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Volta breakaway group to sue government

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  • AGBESI. KWESI 8 years ago

    IS ISLAM A RELIGION OF PEACE?.If Muslims have problems with traditional authorities in Tafo, why did they attack Christian churches. Mahama sees all these yet he will not condemn them. The last time, Muslims burnt down a chri ...
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  • ATSU, HO 8 years ago

    WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE? I THOUGHT IT IS DONE AND DUSTED VOLTA REGION IS PART OF NOW GHANA,

  • AGBESI. KWESI 8 years ago

    IS SATAN A MUSLIM
    The only avowed enemy of Christians is Satan and so if Muslims have issues with traditional authorities, the best place Muslim youth should have attacked was the shrines of the traditional deities and not s ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

    AUTHOR : TIMBUKTU - - - - - - WHY DO I WANT NANA TO WIN? UNLIKE KUFFOUR WHO JAILED ONLY 6 HIGH PROFILE NDC THIEVES , NANA HAS THE BALLS TO JAIL ALL THESE NDC CRIMINAL MOTHER-FUCKERS! Things are improving FAST in Tanzania, Nig ...
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  • insight to the bone 8 years ago

    This is very good , lets kick them out quickly

  • OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

    Author:-Joe.....
    What do you expect from a nation which has a person like Akua Donkor as the adviser. Akua Donkor has openly said he advises Mahama and he listens. I am not sure which advisory role she is playing but any rol ...
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  • MENSA 8 years ago

    GHANA IS DOING NOTHING FOR US EWES

  • K K Ahotor 8 years ago

    Volta Region breaking away from Ghana will enhance synergy and its very good idea for Africa to have another country

  • Ogboro 8 years ago

    Ahotor you are speaking like a stranger from Jerusalem.When were you born and what do you know about Volta Region?. Unity is strength. If you want to go to Togo go alone. For lack of knowledge my people perish

  • K.K. USA 8 years ago

    I bet this is another NPP Agenda. Go to the Volta region now and enquire if people are even aware of what is going on. This is just like the old saying, if you missed the ball, don't ............ that is why you won't under ...
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  • Pelicles 8 years ago

    What has NPP got to do with this and what will NPP benefit if Voltarians break away? Look, Boko Haram started with such nonsense and now we know how dangerous they have become.

  • OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

    Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE)...
    Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.

    “Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstreet sho ...
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  • Kwaku 8 years ago

    Really? Some of us wish this happened you know. The region has constantly and religiously voted for NDC with no development. The people demand real development over 'selfish' politicians and you sit there and blame NPP. Nonse ...
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  • METCHEEEEEW 8 years ago

    What has npp got to do with this? Are you people going out of your senses? So if you can't even fuck your wives its the npp, then what was your main aim of coming to power just to fool around? Anyway, who cares about you se ...
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  • They Say They Say 8 years ago

    There's not enough capital to develop every region at once in any part of Africa including Ghana so this group which is seeking autonomy due to insufficient development in the Volta region should chill out. Prevailing map of ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 8 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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  • life 8 years ago

    The strategy is to pick any fight no matter how stupid to start unrest. These idiots should be stamped out before they get past go.

  • Real African 8 years ago

    Islamaphobia.u hv been lied to fool, theres no virgin Mary. All is a lie and u believed it, Jesus was conceived after Joseph was a way by a Roman soldier. Where in this world hv u ever heard someone was conceived without a ...
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  • .AGBESI. KWESI 8 years ago

    Speak to the issue. Tell us why Muslims all over the world, and even in peaceful Ghana, are violent. Insults do not shake me because I have a big stomach to accommodate them.

  • Amos 8 years ago

    You Moslems who expects someone to read the Qur'an for you, do you know the story if Jesus is in your Quran?
    So you see, all those ignorance words you used there mean nothing. For the factthat you are a Moslem doesn't mean t ...
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  • K.D 8 years ago

    Read Mariam chapter in ur Holy Quran and you will know that Quran admits that Mary was a virgin and the holy spirit made her conceived.Open ur eyes for u ve been indoctrinated for too long

  • ATM 8 years ago

    I think you have a problem. What has Islam got to do with this report, is the report about Islam or Moslems. You guys should better stop the attack on Moslems now. We're living in peace both Moslems and Christians, but it see ...
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  • 3dem 8 years ago

    ARRANT NONSENSE!!! ghana web, you are disturbing my peace o!!!

