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Dec. 31 Revolution: Rawlings marks 34th anniversary

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  • ddkt 8 years ago

    why are we celebrating criminality? we are not serious kraaaa

  • Reece 8 years ago

    Rawlings has no remorse or shame.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

    AUTHOR: STEVOO-------
    GOD ISNT STUPID LIKE US, WE REAP WHAT WE SOWED,,,,WE SOWED FAKE JUDGEMENT DEBTS, ALMOST ONE BILLION DOLLARS....WE SOWED WOYOME 45 MILLION DOLLARS, WE SOWED WATERVILLE 46 MILLION DOLLARS, ISOFOTON $325,4 ...
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  • K B 8 years ago

    So Rawlings will campaign for Mahama?
    Is Mahama that desperate?
    He needs JJ so will bribe him with this celebration?

  • Omanba Pa, Islington-London! 8 years ago

    Why do we allow JJ to celebrate this as a nation? What is the purpose of doing this and what can we gain from this? Ghanaians must wake up now!

  • KOO DWOMO 8 years ago

    This was a fake revolution of thieves. Never in the history of Ghana have the citizens witnessed the wanton graft of its borrowed resources by the very people who killed others, for the purposes of accountability and probity. ...
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  • tontrobi 8 years ago

    The three idiots in Police uniform who took part in this illegality should know that their days in the Service are surely numbered.

  • Soomui 8 years ago

    Any govt that takes part in or, by its silence condones to this stinking illegality, purports to say that coups d'etat are legitimate means of attaining political power.

    Again, any govt that condones to the application of ...
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  • AYAAK 8 years ago

    Useless and destructive December 31st Revolution has become a shrine of Ewes gangsters in our country. They gather to celebrate what has become most destructive thing in Ghanaian society. What do they celebrate this destructi ...
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  • CALAMITY JANE 8 years ago

    Hey, hey hey. Stop there! Did Rawlings ever tell you that he was a socialist? Did you ever see him practice socialism? Have ever heard him mention anything good about socialism?

    The man is a capitalist/imperialist puppet t ...
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  • Akans Prophecies 8 years ago

    WELL DONE ELITE. THE TRIUMPH OF THIS SAME FIRE WILL BURN THIS KILLER THIEF UNTIL HIS ASHES. LONGLIVE BLOOD BROTHERS ,!

  • BAM 8 years ago

    IF IT WASNT RAWLINGS, THOSE OF YOU BABIES CRITISING HIM WILL NOT HAVE THE FORUM AND GUT TO DO THAT

  • concern 8 years ago

    Glorifying a fake revolution calculated to give space to others. The massive corruption that we are witnessing in Ghana now is an indictment of Rawlings and his henchmen who seized power and shot people dead and abducted inn ...
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  • CONCERNED CITIZEN 8 years ago

    DELUSIONAL IDIOT,RAWLINGS continues to insult the sensibilities of Ghanaians with this senseless act year after year.Meanwhile,members of the party he founded,NDC,are looting big time! Create,loot,and share culture has taken ...
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  • PIOTO 8 years ago

    History tells us that things were so bad people were queuing to buy uncooked kenkey, no toiletries were sold on the open market, people ate chicken and took coca cola once a year, that is on Christmas day. New white goods wer ...
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  • CALAMITY JANE 8 years ago

    My friend, where did you read your history? Clearly you also do not have an over-riding understanding of the trends of history.

    With the exception of the 1966 coup which clearly arrested the vital development of Africa, al ...
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  • AJ 8 years ago

    why should Ghanaians celebrate something which brought them nothing but missary.Military coups brought us nothing but shit and dumso. Rawlings and his family belongs Teshie range to be shot.

  • Kwame Oduro London E 15 8 years ago

    Useless celebration ; unnecessary killing of innocent souls ; sada, national service , geda & latest re branding --- scandals , corruption s everywhere --- accountability indeed

  • JUSTICE FOR KUTU 8 years ago

    TIME WILL TELL.

    DO WE HAVE 2 GOVERNMENTS?

  • dan ash 8 years ago

    Mr. president you have done your best but your perfect ideology is producing corrupt Official who do not even understand any of your ideologies. Mr president you should bow your head in shame.President Mahama is doing twice a ...
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  • STEPHEN OSEI,NORWAY 8 years ago

    STILL CORRUP,MORE THAN BEFORE PLUS ARMRUBBERS

  • king solomon 8 years ago

    God have mercy on rawlings.a BEAST.

  • Bamm 8 years ago

    The 31st December disaster that Ghana cannot recover

  • Kojovi 8 years ago

    God punish the Rawlings Family for all the atrocities metted out to Ghanaians.

  • Joseph Yeboah 8 years ago

    You remember your anniversary but you forget the poor people their 50 cedis refunded back to them..Shame
    You come with gun but yourtime is coming . What you sow, you will reap
    You kill them. Corrup ...
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  • Amega 8 years ago

    Did Rawlings obtain official permission to use the Revolutionary Square? Or any body at all can use the square?

