Western democracy 'suffocating' us - Rawlings

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JJ 7 years ago

YERS

YERS
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 7 years ago

HAIL SAMIRA!!!!!! SHE CAN'T TAKE THE NDC SHIT!!!!!!............... Speaking about the NDC campaign and justifying why she describes president mahama as a “useless president”, she said that Ghanaians are suffering whiles N ...
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HAIL SAMIRA!!!!!! SHE CAN'T TAKE THE NDC SHIT!!!!!!............... Speaking about the NDC campaign and justifying why she describes president mahama as a “useless president”, she said that Ghanaians are suffering whiles NDC is using all the money acquire party paraphernalia and billboards everywhere . She again described what she termed the arrogant wastefulness of the Mahama-led government, citing the bus branding saga which she said has denied the country millions of cedis. Money she said could have been used to solve urgent problems. “We are saying to the NDC that we see you alright…you want us to see you, we see you but we see incompetence, and useless president ,we see you but we see corruption, we see you but we see bad management, we see you but we see bad governance, we see you but we want change, we see you but we want Ghana to move forward…” she observed. She said together with other youth and well-meaning Ghanaians, they have taken a decision that Ghana needs “an incorruptible leader, we need a competent leader, we need a selfless leader, we need a visionary leader, a leader with good judgment and a leader who loves the country than he loves his pockets.”
Panky 7 years ago

JJ can never denounce the NDC even though he knows the party is rotten to the teeth. Unlike Obasanjo who openly campaigned against the party he formed JJ will pretend to remain neutral even though he is fully aware that the N ...
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JJ can never denounce the NDC even though he knows the party is rotten to the teeth. Unlike Obasanjo who openly campaigned against the party he formed JJ will pretend to remain neutral even though he is fully aware that the NDC and Mahama cannot deliver. This tells you that JJ is only here to deceive.
Mahmoud 7 years ago

Mr. Accountability or Junior Judas was a con-man brutal Killer in the recent history of Ghana. He used to kill and flock women in public for petty profiteering but secretly collecting millions of corrupt dollars from Abacha a ...
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Mr. Accountability or Junior Judas was a con-man brutal Killer in the recent history of Ghana. He used to kill and flock women in public for petty profiteering but secretly collecting millions of corrupt dollars from Abacha and co.
KWAME 7 years ago

TRUE IT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE BLACK RACE

TRUE IT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE BLACK RACE
DEAR 7 years ago

WESTERN DEMOCRACY WAS FOISTED DOWN OUR THROAT.

GHANA WAS BETTER UNDER SOCIALISM UNDER NKRUMAH IN TERMS OF BREAD-AND-BUTTER ISSUES EG MASSIVE EMPLOYMENT,DIGNITY OF THE BLACK MAN, EDUCATION, BETTER WELFARE OF CITIZENS.

M ...
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WESTERN DEMOCRACY WAS FOISTED DOWN OUR THROAT.

GHANA WAS BETTER UNDER SOCIALISM UNDER NKRUMAH IN TERMS OF BREAD-AND-BUTTER ISSUES EG MASSIVE EMPLOYMENT,DIGNITY OF THE BLACK MAN, EDUCATION, BETTER WELFARE OF CITIZENS.

MOREOVER, SOCIALISM WAS CONSISTENT WITH OUR CULTURE OF LOVE FOR OUR NEIGHBOUR.
THE CAPITALISM WE ARE PRACTICING IS PROMOTING INDIVIDUALISM, SELFISHNESS AND LUST FOR MONEY.

WE ARE SUFFERING NOW AND WE ARE NOSTALGIC OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS UNDER NKRUMAH.

SOME PEOPLE CLAIM WE ARE NOW ENJOYING FREEDOM BUT HOW DO WE ENJOY FREEDOM WITH NO FOOD ON THE TABLE.
KWASHIE ADJAH 7 years ago