  • Nyatefe 8 years ago

    I'm Anlotor but we the real Voltarians do not support these outlawed idiots. They should be dealt with if they try to cause any security breach for the peace and development of a United Ghana.

  • OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

    Author:-OBAA YAA....
    Why not? Because past experience confirms that all projects undertaken by your administration has come out with bloated estimated cost.
    President incompetent –in-chief, may I remind you that even the ...
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  • E. T. Mensah 8 years ago

    ...bye bye on your Togo trip and leave the land behind.

  • kwame USA 8 years ago

    Volta have no shit .Only water,cassava and keta school boys.If they leave and join Togo,we can enjoy our rich natural resources at the maximum level.We can help them to pack.Who even cares if they want to leave

  • Richard Owusu 8 years ago

    Because most Ghanaians don't know the facts about the mineral resources that are under the lands of the Volta Region. Go to the archives of Germany and records held by NASA and you'll be at awe to know that not only water, ca ...
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  • STEVE 8 years ago

    The Volta Basin has the highest commercial oil reserves along the West African corridor, but sits meters deeper than the Western corridor, and more expensive to extract. Very soon, extraction will commence, and the region wil ...
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  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 8 years ago

    You will be surprised that there is timber, coffee, cocoa and other resources in the Volta region. I have travelled widely across many regions in Ghana and I know what I talking of.

    The Volta region I will say has three ( ...
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  • METCHEEEEEW 8 years ago

    So why did you form a union with Ghana if you have all these? And since when did they come because nobody knows of anything rich in the volta region except the northern Volta who are akans who have cocoa and other minerals bu ...
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  • OSEI TUTU TAWIAH 8 years ago

    Foolishness !!! Changing your name and giving stupid information won't amount to anything. The Ewes who are doing this only come from the South of Volta Region. That's only the area between Sogakpfe,Aflao and Hohoe. There is ...
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  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 8 years ago

    What did I changed my name to?

    Read all my comments. Your hatred for is legendary and am not surprised. People like you are ignorant and will forever remain so.

  • kujordjie hurry up wai! 8 years ago

    PLEASE LEAVE OUR LAND FOR US AND GO KORAAAA.WE WILL SWEEP YOUR FOOTPRINTS ON OUR LAND.

  • KOFI ADAMS 8 years ago

    THAT WILL BE A VERY GOOD NEWS FOR GHANA. THEY SHOULD NOT LEAVE KOKU AYIDOHO BEHIND. I PLEAD WITH THEM

  • SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. 8 years ago

    How I wish , they leave for good. Who is forcing them to stay koraaa? But, I prefer them better than these nzongo people.

  • METCHEEEEEW 8 years ago

    Nobody in Ghana will agree with you for that matter. The fact that zongo people are violent doesn't mean they are bad people, they don't steal, they don't lie, they are not inward looking, they don't hate, they don't envy, th ...
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  • Nii 8 years ago

    This is how Boko Haram started. The government seemingly looked on thinking it will go away and it became a monster. ACT NOW.

  • REVELATION + RATIONALITY = TRUTH 8 years ago

    Don't treat this as a joke. Government should wake up and deal with this situation once and for all and cast their security eyes in the affected areas.There is no smoke without fire.
    This could be a terrorist group disguised ...
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  • Johsua 8 years ago

    Honestly govt must not brush this issue aside.The best is to find out how best to handle the political situation
    That is by creating another region 12 region which is the OTI REGION.
    This is history written with a PROMISE. ...
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  • HAJIA KK 8 years ago

    This can't be possible,they should use the Biafra issue as a footprint to follow,even with that it wasn't possible for the biafras to separate from Nigeria,they tried several years ago by Ojukwu which led to civil war in Nige ...
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  • NDCMMOA PARTY, NDC AKRONFUO 8 years ago

    If that is the case then every region will demand the government to develope it. How far has the government of Ghana develope the central region, western,
    eastern , B/A and Ashanti ? The
    indigenous people themselves have ...
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  • Joe,london 8 years ago

    Why accuse them with treason?Let them break away and deport all volta region people living in Ghana to Western Togoland.Ghana will be a more peaceful and prosperous nation without the Volta Region.Let them break away!!!!!.

  • Jupiter, Gatwick UK 8 years ago

    how can you depot someone with Ghana passport from Ghana.You are in London but you are still a real niger

  • Joe,london 8 years ago

    They will be de-naturalized as ghanaians.Ghana passports will be taken away from them.Anyway a nigger is a human being.

