Was my UDS seed cash also a bribe? - Rawlings hits back

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  • Agya koo 9 years ago

    You took a bribe period, and kept quite for along time, just live with your lies.

  • Nana. 9 years ago

    The SOURCE of money and WHY it is being paid determine whether it is a BRIBE or not. We have brains to think on our own. You and your wife must stop taking about PROBITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY because the moral authority is lost ...
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  • Adu 9 years ago

    But in all the publications so far you have failed to tell Ghanaian what you did with the 2m to the benefit of Ghaninans

  • Naa Awura 9 years ago

    Nigerians want their Blood/Stolen money back. Just give it back Ok?........

    Rawlings is no fool at all, he knows exactly what he doing by pronouncing lies all over the place. Right now he's playing to his gullible fans wh ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:- Suroakata.....
    NDC DON'T HAVE ANY GOOD IDEAS FOR NPP TO STEAL. WHO WANT TO STEAL DUMSOR, SADA, GYEEDA, WOYOME, BUS REBRANDING,JOHN FORD AND A WHOLE LOT CORRUPT ARMED ROBBERY NDC DISEASES. ASIEDU NKETIA SAY YOUR MANI ...
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  • Nii Teiko 9 years ago

    Somebody please tell this Trokosi-Atapkami mixed blood red-monkey to zip his mouth for once? He is making too much an idiot of himself. Jezz

  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    We are now at the crossroads era whereby seemly insignificant decisions will have a serious impact on our future peace and prosperity. We observe the antics of Erdogan in Turkey , Trump's racism in The USA , mahama's tribali ...
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  • me 9 years ago

    Is the money ghana money live the man along and go after your leaders who a looting the country, ghanaians have big mouth, they only talk and cant do nothing

  • Sanjay-Abu Dhabi 9 years ago

    Can npp tell us what they did, even one university they built since their violence party was formed by busia, useless npp party, jj enjoy your self

  • Charles Higgins 9 years ago

    Sanjay the Insane i thought you were dead.

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Is Rawlings losing it due to senility? "Was my UDS seed cash also a bribe". What a childish question from a former President.

    The prize you won which you used as a seed money was announced to the whole world, there was no ...
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  • Nii Teiko 9 years ago

    I want the loud mouth Tony Aidoo to come out from his rat whole and clear his name of this bribery scandal which , by all account, falls within what justice Dotse described as create-loot-and-share. We also wanna here Bokor a ...
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  • Tonto 9 years ago

    jj didn't need the $60,000 cash because he was already filthy rich by that time.he had stolen enough cash through sale of anglogold ashanti, etc and did not need that money anyway.

  • Andani 9 years ago

    What kind of logic is that? This is just a poor and desperate attempt to extricate himself from a corrupt deal gone wrong. The shroud around this conman is dropping and his nakedness will show glaringly soon, I'm certain.

  • sulley 9 years ago

    I admire ur choice of words

  • Kofi Gbagbladza 9 years ago

    Can keep quiet for once JJ? You are a bribe taker, period.

  • THIS DAY 9 years ago

    THIS GUY IS VERY FUNNY. AFTER ALL THESE UNCOUNTABLE PHILOSOPHIES ON CORRUPTION THAT JJ HAS PROPOUNDED : PROBITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, INTEGRITY, SELFLESSNESS ETC., HE IS BEHAVING AS IF HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT A BRIBE IS. RAWLINGS EE ...
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  • Kojo 9 years ago

    There is no need going around the issue. The three simple questions Ghanaians are asking are: (1)How much did Abacha actually gave you? (2) What was it for? (3) What was it used for?

    This $5 million bribery story came out ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Kojo, that money was not a Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Peace Organization will not soil it's name by awarding any prize to a murderer. Nobel Peace Prize comes with one million reward, not $50,000.

    The group that gave Rawlings ...
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  • Kojo 9 years ago

    Thanks for the correction.

