Pastor Mensa Otabil finally comes back to his senses

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Pumpuni 7 years ago

"Pastor Mensa Otabil Finally Comes Back To His Senses"?
Please give some respect to the man of God. Do not allow politics to cloud your judgment.

"Pastor Mensa Otabil Finally Comes Back To His Senses"?
Please give some respect to the man of God. Do not allow politics to cloud your judgment.
ADJOA WANGARA 7 years ago

The cut and paste fake columnist, Francis Kwarteng is finally gone mad, hence he dosen't know what nonsense to cut and paste, I have said it before, Kwarteng can post a million of articles on this platform, he will still not ...
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The cut and paste fake columnist, Francis Kwarteng is finally gone mad, hence he dosen't know what nonsense to cut and paste, I have said it before, Kwarteng can post a million of articles on this platform, he will still not come to his senses like Mensah Otabil.
A fool like Kwarteng will forever remain a fool.
Aj 7 years ago

Adjoa Wangara,never mind so much about this article.after reading through it I found out that the writer is facing personal challenges to trust himself. it's only Africa where by party opponents see each other as enemies but ...
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Adjoa Wangara,never mind so much about this article.after reading through it I found out that the writer is facing personal challenges to trust himself. it's only Africa where by party opponents see each other as enemies but not as parties with different ideas to reach a common goal.because our leaders don't have the courageous heart to move the country forward they always go back to visit our past glory and make blame games. so lady brush it out
GIDI 7 years ago

Social media has become a platform where young guys like the writer will post such disrespectful article and call himself a journalist. what kind of journalism are you practicing? Have respect for every men of God irrespectiv ...
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Social media has become a platform where young guys like the writer will post such disrespectful article and call himself a journalist. what kind of journalism are you practicing? Have respect for every men of God irrespective of your religion. The bible say: respect your father and your mother so that you may live longer. He has achieved what your parent could not. Every leader is a blessing from God to mankind.
Omanhene 7 years ago

Keep on preaching Paapa Otabil.

Keep on preaching Paapa Otabil.
Kwame Atta 7 years ago

This is what I call the rumblings of a fool. Absolutely no advancement of knowledge here, just parroting what others have said. For what it's worth, your article dies the death of a thousand deaths.

This is what I call the rumblings of a fool. Absolutely no advancement of knowledge here, just parroting what others have said. For what it's worth, your article dies the death of a thousand deaths.
Alex Worlanyo 7 years ago

Couldn't agree more with you. A complete litany of crappy lunatic postulations. What about the tile? Complete hard frozen bullshit!!

Couldn't agree more with you. A complete litany of crappy lunatic postulations. What about the tile? Complete hard frozen bullshit!!
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

The husband leans over and asks his wife, "Do you remember the first time we had sex together over fifty years ago? We went behind the village tavern where you leaned against the back fence and I made love to you."

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The husband leans over and asks his wife, "Do you remember the first time we had sex together over fifty years ago? We went behind the village tavern where you leaned against the back fence and I made love to you."

"Yes", she says, "I remember it well." "OK," he says, "How about taking a stroll around there again and we can do it for old time's sake?" "Oh Jim, you old devil, that sounds like a crazy, but good idea!"

A police officer sitting in the next booth heard their conversation and, having a chuckle, he thinks to himself, "I've got to see these two old-timers having sex against a fence. I'll just keep an eye on them so there's no trouble." So he follows them.

The elderly couple walks haltingly along, leaning on each other for support aided by walking sticks. Finally, they get to the back of the tavern and make their way to the fence.

The old lady lifts her 24 January 1966 skirt and the old man drops his trousers. As she leans against the fence, the old man moves in. Then suddenly they erupt into the most furious sex that the policeman has ever seen. This goes on for about ten minutes while both are making loud noises and moaning and screaming. Finally, they both collapse, panting on the ground.

The policeman is amazed. He thinks he has learned something about life and old age that he didn't know.

After about half an hour of lying on the ground recovering, the old couple struggle to their feet and put their clothes back on. The policeman, is still watching and thinks to himself, this is truly amazing, I've got to ask them what their secret is.

So, as the couple passes, he says to them, "Excuse me, but that was something else. You must've had a fantastic sex life together. Is there some sort of secret to this?" Shaking, the old man is barely able to reply, "fifty years ago that wasn't an electric fence."

our leaders have the electric fence mentality thinking they could not go forward.Nkrumah was a leader who had no mental fence to stop him.The skirt of 24 February 1966 is still there.
Otabil father may be a bad man like he said,but he is a good leader.
odikro 7 years ago

Every one can write anything to share his opinion but you don't have the right to write any how,I guess this Francis guy don't know what he is talking about:he should have known better than this stupid one he wrote.

