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Koobenjin 7 years ago

As usual, you are reverting to your dictatorial retro Graphic-Editor mode!

You can't DICTATE to our elected MPs!

When have you ever stood for, or won any elected office?

As usual, you are reverting to your dictatorial retro Graphic-Editor mode!

You can't DICTATE to our elected MPs!

When have you ever stood for, or won any elected office?
Amarkwei 7 years ago

What a blockhead! Mr CameronDuodu takes tijemto donhisbresearchh, comes to ma conclusion, and then assembles the arguemnts that support his conclusion.

Itisyour right to disagree wuithhis argumets, but you must do so with ...
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What a blockhead! Mr CameronDuodu takes tijemto donhisbresearchh, comes to ma conclusion, and then assembles the arguemnts that support his conclusion.

Itisyour right to disagree wuithhis argumets, but you must do so with counter-argumets! Merelydeclaring that he is "dictatorial" reeks of an inferior mind that wants todenirate by denunciatioominstead ofcogent reasoning.That's not what this Internet discussion was nsetupfor.
Tolah 7 years ago

What is this gibberish rant?

Reset your "auto spellchecker"!

Now tell moi this too is not relevant to topic!

What is this gibberish rant?

Reset your "auto spellchecker"!

Now tell moi this too is not relevant to topic!
Amarkwei 7 years ago

You think everyone has the sort of time as Internet trolls? Sorry about any errors of spelling but you are invited only to be informed by my comment,not to mark nit like school essay! I repeat:arguments, please!

You think everyone has the sort of time as Internet trolls? Sorry about any errors of spelling but you are invited only to be informed by my comment,not to mark nit like school essay! I repeat:arguments, please!
mawusi 7 years ago

Mr NO ALL DUODU.

Mr NO ALL DUODU.
True Rastaman 7 years ago

I respectfully disagree with the assertion that the speaker's action was partisan and or dictatorial. He grounded his decision on a supreme ruling and a previous case in parliament concerning hotel waaa waaa when Kufuor was i ...
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I respectfully disagree with the assertion that the speaker's action was partisan and or dictatorial. He grounded his decision on a supreme ruling and a previous case in parliament concerning hotel waaa waaa when Kufuor was in power and Begyina Sakyi Hughes (who appropriated government crockery pillows and flower pots to himself) was being advised by the 'authority on parliamentary procedures' Mr. Dakwa who did not advice Sekyi Hughes yo accept a similar motion. I think Mahama ought not have accepted the gift. But I also find the former clerks public criticism repugnant and smacking of clear double standards.
Kweku Nyansafo 7 years ago

NDC pundits are always "equalisiing" events. Yet each case is different from the other and should be looked at on its own merits.

For your iformation, Rastaman, Judges don't always depend on precedents unless they FIND th ...
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NDC pundits are always "equalisiing" events. Yet each case is different from the other and should be looked at on its own merits.

For your iformation, Rastaman, Judges don't always depend on precedents unless they FIND that the circumstances and particulars are similar. Even then, they examine prior judgements to ascertaithe priciples that are GERMANE to the case before them, before they bind themselves with judgements of earlier, and ONLY SUPERIOR COURTS.

Isn't it silly to equate the alleged appropriation of crockery by a Speaker -- for istance -- with an ouriight bribe paid to a sitting President? I can't recall the details but was it ever proved that Hotel Kufuor was the property of the the President and nothis son?

Besides, are you tellling us, Mr Rastaman, that wrongs committed in the oast should preclude us from correcting current malfeasance? If that were the case, no progress would ever occur in the world, would it? We should still be moving around on donkeys and carts, according toyour reasoning.
Bonsu 7 years ago

How do you define "outright bribe paid to a sitting president"?

You sound like a naive "beento-born-'n-bred"
juvenile who has zilch insight into the African
tradition of showing "gratitude with gifts"!

In Ghana, if yo ...
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How do you define "outright bribe paid to a sitting president"?

You sound like a naive "beento-born-'n-bred"
juvenile who has zilch insight into the African
tradition of showing "gratitude with gifts"!

