Akufo-Addo’s magic wand faces a potential dilemma of epic proportions [1]

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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 7 years ago

Please Prof. Kwarteng,

Can you help me to understand your exact thesis in this article.

"I can't think far."

Please Prof. Kwarteng,

Can you help me to understand your exact thesis in this article.

"I can't think far."
Baba Farouk, PhD. 7 years ago

Brother never have point or thesis; and even if he ever has one, he introduces irrelevant materials and elaborations to render his writings vague and incoherent. I wish he accepts these built-in weaknesses in his writings and ...
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Brother never have point or thesis; and even if he ever has one, he introduces irrelevant materials and elaborations to render his writings vague and incoherent. I wish he accepts these built-in weaknesses in his writings and improve upon them.
ADJOA WANGARA 7 years ago

READ THE BIRD_BRAIN KWARTENG'S LAST SILLY & STUPID SENSELESS PARAGRAPH, WHICH SAY:
"Is the Ghanaian leadership truly capable of sustainable—rather than cosmetic—change, of patriotically loving the nation and its beautifu ...
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READ THE BIRD_BRAIN KWARTENG'S LAST SILLY & STUPID SENSELESS PARAGRAPH, WHICH SAY:
"Is the Ghanaian leadership truly capable of sustainable—rather than cosmetic—change, of patriotically loving the nation and its beautiful, hardworking masses without a creeping sense of moral equivocation"?

Kwarteng, tell us the meaning of this nonsense! ...don't forget to constantly take your medication and go to bed as early as possible daily to recreate your already dented brain and as well as your entire cogitating faculty which is seriously at stake.

We are of the opinion your imbecility has confirmed your insanity.
AUTHENTIC ANDY-K 7 years ago

Kabiretas SAS and Baba Farouk,

I shouldn't be surprised by your remarks, similar to giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it. Shame on you that you couldn't bring yourselves to appreciate the complex issues Nyebro Yao h ...
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Kabiretas SAS and Baba Farouk,

I shouldn't be surprised by your remarks, similar to giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it. Shame on you that you couldn't bring yourselves to appreciate the complex issues Nyebro Yao has raised in this excellent piece but rather chose to join the scumbags and low lifes that delight in stealing others names to write scurrilous and insulting things on Ghanaweb.

Yes, he touched on many issues which might appear to the undiscerning mind to be quite independent of each other and not interrelated; but they are directly and symbiotically and more.

The sytle may be said to be ecletic but it helps to capture the multitude of causes or problems that undergird the underdevt conumdrum and failure to change that is the theme of the article. What hinders change in Ghana? A whole gamut of things and Nyebro Yao captures as many as possible within this script. I love it. He didn't even miss the fake clergy and slimy snake oil sellers now hobnobbing and schmoozing with the powers that be in both the NDC and NPP.

Andy-K
Francis kwarteng 7 years ago

Nyebro Yao,

Happy holidays to you and your family.

My regards to Efo Solo as well.

And as for those stealing your moniker (as well as mine, Prof Lungu, Dr. Bokor), like Adjoa Wangara, I have long ceased paying them ...
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Nyebro Yao,

Happy holidays to you and your family.

My regards to Efo Solo as well.

And as for those stealing your moniker (as well as mine, Prof Lungu, Dr. Bokor), like Adjoa Wangara, I have long ceased paying them attention.

In fact I do not write for such readers anyway, so you can rest assured that I will not read their comments let alone respond to them. Doing so will be a complete waste of my time.

Finally, your commentary on the question of internal structural symbiosis regarding the issues I explore in this article is well on point.

I do not have to explain this to any reader because it is all there in this straightforward essay.

So, those who have a problem grasping the question of thematic symbiosis may have to take a look at your comments and those of OKRO MUFF, which I do think is a difficult task.

Thanks.
C.Y. ANDY-Kwawukume 7 years ago

Kwarteng, you stooping from day to day very low and deep with your senseless write-ups!

Kwarteng, you stooping from day to day very low and deep with your senseless write-ups!
The Concerned Pundit 7 years ago

Kwarteng is not a professor. Let him come out and repudiate my claim.

