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Who is really Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo?

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  • Andani 11 years ago

    "Some readers may consider me as a staunch critic of or anti Nana Akufo Addo and other Ghanaian politicians such as the late Mills and President Mahama. Others even claim that I hate him or them but as far as I am concerned, ...
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  • Otumfuo Osei Tutu II 11 years ago

    During the PNDC days, one of Kwame Pianim’s Attorneys who defended him at is treason trial was from the UK and qualified in the UK so he could not represent him on his arrival in Ghana. His call to the Ghana Bar was fast tr ...
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  • TA USA 11 years ago

    Kofi Atta, I think your so called intelligence is rather complicating things for Nana Addo. The Akan names has no bearing in this case. the fast track issue is even exposing his eligibility. Kofi Atta do a thorough research v ...
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  • LARYEAH 11 years ago

    YOU ARE A FOOL AND A COWARD, USE YOUR USELESS TROKOSI NAME. TOGOLESE FOOL DOMICILING FREELY IN GHANA WITH IMPUNITY. ROTTEN TRIBE'S MAN FROM THAT PRIMITIVE ODOUR TRIBE FROM TOGO, LEARN SOME WISDOM. IDIOT!

  • Kojo Manu 11 years ago

    Laryea, am very sorry for you. think outside your tribe.

  • Whatever 11 years ago

    The issue is who did the 'fast tracking' or who gave him the recognition by including his name on the list of roll of lawyers for that year? If it was not the Ghana legal council or the rightful authority then he's in a huge ...
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  • Abrokyire hemaa 11 years ago

    Kofi Ata is misinformed. It is clear that he is neither a lawyer nor a quick thinking person. By law, if you change your name or names, you should go through a formal procedure and notify the relevant authorities as soon as ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 11 years ago

    BELOW IS THE FULL STORY COURTESY OF MODERNGHANA.COM

    NPP flagbearer in the 2012 general elections, Nana Akufo-Addo has been dragged to an Accra High Court accused of impersonation. Former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Franci ...
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  • KATH 11 years ago

    .........said that if no one will praise him, he will praise himself.

  • Victor A. Young 11 years ago

    I think Bro. Kofi Atta's explanations in this conversation makes a lot of sense. However, anytime he attempts to post his views, esp. on this character assassination plot by NDC leaders, judges and scouts, he's met with insul ...
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  • OBENG RAGO 11 years ago

    CPP or NDC and their children are such a sad miserable lot, whose prowess of intellectualism is misplaced and useless to their own people and society.

    Nana Akyea Mensa or Ali Masdman Jehu Appiah, Kwesi Prat, Kwakye, Maga ...
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  • seer 11 years ago

    Ei, Mr Farter of Canbrudge! The Mahama money has stopped coming, eh? So you want to warn him that you can move to the "other side" if he does not renew the payments? And you are giving him a taste of what you can do to hurt t ...
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  • Ansah 10 years ago

    If WAD Akuffo Addo was in Oxford in '62-63 does that mean Nana finished Oxford before Legon? Something does not add up. The key to the puzzle can be found in the 'disappearance of the other W.A.D Akuffo Addo' WAD was much you ...
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  • Roy,usa 11 years ago

    Is true we all have two or three names but only one is legal. SO if he legally changed his name from Williams to nana then he is cool. One cannot wake up one day and change their names without document to support

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Nana Addo was not even born in Ghana. He migrated from the Tasmania.

  • Roy,usa 11 years ago

    Is true we all have two or three names but only one is legal. SO if he legally changed his name from Williams to nana then he is cool. One cannot wake up one day and change their names without document to support

  • LARYEAH 11 years ago

    OFUI!