RAWLINGS HATES BEING EXPOSED ABOUT HIS CORRUPTION IN THE ABACHA US$5 MILLION AND WERE IT NOT FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA AND SPEEECH THE ABACHA ISSUE WOULD HAVE BEEN HIDDEN FOR LIFE, BUT FOR THE EXPOSURE, RAWLINGS NOW HATES DEMOCRAC ...
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RAWLINGS HATES BEING EXPOSED ABOUT HIS CORRUPTION IN THE ABACHA US$5 MILLION AND WERE IT NOT FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA AND SPEEECH THE ABACHA ISSUE WOULD HAVE BEEN HIDDEN FOR LIFE, BUT FOR THE EXPOSURE, RAWLINGS NOW HATES DEMOCRACY THE MORE. JOHN MAHAMA WAS ALSO EXPOSED BY INVESGATIVE JOURNALISM OF MANASSEH AZURE OF THE FORD EXPEDITION. IN A DICTATORSHIP, AZURE WOULD BEEN JAILED AT LEAST JALIED AND AT WORST ARRESTED AND KILLED. RAWLINGS, ONCE SAID HE DOES NOT LIKE DEMOCRACY AND HE HAS CONFIRMED IT. THANKS TO DEMOCRACY, GHANA WILL MAKE PROGRESS AND PROSPER AND ALL EVIL ACTS BY OUR POLITICAL LEADERS WILL BE EXPOSED, BECAUSE OF THE FREEDOMS ENSHRINED IN THE GHANA CONSTITUTION. IF YOU ARE NOT CORRUPT, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR. RAWLINGS BUILT A PARTY WHICH IS A CRIMINAL ORGANISATION IN PRACTICE, LOOTING GHANA'S NATIONAL RESOURCES OVER A TWENTY EIGHT YEAR LONG WASTED RULE IN GHANA. VOTE THESE NDC THUGS, THIEVES AND LIARS OUT IN 2016, TO SAVE GHANA FROM DOOM, GLOOM AND DESTRUCTION.
Anane 7 years ago

This is the first time I will agree with the former President Rawlings. Two days ago I was thinking about the same thing. It looks as if we Africans can not think for ourselves. We had our form of democracy when the white man ...
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This is the first time I will agree with the former President Rawlings. Two days ago I was thinking about the same thing. It looks as if we Africans can not think for ourselves. We had our form of democracy when the white man came to our land. And that is why they found it very difficult initially to colonize us until they cunningly trick the Fantis to get us sign the bond of 1844 and they used that to enslave us. Let us disentangle ourselves from this evil, divided corrupt democracy. I hope Mr. Rawlings will lead a movement to tear apart the western democracy that is destroying our pure way of life.
.......... 7 years ago

always pretending to be blameless when all the mess started with him! nonsense!

always pretending to be blameless when all the mess started with him! nonsense!
TULA 7 years ago

JJ Rawlings should criticising 'western democracy' because there is no alternative ; to this form of governance today ; which governance does does JJ Rawlings want Ghana to adopt ; is it the soviet type socialist governance ; ...
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JJ Rawlings should criticising 'western democracy' because there is no alternative ; to this form of governance today ; which governance does does JJ Rawlings want Ghana to adopt ; is it the soviet type socialist governance ; the china type democracy or or own chiftancy autocratic governance ; JJ Rawlings should be told that he is a corrupt man and a stiller using democracy as means to wreck Ghana and still in the past ; apart from the dynamics of democracy what alternative method governance is there today which allows the individual to express their views; the Soviet Union today is a socialist state with virtualy one party ; China is a one party state with no democracy ;Norway ; Germany are all socialist democratic states ; who apply proper democratic governance to manage their countries ;WHAT OTHER GOVERNANCE IS THERE THAT RAWLINGS PROPOSES : OR CHIEFTANCE SYSTEM IN GHAMA IS AUTOCRATIC AND A FRAUD WITH THESE SO CALLED CHIEFS SELECTED BY LUCK OF BIRTH ; today even chiefs in Ghana are doing politics ;JJ Rawlings is WRONG !!!!!!!!; western democracy is not suffcating us ; it is rather Ghanaians who are failing to apply demcratic governance to help us ; we cheat and still and JJ Rawlings is part of this cheating cabal as an ewe man ; why did he accept the Abacha $5 million cash now he says it is $2million WHICH IS WHICH and did he tell Ghanaians because under any democratic governance JJ Rawlings was suppose to have told Ghanaians about the cash ; but he did tell Ghanaians so who is this ewe/ayigbe stiller and a murderer attempting to full and which tribe in Ghana are the most kriminall minded people ; IT IS EWES AND SO WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT !!!!!!!!!JJ RAWLINGS GHANA HAS MOVED ON MER RAWLINGS !!!!!
ROSEMARY 7 years ago

NDC_WITHOUT_JJ IS LIKE ARMED ROBBERS IN SUIT ruling Ghanaians and duping Ghana big time through contract sole sourcing which has been used to inflate project costs and share the loot later with contractor cronies... .. NDC is ...
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NDC_WITHOUT_JJ IS LIKE ARMED ROBBERS IN SUIT ruling Ghanaians and duping Ghana big time through contract sole sourcing which has been used to inflate project costs and share the loot later with contractor cronies... .. NDC is pure evil and pure incompetence..... Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party’s running mate to Nana Akufo-Addo, has remarked that the John Mahama government seems to be more committed to themselves and schemes that will make their pockets fatter than in delivering on their core mandate of developing the nation and reducing the hardships of the people.