In Ghana, if you know us, a "bribe is a DEMAND for a fee or dash-gift for a favor or for services", e.g., a clerk demands "something to expedite an application for a passport or licence", or a policeman demands a "dash" for his "invented violation"!
True Rastaman 7 years ago

I don't know how you are able to tell I am NDC. I was pointing out the apparent double standards of the 'authority' on parliamentary procedures: Mr Adarkwa whom Mr. Doudu wants us to believe is infallible on his judgement in ...
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I don't know how you are able to tell I am NDC. I was pointing out the apparent double standards of the 'authority' on parliamentary procedures: Mr Adarkwa whom Mr. Doudu wants us to believe is infallible on his judgement in this matter. He was a clerk not a former speaker.This ford saga is essentially about potential or actual conflict of interest or abuse of office same as the hotel Waaa waaa saga. As the use of words like 'silly' I find it regrettable. It in reference to Sekyi Hughes and not about the hotel. I don't recommend that if a mistake occurs in the past then a subsequent one ought not be corrected. But shouldn't politicians have principles that are enduring regardless of whether they are in power or not? Sekyi Hughes did not even accept for the matter to be brought before the house let alone deliver a ruling on it. Mr Nyansafo, I disagree with you but will surely not insult you or be tag you with political colouring because of your views
Dziko Kwame 7 years ago

Dear Mr Duodu

I responded to your article of Sept 5 or so, where you said that the Speaker had unilaterally brought Parliament down, whatever.

With this new write-up it seems that you deliberately ignored Parliament's ...
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Dear Mr Duodu

I responded to your article of Sept 5 or so, where you said that the Speaker had unilaterally brought Parliament down, whatever.

With this new write-up it seems that you deliberately ignored Parliament's rejoinder to Joy FM, Mr Ayikoi Otoo and also the 1st Republic Man Mr Adarkwa.

May I humbly request that you spend a little of your precious time to read the said rejoinder.

Failing to do that makes you succeed in poluting more unsuspecting or rather "ignorant" persons like myself.

Help educate us, Mr Duodu.

God bless our homeland Ghana.
Abi 7 years ago

Dziko K., very perceptive Koo above "outed" the "Editor-in-Chief" and his propensity to "editorialize" all things under the sun!

Dziko K., very perceptive Koo above "outed" the "Editor-in-Chief" and his propensity to "editorialize" all things under the sun!
Kweku Nyansafo 7 years ago

Abi,
It is normal for commenters to provide libks, if they refer to an article published elsewhere, so that people can make head or tail of the argument they are raising.

I understand that the Speaker's rejoinder only re ...
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Abi,
It is normal for commenters to provide libks, if they refer to an article published elsewhere, so that people can make head or tail of the argument they are raising.

I understand that the Speaker's rejoinder only relates to points made by Mr Ayikoi Otoo as refers to the statement aegely made by Mr otoo that the Auditor-General had reported on the Ford Expedition car gift to President John Mahama.

Regardig Mr Darkwa, too the Speaker only referred to advice he ofresumes Mr darkwa gave to a former Speaker, Mr Sekyi-Hughes, re an attempt to debate Hotel Kufuor, which Sekyi-Hughes apparety threw out.

Te Speaker in fact validated Mr Cameron Duodu's concer that The ruling regardbgf the Ford Expeditio car could set a bad orecedent which other Speakers coiuld follow! Of course, the Speaker did not say anythng about Mr Duodu's main point, naneky, that CHRAJ is n0t a court and therefire the sub judice rule could not apply to it. And ipso facto it could never supercede the ELECTED PARLIAMENT OF THE SOVEREIGN PEOPLE OF GHANA! Let the Speaker address thse two issues, abi?
Abi 7 years ago

Quote: "Let the Speaker address the two issues"

The Speaker is NOT going to entertain you and Mister "C.eD.itor" with "rejoinders", onu lo!

Quote: "Let the Speaker address the two issues"

The Speaker is NOT going to entertain you and Mister "C.eD.itor" with "rejoinders", onu lo!
Kweku Nyansafo 7 years ago

Entertain us? Bring the rejoinder and let's discuss it. This place is not for entertainment, abi? Bring it on!.

