Mahama attends 53rd anniversary celebration of the Anlo Hogbetsotso festival

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Arnold 8 years ago

Our celebrations and festivals must no longer be alcohol and comdom promotion celebrations and festivals . They must have themes and must propel us to greater achievements

Our celebrations and festivals must no longer be alcohol and comdom promotion celebrations and festivals . They must have themes and must propel us to greater achievements
OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

Author:-ZAC...
Mahama is dangerous to Ghana,the fact that Mills died the same day he was due to travel to Nigeria is a questionable death and there has been a coverup. Mahama must know something about Mills death.
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Author:-ZAC...
Mahama is dangerous to Ghana,the fact that Mills died the same day he was due to travel to Nigeria is a questionable death and there has been a coverup. Mahama must know something about Mills death.
You cannot hide truth forever,it eventually comes to the surface. Mahama cannot rule Ghana forever, and someday the truth of Mills death will be uncovered and Mahama will be shamed forever. Was it not Mahama that wrote "A coup without firing a singl shot"?.
insight to the bone 8 years ago

Socrates in the 4th century BC or thereabouts said very skeptical of democracy that it would pay dearly. The poor will want the wealth of the wealthy and democracy will give it to them.The youth will want be respected like th ...
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Socrates in the 4th century BC or thereabouts said very skeptical of democracy that it would pay dearly. The poor will want the wealth of the wealthy and democracy will give it to them.The youth will want be respected like the old achievers with experience, women will want to be like men,foreigners will want the rights of the natives and democracy will make this possible. Thieves and con men will want positions of importance and democracy will also give that to them .When thieves and con artists finally democratically gain power as criminals and evil men have a urge always to gain power we will have a tyranny worse than any monarchy or oligarchy unquote. This all evident in the pndc /ndc govt today including the perverse leanings towards inter-gender role exchanges and promotion of homosexuality.Thus Winston Churchill said that democracy is the "worst form of government," just better than all the others. the problem Plato has with democracy in the Republic is not the absence of the rule of law but just the fact that the wrong people are in power-people without the proper virtues or integrity.Development pepeni omanhene says is unequaled on his watch, and i ask what is the meaning? Is it the total uselessness , or insignificance , level of plaigatory theft of projects, corruption kick backs or the benefits his kleptomaniac brothers and cronies have acquired , the level of prejudice of against anything that can benefit Akan areas or people . Pepeni has borrowed and created more debt than all the previous presidents before him combined including Nkrumah yet we dont see any results such as the attempts of raising any basic or primary industry to add some value to our natural resources before export that creates jobs for millions as Nkrumah and all presidents except for pepeni and JJ tried to. What is unequaled is the billions that have been siphoned out of the country mainly to Islamic destinations like Iran , Dubai and Turkey. He boasts about the nonexistent 200 schools yet forgets over a century ago Akans mainly Fantes built schools that today would each cost no less than 20 million each. He offers markets and toilets as if the local community could not do so themselves if the taxes and various levies collected in those areas remained there. But no pepeni/ayigbe must chop bribe together with their Gas Adas and other satellite allies against the Akans. A govt whose members are selected not based on competence but their level of hate or prejudice against the Akan majority or the family blood ties to pepeni mahama can never serve anybody except their selfish selves and will always fail. The success or failure of any business , govt or social enterprise is determined by the personnel or cadre who execute the defined goals. In our case we need a govt selected based on merit and experience to get us out of this vicious circle of poverty and bad luck , so i would expect to see at least 3 investment bankers , 4 engineers , 2 macro economists and one doctor of project management and that govt with people of integrity will surely have results in less than a year. Competent Ghanaian all decline to associate themselves with NDC and their corruption driven govt.Pepeni went to mislead the chiefs to use festivals to promote market and project development but omitted to tell them no project has made it through the finance ministry without paying an arm and a leg in bribes , talk less of the cabinet or parliamentary committees. Mafias dont need economists or bankers but rather opt for book keepers or accountants like we see in our minister of finance being shadowed spied and watched by pepeni's cousin chief director Alajih Major Tara. Look at former minister of state for development now minister of science technology with his dentist of army qualification Alajih Dr Mustafa Ahmed and tell me he is capable of contributing something good except positioning himself to collect bribes. None of this will ever end up in Ghanian media or newspapers as NDC ( mainly Ga /Ada) activists now holding national security id s go around intimidating the journalists ,editors and owners of these establishments. We know the motive for these useless utterances by pepeni as his strategy ids to hoodwink the people into believing so much has been done for development , with roads , schools etc but notice there is no railway , no health services with modern ambulances including helicopters , fire services lack fighting water tank planes or helicopters talk less of specialized fire fighting equipment as not all will pay bribes , no initiation of any strategically important industry . Just get ready for the whirlwind of propaganda and lies saying the empty projects with no direction is what we couldn't do ourselves so they did. No self respecting intellectual worth his wait will throw pearls of wisdom before this pepeni/ayigbe swine . These idiotic ndc will always blame the Akans privately or npp publicly for making them fail or the country ungovernable but in reality they just don't know how , jj failed and so will they in their tribalistic hegemony. Yes rig the elections a thousand times and each time you will fail abysmally .Let them continue to adorn themselves with vainglorious titles of esteem or positions of influence and power but as the coat doesn't make the man so all this will eventually end up in their own failure and misery BULLSHIT GALORE
Milton 8 years ago

