Meet the Ghanaian Head of State who constructed football pitches in all regional and district capitals

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  • Brigadier Sabari v.2 1 year ago

    Yet the same Ghanaians crucified him and labelled all disparaging lies against him leading to his brutal cold murder. No we hail him as the best thing since sliced bread. H.E Nana Addo is going through the same myopic ungrate ...
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  • Vituperation 1 year ago

    Okay, please refresh us on 3 things that H.E Nana Addo has done that are significant for Ghana since I am one of the myopic ungrateful folks. Thank you Brigadier

  • ODENEHO 1 year ago

    Agenda 111 , 320 ambulances, Almighty School Feeding Programme. Satisfied?

  • Kotoko 1 year ago

    Idiot!
    Period!!

  • Paa Kwesi 1 year ago

    And so what. When we were deceived to chant let the blood flow didn't we know his good works. Why did we allow our emotions to mislead. He was disgraced, shot and buried in a mass grave. ;Now you know why we are still jinxed.

  • Leroy 1 year ago

    That is a lie!! Kutu Acheampong was betrayed and stabbed in the back by his own trusted colleagues in government led by General Frederick Akuffo. Ignorance is a deadly disease that is destroying our society and our people

  • Nana Kwaku 1 year ago

    We were told when we were young that late Gen I.K. Acheampong was an illiterate.I never knew he was a trained teacher b4 entering the military.Infact he went to the Military College meaning he was far intelligent than late JJ ...
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  • CORNEY 1 year ago

    That’s a lie, Acheampong only attended a commercial school, he was NOT a trained teacher.
    What are you thinking to compare him to a combat pilot, do you what it takes to become a pilot let alone a combat pilot?

  • Deji 1 year ago

    Brother come again.For your information, Achesampong was headmaster of a commercial school around eastern region before venturing into military

  • DS 1 year ago

    Do you also know what it takes to become a military general?

  • Eugene Selorm Owusu 1 year ago

    Acheampong actually promoted himself from a "Colonel" to a "General"...

  • Kwasi 1 year ago

    Kwaku that's a typical stereotype for the Asante people. To this date some people think Asantes are illiterate. Anytime I hear such ignorant comment I just laugh and walk away.

  • Twum 1 year ago

    Which training college did he attend? A pupil teacher.
    Acheampong is the worst military leader Ghana ever had. Clueless about anything that is to do with leading a nation. What was his reason for overthrowing Busia who trai ...
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  • KK 1 year ago

    He attended the then Central College of Commerce at Agona Swedru in the Central Region of Ghana. Acheampong worked as a stenographer/secretary at Timber Sawmill in Kumasi and later taught at Kumasi Commercial College, wher ...
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  • Yaa 1 year ago

    It was commercial school instead

  • Yaa Yaa 1 year ago

    Brooo that is Ghana for you is ut any wonder they are where they are?
    The challenge is my age mates,The Gen Z we are the suddenly people we dont understand the sacrifices our Elders made for us.
    we insult we denigrate them ...
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  • Issah Nuhu 1 year ago

    Biggest or largest swimming pool costing over 50 million dollars, 12 million dollars wasted at Pwalugu just to mention a few

  • JK, Atlanta 1 year ago

    Any leader who doesn’t stop galamsay, which is destroying all the fresh water bodies, and who doesn’t build quality modern highways, at least three lanes each direction, is an abject failure.

  • Leroy 1 year ago

    No that is a lie!! Kutu Acheampong was betrayed and stabbed in the back by his own trusted colleagues in government led by General Frederick Akuffo. Ignorance is a deadly disease that is destroying our society and our people

  • Senga 1 year ago

    Don’t ever compare Acheampong’s great achievements in almost ALL sectors with the DISMAL & DISAPPOINTING performances of the incompetent and corrupt Akufo Addo!

  • Fireman 1 year ago

    You call that animal and a thief His Excellency. You must be mad. Even no body should deserve the title apart from God bcos they are not demigods.