Every one can write anything to share his opinion but you don't have the right to write any how,I guess this Francis guy don't know what he is talking about:he should have known better than this stupid one he wrote.
be wise 7 years ago

good

good
Nana 7 years ago

What an article and what alesson and revelation to me.what Kwarteng if thatbis your real name doesn't want to admit is that Nkrumah probably is your hero which I believe so many people dead or alive might be Nkrumah just does ...
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What an article and what alesson and revelation to me.what Kwarteng if thatbis your real name doesn't want to admit is that Nkrumah probably is your hero which I believe so many people dead or alive might be Nkrumah just doesn't come across to some of us . Well your judgment about Otabil is your personal deductions and conclusions however probably 50years down the line the world may dig up the works of him and shout from rooftops and condem us for not making greater use of him probably just like your Nkrumah. The greatness of Otabil is that as a man and flexible teacher and philosopher he not afraid to say his mind when he sees the right. Interestingly Yeboah's take on Sydney to back your queer and misguided position even further distroys your jaundice argument. Who is this Yeboa? Just like your confused self you always read your script and books upside down. Nkrumah if he were to alive would probably admit his faults ask for forgiveness and live on. See how petty you revaeled your self when link Databank, Atta Akyea, and Ofori Attah into the web of your illiterate analysis. Probably you did this story to catch the eye of the Prez for a board on Komenda sugar factory?
master 7 years ago

Need I say more?

Need I say more?
be wise 7 years ago

Good one there...Keep it up

Good one there...Keep it up
KKD 7 years ago

It may not be a matter of Otabil "finally com[ing] back to his senses". This proposition presupposes that anyone who does not see what a great leader Nkrumah was is out of his senses. Not a very nice thing to say.

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It may not be a matter of Otabil "finally com[ing] back to his senses". This proposition presupposes that anyone who does not see what a great leader Nkrumah was is out of his senses. Not a very nice thing to say.

Otabil was born in 1959. Whatever independent assessment he can make of Nkrumah's leadership can only be the result of his own careful study of Ghana's history, Nkrumah's books and the vast scholarship on the man. This is essentially a scholarly endeavour. Unless Otabil does this, we cannot take whatever judgment he passes on Nkrumah seriously.

Otabil may be the most successful pastor-preneur in the history of our country but he has shown a subtle, but clear, partiality to NPP - a party that belongs to a political tradition that has done everything to vilify Nkrumah and continues to do so. I don't believe Otabil is a sudden convert to Nkrumaism. He may not even be qualified to pronounce on Nkrumah's leadership. But he may use his successful pastor-preneurship to give weight to his pronouncements. That rather makes him dangerous...
Aj 7 years ago

Kkd,my father was strong Nkrumanist till the day he left this world and one of the founding fathers of SSNIT.I had the opportunities to read Dr Nkrumah's books which were fantastic, but to stage npp as the enemy to Dr Nkrumah ...
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Kkd,my father was strong Nkrumanist till the day he left this world and one of the founding fathers of SSNIT.I had the opportunities to read Dr Nkrumah's books which were fantastic, but to stage npp as the enemy to Dr Nkrumah is wrong. after travelling around the world by God's help did allow me to come to terms with our problems in Africa especially Ghana. when you keep watching the pains Africans are facing every day it's look like one need to fight for the whole Africa but No.what's we need as individuals Africa countries are roll models as what's Rwanda is doing now.Ghana should've save itself first capable of manufacturing everything on their own,capable of having common native language to be spoken across the nation, residencial address for all,common ID cards and things that served as an independent country that could've help the other Africa countries to see Ghana as a roll model to do the same but not Ghana carrying every Africa nations along whereas we still lacking behind all these common stuff.
Joe Bye 7 years ago

Apostle ntumi--Pentecost, otabil--icgc,Joyce aryee are doing more harm to the BODY of CHRIST than good with their canality. If God's anointing is on you and by doing, the anointing goes,don't use experience and patapaa.Repent ...
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Apostle ntumi--Pentecost, otabil--icgc,Joyce aryee are doing more harm to the BODY of CHRIST than good with their canality. If God's anointing is on you and by doing, the anointing goes,don't use experience and patapaa.Repent for God come in again. Come out from among the canal and stupid things.
anii. 7 years ago

THIS MAN TAKE DRUGS,NOT ONLY HIM BUT ALL SO CALL MEN OF GOD.AM IN AND KNOW HOW COCSERS TALK ALLWAYS THINK THEY THE WISE ONE.

