PNDC days better than multiparty system – Rawlings

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  • sanjay - Abu Dhabi 9 years ago

    this is the time mahama will pull full clutch and full gear, its now time for Ghanaians to enjoy under mahama second term, much jobs and development will be created, vote mahama for peace and development, stay away form all d ...
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  • Bobby, Denmark 9 years ago

    Mahama is a thief president. 419 Mahama. Dead goat Mahama.

  • HON SHAMO 9 years ago

    THEY ARE ALL CRIMINALS STEALING BEHIND YOUR BACK, PULLING YOUR GOVT DOWN, NO WONDER YOU TAMED THEM

  • Awuku Womafunu 9 years ago

    This multi party system is not good for
    Africa.

  • william 9 years ago

    You can use a knife for so many things. But first you learn how to hold it! If you fail to understand the concept or misapply it because your upbringing is to look for short-cuts and promote narrow ethnic or partisan or cla ...
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  • OBAA YAA 9 years ago

    Off course, to you those days were better because you were the solo decision maker. Everything was done by your conquest. Things were done under the subjugation, the country and the people were controlled by the use of your m ...
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  • Maame 9 years ago

    YOUR FATHER IS 419 FOLLOW BY YOUR MOTHER FOOL. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT NPP GOVERNMENT UNDER LYING ADDO WILL DO NOT PRESIDENT MAHAMA.

  • sanjay - Abu Dhabi 9 years ago

    but mr. jj, if you can tell the truth mahama is doing nice as at now, we peace, we thank GOD, without peace who will have prefer to stay in Ghana, at lease without peace where is economy? big ups to mahama for the peace so fa ...
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  • Kofi Kyei- Baffour Kantanka 9 years ago

    cocoa, gold, foreign aid etc and now oil. Why then are we falling behind some African countries? guns everywhere, violent crimes, violence, corruption, mismanagement etc.

    It is now the dream of every young person to trave ...
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  • True Talk 9 years ago

    There was a perceived calm, only because Rawlings did not allow any voice of dissent. Perhaps we should go back to those terrible days, innocent people being arrested, judges being murdered etc, etc

  • KAF 9 years ago

    Africa Need Military Rule Period.
    The worst thing happening to Africa in the 20th & 21st century is the decision to totally and wholly practicing multi party democracy.
    The so called elites who are suppossed to be the pilla ...
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  • Teahiabuah 9 years ago

    Mahama hasn't publicly executed an animal, let alone citizens. You and your Boakye-Gyans, supported by Tsikata slaughter thousands of meaningful Ghanaians during your so called PNDC days. Because of your lethal administration ...
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  • Muslim 9 years ago

    No no no no

    Look at the chaos all over the continent in the name of democracy? Are you happy with the mess?

  • Mapandoki 9 years ago

    To return to the era when identification hair cuts prevail. God forbid. If this is what Rawlings and his wife are missing, God will never allow it to happen again.

  • JM 9 years ago

    This time JJ & Nana Konedu Voltarains wont follow you again.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE ( OFIE P33 ) 9 years ago

    WE ARE TALKING ABOUT OVER 37 BILLION DOLLAR DEBT AND THE RESULT IS WHAT GHANAIANS ARE GOING THROUGH TODAY. LOOK AT OUR ELECTRICITY AND WATER TARIFFS AND DANGEROUS ZACHAEUS STEALTH TAXES "NA SIKA NO WO HE"???? MY CHILDREN ARE ...
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  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 9 years ago

    ALL KINDS OF ARMED ROBBERS ARE OPERATING A HONORABLES NOW!!!

  • ... 9 years ago

    It's true. We didn't see any hypocrite lide Kwesi Praat those days.

  • Odikro 9 years ago

    Hear what he is saying. Yet he has 2 parties in his bedroom. This should show Ghana that, from his mutiny of 1979, to the stupid coup of 1981 to the dubious elections of 1992 and 1996 (when he was strangled by the internation ...
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  • KAF 9 years ago

    i wish those days are back;to put sense in the following persons:
    they know themselves

  • SAM 9 years ago

    Yes everyone was under one roof with you at the top. JJ is politically correct.

  • Mama Tula 9 years ago

    There is no doubt of what Rawlings is saying here. Then there was law and order, unity and respect for the elder. This is what we are all yearning for again than the stupid multi party democracy.

