I am perpetually perplexed when so-called learned people cannot debate issues fairly, blithely turning a convenient blind eye at will. When I read unfair and destructive criticisms of this government, I wonder if you think Gh ... read full comment
I am perpetually perplexed when so-called learned people cannot debate issues fairly, blithely turning a convenient blind eye at will. When I read unfair and destructive criticisms of this government, I wonder if you think Ghana should have voted for a party that promoted drug trade, sold off Ghana's properties to themselves and for a president with an incredibly disturbing sexual history. Why don’t you come and run for president? Maybe you can 'vomit' enough real English to simultaneously fix all of Ghana's problems and bore the NDC to death...
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago
GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE YOUR REWARD, ALL GHANAIANS. GO AND PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR FOOLISHNESS. YOU DON'T GIVE A SECOND MANDATE TO AN INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, NO!! NOT AT ALL, THAT IS ABOMINATION IN DEMOCRACY, VERY ... read full comment
GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE YOUR REWARD, ALL GHANAIANS. GO AND PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR FOOLISHNESS. YOU DON'T GIVE A SECOND MANDATE TO AN INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, NO!! NOT AT ALL, THAT IS ABOMINATION IN DEMOCRACY, VERY SUICIDAL. HAD NDC MANAGED THE ECONOMY WELL, THESE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THE SITUATION. NDC HAS PRESIDED OVER THE BIGGEST RESOURCES GHANA HAS EVER HAD. THEY HAVE ALSO CONTRACTED MORE LOANS THAN ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT IN OUR HISTORY, BUT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR THIS. GHANAIANS SHOULD HAVE ENJOYED SOME ECONOMIC PROGRESS AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY. THE ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS SO CORRUPT. TO RESCUE THE SITUATION, THE POOR IS NOW BEING FORCED TO PAY. THIS IS INJUSTICE. THIS IS NOT THE GHANA KUFFOUR HANDED OVER TO NDC, HE EVEN ADDED FRESH CRUDE OIL WELLS. NPP TRANFORMED GHANA TO A MIDDLE INCOME ECONOMY WITH LIMITED RESOURCES BUT GOOD POLICIES. NDC IS WOEFULLY REVERSING THESE NPP ACHIEVEMENTS. GHANA'S CURRENT SITUATION IS VERY DISTURBING. WHEN THE HISTORY IS TOLD, IT WILL BE SAID THAT GHANAIANS WERE OFFERED FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION, IMPROVED UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL HOUSING FOR THE POOR AND AN EGALITARIAN SOCIETY BUT 50% SAID NO THANK YOU. THEY PREFERRED ECONOMIC "WOYOMISATION" , PHANTOM DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, PHILANDERERS FOR LEADERS, MACHIAVELLIAN DISRESPECTFUL CORRUPT LOUTS AND A VISIONLESS EVIL GOVERNMENT. I AM SO PROUD I VOTED FOR NANA AKUFFO ADDO.
Honesty - the best policy! 11 years ago
This is exactly what democracy is all about.You have your choice and I, no matter my level of understanding or education I have the same right to decide for myself.It is not a question of someone being "foolish" and another ... read full comment
This is exactly what democracy is all about.You have your choice and I, no matter my level of understanding or education I have the same right to decide for myself.It is not a question of someone being "foolish" and another "wise". I may not see the good things you see in NPP which thinks it has the most rational thinkers in Ghana.I will however like to retain my dignity as a human being and be respected as such.Unfortunately you and your great thinkers believe that am "foolish". And that is why I would not want to belong to your group because you tend to look down upon me as "foolish". Great thinker are you getting my drift?