All we know is our backward way of doing things. We don't see the need to improve our livelihoods or join the race of innovation! Whilst the whole world is moving on to greater heights in the area of technology, development, ...
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All we know is our backward way of doing things. We don't see the need to improve our livelihoods or join the race of innovation! Whilst the whole world is moving on to greater heights in the area of technology, development, healthcare, etc, etc.. we are still celebrating these backward festivals to appease some kind of gods.. For a president to attend such a useless event tells me Ghana as a whole has no priorities anymore. It's now being ransacked by fake politicians, fake pastors, useless celebrities and western economic vultures! Now these ewe people should quietly celebrate their primitive festival and not disturb our ears with it! It's of no national importance. At the end of the day we know these hardcore tribalists will still pledge their loyal support for the most incompetent political party (ndc) ever to rule our dear nation!
Kwaku 8 years ago

And what have you as an individual invented. Talking is cheap idiot. It is our culture you like it or not. Stupid idiot

And what have you as an individual invented. Talking is cheap idiot. It is our culture you like it or not. Stupid idiot
Milton 8 years ago

It's people like kwaku who are still backwards and want the country to remain as such. What did the president himself and the chief do at that useless event apart from talking and making cheap promises? An idiot like you is o ...
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It's people like kwaku who are still backwards and want the country to remain as such. What did the president himself and the chief do at that useless event apart from talking and making cheap promises? An idiot like you is only impressed by empty and cheap political talk!
OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

Author:-Earl Jones...
A twist in the tale.
Readers should note how the media is trying the twist what Martin Amidu said. He did not say government SPONSORED the investigation. Martin Amidu said government COMMISSIONED the i ...
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Author:-Earl Jones...
A twist in the tale.
Readers should note how the media is trying the twist what Martin Amidu said. He did not say government SPONSORED the investigation. Martin Amidu said government COMMISSIONED the investigation under the Mills led government.

To commission is the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority. Of course, you cannot investigate the civil or public service with an authority allowing that to happen.

To sponsor is to provide funds for (a project or activity or the person carrying it out). Or to introduce. and supports a proposal for legislation. Amidu is not claiming this!
Get the difference and don't let the media mislead you.

so Abdul Malik Kweku Baako and Martin Amidu have not contradicted each other.