THIS MAN TAKE DRUGS,NOT ONLY HIM BUT ALL SO CALL MEN OF GOD.AM IN AND KNOW HOW COCSERS TALK ALLWAYS THINK THEY THE WISE ONE.
Issa Kweggir 7 years ago

Most people who hold similar opinions like this crazy fella, are just being unfair to themselves and posterity. Nkrumah did some good- yes- but he did some bad too. Even if Dr Otabil refuses to sight Nkrumah as a great leader ...
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Most people who hold similar opinions like this crazy fella, are just being unfair to themselves and posterity. Nkrumah did some good- yes- but he did some bad too. Even if Dr Otabil refuses to sight Nkrumah as a great leader- and so what? Interestingly people who think like this writer are also staunch NDC members, and apologists for J J Rawlings. Meanwhile JJ Rawlings does not think too highly of Kwame Nkrumah. This tells you that most of these guys, like Kwesi Pratt, are unprincipled men. They use the name of Kwame Nkrumah just for political advantage- especially- to throw punches at perceived NPP sympathizers. How they wish Dr Otabil will either be silent on his criticism of unprincipled leadership; or at least eat from the Corrupt and Worm infested table of the NDC. Kwesi Pratt and the writer of this piece will always eat the droppings from the tables of John Mahama, Fiifi Kwettey, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Okudjeto Ablakwah, and all those in politics to use the name of Nkrumah to get their daily bread! Thieves and Criminals- that's who they are!
SOCCERMAN 7 years ago

The greatest enemy of development is indoctrination. Unfortunately Nkrumah's communists tool of indoctrination still lingers in the minds of this unwary writer, FRANCIS KWARTENG and his likes like Kwesi PRATT and the others. ...
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The greatest enemy of development is indoctrination. Unfortunately Nkrumah's communists tool of indoctrination still lingers in the minds of this unwary writer, FRANCIS KWARTENG and his likes like Kwesi PRATT and the others. They cover their inferiority complex and ignorance with insults towards critics of Nkrumah. They are aware that they can never win in an open intellectual debate. They slavishly still believe Nkrumah was a visionary. Meanwhile communism died with him; his belief in armed struggle as the only means to end to apartheid succumbed to the Busiaic belief in dialogue. Central-controlled economy never succeeded anywhere. Yet his indoctrinated disciples still believe he was a visionary and a Messiah. One does not have to go beyond Ivory Coast to appreciate that even in Africa, he was not the best. To put it bluntly, he was a liability rather than an asset. Those who are old enough know that the coup against him been the most popular ever in Ghana.
Body Gay 7 years ago

Francis Kwarteng what is your beef with Mensah Otabil?Your Mahama is shit as a leader.He is a womaniser, corrupt and incompetent. Is people like you whose actions an inactions has emboldened this thieve to siphone Ghana's re ...
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Francis Kwarteng what is your beef with Mensah Otabil?Your Mahama is shit as a leader.He is a womaniser, corrupt and incompetent. Is people like you whose actions an inactions has emboldened this thieve to siphone Ghana's resources to various countries for himself and his Fucky family to the detriment of the rest of Ghanaians. Francis Kwarteng just get a life and leave the wiseman Mensah Otabil alone Kwasiato.
Atobian 7 years ago

Kwarteng finally got mad

Kwarteng finally got mad
David 7 years ago

You are not ok upstairs

You are not ok upstairs
Minua 7 years ago

Great article, Francis. Only idiots will claim the first president did nothing good for Ghana

Great article, Francis. Only idiots will claim the first president did nothing good for Ghana
Charles 7 years ago

Every president does something good. Even Mahama has done something good! The greatness or otherwise of a leader is not assessed by what he did but also what he did not do.

Every president does something good. Even Mahama has done something good! The greatness or otherwise of a leader is not assessed by what he did but also what he did not do.
maamek 7 years ago

i wonder what these stomach journalist write about people lately...francis kwarteng or whatever your name is you better mind the way you write about OTABIL...if you have no respect for him as a man of God just honor him like ...
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i wonder what these stomach journalist write about people lately...francis kwarteng or whatever your name is you better mind the way you write about OTABIL...if you have no respect for him as a man of God just honor him like you will do to your dad....you spew gibberish from your mouth and you think you deserve an award,,,you will forever be a stomach journalist until you change your ways....God is watching you in 3D!
KB 7 years ago

Stupid man,,,, You talk as if Pastor was mad all this while ,, God punish You ,, Idioit....