Entertain us? Bring the rejoinder and let's discuss it. This place is not for entertainment, abi? Bring it on!.
Abi 7 years ago

L0L, this is Ghanweb, NOT your "defunct" Okyeame and other elitist saps!

L0L, this is Ghanweb, NOT your "defunct" Okyeame and other elitist saps!
Kweku Nyansafo 7 years ago

Irrelevant answer! What are you yabbing about?

Irrelevant answer! What are you yabbing about?
Saddique 7 years ago

I am afraid people are making light of this matter, even though it is of the greatest consequence, constitutionally speaking.

For it was control of Parliament that enabled Prime Minister Nkrumah to pass the Preventive Dete ...
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I am afraid people are making light of this matter, even though it is of the greatest consequence, constitutionally speaking.

For it was control of Parliament that enabled Prime Minister Nkrumah to pass the Preventive Detention Act in 1958. Once that Act was passed into law, legitimate opposition to his rule was ended for ever.The courts refused to declare the Act unconstitutional because they stuck to the doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty. Dr J B Danquah tried as hard as possible to alert the courts to the conflict between Parliamentary sovereignty and the rights guaranteed to the citizen under the Constitution. But the courts leaned towards the executive's arguments.

And we all know the result of that. Before long, the PDA was being used against DR NKRUMAH'S OWN CPP MEMBERS WHO WERE REGARDED AS DISSIDENTS! Mr PKK Quaidoo, a former Nkrumah Minister, was detained.The Greater Accra executive of Nkrumah's own CPP was decimated. And eventually, when he became President, Dr Nkrumah threatened even K A Gbedemah -- the man whose clever political campaigning at the head of the CPP, was responsible for releasing Nkrumah from prison, through the massive electoral victory achieved by Gbedemah and the CPP while Nkrumah was still in jail-- had to flee into exile. He escaped the PDA by a whisker.

What Nkrumah achieved in Parliament with hius majority, Doe Adjaho is achieving with ignorant, biased rulings on the admissibility of Motuons.

Mr Nyansafo's limitation of his concerns to the Speaker's arguments in support of controlling the work of Parliament, is therefore quite misconceived. Nyansafo should tell the Speaker plainly that no Parliament ever AGREES TO BIND ITSELF by what previous Parliaments did.

Parliament can AMEND LAWS passed by previous sovereign Parliaments! It can even amend laws passed by ITSELF.

Therefore what Sakyi-Hughes did or did not do; what Peter Adjetey did or did not do; what Annan did or did not do, is all irrelevant.Doe Adjaho's action was wrong and cannot be retroactively declared right.

Of course, even if wrong action was carried out in the past, it should be corrected. when detected.

Doe Adjaho is only hiding behind precedent because he knows that past events can be disputed ad infinitum. Recollections are always weak and what is different between THE and NOW may not be adequately spelt out.

Also, attention can be deliberately -- and cleverly -- concentrated on, or towards, personalities, so that insinuations can be cast against their person (as was done with Mr Samuel Darkwa, the former Clerk who exposed Doe Adjaho's treachery.) When personal aspects about any matter are invoked, DISTRACTION INEVITABLY ENSUES and then, the PRINCIPLES fade away.

These are the salient points that the admirable Mr Nyansafo, who seems to know a thing or two about Parliamentary issues, should have elucidated, in my humble opinion. The Speaker was wrong in his dismissal of the Minority Motion, and he was wrong in the defence he Put up against Mr Darkwa and Nii Otoo.
samuel azumah 7 years ago

every ndc mp either outgoing or in coming must make sure that the in coming wins for himself or herself and for the persident.dcs and mdcs must also push and push.happy ndc

every ndc mp either outgoing or in coming must make sure that the in coming wins for himself or herself and for the persident.dcs and mdcs must also push and push.happy ndc
CIY , ENGLAND 7 years ago

GIVE IT TO GOD AND LET'S MOVE ON!
THIS IS EVEN A BIG AND POWERFUL CURSE WHICH IS INCUR IN THEIR LIVES, IT'LL HUNT THEM TO THE GRAVE.