Kwarteng is not a professor. Let him come out and repudiate my claim.
GFrostK @ KWARTENG 7 years ago

LEARN TO CONSTRUCT BETTER SENTENCES AND WITH FEWER WORDS THAT NEED TO BE CHECKED BEFORE A CLASS ONE GIRL UNDERSTANDS YOUR POINT. YOU FAILED TO IMPRESS MANY HERE.

LEARN TO CONSTRUCT BETTER SENTENCES AND WITH FEWER WORDS THAT NEED TO BE CHECKED BEFORE A CLASS ONE GIRL UNDERSTANDS YOUR POINT. YOU FAILED TO IMPRESS MANY HERE.
Kojo T 7 years ago

Private sector? In Ghana we think small .But in the West that sector was built on the back of slave labor.Who wants to be a slave in Ghana and why did it not happen under Busia and Kufour .Just lo ...
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Private sector? In Ghana we think small .But in the West that sector was built on the back of slave labor.Who wants to be a slave in Ghana and why did it not happen under Busia and Kufour .Just looting .How do we implement the 1 district 1 factory .There is NO magic wand but hard work and REORGANISATION of the country from organized chaos to orderliness .That last part is the obstacle any one in power faces .Of course you need capital and where is the capital? 25% interest rate?
Dr. J.K. Bokor 7 years ago

Kojo T., I hope all is well with you as my Ewe brother. What I am reading from you is distasteful and embarrassing.

Kojo T., I hope all is well with you as my Ewe brother. What I am reading from you is distasteful and embarrassing.
Okro Muff 7 years ago

In what way is the much-trumpeted "private sector as the engine of growth" commendable, given the history of the abysmal failure of its implementation by all the political entities that have come to power since 1966 but espe ...
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In what way is the much-trumpeted "private sector as the engine of growth" commendable, given the history of the abysmal failure of its implementation by all the political entities that have come to power since 1966 but especially the NDC and NPP administrations?

Call it what you may, we have only known the most corrupt, inept, and predatory crony capitalism under the two vultures of ghanaian politics. And, of course, a crony capitalism subservient to all the neocolonial dictates of foreign powers and their exploiter companies from Vodafone to Tullow to Queiroz Galvao. P/NDC and NPP have created all the multi-millionaires and billionaires out of thin air. Nobody started with their own capital. It's either fraudulent, inflated government contracts at best or no contract judgment debt schemes a la Woyome at worst. Kennedy Adjapong, Asiedu Nketia, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Mahama, Kwesi Botchwey (your ultimate bureaucratic capitalist) - none of them can prove hard work, the old-fashioned way made them millionaires. What employment bonanza have any of our kleptocrats brought to the nation? Are the university graduates finding jobs in the de-industrialized Ghana that Botchwey and others helped to achieve in the 90s?

Those who deserve to be commended are the struggling market women and the much-harassed street vendors who created their own jobs, with their own capital, without any bank loans or institutional support of any kind! No commendation to any crooked politician whose past record justifies none!
Francis kwarteng 7 years ago

A BIG THANK YOU FOR A SUPERB SUMMARY.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

A BIG THANK YOU FOR A SUPERB SUMMARY.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

We agree with much of what Okro Muff has laid down.

If history will continue to be a guide, it's gonna be a mighty rocky road for Akufo-Addo.

However, we do not think that Ghanaian society is "extremely polarized", if D ...
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We agree with much of what Okro Muff has laid down.

If history will continue to be a guide, it's gonna be a mighty rocky road for Akufo-Addo.

However, we do not think that Ghanaian society is "extremely polarized", if Donald Trump's America as an example of an "extremely polarized" society.

We agree!

There are lots of contradictions with most elements of Akufo-Addo's plan. Some of those ideas do not make sense in a Unitary Ghana, unless Akufo-Addo intends to destroy same.

So, in the coming weeks and month, we must continue to educate and challenge "the government of the day", and any propaganda machine they may seek to install.

Peace!