Dr Bawumia observed that this seems to be the reason why there is always money for scandalous schemes and projects that obviously end up enriching officials and cronies of the government, but there is always none when it comes to money for development and social investment.

Nana Akufo-Addo’s running mate made the comments in Offinso in the Ashanti Region on the first day of his three-day tour of the region.

He said “the NDC came to meet a debt of GHS9.5billion, which had been accrued from1957 to 2008, but in only 8 years the NDC has moved our debt from GHS9.5billion to GHS110 billion. 90% of Ghana’s debt has, therefore, been accrued just in these last eight years. Again, when one sums up all the taxes and loans, the NPP accrued onlyGHS20 billion for all the work we did. The NDC in eight years have had GHS248 billion from loans and taxes.”

Dr. Bawumia wondered why after so much resources, the NDC had still succeeded in making times hard for the ordinary Ghanaian and ended up collapsing almost all social intervention programmes.

“Despite all these resources, however, this government cannot pay what it has to pay to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), it cannot sustain the School Feeding Programme, National Youth Employment Programme or Free Maternal Care programme; they have cancelled Teacher Training and Nursing Training Allowances, they are owing contractors and cannot pay the School Feeding Grants too,” he said.
lrn 7 years ago

ahhhh had it not been for these ewes we would have a peaceful and stable nation! it seems like these inward-looking ewes were brought to be a thorn in our flesh! one-way ndc voter and haters of everything Akan!

ahhhh had it not been for these ewes we would have a peaceful and stable nation! it seems like these inward-looking ewes were brought to be a thorn in our flesh! one-way ndc voter and haters of everything Akan!
Kay 7 years ago

How can a durbar and installation be offensive? How have they offended you by this act?

How can a durbar and installation be offensive? How have they offended you by this act?
abc 7 years ago

Ghanaians have realized you ewes don't belong here! you have complete different cultural values which don't fit into the bigger picture of the nation! your attitudes towards non-ewes, nyebro favourtism at workplaces, juju to ...
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Ghanaians have realized you ewes don't belong here! you have complete different cultural values which don't fit into the bigger picture of the nation! your attitudes towards non-ewes, nyebro favourtism at workplaces, juju to eliminate competition at workplaces and also in marriages, one-way ndc voting, stark hatred for Akans and resourceful regions, etc, etc,.. this is what the majority of Ghanaians have noticed about you and it's better you keep out of all Akan, Ga and northerner regions and just handle your business in volta region if you want to maintain that ewe herd mentality status quo!
Koat 7 years ago

Asshole you are the reasons the NPP needs to remain in perpetual opposition cos your head aint right. If you have access to power you will do what the Hutus did in Rwanda. By the way the other tribes aint down with your Akan ...
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Asshole you are the reasons the NPP needs to remain in perpetual opposition cos your head aint right. If you have access to power you will do what the Hutus did in Rwanda. By the way the other tribes aint down with your Akan supremacist views esp the Gas and Northners and im speaking with authority.
ROSEMARY 7 years ago

Blame JOHNMAHAMA for receiving Ford vehicle bribe from the Burkinabe contractor in order for the Burkinabe to enjoy contract sole sourcing which has been used to inflate project costs and share the loot later with contractor ...
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Blame JOHNMAHAMA for receiving Ford vehicle bribe from the Burkinabe contractor in order for the Burkinabe to enjoy contract sole sourcing which has been used to inflate project costs and share the loot later with contractor cronies.. ... don't blame western democracy at all at all at all...
Senior citizen BS ,Germany. 7 years ago