GIVE IT TO GOD AND LET'S MOVE ON!
THIS IS EVEN A BIG AND POWERFUL CURSE WHICH IS INCUR IN THEIR LIVES, IT'LL HUNT THEM TO THE GRAVE.
T and T 7 years ago

Who does not know that contracts are inflated and they only go to party sympathizers, family members and friends of NDC leaders minus JJ.

Who does not know that contracts are inflated and they only go to party sympathizers, family members and friends of NDC leaders minus JJ.
Eben 7 years ago

Hmmm, It's a pity all respectable persons in this country all fast losing their dignity to politics. Mr. Doe Adjaho is one man I respect a lot, but see how far politics has brought him. But let's not forget that posterity wil ...
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Hmmm, It's a pity all respectable persons in this country all fast losing their dignity to politics. Mr. Doe Adjaho is one man I respect a lot, but see how far politics has brought him. But let's not forget that posterity will our deeds, the quick and the good.
Ben 7 years ago

Doe Adjaho must now do the honourable thing!

Doe Adjaho must now do the honourable thing!
TAWIAH BOYE 7 years ago

CAMEROUN DUODU HAS NO CASE. HIS ATTEMOT TO DEFEND SAMUEL DARKWA, WHO HAS BY NOW REALIZED THAT HE MADE A BIG MISTAKE WITH HIS HASTY CONCLUSION OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. MERELY WRITING A BOOK DOES NOT MAKE ONE INFALLIBL ...
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CAMEROUN DUODU HAS NO CASE. HIS ATTEMOT TO DEFEND SAMUEL DARKWA, WHO HAS BY NOW REALIZED THAT HE MADE A BIG MISTAKE WITH HIS HASTY CONCLUSION OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. MERELY WRITING A BOOK DOES NOT MAKE ONE INFALLIBLE, CAMEROUN DUODU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS.DARKWA IS NOW BIASED AND HAS BECOME SENILE , CONSIDERING HIS MEMORY LOSE AND COGNITIVE FACTORS.
K. Boye 7 years ago

My namesake Boye how do you know that Darkwa has realised he "made a big mistake" Can you read minds from far away? Ei then I need you any time I need to see my bank for a loan! When the truth lies , don't do libilibi with i ...
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My namesake Boye how do you know that Darkwa has realised he "made a big mistake" Can you read minds from far away? Ei then I need you any time I need to see my bank for a loan! When the truth lies , don't do libilibi with it, because that will take you nowhere. Doe Adjaho has inflicted an unpardonable assault on our Parliament spinning can expunge it from our constitutional history.
Kamel Dawadawa 7 years ago

Massa, go and sit your somewhere. AriseTV no dey give you chance make you talk mboasem no more, so your eye red. Commot!!!

Massa, go and sit your somewhere. AriseTV no dey give you chance make you talk mboasem no more, so your eye red. Commot!!!
G. K. Berko 7 years ago

Wasn't Precedent set when other Presidents received similar Gifts and the Parliament never raised a concern?

It might well be that the Speaker was drawing on the past similar occurrences that didn't attract complaints from ...
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Wasn't Precedent set when other Presidents received similar Gifts and the Parliament never raised a concern?

It might well be that the Speaker was drawing on the past similar occurrences that didn't attract complaints from the MPs. So, while procedural tenets might have been breached by the Speaker, his action could be seen by others as fair.

If the Parliament wants to be right on issues all the time, then it has to bury its partisan retributive requests and treat all cases with the same measure of responsibility to the Nation.

Long Live Ghana!!!
G. K. Berko 7 years ago

I have followed the contributions of Cameron Duodu for quite a long time, since his early days at the Observer, through the Economist, to the present.

He has always shown a streak of the Akyem 'Matemeho' perspective on Gha ...
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I have followed the contributions of Cameron Duodu for quite a long time, since his early days at the Observer, through the Economist, to the present.

He has always shown a streak of the Akyem 'Matemeho' perspective on Ghana's Politics. Could he be one of those Journalists who helped sell the lies about Nkrumah to justify the 1966 Coup? And spread the total fabrication of our lack of need for the many Industrial projects that Nkrumah's Regime built to boost our Economic Development, leaving almost all to rot?