I think the media is trying to plant a controversy that does not exist.
kaketonti 8 years ago

IT IS NO ONE'S FAULT IF YOU'VE REJECTED YOUR TRADITIONAL/CULTURAL HERITAGE.EVEN YOUR WHITEMAN HAS KEPT HIS.

IT IS NO ONE'S FAULT IF YOU'VE REJECTED YOUR TRADITIONAL/CULTURAL HERITAGE.EVEN YOUR WHITEMAN HAS KEPT HIS.
Ajet Nassam 8 years ago

Thank you very much Milton

Thank you very much Milton
JH. New York 8 years ago

Milton and others who think like him; know that the "whole World moving on to greater heights in the area of technology,development.healthcare, etc,etc" to use your own words, has more Festivals/Parades than your little ignor ...
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Milton and others who think like him; know that the "whole World moving on to greater heights in the area of technology,development.healthcare, etc,etc" to use your own words, has more Festivals/Parades than your little ignoramus mind could imagined. And the powers that be or Politicians (some of them millionaires and a billionaire)makes Sure to attend each one of them without fail.It's only in our part of the World where a Festival of the people is deemed as"backward" by people like you."Travel and See" is an inscription on a House in Ghana!.
Bobby, Denmark 8 years ago

He is using his mafia style to fool some people.Only the greedy and selfish people can easily be fooled by this thief called president.Apuuuu!

He is using his mafia style to fool some people.Only the greedy and selfish people can easily be fooled by this thief called president.Apuuuu!
Comment 250 8 years ago

They have been the bane of progress, not leading the flock to the promise land.
They have only been playing leeches for hundreds of years, being rooted in sitting on people's head, people's head, people's head is where they ...
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They have been the bane of progress, not leading the flock to the promise land.
They have only been playing leeches for hundreds of years, being rooted in sitting on people's head, people's head, people's head is where they have ridden for 1000s of years.

They must change their ways and lead people to creativity and growth, not just talking about it, but doing it.
Nana Bawuah 8 years ago

Looking at social formation, judicial, administrative systems and organisation, it appears that our so-called illiterate ancestors were far more advanced than our current generation, which prides itself on having gone through ...
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Looking at social formation, judicial, administrative systems and organisation, it appears that our so-called illiterate ancestors were far more advanced than our current generation, which prides itself on having gone through degrees of Western education. They built great city states and nations providing abundant wealth for its subjects. Its rather by embracing the colonial government and christianity, which has kept us backwards.
Aj 8 years ago

Bawuah,you started good with your comments. but you fail at the end trying to make Christianity as a European religion, plz it is a big No,the oldest Church is in Africa (Ethiopia) not in Roman.the oldest university was in Af ...
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Bawuah,you started good with your comments. but you fail at the end trying to make Christianity as a European religion, plz it is a big No,the oldest Church is in Africa (Ethiopia) not in Roman.the oldest university was in Africa (SUDAN) (Mali)? our ancestors were not illiterates but due to continues wars and foreign invaders, there were Constance migration which causes distractions of great empires and our education systems. we can not go back to worshiping of idols, because idols creat a kind of laziness,dirty.
Nana Bawuah 8 years ago

"we can not go back to worshiping of idols, because idols creat a kind of laziness,dirty. "

Then stop worshipping your idol (Jesus Christ).
We had a highly sophisticated and native religion before the coming of the Europ ...
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"we can not go back to worshiping of idols, because idols creat a kind of laziness,dirty. "

Then stop worshipping your idol (Jesus Christ).
We had a highly sophisticated and native religion before the coming of the Europeans.
I wonder when Christians will stop claiming hegemony over all other religions. If one really has a problem with his/her own culture, then he must stop practising it! That person must stop in performing Akan naming ceremonies, stop conducting funerals in the Akan fashion, stop pouring libation, stop engaging in Akan festivals such as Akwasidae, stop the practice of customary marriages, even stop bearing an Akan soul/day names, since they have a spiritual connection to the cosmology of the Akan people. They must also avoid praising Nyame/Nyankopon since this is how the Akans referred to their creator.They must stop practising all aspects of their culture.One cannot say I embrace my culture, but I reject the spiritual aspect of it. This is not possible, one does not exist without the other.