Opeimua 11 years ago
There has never been a time in history that an opposition party has been so restless, reckless and self-demeaning as we have today in Ghana. Does the NPP claim they have some heavy funds somewhere to bring into our economy to ... read full comment
There has never been a time in history that an opposition party has been so restless, reckless and self-demeaning as we have today in Ghana. Does the NPP claim they have some heavy funds somewhere to bring into our economy to turn things around overnight? Why are these nation-wreckers thinking they could have done anything better than Prez Mahama and his NDC are doing now? Didn't we witness and experience the rule of NPP in this country?- the gagantuan corruption with Prez Kufuor himself setting the ball rolling by stealing money and buying a hotel in the name of his son? Presiding over the trading in 77x30kg parcels of cocaine and making sure that he corrupted the judiciary for them to do the odds for them? What about the wanton sales of government lands and buildings to themselves at ridiculous prices? Even the crab called Obetsebi is still fighting in the Supreme Court for so he can steal back a government bungallow. Can we count the sins that NPP committed in this country? What magic do they claim they now have? Have they been forgiven by God and the people of this country? If those rogues constituting the NPP have any good ideas, why don't they bring them out instead of engaging in this childish and senseless propaganda? Let these stupid swines understand that Ghanaians voted wisely and brought in the party they wanted. If NPP had come to power, they would have declared the country HIPC again to boost their ego. Ghanaians will no more yield to those tricks any longer. Their so called intellectuals stink with their stupidity. Afterall, even Ken Agyapong and Sir John are regarded as intellectuals by the NPP. What a pity?
Yaw Amofa 11 years ago
You M'ate Meho idiots thun ks you are ordained to rule Ghana; but Ghanaian have seen through arrogant, snobbish seves. You are best in opposition and there you will stay for the next few years.
You M'ate Meho idiots thun ks you are ordained to rule Ghana; but Ghanaian have seen through arrogant, snobbish seves. You are best in opposition and there you will stay for the next few years.
Concerned Citizen 11 years ago
How a Spiritual Leader is Holding his Church members in Bondage
It is very amazing how in this day and age, some people can by acts of nonchalance or ignorance, allow their spiritual leaders to hold them in utter servitude ... read full comment
How a Spiritual Leader is Holding his Church members in Bondage
It is very amazing how in this day and age, some people can by acts of nonchalance or ignorance, allow their spiritual leaders to hold them in utter servitude. I am going to discuss one vivid true case scenario at which I am particularly peeved.
I had prior to election 2012 published an article querying the rationale behind an order issued to the members of the Saviour Church of Ghana (Gyidi K3k33). Their Spiritual leader, Mr. Adusei, for many years a tutor at Kumawu Tweneboah Kodua Secondary School in the late 1960s, issued them the strictest instruction that they all vote en masse for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and John Mahama. Any member he finds not to have voted NDC will be ex-communicated from the church. At any of the polling stations designated for the members of the church, if he found even three votes cast for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) he would order a full investigation into finding those who cast such votes. If the culprits are discovered, they will be sacked from the church.
As members of the church always live together but in seclusion from the rest of the townsfolk, all the votes cast at any such polling station will be 100% from them but no one else. He therefore has the relative ease with which to detect those going against what I call his stringent but completely absurd order, to section or excommunicate the offenders.
I had the chance to talk to some members of this church of which, I was a member myself for about two to three years in the early 1970s. They all told me they were going to vote NDC but could not offer any tangible reasons for why they were eager to vote NDC but not NPP or any of the other opposition parties. I then told each of them I encountered that their unrelenting resolve to vote NDC is subsequent upon an ultimatum issued by their Spiritual Leader, (Master Adusei) to them. Some of them would giggle, but would neither answer me in the affirmative nor in the negative. I wondered how all the "Gyidi K3k33fo3" that I came across held the same bizarre opinion.
Tried as I did to let them see reason, cast their votes depending on their current economic and financial circumstances, they would not budge, but held steadfast onto their "Opanin se" or, "Opanin aka" religious-politico-intellectual servitude.
I am sure their leader has since the era of Rawlings been benefiting immensely from the NDC governments and party. Could it be the backing he received from Rawlings to succeed his uncle, "Opanin Isaac", the founder of the church internationally, that has compelled him to repay the NDC in kind by compelling his followers to do as said above? I understand there was a fierce contest between him and the son of "Opanin" Isaac to succeed the founder when he passed, succumbing to old age. This is just by the way.