  • Lloyd 9 years ago

    OH JJR, THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INTERNATIONALLY RECOHNIZED AWARD WHICH COMES WITH HONOURS AND A CLANDENSTYLE SECRETLY RECIEVED BRIBE. YOU ANNOUNCED THE AWARD TO THE WHOLE WORLD KUDOS BUT YOU AND YOUR WIFE CHOPPED AB ...
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  • Afoko G. Bawa 9 years ago

    Mr Rawlings, know that a wrong is a wrong. If your father told you to sacrifice a goat yours is to do that whether it cost you €5 or €2 the fact is not about the cost its about the sacrifice. ...
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  • 1 Loaf 9 years ago

    Why is chairman Rawlings so shaken up he's become an idiot or what? Can't he distinguish and award which was open, transparent, announced even before the money was disbursed from the 'hidden' Abacha dollars? How did he 'spend ...
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  • KOO 9 years ago

    JJ is trying to defend himself by any means possible on the 5/2 million bribe from Abacha.Transporting such a huge amount in suitcases is simply dubious.Why was the money not transferred from bank to bank?.In all Abacha's dea ...
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  • Eddie 9 years ago

    UDS money was officially donated, what about that of Abacha. You denied and never allowed investigations as you again further praised Abacha to be a man of integrity. Just admit failure and also not forgetting your wife, Kon ...
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  • APETSI 9 years ago

    JJ hate for Mahama is just not clear.

  • Afoko G. Bawa 9 years ago

    Do you recall Rev. Jim Jones and how he betrayed People's Temple? You would have sent us there by now. Know that Gen.Saani Abacha can not tell tales. He needs to rest peacefully. Even Bukum Banku has come to reality. Lets not ...
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  • ZoRRo 9 years ago

    Here he goes again trying to compare apples and oranges in order to get out of the bribery scandal. The question is how much did you receive, what was it for, and why was it shrouded in secrecy ?

  • George Duke Acquaah 9 years ago

    God bless de hrt of a man of de deeds he/she does not de words frm his mouth nd am proud to be a product of UDS nd a proud Developer. I salute u my former Prez Rawlings fr a gud work done. God bless u abundantly.

  • Brodie Mends Mensah 9 years ago

    This is a man who shot people dead for going through the normal channels applying and getting bank loans for start-up businesses.

    Years later the same man turns around and collects bribe money from dubious sources-an off ...
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  • OKOFO 9 years ago

    I like JJ but for this he should come again. JJ you cannot compare apples with marbles because award price money is different from a gift. Secondly you have been able to indicate what you used the price money for, unfortunate ...
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  • Owusu Sekyere (UK) 9 years ago

    I can not believe a former president can speak carelessly and thoughtlessly as he tries to explain the bribery allegation. His explanation rather gives weight to the fact that it was a bribe and by donating part of bribe to U ...
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  • Motsamai 9 years ago

    Probity/Accountability! This is the time Mr Rawlings no face saving ! UDS donation is far different from Abacha's loot in a suitcase. Stop ref to Mandela's $1million from Ghana. Mandela that time was soliciting donations ope ...
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  • Alhaji Abbas 9 years ago

    OH NO !!!!!: JJ Rawlings is really going down in his thinking capacity ; are his intelligent children or his numerous frineds not around to advise the this ediot full that silence is golden ; JJ Rawlings should observe the st ...
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  • Brodie Mends Mensah 9 years ago

    No gimmicks and tricks. President Buhari wants to know what you did with the Abacha blood money?
    Buhari?

    The UDS seed cash came through the bank in a traceable financial transaction.
    The Abacha money came to you in a ...
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  • Jibril 9 years ago

    Mr Rawlings, can you just produce the pay in slip for the payment of the $5million or $2million into a Government of Ghana bank account? That would be the only evidence that you didn't keep the money to your self. Otherwise j ...
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  • Alhaji Pope 9 years ago

    The two are quite different things, the hunger project money, was international award, which we all knew of. No wonder, the murderer and tief, doesn`t understand. For him, it is only, when others collect money from unknown s ...
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  • Hohoe Kojo 9 years ago

    Mr Rawlings, why was the cash not lodged into an account. 2. Do u know that it is criminal to transport money from one country to another. How did the cash left Nigeria & landed in without the airport & customs notification. ...
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  • Maame 9 years ago

    YES. IF YOU ARE CALLING GOVERNMENT A CCORRUPT GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF THE EXACT SAME THING YOU DID. YES IT IS.

