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ECOWAS Court asks Ghana to compensate Nigerian family

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  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    Author:- DR TRUTH...... AH AH AH, SO IT IS TRUE MAHAMA COLLECTED THIS VEHICLE FROM THE BURKINABE MAN. UNBELIEVABLE! PRES MAHAMA & NDC SHOULD RETURN THE CAR AND RETRIEVE THE MILLIONS OF TAX PAYERS DOLLARS PAID TO THIS BURKINAB ...
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  • kabokabo 7 years ago

    The Krofoum people in Ashanti Region must learn from these educated people than putting cutlass, yam and so into a coffin of a dead man.
    This wise people took the right step to be compensated. Though they may never have thei ...
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  • AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    Osei Tawiah's father should learn from this case and sue the Ghana Police.

  • Asare 7 years ago

    This should serve as a great lesson to all the lazy ghanaian doctors and pathologists who simply every cause of death as cardiac arrest in otopsy reports. they should give a specific reason as to what lead to that heart failu ...
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  • just 7 years ago

    old soldier please read before u make comments. we are taliking about law suit here and u talking about mahama's ford. are u ok?

  • Palmwine tapper 7 years ago

    Of course it is not ok! Old Soldier is robot on the loose!

  • omanbapa 7 years ago

    @Old Soldier....must you post this on every news item. Even if the subject is on football, u post this same "ford-gift, ford-bribe" issue. Why politicize everything. Please let someone write something else for you to post if ...
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  • Palmwine tapper 7 years ago

    Old Soldier is no human being. It's a computer programming by a rogue scientist gone bad! We need to collectively find a way to block it from disturbing us on Ghanaweb. It sometimes mutates into Prince something Ofie and some ...
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  • asiedu nketiah, Seikwa, B/A 7 years ago

    Nuisance to whom???!!!¿¿¿ He has every right under the sun to post whatever his opinion on an issue no matter how abhorrent it might seem to you, bootlicker!!! S3 kukuru kukuru no gyai a, k3k3 k3k3 no nso b3gyai wai!!!

  • BE SMART 7 years ago

    OLD SOLDIER IS ANIMAL LIVING AT AFRICAN BUSH,BUSH BOY.

  • Concerned 7 years ago

    Get some justice for your son.

  • KOW 7 years ago

    Appeal the judgement.Period.

  • Ali, Toronto 7 years ago

    What really is Ghana's offence? Did Ghana kill the boy or was Ghana in any way responsible for his death? Failing to properly investigate after the fact?! Handing a copy of the autopsy report to the boy's father?! Much sympa ...
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  • NAS 7 years ago

    Ghana government is to protect everybody living within its borders. And is a death is suspicious and they cant properly explain how a person died then the are held responsible. Learn from it so u can know you right wherever u ...
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  • Billy Portsmouth 7 years ago

    DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY GHANAIANS DIED IN
    NIGERIA AGEGE ERA.I WAS IN NIGERIA
    FROM 1978 TO 1985 EVEN DURING THE GHANA MUST GO ERA PRESIDENT SHAGARI
    WAS ON POWER DID NIGERIA COMPENSATED
    HUNDREDS OF GHANAIAN DIETH? WE ARE NOT ...
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  • NAS 7 years ago

    Thats you need to know your rights. If you know your rights then you sue when mistreated and not its the father that sued ghana not Nigerian government.And know that it was Ghana that mistreated foreigners before we got paid ...
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  • Kose 7 years ago

    My cousin is still missing in Nigeria twenty years ago he went to Nigeria to find a better life but his land lord i understand tricked him and kill him in a ritual dead body never found.Kofi Asiedu we miss you

  • teneboah kodua 7 years ago

    Kofi Asiedu and many many women,men and boys and girls from GHANA KILLED FOR RITUALS IN NIGERIA

  • Lucky 7 years ago

    If you have evidence attest to these?? please sue Nigeria government okay. Lack of knowledge my people die foolishly

  • AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    How can Mahama and the NDC hand over juicy contract to a Burkinabe contractor whilst our local contractors have no jobs.
    Remember the UMB, AMERI, KARPOWER and UBA stinky deals all had something to do with the stashing away o ...
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  • William 7 years ago

    There are Ghanaians doing business in neighbouring countries. STOP YOUR NARROW-MINDED ANTI-AFRICAN UNION TALK! AND BY THE WAY YOU MAY BE A BURKINABE BY BLOOD!

