pretend you were dead when npp was in power,and you are now resurrected. Taking state money to renovate his private house,buying hotel waawaa in the name of his son, just sacking thieves from his office trying to ...
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  • Siaw 10 years ago

    In fact, the gold chain kuffuor awarded to himself cost the state 66,000 pounds sterling. What a day light robbery. Can he do this in Britain where he schooled? The corruption crown will ever hung on Kuffuor's neck.....as for ...
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  • Okunka 10 years ago

    The retirement package Kuffuor crafted for himself alone should make hang his head in shame forever. Rawlings is worse. He still lives in a government bungalow; 15 years after leaving office. I do not condone what the judg ...
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  • Asumadu 10 years ago

    ood point. K4 awarding himself medals as if he is D.K Poison or Azumah. He should kindly keep quiet and stop talking about corruption. Nana Addo please for goodness sake don't involve yourself because "the cocaine that turned ...
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  • beayou multimedia ltd 10 years ago

    Yes

  • CORNEY 10 years ago

    Just look at this corrupt man talking about corruption,the person who turned the judiciary to what it is today.
    Kufour should be the last person to talk about corruption because he is more corrupt than all the leaders of Gha ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    That, my friend, is their unfathomable hypocrisy that is driving me insane ever since.

  • Poki 10 years ago

    Corney, your argument is timid and inconsequential. Let's keep things in context. What was incorrect about what he said. You have the freedom of airing your vacuous points as does he, as a citizen of Ghana and a former presi ...
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  • kudodzi 10 years ago

    He lie he is not called osei, he is kudodzi at flagster house

  • OBOSOMANKETERE NAM BREBRE 10 years ago

    There are many many of those camouflaged names, sure you know where they are coming from, blame Nkrumah for unity with to distroy Ghana. It is not too late, the UNITY will not succeed.

  • DR. TRUE. 10 years ago

    And in addition to all, you came to be witch hunting on your political opponents putting them into jail. Now you the same Kufuor J. A. speaking against. That is why Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata said something wrong with the judiciary. ...
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  • Asumadu 10 years ago

    Tell me about it. NPP always think NDC is the most corrupt government. CPP, AB3 and co parties are corrupt but because they are not in power they envy the one in power. I WISH WE GET A REASONABLE PERSON TO RULE GHANA. WE are ...
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  • Asumadu 10 years ago

    k4 where did you get the money to build Hotel wawa

  • fge 10 years ago

    what is there to be judged

  • Plasma Kote 10 years ago

    They were not exposed during your time

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Nana Binaddo Buhari isn't a problem to only the Ashanti/ Akyem tribal Npp party, but for Ghana as whole. When President Mahama busily fixing our economy and putting plans to put an end to our power crisis, Nana Binaddo roamin ...
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  • Nii 10 years ago

    Asem ooo....Ghana nie

  • WAA LOOK 10 years ago

    The moment that stupiiiiid attamills took over Ghana, the country went basaaaaaa till date..... Closest friend of woyome.....

  • YOU KNOW 10 years ago

    stupid judges. shame ooooo shame.

  • jakes 10 years ago

    Yes you are right Papa

  • MR HEY 10 years ago

    SHAAMMMMME

  • Bro Nana Akufo-Addo, Nima-Accra 10 years ago

    Is Mr John Agyekum Kufuor a lawyer? Has he appeared in a court to defend someone before? He better shut up.

  • Siaw 10 years ago

    Kuffuor also used judges in a dubious means to overturned a ruling in favour of Tsatsu Tsikata and made sure Tsatsu was imprisoned.....These corrupt judges were there during his time.What did he do to curb corruption during h ...
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  • Asumadu 10 years ago

    Instead of helping to solve the infighting within the party caused by himself he is talking about corruption. Thieves everywhere. Can he in the name of God state he was a genuine president>

  • Akomea 10 years ago

    You appointment most of these judge banzas.. including the CJ whose under her watch we are experiencing this tragedy.
    The blame lies squarely on your greedy head.

  • Etweba 10 years ago

    Stupid foolish Kuffuor, shut your dumb ass up. When you were appointing these corrupt judges what were you thinking? Now you come and talk like a holy person.
    What is year legacy, none. Your ill conceived NHI P has ...
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  • Ghana lady 10 years ago

    Akomea if he appointed the that giving them the chance to collect bribe, every Ghanaian citizen deserve a chance to work in Ghana, so don't blame Kufuor blame mahama ND atuguba ND ndc party.

  • Bulko 10 years ago

    Sensible talk. All leaders must condemn the scandal for the progress of the nation. No country can develop without a trustworthy judicial system. The judiciary is the second most important arm of governance.

  • Md 10 years ago

    Don't forget you used some of these judges to illegally jail tsatsu.

  • Koku 10 years ago

    Yes !!!!!! Look at the pot accusing the kettle of being black.Kufour you taught them the art of bribe collection.Just shut up and enjoy your loot.