  • NDCMMOA PARTY, NDC AKRONFUO 8 years ago

    The passport can be revoked. That is no problem, we can even change the Ghana passport so that the ones you have will be useless.It's just an administrative work, before independence Ghana wasn't using this national flag and ...
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  • FIAVI 8 years ago

    YOU CAN GO AND LEAVE OUR LAND PLEASE .

  • FIAVI 8 years ago

    VOLTA CAN NEVER BREAK AWAY THIS PEOPLE FROM TOGO. THEY CAN RETURNED TO TOGO AND LEAVE OUR LAND

  • ISSA 8 years ago

    what SELFISH NONESENSENSE IS THIS.AMAKAEWOE LE NU BADA SIA WOM. DOKUITORDILAWO. MIDZUDZOR NUSIGOME MIEDZE BE MEGATSOR TOTOTORVA AMEWO DOME O.

  • Hohonyo 8 years ago

    This assemblage of idiots do not speak for we Voltarians. Please arrest them and jail them. They are deviants and trouble causers.

  • kwasi 8 years ago

    Hahahahaha the most sensible and funniest comment on here

  • Kpenyigba Kwesi 8 years ago

    The message about Volta breakaway is quite missleading. Charles Korsi should give us détails of the parts of Volta, North East and Northern Regions are demanding breakaway from Ghana.In fact there was no unionishzed constitu ...
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  • Asiwome 8 years ago

    This is why you should teach our history in our schools. This story happens in our lifetime, but no one seems to know anything about it, what happens two hundred years from now if the Ewes in Togo want to know why they are Fr ...
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  • SS 8 years ago

    Blame Adu Boahen and his cohort of NPPists. They spent all time and energies trying to obliterate Nkrumah by fabricating stories. How many born after 1960 know about the achievements of the CPP and Nkrumah? People think the h ...
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  • NDCMMOA PARTY, NDC AKRONFUO 8 years ago

    Did Adu Boahene tell Ametepe to try to assassinate Osagyefo? Did Adu Boahene tell Kotoka and his nyebro mafia from the police and army to overthrow Osagyefo? Why do you people like to extort facts and history? It will never h ...
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  • METCHEEEEEW 8 years ago

    But why are you nervous, which is easier seeking your independence from Ghana to rule yourselves and being with Ghana. I think you all should welcome that idea because the way Ghanaians received that news with happiness, I do ...
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  • simson 8 years ago

    NPP at its best.

  • efo Kordzo 8 years ago

    NPP ignore us because of our pesistent voting for NDC and NDC neglect us because they know we would unfortunately vote for them whether they develop us or not
    whether we have resources or not we need self determination.
    Af ...
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  • K Man 8 years ago

    You have just answered your dilemma. If you want to move to Togo then so be it. However if your vote wasn't so cheap and you voted for any and all parties and no just by heart to NDC then perhaps you would see the change.

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  • Jjrawlings 8 years ago

    Well ewes why bother for ndc to develop your region.???

  • ohene djan ameyaw 8 years ago

    THE TRUTH IS VOLTARIANS THINK THEY OWN NDC BUT NOT DEVELOPMENT. THEY SHOULD BE BOLD TO TELL NDC THAT NEVER AGAIN. And it's a MUST THAT THEY ARE PART OF GHANA FOREVER. VOLTA MUST STOP THINKING ABOUT THE FINDING OF LARGE DEPOSI ...
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  • Kpenyigba Kwesi 8 years ago

    Keta was not a part of the so called western Togoland (British Togoland).Itwas a part of the Gold Coast Colony, and a District for South and South East of the GCC.

  • life 8 years ago

    NDC is just for the few elites and as you said no motivation to court the Volta region, so give them plenty reason to wake them up by voting NPP

  • Asante Wise 8 years ago

    Why is the heading Volta Breakaway Group To Sue Government? This clearly shows where this group of coming. It is not long ago where a running mate of a Political Party said voltarians are Togolese. Also why is it that excelle ...
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  • CONCERN CITIZEN 8 years ago

    PLEASEE MR PRESIDENT OF GHANA, DONT TAKE THIS HAS A JOKE. THIS GROUP MUST BE CRASHED RIGHTAWAY. THIS IS HOW ALL THE EVILL GROUPS IN THE WORLD STARTED.
    CRUSH THEM NOW!