Mr Rawlings still believes in taking power by force with the barrel of the gun and nulstagic of what he did to become one of the ex presidents in Ghana.The white man made him semiwhite and took advantage of his semi light col ...
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Mr Rawlings still believes in taking power by force with the barrel of the gun and nulstagic of what he did to become one of the ex presidents in Ghana.The white man made him semiwhite and took advantage of his semi light colour and used some of the disgruntled other men of Ghana Army to distabilise or kick against the law and other of our Nation and forced himself to become president in our country.It would be better if he would keep his mouth shut against the wastern democracy which has made him what he is today.
Kwame 7 years ago

Hate the man but don't hate the message. The white man is marrying dogs and pigs in the name of democracy does that mean the black man or the Arab should adopt the same even if it goes against our culture? That's what papa ja ...
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Hate the man but don't hate the message. The white man is marrying dogs and pigs in the name of democracy does that mean the black man or the Arab should adopt the same even if it goes against our culture? That's what papa jay is talking about but sadly the hate in your heart towards the man has clouded your judgment.
Teahiabuah 7 years ago

You paternal parents brought them to us in Gold Coast.

You paternal parents brought them to us in Gold Coast.
Kante 7 years ago

Rawlings must go on TV and apologise to all Ghanaians for creating greedy bastards.

Rawlings must go on TV and apologise to all Ghanaians for creating greedy bastards.
NII 7 years ago

Some one should tell JJ that his inability to finish what he started led ghana to where it is today. He started a genuine agenda to get ghana and its people out of a quagmire a course which every body in ghana at that time ha ...
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Some one should tell JJ that his inability to finish what he started led ghana to where it is today. He started a genuine agenda to get ghana and its people out of a quagmire a course which every body in ghana at that time hail him as junior Jesus an exemplary conduct worthy of emulation. but what did we see at the end of his short lived revolution, his own wife so power conscious and drunk with power started doing things in the negative by following money every where. she posed as an anti corruption campaigner but ended been corrupt to the core. bought properties left right centre, hence left JJ with no other choice than to accept Western democracy what today he of all people speaks against. JJ you brought western democracy to us I mean we ghanaians and today you have seen the negative impact it brought to us. see castro and a few revolutionists and see how till today they are revered like demi gods by their people. Even the whole America was on her knees asking cuba to forgive her for underrating a good revolutionist. You lost it when you accepted Democracy into our country. NO wonder today all your noises go no where. BETTER SHUT UP AND DONT REMIND US OF YOUR MISTAKES. OK
joe,boston 7 years ago

Unfortunately, I agree with Rawlings. There are basic rights and freedoms under "democracy" which are universal. Other than that we have to tailor democracy to "fit" us with tradition in mind.

Unfortunately, I agree with Rawlings. There are basic rights and freedoms under "democracy" which are universal. Other than that we have to tailor democracy to "fit" us with tradition in mind.
MaKaMaKa 7 years ago

You like Post.Power Drunk?

You like Post.Power Drunk?
EKOW PHOBIA 7 years ago

I agree and have always said it. It does not suit us because of our norms and culture.
It has negative impact on Africa where funds are scarce and majority of our people are poor. The playing feild is never equal. Wh ...
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I agree and have always said it. It does not suit us because of our norms and culture.
It has negative impact on Africa where funds are scarce and majority of our people are poor. The playing feild is never equal. Where people will always sell their electoral suffrage because of hunger and the same people will remain in the political cycle.
NDC Therapist 7 years ago

After converting from a military despot to a respected civilian President, and enjoy the fruits of democracy and protection under a constitution Mr. Rawlings is turning round to condemn the system he installed because others ...
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After converting from a military despot to a respected civilian President, and enjoy the fruits of democracy and protection under a constitution Mr. Rawlings is turning round to condemn the system he installed because others have taken over. Fortunately he can huff and puff but will continue go live under a Western Style democracy. If he likes he can stay at Anlo and enjoy his new status as a traditional.leader.
BogaListo 7 years ago

That's Why I Love Rawlings. Ghanaians will wait for him to die before they will Know and See The good things he did for Ghana.

#EvilAmericanDemocracy

That's Why I Love Rawlings. Ghanaians will wait for him to die before they will Know and See The good things he did for Ghana.

#EvilAmericanDemocracy
lala 7 years ago

yes we have to change it. it will not help us

yes we have to change it. it will not help us
RABBI 7 years ago

J.J is rights, he only spoken the truth but not a lie

J.J is rights, he only spoken the truth but not a lie
RABBI 7 years ago

J.J was rights, he only spoken the truth but not a lie

J.J was rights, he only spoken the truth but not a lie

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