  • ISHA MOHAMMED 10 years ago

    Corrupt masters of the economy! What even pains me is that, when they get the money too there that u see their heads abroad and their "anus" at home.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    I think any Judge implicated in this corruption case should fear God and come clean for God's forgiveness on them if, as a matter of facts, the acts actually did take place.Fighting back to safe your skin will disturb your pe ...
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  • Vicky 10 years ago

    In other to move forward with a clean slate, in the Country, the so called 1992 accord, must be desolve, so no one is under any immunity to any wrong doing, either be a Politician or a Judiciary sect.

  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    Kill 34 corrupt judges.Confiscate all their assets including those of their wives and kids.Then let"s take it from there.We have to start from somewhere.

  • Siaw 10 years ago

    Then Prez kuffuor must be included in your murder...he stole state money to buy for himself a gold chain costing 66,000 pounds sterling.A highway robber,and this man is walking free also talking about corruption.....Ghana y3 ...
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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    How much was that Gold chain alone President Kufour hanged around his neck? The amount surpasses all the money put together that those judges have been allegedly accused of as recieving as bribes

  • ####### 10 years ago

    SEE WHO IS TALKING? YOU WEAR THE CROWN WHEN IT COMES TO CORRUPTION.

  • BOAKYE BOATENG 10 years ago

    KUFOUR SAID CORRUPTION STARTED FROM ADAMS TIME WHEN HIS MINISTERS WERE LOOTING GHANA OF HIS RESOURCES. UR MINISTERS STOOL ALL GOVT BUNGALOWS THROUGH THIS CORRUPT JUDGES.KUFFOUR EII IS UR OWN LEGACY SO KEEP QUIET AND LET GHANA ...
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  • Kofi Ansah 10 years ago

    You said corruption is biblical from Adam and Eve. You indulged in it throughout your tenure in office. You protected stolen money through corrupt practices.
    What's shocking? Cocaine exhibits were missing. Dockets disappear ...
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  • Prof. Alhaji Awuni Dauda 10 years ago

    Unlike you know who, President Kufour has stated it as forcefully as it can be. Knowing that he didn't appoint these corrupt judges, the former president was very sincere in the assessment of the situation. This is what we ca ...
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  • kofi 10 years ago

    Kufour, You are not a Saint either

  • Johnny 10 years ago

    Has Kufuor forgotten he ever said ' corruption' is "as old as Adam "

  • Albertico 10 years ago

    He said that but you stupid people used it against him. We all know that corruption did not start yesterday.

  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    When judges (in any part of the world) become corrupt, they become the dark symbols of human mythology - portents of EVIL.

  • Issah 10 years ago

    There is time for everything this world.

  • Kwame Asante. 10 years ago

    Here we are Mr, Sakyi Kufour, now you are making mockery your profession and your so called intellectuality as so called lawyers who think they know all in the world. You have now seen and heard that the lawyers and the judic ...
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  • KOJO 10 years ago

    All these would not have happened if kuffour arrested bribe givers when they trooped in avalanches to his office. Instead, he only claimed to have refused and did absolutely nothing. The lack of punishment from the highest of ...
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  • Kofi/USA 10 years ago

    Kufour ..... Are you saying you didn't know this level of corruption existed in Ghana?

  • agya 10 years ago

    Even 60% of n d c officials are corrupt said by rawlings. Anh john mahama also is teaming up with criminals at the flagstar house. So no wonder

  • K. Anderson 10 years ago

    Mr. President, what about you yourself? What a hypocrite you are! Have you already forgotten all the shameful corrupt activities that characterised your administration and the critical role you personally played in the establ ...
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  • Ibn Batuta 10 years ago

    Great stuff. But Georgina Wood was then an Appeals court judge who was promoted over and above all the top justices of the SC to become the CJ as her reward for protecting the Asante clan during the MV Benjamin cocaine saga.
    ...
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  • Plasma Kote 10 years ago

    What a JOKE

  • Poki 10 years ago

    Why is it a joke. Even you are commenting and it's not funny!!

  • kwesi Annan 10 years ago

    This should be seen as an opportunity to introduce far-reaching measures to address the endemic rot in the public service as a whole. Knowing the sort of leadership we have this opportunity will be missed. Vested interests ab ...
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  • Paa Joe 10 years ago

    GOOD WORDS FROM KUFFOUR.

    HOWEVER, HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR APPOINTING THESE CRROKS AS JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES.

    CORRUPTION LESADS TO SUFFERING, UNDERDEVELOPMEMT AND EXTREME POVERTY.

    PEOPLE APPOINTED TP POSITION HAVE TO T ...
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  • Paa Joe 10 years ago

    THESE JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES ARE NOT FACING ''IMPEACHMENT'', THEY HAVE TO FACE THE FULL FORCE OF RULE AND LAW OF THE NATION.

    THEY SHOULD HABE BEEN ARRESTED BY NOW, CHARGED AND PROSECUTED.

