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Elizabeth Ohene writes: I drive American car, with pride

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06-29 20:41
 
 
 
Re: Elizabeth Ohene writes: I drive American car, It doesn't pay to be sacarstic.What's the big deal if u like America car and the President doesn't. I live in the States but I don't like America cars. Elizabeth Ohene get something better to write about and stop the cheap sh

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Lucky-Ny
06-29 20:41
 
 
 
 
taking bribes I think u re also not serious. de president has taken bribe and it's very serious. advise him to stop taking bribes

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ndc
06-29 21:19
 
 
 
 
Lucky-fool. The president can call himself a "dead goat", but when it comes to "commercial/product endorsement", he has to pause and think deep and not belch all over competing products!!

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Kayanka
06-29 21:53
 
 
 
 
Cheap short Ohene. Who does not know Elizabeth Ohene she was Editor of Daily Graphic during JJ's time in Ghana. Please just get off and lets think. Ford Expedition is no big deal in America, only in third world country people cry over cars. He

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Johnson Adjei
06-30 03:19
 
 
 
 
The president is fake and phoney He just repeats cliches....what he said was 1960ish

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Rastafara"I"
06-30 04:07
 
 
 
KUFUOR TOO DIDN'T LIKE AMERICAN CARS It is well known that John Agyekum Kufuor was a mentor of yours in whose Govt you played a significant role. Then you saw nothing wrong with Kufuor's rejection of Chrysler vehicles as part of his retirement package. Be remi

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Kwesi
06-29 20:03
 
 
 
 
This is mere Crap This sarcastic write up does not amuse some of us in anyway . Elizabeth could have written something much worthy of enriching the thoughts and minds of independent thinking Ghanaian Who says journalists are above taking side

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Marcus Chris Lawson
06-30 09:51
 
 
 
You are So who are you. Are you more than the president.shot up.....

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Shomto
06-29 21:05
 
 
 
Re: Elizabeth Ohene writes: I drive American car, Thank you soo much Madam! lets not get into the bribery allegations even yet. lets focus on the critical questions the President needs to answer first!!!

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CHICKEN GEORGE.
06-29 20:14
 
 
 
 
BEAUTIFUL ARTICLE !!! I like the way this lady writes.We should not be partisan in our understanding of this beautiful piece.We should make our leaders much more responsible than they have been AND ONE WAY OF DOING IT IS TO MAKE THEM ACCOUNT FOR E

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joeboat
06-29 20:35
 
 
 
American cars? That was really a great peace of work! Keep it up!

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Sam
06-29 21:04
 
 
 
Arise for change John mahama is a bad leader .He is corrupt and very incompetent.Arise for change

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Alhassan Yussif
06-29 21:06
 
 
 
FORD EXPEDITION Does John Mahama appreciate the gravity of the problem regarding the gift of Ford car to no less a person than the president of a nation. That he will dismiss it with a stupid comment like that tells me how irresponsible. Re

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Katakyie
06-29 23:10
 
 
 
Good Job Elizabeth Ohene This is a well written article that captures the saga of this Ford gift.

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Katakyie
06-29 23:13
 
 
 
Re: Elizabeth Ohene writes: I drive American car, I love you madam!Beautiful article. Yes the toyata cars driven at the presidency are well fitted to the specifications of the USA. You are wonderful! Moreover $100,000 ford expedition could stand any Japanese toyota even a

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fred Williams
06-29 22:29
 
 
 
DONKEY over FORD hahahahaha He'd prefer goat meat to American cars if asked now! thief

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fred Williams
06-29 22:31
 
 
 
i love ameria ford expecially chevez america cars are great qualities reliable and durable

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kofi mensah usa
06-29 23:23
 
 
 
 
wow Which part of the US do you live. dumb ass.

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Adanko,LA
06-30 06:10
 
 
 
MAHAMA DON'T SHIT ABOUT CARS VILLAGERS THOUGHT TOYOTA IS THE BEST . AMERICA WAS FIRST TO MANUFACTURE CARS ON PLANET BEFORE JAPANESE . WE HAS 60 YEARS AMERICAN CARS STILL ON ROAD .