The last anti-Nkrumah propaganda on the Industrial plans of our First Republic was unarguably to serve as an opiate to our unsuspecting Masses for what was to follow: the return to our coerced dependence on the West for all basic manufactured needs, just as before our Independence. We were, thereby, discouraged to pursue any Import-Substitution program to conserve our hard-earned Foreign Exchange Reserves that we might need to support infrastructural transformation of the Nation. So, they called all those projects "Prestigious", as if we were too inferior to deserve any of them.

Duodu is, undoubtedly, the most internationally widely known and respected Ghanaian Journalist alive whose prowess dates way before our Independence. So, we cannot easily discount his opinions on our Politics.

However, as he now denounces the characteristic Ghanaian weakness in seeking Justice as per the common reason or excuse we often give, "Give it God...", may we ask him if he has anything he faulted the Nkrumah era for that he now acknowledges necessary under the circumstances?

We may well forgive him as we all remain perpetually fallible, as human as we are. Nevertheless, I would entreat Cameron, now, an aging father of our Ghanaian Journalism, to focus on admonishing us all, especially the younger generation Journalists, to do more to produce authentic, most reliable reportage that would stand the test of time. Such endeavor requires bringing diligence and honesty to the practice.

For the rest of us Ghanaians, we would always be indebted to the sharing of undeniable facts in stories that we might never have known about, had it not been for the likes of Cameron Duodu. But that would have to be parlayed with his own recognition of past errors. He ought to be an inspiration to all our budding Journalists. But more importantly, he ought to stand against the mighty effort by the Akyem Mafia to re-write Ghana's History for the sole purpose of sanitizing the trail of violent, treasonous behavior that J. B. Danquah was part of.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Okwanin 7 years ago

People to fantasize when they have no facts to go on!

Who told G K Berko that Cameron Duodu is a Mete-me-ho man? If so, why would Dr K A Busia sack him as the Editor of the Daily Graphic?

I think he's his own man, and ...
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People to fantasize when they have no facts to go on!

Who told G K Berko that Cameron Duodu is a Mete-me-ho man? If so, why would Dr K A Busia sack him as the Editor of the Daily Graphic?

I think he's his own man, and writes exactly what he thinks, irrespective of the "box" into which others may place him. But no-one who writes exactly what he thinks can please everyone. Berko mentions The Observer of London and The Economist as papers for which Mr Duodu has written in the past. Is everything in those papers
uniform? Their writers have different opinions. What is common about them is that each opinion is allowed to be expressed. That's why people enjoy reading and learning from them. But in Ghana,if someone disagrees with your ideas, then you are hs ENEMY. Or maybe I should say the Ghana of modern times, for once upon a time, you could sit under a "gyedua" tree and argue and argue util you got tired and went home to find something to eat. Even at palm wine bars, people argued freely. But modern "akrakyefuor" who claim to be educated(including Ph.D holders) want everyone to think alike, and when they don't, then they give them labels and try to destroy them. Berko, please discuss Mr Duodu's ideas and stop calling him names. That's intellectual cowardice pure and simple.
Ogun 7 years ago

How do you know that Mr Cameron Duodu wrote for The Economist, since articles in that magazine are not signed Where did you ever see his bylines i that paper?

I can tell you that The Observer is a newspaper that has a lot ...
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How do you know that Mr Cameron Duodu wrote for The Economist, since articles in that magazine are not signed Where did you ever see his bylines i that paper?

I can tell you that The Observer is a newspaper that has a lot of experts, and if Cameron had peddled "Mate-me-ho" lies --moor even opinions -- iany articles he wrote for that paper, he would have been called out and ditched.

You wonder whether he is a member of the Akyem Mafia. Do you know the guy's writings at all? As far as I know, he tries to write with insight, but he realises that others can have different insights. All he does is present his viewpoint, and you can agree with it or dismiss it. For there is no such thing in journalism as a ''Universal Isight". But intelligent peope can differetiate between someone who is telling a geuine storyof thr basis of the facts he possesses, and someone who is merely selling "snake oil". A member of any Mafia would certainly be recognised, over such a long period. Unless,of course, with your fascistic denunciation of somebody else, you are getting him to fit the mirror you have created for yourself.

‘Give it to God and let’s move on!’

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