Now that President Mahama and his band of Ghanaian version of the "Arabian Ali Baba and his forty thieves" have depleted the coffers of Ghana, are the said "Gyidifo3" not suffering equally as the sensible ones who had opted for a change in government? Is it not only people like their Spiritual Leader who might have received gifts and other financial inducements from the NDC secretly, that are laughing? Are the generality of the "Gyidifo3" better off as their leader who with his six wives and numerous children is living in opulence at Osiam in the Eastern region? I understand whilst almost all the members of his church linger in abject poverty, his children are well educated. Some of his children are Medical Doctors, bankers, and you name it, and are living in the United States and in Europe.
For how long will these "Gyidifo3" wake up from their slumber, wise up, and cease their nonsensical attitudes of "Opanin se" that goes in contrast to common sense? Even if their leader asks them to commit suicide, they all would, in the name of "Opanin se" or "Opanin aka se".
Until they begin to think independently, I declare to them today that they are living the lives of complete slaves. The following lyrics of a song sum up my message to my once fellow "Gidifo3? Poor Slave, Take the shackles from your mind. The destination, of a slave, is still a slave in irony. Of a slave, is still a slave, until he thinks independently? Poor slave, take the shackle from your mind…."
I do not totally blame the "Gyidifo3" for after all their thoughtless en masse obligated voting for the NDC and John Dramani Mahama, the beneficiaries, did not work. The beneficiaries had still to rig the elections to become the governing leaders of Ghana.
God is watching and if indeed the NDC, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan and John Mahama did by even a negligible illegal means influence the results of the election in their favour, then they are in to encounter God's wrath.
Now almost all Ghanaians worldwide are suffering the untold hardships brought to bear upon the nation owing to the unprecedented corruption presided over by the Mills/Mahama cum Mahama/Amissah-Arthur-led NDC governments.
God willing, a solution will be found to the suffering of Ghanaians. Insha' Allah!
Joseph Agyemang 11 years ago
Dear Kwame and Kwasi, I respect both of you gentlemen because you have mother Ghana at heart. Please continue your good works no matter others read underneath your pen, mouthpiece or your computer mouse/keyboard. Most silent ... read full comment
Dear Kwame and Kwasi, I respect both of you gentlemen because you have mother Ghana at heart. Please continue your good works no matter others read underneath your pen, mouthpiece or your computer mouse/keyboard. Most silent admirers will judge you by your works. Now Kwame, my advice to you is come down to the ordinary Ghanaian with your choice of words, I mean the last paragraph of your March 10, 2013 article. To Kwasi I am still watching.
Thanks Gentlemen.
Researcher 11 years ago
ALL WAS WELL WHEN KWESI WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO CHAVEZ TO NEGOTIATE FOR CRUDE OIL. THEN AGAIN HE WAS INCLUDED IN A TEAM OF OBSERVERS THAT WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA PRIOR TO THE WORLD CUP. KWESI, TAKE A TRIP TO BUNSO IN THE E ... read full comment
ALL WAS WELL WHEN KWESI WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO CHAVEZ TO NEGOTIATE FOR CRUDE OIL. THEN AGAIN HE WAS INCLUDED IN A TEAM OF OBSERVERS THAT WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA PRIOR TO THE WORLD CUP. KWESI, TAKE A TRIP TO BUNSO IN THE EASTERN REGION AND YOU WILL SEE THE MASSIVE PROJECTS OF THE EDITOR OF AN NDC NEWSPAPER.
Kwame 11 years ago
Dr. Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe sees nothing wrong with the motto of the ruling class in America that Crush Him If He is Not My Doll. Okoampa Ahoofe you love vindictiveness and it is also the policy of your doll masters, thus all is ... read full comment
Dr. Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe sees nothing wrong with the motto of the ruling class in America that Crush Him If He is Not My Doll. Okoampa Ahoofe you love vindictiveness and it is also the policy of your doll masters, thus all is well with you.
