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I was nearly lynched in 2003 – Ken Attafuah

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  • Adesa 6 years ago

    Mob Justice is no longer acceptable and IGP is endorsing this on Monday. No more Mob Justice if you dare engage in this you will be lynched yourself.

  • Kwadaso 6 years ago

    Look at the many missteps he has made since becoming IGP.Did he have to be told to increase security for the Delta Force trail?Even in the recent lynching case,the millitary got there way before the Police.Had the Soldiers no ...
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  • Lori 6 years ago

    This dwarf with LAFA would pass for a thief any day.

  • kofi adu 6 years ago

    yes, they saw a thief in perception, realty,and live. you are not lucky. wait to exhale.

  • asem 6 years ago

    why should they think you were the one in the first place? Ghanaians are not intelligent at all and they are not observant too.

  • Selorm 6 years ago

    This is just the beginning. If the so called big men, politicians, chiefs pastors, lawyers, journalists, GFA, judiciary, police, customs and the army don't back away from corruption and their nefarious activities and protect ...
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  • Selorm 6 years ago

    I was also nearly lynched. You guys talk as if you know everything. What did you do to stop it? Now every idiot wants to be in the news and ride behind this tragic occasion to get themselves heard.. Banana republic with educa ...
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  • SCHEMER 6 years ago

    What are you doing yourself to avert recurrence of such calamity? Ken Attafuah doesn't need stories to be heard and become popular. He is a recognized international criminologist and human rights advocate. It is people who ch ...
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  • Koffie 6 years ago

    Thank you prof. You have said it all. I had seen these lyching over 25 years in Nkrumah circle when i was a student at Accra Academy. It was pathetic. Also in accra the murderers spilled out the interstines of the suspect and ...
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  • Kadolneriba - Solmi-tinga 6 years ago

    Koffie, you are thanking the Prof for nothing, he is part of the problem.The Prof should hang his head in shame for not crusading and containing corruption at the top most part of Government. Politicians, Parliamentarians, we ...
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  • Direct Source 6 years ago

    Which university made him a professor? An insecure fool. Another short man with issues.

  • IB 6 years ago

    All of a sudden even lawyer's are coming out with such stories.....is this supposed to down play the barbaric murder of Capt Mahama or what. This is a very weird story from no less a person....Ken. The story just doesn't add ...
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  • Nana Kuffuor. Abeka. La Paz. 6 years ago

    You are now a law professor and a criminologist. Interestingly you are in the most lawless organizations, NPP in the country. What did you do ensure there is peace and transquility in the country? NPP does not understand the ...
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  • Royal 6 years ago

    I always restrain myself from replying you so called Nana Kuffour. I don't support killing of anyone but can you tell me that no innocent person was killed by mobs during NDC regime? A lot of innocent people have been killed ...
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  • Peter 6 years ago

    That was in 1997...I mean the penis shrinking stuff!

  • OBINNA 6 years ago

    THE COUNTRY CAN OVERCOME THIS UNFORTUNATE IMAGE. THE ONLY WAY TO DO THIS IS TO IMPLEMENT THE LAW. PEOPLE CAUGHT UP IN SUCH IRRATIONAL CRIMES MUST BE PUNISHED SEVERLY. PARLIAMENT MUST PASS A SPECIAL LAW TO REGULATE THIS BEHAVI ...
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  • Twupakabro 6 years ago

    Arrant emotional nonsense!

  • Zakariah 6 years ago

    Such lawless behaviors are recent phenomenon and reflect the loss of faith in our law enforcement and judicial system. As corruption has become the mainstay of life and business we take our frustrations on mob violence in our ...
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  • DESSIE 6 years ago

    I alsmost became a mob attack as well at EAST LEGON;on one evrning arriving from KUMASI relaxing and walking around surroung at Acxheapong junction area close to the motorway.I got heckled by wild waging machete holders with ...
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  • DESSIE 6 years ago

    remit the textual errors pls

  • CHE 6 years ago

    Captain Maxwell Mahama died a gruesome, horrific,uncivilised death at the hands of people who do not know how to properly use their brains and every education of our people on the sanctity of life should be mounted by the sta ...
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  • Bobotee 6 years ago

    hahaha its kinda funny

  • Bobotee 6 years ago

    its kinda funny

  • Kweku 6 years ago

    The profs narration is interesting. What l want to know is, what has he done since his ordeal to change this mob action thing. As a prof he is in a better situation to influence the govt or any one or institution that matter ...
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  • Van De Burgh. 6 years ago

    Mr President please wasn't your time as an Attorney General when June 4th was prohibited?with Government condition with immediate effect you should put hold on the June 4th celebration.