  • Ghanaian 9 years ago

    there was fear of victimization

  • PARKA 9 years ago

    NOWADAYS PEOPLE ARE STEALING STATE MONIES AND THEN USING THE SO CALLED LAW TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

  • zomayi 9 years ago

    OF COURSE THOSE DAYS WERE MUCH BETTER ---FOR ONLY ONE MAN JERRY RAWLINGS!!!!!!

  • Big Dadi 9 years ago

    Only thieves will support Mahama so that they will not be jailed when Nana comes to power

  • GHANANI 9 years ago

    Jerry you are on record as saying that you do not believe in democracy.Fair enough but what effort did you make to provide ghanaians with a more acceptable alternative?All that you were interested in was enjoying the trapping ...
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  • KOFI KOFI 9 years ago

    By death threat everybody remained silent. that was tyrany. Many left the country to avoid being killed or jailed. These days are better because everyone can speak his mind. where there is corruption, we can talk about it.

  • Efo Kwaawaaku Canada 9 years ago

    This is really stupidity saying by this nation wreckers leader, what did pndc Institute for Ghanaians? Nonentities in society educated illiterates without little bit of wisdom bleeds criminals and idiots like ndc criminals pa ...
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  • CHE 9 years ago

    The narcissistic Rawlings has no true self. Abandoned by his Scottish father, he suffered from severe separation anxiety as a young child and as a defense developed a falsely grandiose psychological shell surrounding an essen ...
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  • still rastafari 9 years ago

    i agree..this system divides AFRICA

  • Dan Amartey 9 years ago

    JJ should look back & regret the atrocities committed during PNDC days. People lived in constant fear as to when soldiers would raid their houses, rape the young ladies & collect the young boys for an operation they did not k ...
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  • yaro 9 years ago

    Forget it your time has pass.YOU CAN DECEIVE US AGAIN.

  • Nana Kuffuor, Abeka 9 years ago

    The multi party system could have been better for you if you stop licking your wife's arse.

  • Abdul karim yahaya 9 years ago

    I always do not understand Mr Rawlings. This is what we called politically unwise decision to through his weight behind NPP.

  • PAULO 9 years ago

    Everybody but EC and NDC wants free and fair 2016 elections.
    So why is Charlotte Osei and Mahama against a new voters register?

  • Teahiabuah 9 years ago

    Why not, Jerry? Because you used the gun to murder openly all your political opponents. Have you forgotten the murder of the three judges and the retired Army Officer? Have you forgotten the murder of Gen Afrifah, Gen Akyeamp ...
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  • KAF 9 years ago

    judges? did you ever thought our judges could take goats as bribe had it not been ANAS? Have you asked yourself how much their salaries/conditions are...look at their life style; wife, kids and brothers. You check if you ca ...
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  • Concerned 9 years ago

    Was there a shred of evidence that Kutu was giving out cars for pussy.Why didn't you mention burma camp account 48

  • Barima Ba 9 years ago

    Kwame Nkrumah was right after all one party state. JJ this one I agree with you 10000000000%

  • Jack 9 years ago

    Shut up! You think we're fools you and your aimless, unless stupid and barbarian coups perpetuated tribal politics, now see how people of Volta, Northern regions vote especially the Ewes. Your coups made you and cohorts to Ro ...
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  • KG 9 years ago

    JJ I AGREE WITH YOU BUT YOUR ONLY PROBLEM IS YOU ALLOWED E.T. MENSAH, P.V. OBENG, AND THE AHWOIS TO STEAL BEHIND YOU.

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 9 years ago

    Rawlings is afraid of ghosts.

  • True 9 years ago

    P is a hidden agenda but same same

  • F. Mensah 9 years ago

    PNDC period was a period when Ghanaians suffered the greatest humiliation. Armed bandits led by the Chief bandit Jerry John Rawlings went about killing and torturing Ghanaians

  • me 9 years ago

    Nonsenes

  • Mapandoki 9 years ago

    Is Rawlings suggesting that he yearns for the day when Identification Hair Cuts could be introduced? God forbid. If this is what he and his wife and other members of his family are yearning to bring back, I say they will fail ...
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  • Toyota 9 years ago

    100% right.

  • Kwame-Dublin 9 years ago

    that's A BIG LIE - NO WAY, DONT TRY TO TURN GHANIAN MINDS TO YOUR SO CALLED PNDC DAYS WHEN YOU AND YOUR WIFE AND YOUR CRONIES RULED US IRON FISTED - LOOK MULTI PARTY IS BETTER THAN YOUR DAYS -GET THAT IN YOUR HEAD - GHANA HAS ...
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  • ISRAEL 9 years ago

    No campaign for Mahama comes 7th Nov Election.We will suicide bomb him n others esp Asiedu Nketiah

  • DD 9 years ago

    Rawlings, please who formed the NDC? Don't pretend because you have caused Ghana a lot. Advice your people and stop pretending.