  • bio kotey 9 years ago

    Ghanaians have not raised issues with the UDS seed money because you did nothing wrong,Ghanaians have even praised you on that selfless act but you still need to offer answers to the abacha money saga. it's not about talking ...
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  • JOHN 9 years ago

    GOD HAS STOPPED U AND YOUR MURDERER WIFE IN YOUR TRACKS. NO ONE TAKES U SERIOUS AGAIN. YOUR GREEDINESS HAS CAUSED YOU THIS. YOUR WIFE CANT COME OUT AGAIN TO ACCUSE ANOTHER PERSON OF BEING A THIEF. SHAME UNTO YOU RAWLINGS FOR ...
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  • Maame 9 years ago

    I THINK GOD IS PUNISHING YOU FOR ALL THE KILLINGS.

  • Asorkpo 9 years ago

    Efo,you are corrupt just as some of those you shot.
    Abacha's stole Nigeria money and gave it to you.

  • KFosu-Mampong Ashanti 9 years ago

    JJR WHAT WE THE BROTHERS,SISTERS,CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF OKATAKYIE GEN.AA AFRINA WANTS YOU TO ANSWER IS SIMPLY WHY YOU AND YOUR PIGS THIEVES - DISGUISED AS REVOLUTIONIST WITHOUT ANY EVDENCE OF BRIBERY/CORRUPTION SENT MY ...
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  • Bishop Blay 9 years ago

    This self seeking and a fake revolutionary still have the effrontery to defend his lies.$5million from Abacha,is more than 50,000 dollars gave to U.d.s.kindly shut up.

  • CHORKOR SCHOOLBOY 9 years ago

    LOOK AT THIS IDIOT . PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE ABACHA CASH OF THOSE MILLION DOLLARS. WHAT ARE U SAYING?

  • Habib Yahkub 9 years ago

    We don't call this a brib but he was trying to help on the UDS

  • Citizen, Ghana 9 years ago

    The $50,000 Hunger Project Award wasn't a bribe because that was done in the open, and was not shrouded in secrecy, as it was with the Abacha's ($5,000,000) US$5million, which you've denied at every opportunity until now. Can ...
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  • Mr. Clean 9 years ago

    J.J ,For the sake of accountability,I think you should face firing squad if you do not pronpounce how the $2million you claim you received was disbursed.You claim you the only person on earth who is sooo Honest.

  • Kuffour Junior 9 years ago

    U said ur own founded party NDC x corrupt now u see what the pharasees are doing to u father plz come back.we need u back!!!!!

  • k.k 9 years ago

    if the abacha 5m dollars is not a bribe why did u denied the story in 1998 knowing very well that u hv collected it keep quite international thief,thief.

  • Kofi (USA) 9 years ago

    No blood on that money. Good patriot

  • kojo 9 years ago

    Mr. Rawlings we cant tell . But what we do know for sure Is,You took bribe from the late dictator of Nigeria. Dont throw stones again because You are in a glass house.

  • GH PEOPLE 9 years ago

    NANA ADDO FOR 2016 AND 2020, FROM GHANA PEOPLE

  • KKO 9 years ago

    The idiot has gone off hos rockers! He doesn't know the difference between a prize and a bribe. To think that this idiotic armed robber ruled Ghana for nearly twenty years.

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Doc., say that again. No wonder this guy scored nine in chains in his 'O' levels examination. What a dumb way to defend his received stolen money.