"our ancestors were not illiterates but due to continues wars and foreign invaders, there were Constance migration which causes distractions of great empires and our education systems. "

I would never ever refer to them as illiterates as I stated they were far ahead of their times. I wrote "our so called" illiterate ancestors. This implies how others refer to them.
Joe Turkey 8 years ago

It's campaign time and every baby shower is a must go.

It's campaign time and every baby shower is a must go.
HARDER@'-89 8 years ago

Torgbuiwo should be telling us what plans and strategies they have put in place to bring investments n create economic buoyancy in our homeland...what are have they put in place n doing to attract Anlo citizens n other invest ...
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Torgbuiwo should be telling us what plans and strategies they have put in place to bring investments n create economic buoyancy in our homeland...what are have they put in place n doing to attract Anlo citizens n other investors within n in the diaspora with the requisite expertise to create jobs n industries for our teeming n longsuffering youths..that is the big question begging answers....
we need visionary n bold leadership to break this irksome monotony of yearly rituals....
Kwabena Yeboah 8 years ago

No wonder this nation is in big shit. The incompetent Mahama who wields all the executive powers in the country is in a birthday party here today, tomorrow at a funeral, the next day in anniversary celebrations. My question ...
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No wonder this nation is in big shit. The incompetent Mahama who wields all the executive powers in the country is in a birthday party here today, tomorrow at a funeral, the next day in anniversary celebrations. My question is: where is the Vice President? Isn't the Vice President supposed to attend these ceremonies and free up the President's time?

What a waste of human resources!!!
ERICUS. 8 years ago

What did the president bring to the people anlo ?? Not just promises. When actually is the water project comerncing to help people of Akatsi, Abor, Agbozume and the entire southern volta ?? Still waiting .

What did the president bring to the people anlo ?? Not just promises. When actually is the water project comerncing to help people of Akatsi, Abor, Agbozume and the entire southern volta ?? Still waiting .
NPPigs 8 years ago

Come 2016 NDC will scoop all the votes from VR and leave NPP with only Keta school boys!

Come 2016 NDC will scoop all the votes from VR and leave NPP with only Keta school boys!
Jay+++++++++++++London 8 years ago

That is Mahama's ploy courting local chiefs favour by slipping things in their pockets in the hope of the chiefs advising their subjects to vote NDC.

Mahama knows damn well that left to his performance alone he stands NO C ...
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That is Mahama's ploy courting local chiefs favour by slipping things in their pockets in the hope of the chiefs advising their subjects to vote NDC.

Mahama knows damn well that left to his performance alone he stands NO CHANCE in the next elections so buying the local chiefs is one of his many devious means to go into the elections.
Plasma Kote 8 years ago

Why is he in a SHIRT ?, Must be in CLOTH, quite an insult the Anlos, and they are all just silent.

He will not do this in Ashanti Land.

Why is he in a SHIRT ?, Must be in CLOTH, quite an insult the Anlos, and they are all just silent.

He will not do this in Ashanti Land.
Plasma Kote 8 years ago

Can someone say something about the Dictates Of Protocol !!!!!!!!!

Can someone say something about the Dictates Of Protocol !!!!!!!!!
National Agenda 8 years ago

Tweaaaa...Mahama NDC killed Prof Mills. The time of true confession is coming.

Tweaaaa...Mahama NDC killed Prof Mills. The time of true confession is coming.
medico 8 years ago

WHEN ARE THEY GOING BACK TO TOGOLAND WITH THEIR ekoro people

WHEN ARE THEY GOING BACK TO TOGOLAND WITH THEIR ekoro people

Mahama attends 53rd anniversary celebration of the Anlo Hogbetsotso festival

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