Stupid man,,,, You talk as if Pastor was mad all this while ,, God punish You ,, Idioit....
Coffie 7 years ago

If Otabil recognizes the good leadership of Dr. Nkrumah why is he then supporting the party which overthrow Nkrumah. That's hypocrisy

If Otabil recognizes the good leadership of Dr. Nkrumah why is he then supporting the party which overthrow Nkrumah. That's hypocrisy
Prof 7 years ago

Such sycophancy!!... Kwame Nkrumah was a great man but he was no "saint"... please !!
We like to lean back into the years to pretend about how things could have been... so good, if only!...by the same token Jerry Rawlings wi ...
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Such sycophancy!!... Kwame Nkrumah was a great man but he was no "saint"... please !!
We like to lean back into the years to pretend about how things could have been... so good, if only!...by the same token Jerry Rawlings will one day be hailed as the saviour of mother Ghana even through his murderous regime.
So can't one express his analysis and dissension from the cacophony of idolatry praises of a man who, in the end, like all African leaders got too big for his own shoes??.. Why do we only to choose to remember those parts of history which only tells our "story" ?/?
paul Kwao 7 years ago

Pastor please read Leviticus 26 to your congregation and Ghanaians in general

Pastor please read Leviticus 26 to your congregation and Ghanaians in general
T.K 7 years ago

Why do people hate to hear the truth on these latter days? Dr. Mensah Otabil has been opening the eyes of GHANAIANS and still we fail to embrace the truth. Whoever is criticizing him must analyze to see who is telling the tru ...
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Why do people hate to hear the truth on these latter days? Dr. Mensah Otabil has been opening the eyes of GHANAIANS and still we fail to embrace the truth. Whoever is criticizing him must analyze to see who is telling the truth as a man of God in the country, we have few of his kind in Ghana
Kofi 7 years ago

Francis Kwarteng, I think you are sick. Please, seek urgent mental evaluation before you do something very stupid to yourself.

Francis Kwarteng, I think you are sick. Please, seek urgent mental evaluation before you do something very stupid to yourself.
CICERO 7 years ago

such interesting obfuscation and emotive intellectual pretenses of the Nkrumahist apologetics.
Nkrumah upon careful analysis was a coincidental historical leader.
He was a creation of history who failed in all intents and ...
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such interesting obfuscation and emotive intellectual pretenses of the Nkrumahist apologetics.
Nkrumah upon careful analysis was a coincidental historical leader.
He was a creation of history who failed in all intents and purposes to achieve the greatest mark of true leadership the ability to free and liberate the human mind amongst his own people.

Any time one hears the Nkrumahist apologetics it is about the many unviable projects that he scattered along the length and breath of Ghana without much consideration for the economic and effective sustainability.

What apologetics failed to realise and refused to concede is one his sheer inebriate desire for power and self perpetuation beyond democratic acceptance.

His sordid human rights record and intolerance for any form of political opposition flies in the face of any true democrat. Therein lies a by no means foible of the "Africa's man of the Millennium"

Yes Nkrumah is adjudged as a star leader of the millennium we must not overlook the historical context that nurtured him and the greater opportunity that history offered him to trailbrace the path of true democracy that he so woefully failed us in Ghana and consequently the whole of Black Africa.

If one were to look at the many hands and intellect that fashioned the USA, not withstanding the huge personalities involved and yet amid all the personal power struggles democracy was upheld and embraced from the unset, therein lies Nkrumah and for that matter many of Africa's freedom fighters great disservice and unpardonable damage to future of Africa.

What would have happened to democracy in the USA if Washington has hugged on to power indefinitely and declared himself life president?

The insatiable appetite of African leaders to entrench themselves in power beyond their usefulness is the bane of Africa's development and many socio-politico- economic problems today.
CICERO 7 years ago

Politics is father to economics. When power is exercised in the interest of the People, the economics work to meet the needs of the people and the nation grows.

Political Power can only be tamed under the auspices of a d ...
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Politics is father to economics. When power is exercised in the interest of the People, the economics work to meet the needs of the people and the nation grows.

Political Power can only be tamed under the auspices of a democratic regime.
Master 7 years ago

Kwarteng u re the most useless person on this planet. Stupid article comin from senseless he goat kwarteng. I don't blame you cos probably a wee smoker.