  • GH PEOPLE 9 years ago

    RAWLINGS MUST RETURN THE $2 OR $5 MILLION DOLLAR ABACHA GAVE HIM AND COME AND FACE THE LAW IN GHANA, U CANT KILL ACHEAMPONG AND OTHERS FOR 5 CDIS LOAN AND TAKE $2MILLION DOOLARS FROM ABACHA , $2 MILLION DOLLARS FROM ABACHA FO ...
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  • Nana Kojo Ansah 9 years ago

    People can Say whatever they like,but should be concern of what such an amount was used for.was it used for the benefit of the republic or for himself and stop hyping this "bribe or no bribe issue"

  • NANA 9 years ago

    RAWLINGS HAS TO ADMIT IT;WHATEVER BE THE AMOUNT,$2 MILLION/$5 MILLION,IT WAS A BRIBE.
    SOME PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED BECAUSE,ACCORDING TO HIS IMPECCABLE PRINCIPLE,THEY WERE CORRUPT.
    BUSIA TOLD US; "DON'T ACCEPT BRIBES,THEY CORRU ...
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  • SERWA 9 years ago

    ITS A JOKE THIS MAN RAWLINGS MURDERED MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE.
    ITS TIME SOMEONE TOO KILL HIM FOR TAKING BRIBE.

    TIT FOR TART.

  • Mr. Clean 9 years ago

    Bastard J.J. you keep saying you did not receive $5 million dollars but 2 million dollars. Whatever the case is ,my simple question to you is ,what did you do with the $2 million dollars? Do you remember your slogan-accountab ...
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  • Col Q 9 years ago

    Hunger cash was only $50.000,-- Abacha Cash was $5million eh, $2million! Big difference eh??

  • Col Q 9 years ago

    Seed money for 31st. Women !

  • JAL 9 years ago

    An award of $50,000 is very different from a gift of $5M. The different amounts the emphasis is on award versus gift. JJ, let's not confuse the two words. Please bow down your head in shame. All the insults against John A ...
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  • Yaw Adu-Larbi 9 years ago

    Mr Rawlings should distinguish between an award, a publicly recognised award at that, and a gift. The award was publicised in the full glare of the public but the $5million was 'kataso muamuaso' and therefore a bribe. People ...
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  • KOJO MENSAH 9 years ago

    No mater how Rawlings will try save his dented image it would not wash because Abacha's money was bribe he took. Hunger Project is different money was not bribe and he knows it to be bribe money he should let all Ghanaians kn ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    No, the $50,000 was not bribe because it was an award given to you. You were not the first and only person to receive that. Again, it was published and was public knowledge. In the Abacha money case, you even denied or ignore ...
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  • Ayigbevi 9 years ago

    JJ, you had your bad intension as usual. You better plead to Ghanaians. Shame unto you. Big time thief

  • òtwea jjjjjjjjjjjjj 9 years ago

    look, the 50,000cedis award was given in the full glare and knowledge of the whole world in which ghana is a part. that was an award presented publicly.u could not have therefore hidden news of it. Ah, u denied abachas cash b ...
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  • CITIZEN VIGILANTE 9 years ago

    John Mahama thinks he can switch and deflect from the Kanazoe-gate scandal where he has so bastardized and reduced the dignity of the office of the presidency and subjected it to public opprobrium and disgust for allowing him ...
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  • Nana Akufu Addo 9 years ago

    A bribe is bribe so shut up. You must face the firing squad at Teshi
    for it you bustad

  • K Mensah 9 years ago

    Look at this Trokosi former President of Ghana. He is a self confessed thief yet he is wasting our ears with his crap. THIEF Rawlings keep quiet.

  • Shamo 9 years ago

    I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE WILL SAY ABOUT YOU, YOU DID THE BEST YOU CAN DO TO BRING GHANA OUT SINKHOLE, GOOD SANITATION AROUND THE COUNTRY,CORRUPTION WENT DOWN,

  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 9 years ago

    In the first place the UDS money was an award that you were given. It wasn't given under the table, it wasn't given to you surreptitiously. It was done in the open and in full glare of a global audience.

    Unlike the above ...
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  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 9 years ago

    In the first place the UDS money was an award that you were given. It wasn't given under the table, it wasn't given to you surreptitiously. It was done in the open and in full glare of a global audience.

    Unlike the above a ...
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  • Mensah Abrampa 9 years ago

    Only you can tell what the UDS money was actually purposed for but the $5m from Abacha can be labeled a bribe. First you denied ever receiving any money from Abacha and when push came to shove several years later you admitted ...
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  • chales 9 years ago

    He told u what u need to know before blaming him. He has done his own look at ur future.