  • Kojo Manu 11 years ago

    Laryea, am sorry you are a baby. you claim to be in US? what is your legal name? i believe you are using some body's krata to work so you are ENO FOSUA

  • Roy,usa 11 years ago

    Is true we all have two or three names but only one is legal. SO if he legally changed his name from Williams to nana then he is cool. One cannot wake up one day and change their names without document to support

  • Roy,usa 11 years ago

    Is true we all have two or three names but only one is legal. SO if if he legally changed his name from Williams to nana then he is cool. One cannot wake up one day and change their names without document to suppot

  • Roy,usa 11 years ago

    Is true we all have two or three names but only one is legal. SO if he legally changed his name from Williams to nana then he is cool. One cannot wake up one day and change their names without document to support

  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    If Nana Addo read Law in the UK as you put it,why didn't you mention the name of the University and the academic calender?As for the Akan names and Christain names we normaly misuse them and could cause a lot a problem for if ...
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  • PK 11 years ago

    Nana Addo studied law at the prestigious Inns of Court Law School (ICLS) at Gray's Inn near Holborn in London. In 2001, ICLS was integrated into the City Law School of the City University in London. Just as Kofi Ata wrote to ...
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  • KANEWU 11 years ago

    ATTENDING A UK UNIVERSITY IS ONE THING. PASSING THE FINAL EXAM WELL TO EARN A GOOD DEGREE IS ANOTHER.

    DID AKUFO-ADDO PASS HIS FINAL EXAM TO BECOME A QUALIFIED LAWYER? NO!!

    WAS AKUFO-ADDO CALLED TO THE GHANA BAR ON MERIT ...
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  • PK 11 years ago

    Fool, what is making Ghana collapse is people like you failing to use your brains for productive work and discourse rather than wasting everyone's time with useless slander against distinguished and hard working citizens of t ...
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  • Omanbapa Osei Oy3ade3yie 11 years ago

    For instance I have read Nana Akuffo Addo's Biography from many sources including that at Wikipedia which he himself compiled, but NONE of them ever mentioned what you have disclosed here.

    None of them ever mentioned Oxfor ...
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  • John Dek 11 years ago

    I am full of praise for writers like yourself who tackle the relevant issues and provide information as that practice does not only help to educate but relaxes unnecessary tension.
    I can now be confident that Nana was once o ...
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  • Juror 11 years ago

    Kpegah should have sued for 'illegal' change of name not for impersonating a ghost.

  • kokrokoo 1 11 years ago

    Justice Kpegah's claim seems to be I am correct, that he recognises Nana Addo's law qualification and call to the BAR in England. It would appear that in those days, those who were called to the BAR in England could have thei ...
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  • Kwadwo 11 years ago

    Kofi, I also attacked you when you raised the issue of whether Nana enrolled at Oxford and why he omitted his attendance from his CV. I thought your inquiry was irrelevant and only a mischievous fishing expedition to embarass ...
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  • The Pragmatic Socialist 11 years ago

    Kofi
    The pertinent question is which law school did Akofo Addo attend to gain entry to the Midde Temple? Did he not have classmates in the UK law school he attended? Did he obtained his law qualification through Rapid Result ...
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  • DKB 11 years ago

    I'm sure you yourself have a past which you would want to keep and leave in the past. Let those of you without sin cast the first stone. I don't blame you for believeing your late uncle's fairy tales. In life if you excel, yo ...
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  • The Pragmatic Socialist 11 years ago

    DKB
    Please stop being emotional and away with the bitter pill nonsense which you and AK bedfellows are reluctant to swallow.
    1. let's say your brother who did not pass his common entrance exams took the place of a candidat ...
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  • Lexus 11 years ago

    You can barely string a 3-word sentence together without scratching your very empty skull; and if, by chance, you succeed, it takes a lot of hard work for normal people to decipher your 'encrypted' twaddles. Tell me, are you ...
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  • Opoku Kwarteng 11 years ago

    If you happen to have Mother Ghana at heart, Mr. Pragmatic Socialist, then, let the citizenry of our beloved country know the secrets you have in possession ("even while I am writing"), about Nana Akufo Addo that is damaging. ...
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  • Opoku Kwarteng 11 years ago

    What do you meanly "that`s no hearsay? and .....Nana Akufo Addo tudied...." should have been WHAT DO YOU REALLY MEAN BY "THAT`S NO HEARSAY" and .....NANA AKUFO ADDO STUDIED..........