Preacher 11 years ago
Your analysis are good but right now we have already dipped our hands into the ghost food so let us eat and suffer. The poor will be poorer and the rich will continue to be rich. NDC will squeeze us for 2 years and the next 2 ... read full comment
Your analysis are good but right now we have already dipped our hands into the ghost food so let us eat and suffer. The poor will be poorer and the rich will continue to be rich. NDC will squeeze us for 2 years and the next 2 years they will release the chains because they know that Ghanaians will soon forget the pain.
Joe 11 years ago
Which speaker would convene what probe in which parliament? Not in Ghana. The NPP minority are as guilty in indulging the media as the NDC if not far worse. Where did those GTV ladies Gifty Anti and that Sai Oboshie get their ... read full comment
Which speaker would convene what probe in which parliament? Not in Ghana. The NPP minority are as guilty in indulging the media as the NDC if not far worse. Where did those GTV ladies Gifty Anti and that Sai Oboshie get their moneys for mansions and 4x4 cross country vehicles and over sea trips for Master's degrees? Some of them were enjoing the status of Ministers without potfolios at the expense of the same tax payer. Ghana is doomed, but let he who has no sin be the first to cast the stone. The NPP was the most guilty of political patronage,nepotism,favoritism, "wofasiism" etc. So give us a break, for we have not forgotten so soon. You only want to come back and continue where you left off or rather were chased out in 2008.
Whatever 11 years ago
The Government is made up of adults, not kids. Stop passing blames on them, that's if they deserve one, to someone who's not part of them and stop making foolish insinuations
The Government is made up of adults, not kids. Stop passing blames on them, that's if they deserve one, to someone who's not part of them and stop making foolish insinuations
I am perpetually perplexed when so-called learned people cannot debate issues fairly, blithely turning a convenient blind eye at will. When I read unfair and destructive criticisms of this government, I wonder if you think Gh ...
read full comment
GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE YOUR REWARD, ALL GHANAIANS. GO AND PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR FOOLISHNESS. YOU DON'T GIVE A SECOND MANDATE TO AN INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, NO!! NOT AT ALL, THAT IS ABOMINATION IN DEMOCRACY, VERY ...
read full comment
This is exactly what democracy is all about.You have your choice and I, no matter my level of understanding or education I have the same right to decide for myself.It is not a question of someone being "foolish" and another ...
read full comment
There has never been a time in history that an opposition party has been so restless, reckless and self-demeaning as we have today in Ghana. Does the NPP claim they have some heavy funds somewhere to bring into our economy to ...
read full comment
You M'ate Meho idiots thun ks you are ordained to rule Ghana; but Ghanaian have seen through arrogant, snobbish seves. You are best in opposition and there you will stay for the next few years.
How a Spiritual Leader is Holding his Church members in Bondage
It is very amazing how in this day and age, some people can by acts of nonchalance or ignorance, allow their spiritual leaders to hold them in utter servitude ...
read full comment
Dear Kwame and Kwasi, I respect both of you gentlemen because you have mother Ghana at heart. Please continue your good works no matter others read underneath your pen, mouthpiece or your computer mouse/keyboard. Most silent ...
read full comment
ALL WAS WELL WHEN KWESI WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO CHAVEZ TO NEGOTIATE FOR CRUDE OIL. THEN AGAIN HE WAS INCLUDED IN A TEAM OF OBSERVERS THAT WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA PRIOR TO THE WORLD CUP. KWESI, TAKE A TRIP TO BUNSO IN THE E ...
read full comment
Dr. Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe sees nothing wrong with the motto of the ruling class in America that Crush Him If He is Not My Doll. Okoampa Ahoofe you love vindictiveness and it is also the policy of your doll masters, thus all is ...
read full comment
Your analysis are good but right now we have already dipped our hands into the ghost food so let us eat and suffer. The poor will be poorer and the rich will continue to be rich. NDC will squeeze us for 2 years and the next 2 ...
read full comment
Which speaker would convene what probe in which parliament? Not in Ghana. The NPP minority are as guilty in indulging the media as the NDC if not far worse. Where did those GTV ladies Gifty Anti and that Sai Oboshie get their ...
read full comment
The Government is made up of adults, not kids. Stop passing blames on them, that's if they deserve one, to someone who's not part of them and stop making foolish insinuations