  • I don't think so. . 6 years ago

    Attention seeker. He just has to get in there. Im sure they took offence to that irritating and squeaky voice of yours. This is serious business, not an.opportunity for every desperate political wannabe to draw attention to t ...
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  • junior 6 years ago

    Those in the mining towns believe that the more they spill blood the more the gold or whatever mineral they are looking for becomes abundant. This may have also motivated the people to commit such crime.

  • Robert djan 6 years ago

    Every Ghanaian thinks of himself as decent and law abiding and yet the reality is that we are among the most lawless nations in the world,” he said.

  • Van De Burgh. 6 years ago

    Mr president wasn't your time as an Attorney General when June 4th celebration was prohibited?Now what are we seeing?Please,By Government condition with immediate effect you should put hold on the coming June 4th celebration ...
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  • cuuh!. 6 years ago

    Our police are so wicked that they are interested only in taken bribes & turning cases up side down. For this reasons, people prefer giving instant justice than allowing de police to accept bribes & make cases to become fool ...
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  • FANTE MAN Acquah J 6 years ago

    This is some thing that Police Know about it for a long time and as the lawyer said, it is not a new thing in Ghana.People kill thieves or innocent people without any reason and the Police will not do anything about, I arres ...
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  • Peter 6 years ago

    The hypocrisy of Ghanaians as a people! As if this is the first time lynching is taking place. This is not the first and certainly won't be the last because we are hypocrites! One only needs to pray hard to God that he or she ...
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  • Yaw 6 years ago

    In August 2007, my brother, a second year student (first class) of the physics department of KNUST left our town with my father to receive medical treatment for a high fever related condition in Accra before school starts in ...
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  • Zebila donkey Rider 6 years ago

    A 67 year old woman was lynched in a town near Bolga for being accused to be a witch the same day Capt.Maxwell was lynched,no publicity or attention has been given to her death.She is also a human being and has to family in ...
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  • PATAPAA TRUMP 6 years ago

    And we call ourselves a Christian Nation,count around the whole country how many church signboards erected to deceive ourselves as a Christian Nation?Ghana is sinking to a bottomless pit,Lawless, get quick money without sweat ...
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  • Agonaba 6 years ago

    God bless this mighty panel,thanks Attafua Brempong.

  • Ross 6 years ago

    zachaus e short man

  • asem 6 years ago

    this is very true, lawlessness and I wonder how did we get here? or because I use to live in a residential area before l travelled or because l don't cross the path of these wicked people?

  • Observer 6 years ago

    Akuffo Addo urged his followers to kill and maim. His All die be die battle cry is what Ghana is witnessing today.

  • PATAPAA TRUMP 6 years ago

    Because people are talking about the seriousness of lynching after the death of captain Mahama ,the main culprits of lynching people are armed robbers in the country,without eliminating armed robberies the problems will persi ...
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  • joel 6 years ago

    aanyone who has lived in ghana for the pass 25 years knows that this is not new the differences this time is a soldier falling victim if mob action is tackled wholestically and not selective it can never happen again in ghan ...
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  • George Adenta 6 years ago

    We have to accept that Ghanaians we are HYPOCRITES

  • joel 6 years ago

    is simply bcas they can not believe their party lost massively in the past elections secondly they see other peoples live more valuable and superior than the ordinary person on the street pure stupid African mentality

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  • Vasco 6 years ago

    @Prof. Attafuah please don't be an ass..not every Ghanaian is a criminal including your ass self. Most decent Ghanaian's, were ashamed of what happened to the good captain.#stopcriminalize#allghanains..you know better#peace..

  • Sammy 6 years ago

    Yes, I do agree. Ghana is the most lawless country. In fact not only that. We are the most stubborn. And finally, I tend to believe because of our character, the economy is also stubborn. No theory holds for it. ERP1 an2, SAP ...
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  • James 6 years ago

    Hmmm,even the IGP,where was he when the yaa Naa was killed during npp regime at end all the suspects were set free,during the time,nana was the attorney general. Ghanaians could see,for the 5 months what's happening in the co ...
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  • Rayons 6 years ago

    Bad culture in Ghana

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  • Michael K. Tettevi. 6 years ago

    Very senseless citizens delight in mob attack without taking time to see if the victim is right or wrong. Their aim is just to kill and be satisfied. Those who took part in the attack of the late soldier have to be dealt with ...
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  • AAA 6 years ago

    It is not safe in Ghana any more. I live in fear. My heart pulpates each time I try to understand what happened to the captain. I shiver within me. I become restless and loses the energy to do any thing. There is fear every w ...
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