  • S.H.C 10 years ago

    War if they are not arrested.

  • Finala 10 years ago

    Hahaha, Kufuor, but you used the same judiciary. You influence them to jail innocent people.

  • jim 10 years ago

    Look who is talking, everybody in time go come oooooooooo

  • Appiah 10 years ago

    That shameless behavior was initiated by you when you misused millions of our money to buy gold chains for your self instead of building schools and helped Dr Anane to smuggle $94 from the country without declaring it as dema ...
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  • Charles 10 years ago

    Recently, I witnessed in dismay a tirade by a white man in the first class cabin of a mid-size airplane, admonishing another first class passenger, a Ghanaian male, for “begging” for his seat. What is wrong with you Afric ...
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  • first class indeed 10 years ago

    Jibberish and who the fuck are you. If you are bold and authentic put your muthafucking name and company here so we the online fbi can verify your fucking fake credentials. Fuck off stupid fool

  • abraham 10 years ago

    This the type of man we want in the judiciary.May you live long:Kufuor

  • Moses kankane 10 years ago

    Chief justice must resign. In any civilized country, she would resign for serious reforms to be done. But these Africans have no conscience to take such an important but drastic step

  • ghana Ba 10 years ago

    Is it not kufuor once told ghanaians that corruption started in adam's time.

  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    Right now, we see the negative impact on Anas' videos; we'll soon begin to appreciate his great efforts and the courage in this revelations. Anyone who's fighting against public view of the videos will be against our nation's ...
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  • Philip Londont 10 years ago

    Well said Vicky, you are the only person who is making a very good point that not until we have amended the constitution by removing any thing implacable by the murderer JJ Rawlings. And make him face justice for not only hi ...
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  • HARDCORE 10 years ago

    I don't have problem with anyone taking the Julor Justices to the cleaners, but you K4 the grandmaster of corruption shouldn't not add salt to our injuries. Your Mafia government from 2001 to 2009 succeeded in corrupting the ...
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  • raster 10 years ago

    the nation needs the one from supreme court not the high court anas we beg you bring that one if you really LOVES your country Ghana

  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    At least you ssid something good. But why did you inprison Tsikata

  • Ibn Batuta 10 years ago

    If judges were not taking bribes, how could Kufour and his govt. be able to imprison Tsatsu and the likes. Kufour must also bow his head down in shame. Briber Kufour.

  • Sankofa 10 years ago

    Kufuor shut up!

    THe judges are innocent till proven guilty.

    You were quite corrupt when in government, so do not pontificate on this matter. Leave the matter to the authorities empowered by the constitution to handle it ...
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  • Abrewa nana 10 years ago

    Eih, if kufuor also considers someone corrupt then the person must be corrupt paaaaaa, because he (kufuor) is the grandfather of all corrupt people in Ghana. In fact, when it comes to corruption, kufuor is a five-star general ...
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  • Blefuscu 10 years ago

    Good of you to make a statement on this sordid affair. Why has not the President of all the people? The average citizen is unable to enjoy his country because of the corruption that pervades every area. It is such that the av ...
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  • afia 10 years ago

    So hideous I almost passed out

  • Adam 10 years ago

    It is indeed very disgraceful .I hope the proceedings will be telecast like the 2012 election petition.

  • KOFI Kwame 10 years ago

    Rawlings and Kufour had come out and Conderemed ,hope more High profile respected personalities should also do the same to move Ghana forward ,who ever Conderem Ana's is also an Enemy of The State.Being a lawyer or a Judge is ...
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  • cee 10 years ago

    When I read some of you all comments is like none of guys has never leave in Ghana before or not from Ghana at all. Let's face it our nation is badly corrupt from the bottom to the top including the police . Remember 1979 whe ...
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  • Asumadu 10 years ago

    Sir not from 1979, it started from Kwame Nkrumah.

  • HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

    WHAT ABOUT YOURSELF. HOW MANY OF THESE JUDGES DID YOU APPOINT?.

  • MAHAMA LOOT ND SHARE 10 years ago

    CORRUPT MAHAMA IS A SHAMEFUL PREZ GHANA EVER HAD,HMMMMMM

  • Asumadu 10 years ago

    All politicians are corrupt. From Dr Nkrumah to Mahama. None of them is genuine. Wait time will tell.

  • Afifitor. 10 years ago

    He tells his clinets to buy him suits and all his medications then dupe them by siding with their defendant if there is money to be made. This guy has a house in the U.K , US and Ghana at Macharty Hill. He is the real Julor c ...
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  • Judy 10 years ago

    It is unthinkable and shameful what these Ghanaian judges are doing. It shows that the whole Ghanaian justices system is for sale and a big joke, the poor go to jail while those who can afford to pay go free and commit more c ...
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  • Adams F. 10 years ago

    No mercy for the cripple. Oh orphans,the poor n the needy are in prison now suffering jxt bcuz of these nasty judges. Yur rewards are in hell.