    APOLOGIES TO ALL READERS.

  • K BANDA 11 years ago

    YOU GUYS CAN NEVER DEFEND YOURSELVES WITH SUBSTANCE. WHO CARES ABOUT TYPOS. DEFEND WHAT HE IS SAYING OR KEEP QUIET.THE GUY IS TALKING SERIOUS STUFF AND YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT HOW TO USE THE TYPE WRITER? YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPL ...
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  • DKB 11 years ago

    I studied at BPP after university to get my professional qualification and did sweat for my professional qualification. I don't care about Gabby and what you know about him.

    Infact he has been on Ghanaweb to disclose hi ...
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  • The Pragmatic Socialist 11 years ago

    You see DKB, don't expose yourself. After BPP you went on to teach others so you know how hard it was for them to achive their aims. AK did not go the hard way. He sat in South London huffing and puffing. The correspondences ...
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  • DKB 11 years ago

    I mistakenly took you to be an intelligent bloke but you have proved otherwise. The more you write the more you expose your character. For someone who claims to have sat in class with Dr Bawumia i suspect you are in your late ...
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  • The Pragmatic Socialist 11 years ago

    I may not be intelligent but let me give you a clue, please read Justice Kpegah's recent statement in response to AK apologetics like you.
    I have told you that we have correspondences to show AK was a crook. Most of them wer ...
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  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Remember he never mentioned anything about Oxford University in his resume.

  • Kojo Manu 11 years ago

    was he the one who attended oxford briefly?

  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    Thanks for your clarification article.You remember Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings sometime ago said "Nana Addo was NOT a lawyer"??
    The question is... WHY doesn't Nana HIMSELF CLEAR THE AIR by producing the EVIDENCE NEEDED ???
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  • Solomon Dormenyo Quist 11 years ago

    Kofi your article seems to be based on suppositions rather than hard facts. It would have taken you a while to compose this article whilst it would not take Mr Akuffo Addo five minutes to refutes all the allegations swirling ...
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  • kofi mensah 11 years ago

    Why not allow nana to defend himself in court as the Ex-Justice has sued.
    Let us hear Nana in court, when he was born, school dates and joining the bar and under what circumstances .

  • yaw 11 years ago

    atta kofi you said the pennim's lawyer was fast tracked to be enrolled, was nana addo a ghananian or from abraod? how do you change name in ghana you cant change your first and last name without swearing an oath,pls stop this ...
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  • PHOBIA-PHOBIA 11 years ago

    Your teacher would have given you 20%for this lengthy-for-nothing article.I can put to you that you know the facts and you're pretending.Why did Nana fail to procure a deed to cover his change of name to properly confirm his ...
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  • Seymour Gray, LL.B. (USA) 11 years ago

    1.8: Who is William Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo? Nana Addo possesses grace, a grace filled with adiabatic-gravity. Adiabatic-action consists of a cool-action; action without friction. To possess a cool-grace often it is a re ...
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  • Nana Addo Haters 11 years ago

    Who will also take Nana Addo to court for using William rather than the day of his birth as an Akan? As an Akan from Akuapem and Akyem extraction he should have had a first name which should be one of the following: Kwesi,Akw ...
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  • Hannibal 11 years ago

    Seymour Gray,
    Yours is a long-winded patent illogic!

    Please don't ever write again for public consumption. Communicating with the written word is not your strong suit.

  • K BANDA 11 years ago

    ALL THIS EFFORT PUT IN THIS LONG SERMON,
    YET Without TELLING US THE LAW SCHOOL YOUR MENTOR ATTENDED?

  • AYAMBIRE ONE 11 years ago

    masa,are you saying that (W E D)in AKAN CULTURE means or is the same as William Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo?