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oh boye
06-29 23:31
 
 
 
 
MAHAMA DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT CARS THIRD WORLD COUNTRY LIKE GHANA THOUGHT THEY KNOW .

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oh boye
06-29 23:33
 
 
 
we love anything american we don't care what mahama says or do

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edjwa
06-29 23:41
 
 
 
Re: Elizabeth Ohene writes: I drive American car, You may be proud of your American Ford escape, but someone may not like it, what's wrong with that. The president never condemned American automobiles, but just that he doesn't like those American cars. If you have an axe to

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Theghanaian
06-30 01:10
 
 
 
 
Shameful! The Prez said: "I don't like American cars", period. He did not say he didn't like "Ford Expeditions". So what's this fool-soldier nonsense?

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Kantata
06-30 02:41
 
 
 
 
Idiotic. Mahama was simply caught for taken a bribe and his response is simply I don't like the form of the bribe but I took it. Omg, he is not that smart and shallow.

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Kwadwo
06-30 03:27
 
 
 
Re: Elizabeth Ohene writes: I drive American car, Even prostitute have a say in journalism to criticize the president unjustly, because of human rights.Ghana politicians na wa o.

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Ken
06-30 02:04
 
 
 
WHO CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU DRIVE?? Who cares what you drive? Ford Escape is a peace of S#$@t anyways F-Ford O-on R-Road D-Dead Just shut up and drive your mess. The president is expressing his preference of motor Vehicles Take your old journalism somew

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KOKOTII
06-30 04:30
 
 
 
 
Addition It's actually F-found O-on R- road D-dead.

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Adanko,LA
06-30 06:07
 
 
 
I don't like CONDENSED MILK Go way u over there, damn old witch. Has Elizabeth Ohene also become a scavenger? Let sleeping dogs lie. I hate coffins, and a walking coffin in the person of Akufo Addo scares me. Elizabeth Ohene should join me to help G

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Kutsii
06-30 06:17
 
 
 
Great piece Elizabeth I fell in love with the work of this illustrious lady from Ghana as a young JSS pupil growing up in a village somewhere in BA as a devoted BBC world service forecast on Africa listener from the 90s. I continue to follow this

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kWAME AMO
06-30 05:20
 
 
 
Re: Elizabeth Ohene writes: I drive American car, Shit piece ! U call urself a journalist ? Shit , a complete scrapped

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Kongfumasters
06-30 06:26
 
 
 
Cheap president...Loose talker What if Obama said publicly he prefers Ivory Coast's COCOA to Ghana? the USD577m grant from the US funded the N1 Highway. There's another compact currently to be received; both under the Millennium Development Authority. You

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kakraba
06-30 06:36
 
 
 
so what This time round, u have hit below d belt. It is absolutely unnecessary to waste ur time writing on this subject. What will u achieve at all by creating animosity between our president and America. We Africans should be posit

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jacob
06-30 06:49
 
 
 
stupid Stupid girl

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Elizabeth
06-30 06:49
 
 
 
This is the truth Everytime I read articles on Ghanaweb, I become more aware of how hopeless Ghana's plight remains. What the politicians focus on, what the reporters write, what the majotity of the citizenry deem worthwhile and important, it

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Poise
06-30 08:27
 
 
 
A PRESIDENT TALKING BY HEART She writes: "...if this is the type of riposte our President could come up with when accusations of serious misconduct have been levelled against him, then we should worry about how he performs on our behalf in serious negoti

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Kwapps
06-30 09:48
 
 
 
ELIZABETH OHENE, FORD AND JAPANESE CARS. MADAM LIZZY , YOU ARE RIGHT TO PROFESS YOUR TASTE, AS PRESIDENT MAHAMA AND ANY OTHER GHANAIAN . BUT THE "TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH" IS THAT, IF YOU ARE TO "COUNT CARS ON AMERICA ROADS" NOW, YOU WILL BE "SHOCKED TO THE S

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Mohammed A Abdulsamed
07-01 00:46
 
 
 
Elizabeth Ohene writes : I drive Americ. Ohene you can be driving a China made car, who cares.

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Freddie
07-02 02:27