  • George Nutsugah 8 years ago

    We have to take the transitional provisions that are protecting JJ Rawlings, out of the 1992 constitution so that Rawlings can face justice. He created this monster called NDC which is made of persons who have specialized in ...
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  • NDC diehard 8 years ago

    The so-called 31st December coup was unjustified, unwarranted, and stupid. It brought Ghana to a worse condition than before the coup. All these sufferings in Ghana now are due to this useless coup that never achieved anythin ...
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  • NDC diehard 8 years ago

    JJ Rawlings is a shameless man for celebrating an event that sent Ghana several decades backward. That so-called revolution was not needed. He only came and killed innocent Ghanaians for nothing and destroyed our industrial b ...
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  • abele 8 years ago

    All government appointees and service men and women who graced that outlawed mutiny should be sacked with immediate effect for condoning wrongdoing.LETS SEE OUR DEMOCRACY AT WORK.The Chief Justice who sacked the corrupt judge ...
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  • abba 8 years ago

    THE SPIRIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS TOTALLY DEAD BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS TAKEN THE COUNTRY A HOSTAGE AND LOOTED ITS COFFERS. NOW IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BLOOD OF GEN.I.K.ACHAMPONG AND THE OTHER VICTIMS ARE INNOCENT.

  • Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago

    It is laughable when I hear Rawlings fanatics talk about corruption and or transparency as if English dictionaries of the world defer to Rawlings to bring meaning to those words. I will say it again in Ghana we have no shame; ...
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  • Musah 8 years ago

    God will punish him and all those who praise this murderous ewe bastard Rawlings..He can never wash the blood of innocent ghanaians he brutally killed.

  • sanjay - Abu Dhabi 8 years ago

    those that he killed for better Ghana, now see them again, this time politicians are so corrupt to the extend that rawlings should come out again with another coup, see corruption every where, greedy bastards like rawlings ca ...
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  • Pelicles 8 years ago

    How did Nana Konadu Agyeman own 15% in Ghana Rubber Estate Limited? This is the wife of the so called "chief fighter of corruption" in our poor nation. JJ is a pure hypocrite and I laugh when his ignorant supporters sing p ...
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  • Jean Makote 8 years ago

    Kill him . Mahana

  • MENSA 8 years ago

    after he took power in Ghana they even re-elected him which means the look the other way to what ever sins they are blaming him to have committed in the past

  • daladm 8 years ago

    and his "revolution" that's means 30 million were silent then ,and silent only means approval and agreement
    "when a man have a duty to dispute he must do so or forever shot up and live like a slave"

  • PIOTO 8 years ago

    He was supported by everyone and was even hailed as junior jesus. Go watch the videos on youtube. Ghanaians will vote for him if he stands today. A true leader is the one who is not scared of taking difficult decisions. He wa ...
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  • Akans Prophecies 8 years ago

    Ghana is already full of kings and queens! Where does this impure , projects blood to ordaine carcasses as a truimph of conquest. By the way intimidating unarmed populace at gun point and robbing every election by kidnap ...
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  • lito 8 years ago

    Stop this 31st December celebration. Its of no importance to Ghanaians.

  • Lawrence 8 years ago

    I congratute u ,for keeping democracy burning well in the countary.i wish u long life.i salute u my bosse.

  • eD 8 years ago

    Governance, rule of law, and democracy does not work in Ghana so the military once more should take over.

    It appears those who have been elected to govern this country have come in to steal and share country's resources be ...
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  • Joe Turkey 8 years ago

    The government of Ghana and the Ghana Armed Forces (if they want any credibility) should stop this nonsense in the name of the GAF. Rawlings can not take this country for granted, nor can the Ghana Armed Forces turn a blind s ...
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  • Amanaman 8 years ago

    One day the fire he has been scooping will burn him to teach him a lesson of life.

  • Evelyn 8 years ago

    Stupid man evil man fire burned you you will suffer. Go back to Togo

  • atsu gambia 8 years ago

    I thought president Rawligs is a christian but he is not. No christian can put his hand in to the fire even though we have the power of holy ghost JJ is not a christian but devil even prophet elijah command fire from heaven ...
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  • edi 8 years ago

    WHEN HE RUN GHANA HE WAS SUPPORTED BY MOST OF GHANA SO LETS STOP THE LIES AND BULL CRAP

  • Efo Kwaawaaku Canada 8 years ago

    The bustard is igniting the spirit of corruption, in discipline, tribal politics plus hatred and nonentities in society educated illiterates without little bit of wisdom spirit to destroy Ghana, that idiot son of bitch guy on ...
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  • BABA 8 years ago

    YOU OVERTHREW A GOVT. ELECTED BY MAJORITY OF GHANAIANS, HILLA LIMMANS PEOPLES NATIONAL PARTY, PNP,TESHIE KPONKPA SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR PLACE, CAUSE YOU HAVE COMMITED A CRIME AGAINST GHANA. EVERY ROAD HAVE A BEND,KEEP UP THE P ...
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  • K. Agyemang 8 years ago

    God bless our homeland Ghana

  • WILLIE 8 years ago

    Am just tired of the hypocrisy that comes from this Rawlings guy. Rawlings and Konadu Agyemang are at the very centre of the Greed and Corruption in Ghana.

  • GHANANI 8 years ago

    It is amazing that Rawlings celebrates his revolution that toppled the democratically elected government of Dr Hilla Limann.What he did was treason.And some foolish ghanaians join him to celebrate it.

  • Silent 8 years ago

    Stupid man, all that you're interested in is celebrating useless anniversaries. What has your so-cal;led revolutions and uprisings accomplished for the nation?