  • Ghanaian Nationalist. 11 years ago

    Kofi Ata, thank you for your informative article. I was just wondering about something. How long did it take to earn a law degree at Oxford at the time under consideration? According to the letter you received from Oxford, ...
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  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    If Nana Addo wants to rule Ghana then the arrogance will not help him.If he cannot defend himself than how can he defend us?If you are a politician,you should get close to the people and explain issues to them in a simple lan ...
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  • DKB 11 years ago

    That is what you all want right? If you knew Nana Addo, you won't be saying what you are saying. We are all different. Some people don't talk a lot whiles others are all talk. So to you keeping quiet is a sign of arrogance eh ...
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  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    Politics is not good for quiet people,you must know how to impress people.There are many great people who are not in politics because they are not interested in making noise but unfortunately that's the name of the game.Why d ...
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  • DKB 11 years ago

    If you have nothing to lose or gain then why are you commenting about him massa? Stay clear off any topic about the man becasue you will not vote for him no matter what so no need for you to share your opinion on someone you ...
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  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    Where did I say I hate Nana Addo?Who told you that I voted for Mahama because he is handsome?Who are you to tell me that I should not express my opinion on national affairs?What are you to tell me what to do and not to do?I h ...
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  • DKB 11 years ago

    In your own words you have nothing to lose or gain right? So keep your comments to yourself and let those who have something to gain through good governance, electricity, water etc come and make their points. In your own word ...
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  • ROGUE LAWYER 11 years ago

    kofi your guess might have been right, but when somebodys intergrity is at stake, the only way to keep the doubting thomases in balance is to clear the aligations, your research at oxford made it claer that nana Addo do not ...
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  • DKB 11 years ago

    Your grammer and logic speaks a lot about your level of intelligence.

  • ROGUE LAWYER 11 years ago

    Akuf Addo speak english and french yet somebody is accusing him of impersonation i got G in english language, if you want me to produce it i can do that,

    tell your akufu Addo to produce his certificate

  • Omanbapa Osei Oy3ade3yie 11 years ago

    DKB, are just making jokes or really mean to condemn rogue Lawyer's English?

    'Grammer' is wrong!

    'Grammer and logic speaks' is wrong !

  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Hahahaaaaaaa.

  • SUMBRUNGU 11 years ago

    Away with your incoherent submissions which by the way betray your complete lack of grasp of the eminent justice's suit. At the crux of the petition is that even if there is proof that Nana Addo is the same WAD AKUFO ADDO wh ...
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  • LARYEAH 11 years ago

    WONYA SOOMEII; WONYA SOMEI KWABI KWABI!

  • kokrokoo 1 11 years ago

    I don't think even that is the crux of the matter. Justice Kpegah is saying the change from English Bar to the Ghana Bar was nor properly done

  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Kofi Atta, u confuse no one by ur plenty Cambridge English poems.

    I am deeply surprised about the 'ostrich' attitude' u are exhibiting.

    Poor and desperate Kofi Atta, who has made Akufo Addo his mentor, inspirer and god. ...
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  • JONES , FRANCE 11 years ago

    "I also disgree with those who claim Nana Akufo Addo should respond to the allegations(including Dr.Bokor) because the case is in court and the best place for him to defend himself is at the court and not a defence by public ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Let Nana answer this question and these fools would come out with another allegation against him.

    When Michael Dokosi, came out with his drug allegation, was he able to prove anything yet, these pigs were all over the plac ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    To let sleeping dogs lie, the detractors of Nana should tell or come out with a way for him to go into exile. Reason, if you do see something, you do not hate it.