  • CONCERN CITIZEN 8 years ago

    PLEASEE MR PRESIDENT OF GHANA, DONT TAKE THIS HAS A JOKE. THIS GROUP MUST BE CRASHED RIGHTAWAY. THIS IS HOW ALL THE EVILL GROUPS IN THE WORLD STARTED.
    DEAL WITH THEM NOW!

  • Raymond Agbeli 8 years ago

    do not allow yourselves to be used by the Npp for a pitance.

  • NDCMMOA PARTY, NDC AKRONFUO 8 years ago

    Apuuuuuuu

  • odikro 8 years ago

    Stupid group let them break away from here,mind them we will not give you akosombo,you will sleep in darkness.fail people.

  • Mawunyo 8 years ago

    I heard of this group in 2008 and l thought it was a joke. Please tell them to go to Togo if that is what they desire. The majority prefare to remain Ghanaian. All this is due to neglect by political leaders to develop certai ...
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  • adom newman 8 years ago

    These inward looking sons of satan should leave today. Idiots and vindictive creatures. No voltarian will ever be come president of Ghana

  • zel 8 years ago

    Breakaway and then what. These ppl cannot even govern or manage their nuclear family. They should stut up and shun this quest to gain attention

  • Themsay 8 years ago

    Yeaeh, May these people carry out their plans through. NDC would lose ever winning elections in Ghana. It will always be NPP all the way. I pray that they break away soon and even now so that Nana Addo could will the election ...
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  • Jamiu 8 years ago

    KK USA, you are so stupid. How can Volta issue be NPP agenda? You don't have a human brain. Volta Region and NPP? Ah, is it possible? Stupid ass. A pig.

  • Akonta 8 years ago

    We don't need the Ewes. Please, let them go. Ghana will now have PEACE AND UNITY. Let them go with their tribalism, juju, envy, murder, thievery, greed, hatred, backwardness, inward-looking and divisive behaviour.

  • Ntsuga 8 years ago

    Who in the Volta region gave these deviant fools the authority or mandate to speak for the people of the Volta Region? How many are they and where are they from. They don't speak for me, my family, town and constituency. Thes ...
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  • COFFIE 8 years ago

    Where from these lunatics calling themselves Volta Breakaway Group. Who have they met and who are they representing. Kudjordzi and his group need psychiatrist for thorough examination. Is that the latest NPP plan? It will nev ...
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  • Joe Turkey 8 years ago

    These idiots, lead by Korsi Kedem, should leave Ghana and migrate to Togo. As for me and my house, ...we are not going nowhere. Opportunistic idiots. The real leader of the group is Korsi Kedem. He is only hiding behind these ...
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  • nana takraboadua 8 years ago

    They are at it again, confusion everywhere

  • Real Ghanaian 8 years ago

    I'm happy this group is seeking to break away from Ghana. However, they must make sure they take Koku Anyidoho, Okudzato Ablakwa, JJ Rawlings, Baba Jamal and the rest with them.

  • Mahama John, Daboya. 8 years ago

    Instead of using the money you get for development you people prefer using it for juju idiots, that is why you are lacking behind and backward

  • Dziko Kwame 8 years ago

    Let them sue.

    There was the AGREEMENT to join the pre-independent Gold Coast to form Ghana and "try the Union for 50 years".

    Indeed the Eweland leaders agreed at the United Nations that they would try a UNION with pro-i ...
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  • NDCMMOA PARTY, NDC AKRONFUO 8 years ago

    The Akans are going no where and those at the north are our brothers and sisters but the rest can go with Keta. Tell me was Keta part of the plebiscite? If yes then it wasn't part of Gold Coast, Ada and the adangbes who are n ...
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  • Edensu 8 years ago

    My good brother, what is NPP agenda? The leaders are arguing with "facts" and you are bringing politics in such serious issue. We should always think about mother Ghana not a political party. Together we stand, divided we ...
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  • Pobi 8 years ago

    Good riddance; let these rabble-rousers go away. I suggest we even pay them to away quickly.

  • tiger 8 years ago

    we have seen all this before.Its up-nppstrategy to cause confusion.It will not work.when did the people of the Volta Region chose this group and give them power to act on their behalf

  • tiger 8 years ago

    Wetern Togoland must be a new teritory
    in the imagination of the author of this posting.The Volta Region was never refered to as westen Togoland.Ab imaginary story as well as territory

  • Kpenyigba Kwesi 8 years ago

    I fully agree with you. There was ( or is) Western Togoland.Before 1957 there was not even Volta region, so what are these people talking about. We should not confuse President Mahama.