  • Abdul Hardi 7 years ago

    Reckless police service, only what they know is gh1.0 cedis for your pocket.

  • Ngo 7 years ago

    There they are, never proved competent in any endeavors.
    Passport office becomes animals kingdom for only reach and famous get it. Even non Ghanaian gets diplomatic passport whilst Ghanaians lost their jobs after paying for ...
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  • Yaro 7 years ago

    This is the second time in as many days that pathologists in Ghana are being taken to task. Is it a case that they have had it their way all along without anybody challenging them or is it a case of INCOMPETENCE?

  • ALIMI YAO 7 years ago

    So, there's an ECOWAS court. Soon there will an ECOWAS Army, ECOWAS Parliament, ECOWAS Central Bank and President of ECOWAS. Do we already have these institutions? What started as a body for economic cooperation, trade etc, i ...
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  • IDDRISU 7 years ago

    @Alimi Yao is talking a lot of sense. If we don't act now, we will all wake up one day to realise we are no longer Nigerians or Togolese or Bourkinabe or Ghanaians but West Africans. We need economic cooperation for our count ...
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  • kuntunkuruntu 7 years ago

    Naturally that's how it was IDDRISU WE were just one sub-continent the artificial borders was created by Europeans. Europe is becoming bigger for the past 20 years European union keep growing why not us nobody need promotion ...
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  • Addo Kuffour 7 years ago

    Akuffo has confused NPP

  • lee SA 7 years ago

    ECOWAS well done, a Ghanaian lady who was rape and murdered in Nigerian thy also pay USD 250,000 hands down.

  • Luze 7 years ago

    Nonsense, animalistic verdict, is there any evidence that he was murdered or killed and thrown into the water? Fools.

  • obi 7 years ago

    hmmmmm u see the act of Ecowas ,Ghana should give out more free visa for them to come in than we are finish with this Nigerians

  • teneboah kodua 7 years ago

    Bullcrap!!! is ECOWAS A STATE??

  • teneboah kodua 7 years ago

    How many GHANIANS HAVE DIED IN NIGERIA

  • KOFI KWABLA 7 years ago

    NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • HONEST MAN 7 years ago

    STANDARD OF JUDGES ARE IN QUESTION, WHAT LAW IS THIS JUDGEMENT BASED ON, ANY ALL THOSE INVOLVED SHOULD WAKE UP, THE POLICE, PATHOLOGIST AND ALL THE REST

  • Agbeli Kumordzi 7 years ago

    Nonsense how much Nigeria government will pay to those innocently Ghanaians killed in Nigeria by the armed robbers

  • Abah-Fada 7 years ago

    some of u Ghanaians only come here and spewed your ignorance. verdict has been giving, it is up to the government to pay or appeal.

    I don't know why, you Ghana must go like reading articles upside down just to create an ...
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  • AGBEVE 7 years ago

    Nonsense

  • Steve 7 years ago

    Pay the $250,000 to the family, Ghana Police must do a good job next time. Incompetency again. Cunt

  • xxx 7 years ago

    what the fuck, if somebody who cannot swim drowns by swimming, whose fault is that; this must be a stupid Nigerian 419 court, and this so-called ruling must be trashed, how many Ghanaians have been murdered in Nigeria, and ha ...
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  • Don Lam 7 years ago

    FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE SAME PEOPLE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. AND THEIR OPINIONS ON THIS VERY PLATFORM MATTER A LOT. THOSE IN CHARGE WILL CONSIDER THESE OPINIONS B4 ACTING...KNOW Y?? BCO'S HERE, IT'S GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE FOR ...
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  • Kobby 7 years ago

    Let me remind all Ecowas citizens in Ghana that,we cannot use our taxpayers money to watch over them.
    The government is finding it tough protecting Ghanaians let alone extending it to cover other nationals.Aside,nobody invi ...
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