  • ETWE YE DE HAMBURG 11 years ago

    DRUGS BARON

  • NanaAddo 11 years ago

    If Akufo Addo enrolled at oxford in 1961/2, does it necessary mean he completed his course n have u any proof he was called to the bar or practiced in the UK?pls tell us

  • Hannibal 11 years ago

    Kofi Ata wrote "I say this because, information available on the internet says Nana Akufo Addo read Law in the UK and was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in July 1971. If this is accurate, it was feasible that his c ...
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  • Dr Robert K Glah 11 years ago

    I was called to the Bar of Ghana alone in December 1972 at Accra by the Chief Justice of Ghana and in the presence of my Sponsors, having been called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 1971 at the Honourable Society ...
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  • Hannibal 11 years ago

    Thank God you have certificates to PROVE it. Hopefully Akufo Addo also has certificates to prove that he wrote the GHANA BAR ASSOCIATION EXAM, and passed.

    As you can realize by your own example, it's not difficult to prove ...
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  • Lexus 11 years ago

    Keep tickling your hemorrhoid-populated ass, maybe, your dum-sor, dum-sor neurons will start firing in a co-ordinated and sustained fashion. As long as your pea-sized brain remains localized in your smelly ass no amount of ex ...
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  • Pelicles 11 years ago

    Kpeglah went to the court to suit Nana of "impersonating". The man did not say anything about educational credentials. Let's debate this case with objectivity and stop the mudslinging. Go back and read the whole article and ...
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  • K BANDA 11 years ago

    How will judge Kpega know that Nana is a quack lawyer if Nana he is doing his work well? Moreover, from all what we are hearing Akufuor Addo managed to learn the law well!
    if later in life someone makes a serious allegation ...
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  • HANNIBAL(Blessed by God) 11 years ago

    That posting was made by the fake registered hannibal.

  • kokrokoo 1 11 years ago

    I believe Kpegah's beef is whether Nana Addo did what you did!

  • Kwaku Azar 11 years ago

    Kofi

    Kpega is nuts. As a SCJ, his opinions were never comprehensible. He was a Public Tribunal Member who was fasttracked to the SC just before PNDC transitioned to NDC.

    Kpegah sued the CJ last year because the CJ won't ...
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  • Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang, London 11 years ago

    Kofi, would please send me a copy of any of your articles you post to the media? My email address is: katakyienpp@yahoo.co.uk. Thanks.

    This article of yours is spot on.

  • Omanbapa Osei Oy3ade3yie 11 years ago

    Your own research proved that the entity called Willam Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo was sacked after just a year. They wouldn't give you any reason, according to the results of your findings, why he had to leave Oxford (I saved a ...
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  • Bekwai nyansa@fb.com 11 years ago

    I would earnestly request Mr.Kpegah to stop his action having a 50-50 chance.If you stop that,Nana also will not attack Mahama.

  • Wiafe 11 years ago

    Kofi, stop the hatchet job. Trying to defend Akuffo Addo. Why depend on an internet entry to support Akuffo Addo's law school. Help us out here. Kofi--use the the Freedom of Information and get the Temple Inn to release t ...
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  • Vitor, Canada 11 years ago

    Mr. Kofi Ata:

    You are very clear about the academic year that Mr. Akufo Addo entered New College, which was the 1962/63 academic year. But you sound a bit equivocal about his call to the English Bar (Middle Temple)in 1971. ...
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  • ASA 11 years ago

    To a Ghanaian Kofi Atta will be perfectly right. The problem though is that this issue has been raised several times. The question that all need to answer is why has Nana not acted to put the case to rest. For a retired justi ...
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  • Kojo Manu 11 years ago

    Please Ata, i do not agree with you. even if Nana is the same person, is it documented legally? stop throwing dust into our eyes, am sorry.

    When you change or adopt a name you must gazzett it. A lawywer like Nana should kn ...
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  • kpega suit 10 years ago

    why most NPP loud mouth when corned with their educational back ground they quickly claim their certificates are missing e.g.. I C Quaye, Jake and lately Nana

  • Theophilus 10 years ago

    It is a great pity to hear from high profile people not making enquiries before speaking in public. I don't blame Justice kpegah, simply bcos, he has sold his mind and integrity for mere political gains. heaven is waiting to ...
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