  • Emma osew 1 year ago

    Write your comment when you are in power people don,t see your acheivement when you leave office they will start to remmember the good work. The same thing they will remember our current president the excelency nana addo akuf ...
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  • Akwasi Boateng 1 year ago

    Kutu was more visionary, he understood self reliance and homegrown development. He didn’t borrow from IMF and suspended payments on our loans, he imposed strict currency controls and we had food surpluses due to OFY. His ru ...
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  • Koofi 1 year ago

    Kutu ruled for 6 uninterrupted years. I am not sure it was that short.

  • Nana Kwaku 1 year ago

    Perfectly right he never took any foreign loan,again we became food sufficient country under his regime and even exported a lot of cereals.He also did massive expansion in our secondary schools and universities.

  • JOE WASSA 1 year ago

    Did well an better than all the governments after him.

  • Paa K 1 year ago

    Ghanaian history has not been sincere to this man. For me her was the next after Nkrumah to have tried carve the Ghanaian identity but we tried all w could to tarnish his image. We did to Nkrumah, Acheampong and recently Maha ...
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  • ZK 1 year ago

    There was a serious economic crises during his time and rumors that he was corrupt whether true or not ended his government

  • Johnny,Oyarifa -Madina 1 year ago

    He had a serious foreign exchange crisis bcoz he refused to borrow thus the country could not import foreign goods.But I believed in his consumer what we produced idea,if we had carried that idea forward Ghana would have been ...
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  • What..!!!!!!!! 1 year ago

    Bra why ? you made a very profound statement mentioning good peoples name but why adding a Whimsical Desprate Politrician MAHAMA name to spoil it?

  • NDC NPP SAME DEVIL 1 year ago

    Just tell Mohammed Kudus to leave westham immediately ,reasons; 1.the manager does not like him 1 bit 2. ...ham ...ham clubs do not favour ghanaian footballers

  • Ackah blay. 1 year ago

    General Acheampongs love for sports, and the development of it, was unexampled in the history of Ghana. To give more meaning to it's development, he retained the position as the commissioner of sports with colonel Sempe Asant ...
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  • Dadeako 1 year ago

    We need a militaryman not npp and ndc

  • Kwame 1 year ago

    I'm sure you're young so you didn't know how corrupt a military government could be. The military with their guns have plundered the resources of this nation than any civilian government. Lands were appropriated. Business,. M ...
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  • NATIONAL DEMONIC CONGRESS ( NDC) 1 year ago

    You need a military man you had Rawshit with nineteen excruciating painful wasted evil years his legacy is our present predicament. He trained THIEVES AND MURDERERS ( NDC)who have become serious heavy burden for innocent Gha ...
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  • Konkontibaa 1 year ago

    Acheapong built the Dansoman Estate, Mataheko Police Barracks and more infrastructures but they tag him with Kalabule, Fawoto begyie Golf and sorts of n9nsense, Rawlings 19years was to form a CRIMINAL PARTY (NDC) without a si ...
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  • Acheampong did his bit 1 year ago

    Built the tall block at KATH which we haven't completed till this day. Built Weija dam, Dawhenya irrigation system, Kaneshie Market and Estate which serves us till this day.

  • ST GHFUO: GH LEADERS ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED 1 year ago

    i live in one of those dansoman estates at kofi and ama last stop and then also at atico junction police quarters. how many estates did drool mouf akuffu addo build? ask bazooka breasted serwaa bibini

  • CORNEY 1 year ago

    That’s a lie, he didn’t build parks in all the regions, blatant lie by a so called historian.
    He should show us the parks, the stadiums he built in the districts and regions.

  • It's Not True 1 year ago

    I admire Acheampong but it's never true that he constructed football pitches in ALL REGIONAL AND DISTRICT CAPITALS. I'm from Takyiman and I know of the Ameyaw Park which was constructed at Nkrumah"s time. There is no any othe ...
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  • COD 1 year ago

    Ex-Head of State Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, could have led Ghana to improve massively , but he was too neck-deep into women, especially, beautiful looking ones. He lost his dreams & focus for Ghana because of women. The women ...
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  • Senga 1 year ago

    Clearly Gen Acheampong is the best Head of State Ghana has had AFTER Osagyefo Dr kwame Nkrumah! As for Liman & Mills they couldn’t finish their terms for evaluation. The other heads of state are typical Africans- CORRUPT & ...
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  • My second best 1 year ago