Peace!
francis kwarteng 7 years ago

Well said Prof Lungu!

Well said Prof Lungu!
CICER,O 7 years ago

Are you on some hallucination drug? Perhaps LSD or DMT to be writing this gobbledygook of dirge. This not communication, you just trying to self exhibit and you are equally guilty of some of the hollowness and equivocation yo ...
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Are you on some hallucination drug? Perhaps LSD or DMT to be writing this gobbledygook of dirge. This not communication, you just trying to self exhibit and you are equally guilty of some of the hollowness and equivocation you accused others off.
Mate come down to earth and your intellectual high horse and talk common sense if you really want to help your nation and the suffering masses of Ghana.
NPP GURU, GHANAIANS ARE NOT SERIOUS 7 years ago

You are nothing but a stupid fool, instead of you to ask for further explanation since you are never wise , brilliant and has no educational qualification, look at the stupid stuff you are saying

You are nothing but a stupid fool, instead of you to ask for further explanation since you are never wise , brilliant and has no educational qualification, look at the stupid stuff you are saying
Accountability 7 years ago

Kwarteng, why dont you write simple English?

Kwarteng, why dont you write simple English?
C.Y. ANDY-Kwawukume 7 years ago

@ accountability, Francis Kwarteng can't otherwise because he cannot write any sensible article on his own apart from copying and pasting raw shit from the internet.

@ accountability, Francis Kwarteng can't otherwise because he cannot write any sensible article on his own apart from copying and pasting raw shit from the internet.
Sam AIKINS (MPhil MPhil) 7 years ago

I think I truly understand what the writer meant to send across but the choice of words and their weaving into this piece of article is no communication at all. Please, remember that "a good and learned professor is the one w ...
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I think I truly understand what the writer meant to send across but the choice of words and their weaving into this piece of article is no communication at all. Please, remember that "a good and learned professor is the one who makes his writings and speeches as simple as possible even to the understanding of the less educated person." Simplicity is the key.
The Concerned Pundit 7 years ago

Kwarteng is not a professor. If he has any credibility, he'll tell commentators that he is not a professor. Although there's nothing special about being a professor, an honest person, even if he chooses to not disclose his li ...
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Kwarteng is not a professor. If he has any credibility, he'll tell commentators that he is not a professor. Although there's nothing special about being a professor, an honest person, even if he chooses to not disclose his line of work, will quickly correct any falsely assigned professional attributes.

So, Kwarteng, if you're as honest as you want us to believe, come out and tell your readers that you're not a professor, to put the false attribution to rest.
NPP GURU, GHANAIANS ARE NOT SERIOUS 7 years ago

How can GHANAIANS choose a try me too as a president? A DWARF who wants to become a president in Ghana and pay for his huge debts at all costs? GHANA is nothing but a country full of jokes.?????

How can GHANAIANS choose a try me too as a president? A DWARF who wants to become a president in Ghana and pay for his huge debts at all costs? GHANA is nothing but a country full of jokes.?????
Ato 7 years ago

Why didn't you contest the elections? You claim to be intelligent, handsome, affable, tall, rich and famous. You are a nobody who is just pretending to be a somebody

Why didn't you contest the elections? You claim to be intelligent, handsome, affable, tall, rich and famous. You are a nobody who is just pretending to be a somebody
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Atswere 7 years ago

please can we have simple english. too much big words for some of us. thanks

please can we have simple english. too much big words for some of us. thanks
ADANKO 7 years ago

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Ama Densi 7 years ago

Dear author, the point is you want to communicate your thinking effectively to readers but you bury your points in too much wordiness, which make your thesis ineffective. Please come down next time. They say “brevity is the ...
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Samuel Afeku 7 years ago

The writter speakes well in all the diverse of the pivot and really tunes readers mind set to a different face, to say"it make me think far".

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Paa Kwaw 7 years ago

Your ability to properly relay your message to others is the key to communication not stringing together a bunch of big words. I stopped reading after the first three paragraphs

Your ability to properly relay your message to others is the key to communication not stringing together a bunch of big words. I stopped reading after the first three paragraphs

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