Kwarteng u re the most useless person on this planet. Stupid article comin from senseless he goat kwarteng. I don't blame you cos probably a wee smoker.
ghana paa ni? 7 years ago

rubbish.put your time to a better use.

rubbish.put your time to a better use.
Lopez 7 years ago

This is the most stupid piece of trash written by a mad man called Kwarteng and I think all right minded people should treat it with the contempt it deserve.

This is the most stupid piece of trash written by a mad man called Kwarteng and I think all right minded people should treat it with the contempt it deserve.
NDC IS SATANIC 7 years ago

There are so many sick people in Ghana and one is this Francis Kwarteng. Is Pastor Mensah Otabil mentioning Osagyefo ' s name and praises going to put food on the tables? If Dr Nkrumah is so important to you people then why ...
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There are so many sick people in Ghana and one is this Francis Kwarteng. Is Pastor Mensah Otabil mentioning Osagyefo ' s name and praises going to put food on the tables? If Dr Nkrumah is so important to you people then why don't you give his daughter a chance for everyone to know you really care for the man and his legacy, but not using his name for your selfishness. How can somebody resemble Nkrumah more than his daughter with his blood in her, who has also offered herself but you ndc always obstruct her chance of winning and you turn round to sound like Nkrumaists. Onyame betua moka na ode nsisa aka ho. Why are you so nation wreckers? Francis Kwarteng why do you hate Ghana?but you drink from the rivers of Ghana and eat from her farmlands, Onyame 3hw3 wo. All those who have made up their minds not to speak the truth in Ghana will all get their rewards in one way or the other. John Mahama is not Osagyefo ' s son to behave like the man, he is a direct character of his biological father so get the hell out of here!Nana Akufo Addo, J B Dankwah , Atta Achea are all true and authentic sons of Ghana so do you expect Pastor Mensah Otabil to stop having nothing to do with them? Is Osagyefo his father or uncle? And both come from different regions and different ethnic groups so I don't get this sick guy's logic. This writer needs help to see a doctor, what kind of politics are you doing in Ghana? Nothing make sense in what other people think and say and they wouldn't let the dead sleep in peace. They are really, really sick.
kwamelittle120 @gmail .coom 7 years ago

francis what's your point cus it tittle and de article is completely different .

francis what's your point cus it tittle and de article is completely different .
Nana Forbi 7 years ago

stop spoiling the image of your DAD.lREALLY RESPECT U SO PLS STOP disgracing your dad in your church.will that give u more money?

stop spoiling the image of your DAD.lREALLY RESPECT U SO PLS STOP disgracing your dad in your church.will that give u more money?
Paul siaw 7 years ago

senselessly idiot!

senselessly idiot!
Tony 7 years ago

Illiteracy isn't all about not stepping foot in the four corners of a classroom. my dear friend, if you really believe to be an intellectual who can make good use of the internet and your intelligence, then I'm sorry. You are ...
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Illiteracy isn't all about not stepping foot in the four corners of a classroom. my dear friend, if you really believe to be an intellectual who can make good use of the internet and your intelligence, then I'm sorry. You are no better than someone who doesn't know his left from right. I won't even compare you to someone who hasn't been to school before Cos most of these people have good sense of reasoning and judgement than the claimed scholars. So what! a man of God can no longer give a sermon or speech on leadership simply because we're leaving in a country where every speech is termed political! what nonsense is that. no wonder this country is worse off than before independence.
yaa yaa 7 years ago

this senselessly connects Otabil, just to get readership. Poor journalism

this senselessly connects Otabil, just to get readership. Poor journalism
Mahama is a thief 7 years ago

Christians will not waste our time on a Go-forsaken low-grade creature like this Kwarteng guy. But for a dark world like ours, unproductive social deviants such as this would have no place in any public discourse.

We are ...
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Christians will not waste our time on a Go-forsaken low-grade creature like this Kwarteng guy. But for a dark world like ours, unproductive social deviants such as this would have no place in any public discourse.

We are aware how hard you are trying to feed your family by public display of buffoonery and oafish attempts to make a self-confessed bribe-obsessed, self-imposed mediocre leader look important. Alas, you are just an inch away from a total failure, whiles wallowing in the affluence of pity. The fecal waste of Pastor Mensah Otabil is forever more gracious than you and your paymasters in your best form. Good day cheap creature!
ofori bortey isaac 7 years ago

how to become a good Christian

how to become a good Christian

Pastor Mensa Otabil finally comes back to his senses

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