  • SD 8 years ago

    What does AG mean by treason? Is it because what they are saying has no foundation? No truth? No fact?

  • igp 8 years ago

    Just arrest and prosecute them for session and sedition. Arrest them,

  • igp 8 years ago

    Ghana is Statist Republic and we will crush those divisive group with all its foreign agitators. You are welcome to go Togo without an inch of the Republic of Ghana. This the root of an inept and incompetent regime under Maha ...
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  • Amenyo 8 years ago

    Round up these lunatics even this evening. Nobody ordained them to talk for Volta region. Am from the Volta one hundred percent but this group members are insane. I will not join the nonsense they are saying. In fact they sho ...
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  • 3dem 8 years ago

    Nyatefe, don't mind those twits.....

  • NIRI BIA 8 years ago

    IF THE VOLTA REGION WANTS TO SECEDE FROM GHANA, BETTER DO THAT ALONE AND DO NOT INVOLVE THE NORTH, FOR WE DID NOT JOIN GHANA TOGETHER WITH YOU, NOR DID WE ENTER INTO ANY AGREEMENT WITH EWES TO DISINTEGRATE GHANA. THE NORTH HA ...
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  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 8 years ago

    Sometimes people have to travel over the whole country to see how the rest of the country is faring. We have "urban" areas and rural/village areas in Ghana. The urban areas tend to be relatively better off than the rural area ...
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  • NDCMMOA PARTY, NDC AKRONFUO 8 years ago

    There is nothing there, if even there is they can go. What trouble is that going to give Ghana? They came by themselves through the plebiscite vote conducted by the commonwealth and the union was 50 years so what is the big d ...
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  • Iddrusu, Nava-pio 8 years ago

    These so called group wants to start an uprising and should be handled well before it gets out of hand.

  • Agbeli Kumordzi 8 years ago

    Is a cursed to be around with unclean akans without culture and manners That is why 55 years gone by Ghana still poor
    Time to declares the Volta State

  • Kpetiga 8 years ago

    Dont blame Akans. Akans developed Volta region more than Rawlings, Atta Mess and this braun called Mahama. Volta region votes as if they don't have brains. How can you vote for a self proclaimed dead goat. Do we understand de ...
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  • Wofa Yaw Avudri 8 years ago

    You are joking!!! No breakaway in Africa was and is peeaceful. I don't want to see my beautiful home town of Dodi-Papase turned upside down. Check Casamance in Senegal, failed Biafra in Nigeria, Eretrea in Ethiopia and Sout ...
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  • joe 8 years ago

    please let us be careful with the comments we make.breaking away is not the panacea to the problem.be bold to draw the govt's attention to develop the region.

  • Mahama aban 8 years ago

    You wanted to rule Ghana by fair or foul means. Your people attempted several coups during Acheampong regime. The most famous was the "amedeku amedeka" involving Kojo Tsikata, Brigadier Kattah, etc. Then PNDC was hijacked and ...
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  • Don Gambino 8 years ago

    This group does not represent anyone but themselves. History tells us that the southern Volta especially the Anlo area were under the British so the plebiscite was not what these fake Voltarians and secessionists should leave ...
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  • Moses.from SHAMA (w/r) 8 years ago

    good morning ego Kwasi Kpenyigba,pls let me have mobile number, for I will like to speak with into details and know more about your side of the history. Kindly call me on ff numbers: 0572122513; 0209440028: or 0240697532 ; or ...
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  • Chuks, Tudu 8 years ago

    Go go go go go go, just go

  • Ali katandi 8 years ago

    I learnt the truth when the I saw Jesus on my dream that muhammad is not among the prophet.so left Islam in 2009 to be come a christian

  • real quebecois mtl 8 years ago

    I hate to say this but, I've to say it. You've to vote devoid of tribalism whether NPP/NDC and vote wisely. Vote for the right people who will work for you not just that he's from Volta region. Look at the development in your ...
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  • GHANA FIRST 8 years ago

    This Group should not be taken seriously, it full of fools and wee-smoking-mad men. Is it the Queen of England who should tell people from the Volta Region where they should belong or what to do? You position stinks and smell ...
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