    My second best head of state after Kwame Nkrumah

  • John 1 year ago

    As a country we shall be where are. What we know is back bitting, jealousy, evy and tribalism. That's the black man fool for you. While the white man ( Obroni ) is planning to manufacture a car to fly ease traffic the black m ...
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  • Jungler 1 year ago

    And his prize was a brutal and cruel murder by some irresponsible people through whose arms today we have an evil band of people called the NDC.
    General, you'll be forever in the hearts and minds of all sincere Ghanaians.
    R ...
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  • Mike. 1 year ago

    General Acheampong renovated Accra and Kumasi sports stadium and not stadia for all regions and districts. Let's be factual.He constructed Kaneshie market ,Dansoman Estate and probably Kaneshie sports complex. Most pa ...
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  • Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 1 year ago

    Acheampong attended Swadru Commercial college before he joined the military, he is far better done Akuffo Addo and Bawumia put together, he was able to handle the IMF with his military tactics, he didn't use galamsey money to ...
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  • JK, Atlanta 1 year ago

    What pitches? You need at least three modern football stadiums, and stop patching those archaic rotten metal structures you call stadiums. Look at Rwanda, look at Ivory Coast, look at Morocco, Senegal, Mali… You call yours ...
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  • DrGabe 1 year ago

    Did he do so using his own earned money? Investigate his record along with the records of others like him!

  • FOOTBALL PITCHES? 1 year ago

    Show me. "ALL" is a strong word to use.
    I see many half completed projects, run down projects, and many that were designated but never started.
    Stop building people up for should have done but didn't projects.
    The old sa ...
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  • Kenneth Sarpong Anaafi 1 year ago

    General Acheampong was far better than these PHD holders, judging from, agriculture, sports, health, housing, transport etc,my goodness is Ghana for sale or what, I cry each day when I see our rivers, lands, and forests bring ...
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  • Gold Coast 1 year ago

    He did more that his demonic murderer

    Tsikaka was part of hi

  • Kwasi 1 year ago

    Remember Acheampong inherited better economy but messed up. The cedi was strong and the rate of inflation was zero. When asked why he made the coup he stated "Even the few amenities the soldiers were enjoying during NLC was c ...
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  • Twum 1 year ago

    Acheampong should be convicted even in his grave.
    Acheampong overthrew Dr. Busia with no apparent reason and plunged Ghana into the most catastrophic economic disaster. He turned Ghana into a beggar nation. Thanks to JJ who ...
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  • Baba 1 year ago

    With no intention to belittle the Late Chairman K, could the writer please point out the stadia Acheampong built in the regional capitals apart from expansion and renovation of the Kumasi and accrAccra Facilities.

  • Gbeh Agbo 1 year ago

    Acheampong had so many girlfriends, it was his time bottom power came into our dictionary. He was a better president than our current corrupt president. Rawlings achieved more than any president apart from Nkrumah. The democr ...
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  • Senga 1 year ago

    At the time the corrupt civilian politicians wanted to come and chop! So they EXAGGERATED the shortcomings of Kutu for a regime overthrow! Acheampong is the best head of state after the great kwame Nkrumah!!!!!!

  • Benjamin thr truth teller 1 year ago

    Hmm.we tha Ga's have kept quiete listening to you the ashanti's or Alan's insulting each other anywhere you meet !
    Oh is this a case where you have should attack one another? .
    Where is Acheapong today who you mean was not ...
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  • Shanunu Mohammed 1 year ago

    What a shame Ghana can’t host it games due to poor stadiums that do not meet international standards

  • Kofi 1 year ago

    When you Ghanaians stop insulting our leaders current or past. Let's to be fair and balance in our commentary
    Col. IK Acheampong attended Swedru School of Business but in the military when you joined you given the appropri ...
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  • Pk 1 year ago

    Yet, killed by messiah's who later owned mansions and drives expensive cars.

  • Nuhu 1 year ago

    May God bless his soul, Good president, Ghanaians will always remember you, a man of soccer.

  • Nicman 1 year ago

    You will only be praised when you are dead in Ghana. Land of the dead