  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 9 years ago

    Maybe you are too young to know that when this money issue became public the very first time, this snake-under-grass man denied ever taking any money from Abacha. Your were probable not born then.

    Do you know the number o ...
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  • Hakeem 9 years ago

    Foolish mortal. Is it npp who are digging the issue. Think wise

  • NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 9 years ago

    Fuck your fucking prostitute mother.

  • sam 9 years ago

    Mr Rawlings if it was even 2million its still a lot of money. Certainly if I had $2 million in my pocket what is $50,000. I will gladly give it out to make a name for myself.
    Rawlings is just evil. You killed very innocent ...
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  • Dom 9 years ago

    I need some tutorial please. What constitute bribery??? Is it the mere acceptance of gift??? I'm not getting any where with all the comments I've read So far. It looks as if people are commenting out of bitterness or want to ...
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  • sam 9 years ago

    Dom you really need alot of tutorial. abacha made less than $ 200,000 a year so to even make 2 million it means he worked for 10years and gave all his earnings to mr rawlings the murderer.that 2million has nothing gift about ...
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  • OPNINPA 9 years ago

    Foolis RAWLINGS. HE HAS ACCEPTED $5m STOLEN MONEY FORM ABACHA AS BRIBE AND WANTS GHANAIANS TO PRAISE HIM FOR DONATING PAULTRY $50.000 MERE 1% OF THE BRIBE MONEY TO BUILD UDS? THE NERVE. HOW MUCH DID ACHEAMPONG, GEN. AKUFFO. ...
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  • Bajina 9 years ago

    You can run but can't hide forever.After almost two decades Rawlings is being haunted by the fact that he took a bribe.He is trying very hard to reclaim his respect but it cant stick.

  • Donkor 9 years ago

    The seed money for UDS was a price Pawlings won and the whole world know about this.It could not have been a bribe.The Abacha one which has been denied for two decades what was it use for and how was is recorded?

  • Adanko 9 years ago

    Infact God lives. I never knew Rawlings will disgrace himself to this extent during his life time.God has spoken. More revelations will come out of his mouth including the real reason for killing the former heads of state and ...
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  • Hakeem 9 years ago

    Ghanaians should allow the man you live with peace. Because he tells nd keep preaching against the system you hanged on this shut him. Give answers to similar funds begotten from other sources what he used them for. You shoul ...
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  • obi 9 years ago

    thank u

  • Thief Give the money back 9 years ago

    Stop disgracing yourself. Give the money back

  • locomotive engine 9 years ago

    WAS IT COSMETICS IN THE BRIEF CASE? DOLLARS WAS GIVEN TO YOU IN A BRIEF CASE AND YOU KEPT MUTE ON IT, WHY DIDN'T YOU PUBLICIZE IT LIKE THAT OF UDS? YOU ARE HERE BLEATING M33,M33,M33 LIKE A GOAT, YOU BETTER RETURN THE ...
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  • Posca 9 years ago

    The 1million dollars you gave to Mandella was it your personal money or Ghanas?Papa j you are athief like mahama,he coppied you so leave him alone.corrupt NDC

  • Yellow man 9 years ago

    Rawlings gets a bribe of 2 million and he gives out 50 000 dollars to UDS and then praises himself for been a benevolent person.I never would have thought that I will live to see this day where our good old Junior Jesus will ...
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  • Philip 9 years ago

    You have lost your moral sense of judgement :how can you equate a hunger price money that was made public the first seconds of it to money you collected under cover for 20 years: you are aging so wise up don't disgrace the w ...
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  • PROBITY 9 years ago

    Its clear that the 2 million was stolen form the people of Nigeria. The 50K was a prize money, legitimate. Big difference!

  • Opiah 9 years ago

    Mr JJ what happened to Utuka, Acheampong,Akuffo and Afrifa?U said they were corrupt and u killed them.U and wife are the most corrupted people in Ghana

  • Opiah 9 years ago

    Mr JJ what happened to Utuka, Acheampong,Akuffo and Afrifa?U said they were corrupt and u killed them.U and wife are the most corrupted people in Ghana

  • PK 9 years ago

    You used it as seed money because it wasn't enough or big like the $5m