  • DD 9 years ago

    Rawlings, please who formed the NDC? Don't pretend because you have caused Ghana a lot. Do you care if we die? You are a main cause of our problem. You brought all those people. Advice them to have mercy on Ghanaians. Thank y ...
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  • Rich 9 years ago

    Rawlings, I used to like you but this time you just talk rubbish. Multi party democracy is for sharing ideas but not the dictatorial views you have. I don't even understand you and Konadu. How can you be the founder of NDC an ...
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  • Sid 9 years ago

    U want everyone to obey u period.are u the only sensible parson in Ghana?selling national industries to urself n cronies I remain add the rest n examine yourself

  • OPANINPA 9 years ago

    LISTEN TO THAT FOOL STILL DREAMING. THE CULTURE OF SILENCE WAS GOOD FOR FOOLS LIKE YOU WHO GOT AWAY WITH MURDER. NDC IS PNDC WITHOUT THE P. IT IS ALL YOUR CREATION - CORRUPT REGIMES BREED MORE CORRUPT REGIMES. YOUR MINISTER O ...
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  • salifu afetsivi 9 years ago

    j j is right. I wish for a revolution now

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 9 years ago

    J. J. I support you in this point. Africa in general does not need the Western type of democracy.

  • Meshack 9 years ago

    NONSENSE...are you comparing a military dictatorship to a multi-party system...intellectually-challenged wanna-be revolutionary?

  • Bishop Blay 9 years ago

    Yes,those were the days we had the opportunity to fight corruption and wane ourselves from the IMF and the other blood sucking western institutions but you blew it up .It was an era of left incline but right about turn. ...
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  • Tana 9 years ago

    I will never fault Rawlings when says the days of pndc are better than today cause he controlled everything to the displeasure of majority but now majority has the say.

  • Ayariga Ismann 9 years ago

    I totally agree with our formal president. because everyone was answerable to his or her deeds.

  • k asante 9 years ago

    Oh no Mr. Ex-president if with your grey-hair in the twenty first century and you still believe that PNDC days in the eighties were better than to-day's multiparty-democratic Ghana then you need advice from your daughter Dr.Z ...
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  • AFIA 9 years ago

    MAHAMA'S ALMOST 4 YRS BETTER THAN JJ'S 19YRS.

  • Paa Joe 9 years ago

    WE KNOW, YOU CAME TO SET THINGS STRAIGHT IN THE COUNTRY,WAGED WAR ON KALABULI, CORRUPTION, STEALING, MANIPULTION AND EMBZZLEMEMT OF STATE RESOURCES.

    HOWEVER,YOU NEED TO KNOW,THE WORLD HAS CHANGED SINCE 1945.

    WINSTON CHU ...
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  • asante 9 years ago

    Th e times u slap ur vice-president, give konadu nsawam cannery n grel. Silence did not mean order....animal farmer...

  • eD 9 years ago

    RETURN OF THE KILLING FIELDS OF JJ RAWLINGS'S PNDC/NDC1/NDC2

    In addition to the 3 judges (who were not proven to have committed any crimes in a court of law) the following also were, innocently killed and today the innocen ...
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  • amoah w. 9 years ago

    ghanaians are not politically mature and too much tribalistc for ideology political¨

    we need another 100 years of PNDC kind of leadership

  • Xexeme 9 years ago

    WAIT A MINUTE, ARE YOU BETTER OFF IF AN ARMED ROBBER TAKES OVER YOUR HOUSE? SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE ME AN ANSWER. PNDC IS NOT A POLITICAL PARTY ELECTED TO CONTROL THE AFFAIRS OF MOTHER GHANA, JJ WILL YOU SHUT THE UP, 1S ...
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  • bindigah 9 years ago

    Exactly

  • klaash 9 years ago

    4 dis one..I'm with you

  • Maame 9 years ago

    Listen, we had enough of the PNDC days just control your wife to give others the opportunity to also serve their TERM and their country for that matter.

  • Fuad Awuni 9 years ago

    Our supreme leader and founder is very right in saying that multi party democracy is not good for us because this system is what the market forces use to loot our resources. He knows what he is talking abt.He loves NDC but wo ...
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