You are NPP man! Shame on you. You were trying to be objective in your write-up but failed abysmally. Ghana is truly the winner, period
You are NPP man! Shame on you. You were trying to be objective in your write-up but failed abysmally. Ghana is truly the winner, period
BENCO 12 years ago
THE PRETENDER IS FULL OF IT.PLEASE GO QUITELY IN THE CORNER AND LICK YOUR WOUNDS.FHIS CRAP WON'T WASH
THE PRETENDER IS FULL OF IT.PLEASE GO QUITELY IN THE CORNER AND LICK YOUR WOUNDS.FHIS CRAP WON'T WASH
AYI 12 years ago
PUT MARCUS GARVEY, KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X VISION ABOUT AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN/DESCENT INTO ACTION/PRACTICE.
BUILD A ‘MARCUS GARVEY, KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X LIBRARY’ ALL OVER AFRICA/GHANA. AFRICA/ALL PEOPL ... read full comment
PUT MARCUS GARVEY, KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X VISION ABOUT AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN/DESCENT INTO ACTION/PRACTICE.
BUILD A ‘MARCUS GARVEY, KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X LIBRARY’ ALL OVER AFRICA/GHANA. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN/DESCENT USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES TO FUND YOUR RADICAL MEANS OF UNITY.
PREZ KWAME NKRUMAH MADE A SPEECH DURING GHANA INDEPENDENCE DAY THAT “FROM NOW ON WE MUST CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE AND MINDS”. THAT IS, WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE RULED/GOVERN/DOMINATE BY ALIENS/FOREIGNERS.
GHANA DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, GHANA MUST REPENT QUICKLY AND EMBRACE DR. KWAME NKRUMAH AND HIS VISIONS ABOUT GHANA / AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, TO HELP GHANA AND AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/MOVE TO THE TOP.
AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT MUST QUICKLY EMBRACE HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, WITHOUT DELAY TO HELP AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/ MOVE TO THE TOP. IT IS TOO FRAGILE/DANGEROUS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT TO WASTE TIME IN EMBRACING HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. EVERY AFRICAN/STUDENT/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT FROM THE LOWEST GRADE/KINGDERGARDEN TO THE MOST HIGHEST EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY/PAU AND EVERY PROFESSOR MUST/COMPULSORY STUDY HON MARCUS GARVEY’S, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH’S, MALCOM X’S TEACHINGS/IDEAS/VISIONS ABOUT AFRICA. GOD BLESSES AFRICA AMEN.
Tekonline.org 12 years ago
Ayi, Sorry for chasing you down here and my apology to Sidney for being off-topic. The truth must be told!
Many thanks, Ayi, for honoring the memory of these great African pioneers and patriots.
BUT the time has come fo ... read full comment
Ayi, Sorry for chasing you down here and my apology to Sidney for being off-topic. The truth must be told!
Many thanks, Ayi, for honoring the memory of these great African pioneers and patriots.
BUT the time has come for a NEW chapter.
African now needs more than patriotic fervor and emotional outbursts. We need to replace revolutionary rhetoric with passion about TECHNOLOGY. The time has come to put on an innovative thinking cap and march INTELLIGENTLY towards an industrial revolution.
And guess what, the SMARTER Africans have already begun in earnest. Please read on:
Kenya's Silicon Savannah
By Doug Hendrie
Kenya's tech sector is taking off. A new generation of rising stars are making software for the country's vast network of $20 mobile phones - and improving life for those at the bottom, reports Doug Hendrie
A programmer walks slowly down the stairs, holding his laptop in both hands as if steering by it. He passes a mural of Super Mario Bros, circa 1988, and into the entrance of iHub proper – a large, airy space, full of earnest young women and men working on their laptops. A coffee machine hisses in one corner. A quiet game of table soccer is under way. Silicon Valley? Not quite. This is the heartland of the Silicon Savannah, and one of many startup incubators dotting dusty Ngong Road in Nairobi, Kenya.
Everyone is here nursing the same hope – to make the next breakthrough service for Kenya’s enormous and growing population of mobile phone users. More than two-thirds of Kenyans own mobile phones, the highest rate in East Africa. The mobile phone has become Africa’s leapfrog technology – communication, commerce, computing and increasingly, internet access, all rolled into one cheap device.
Kenya is at the forefront of the shift, led in part by the breakthrough M-Pesa system, a wildly popular method of transferring money by SMS from mobile to mobile. Owned by the Kenyan-UK telco Safaricom, the five-year-old service is the world’s most successful mobile money solution, with 17 million users out of Kenya’s 41 million people.
Fully one-fifth of the nation’s GDP now flows by text message annually, jumping from phone to phone, peer to peer. And that is without mentioning M-Pesa’s successful imitators. In mobile money, Kenya is the world’s leader, outstripping developed nations where the desktop computer is only now giving way to tablets and smartphones.
Success in the Silicon Savannah does not come through imitation. Africa’s challenges are well documented. Any digital solutions must be localised, according to Gregory Mwendwa, a program officer with the Dutch charity Hivos, which part-funds iHub.
“Africa’s success should be measured by what innovation is happening by its own processes,” he says. “If China stopped investing in roads in Africa, they would not be built. But M-Pesa would still be here.”
CNBC commentator Larry Madowo, a mentor at another Ngong Road incubator and investor 88mph, says imported solutions often fail spectacularly. “The technologies — and services — that thrive here are those that are distinctly local, respond to everyday problems and fully adapt to the Kenyan psyche,” he says.
And while he advises caution to separate hype from reality, Madowo believes Kenya is well ahead of most other African nations in tech. “When you’re living through a revolution, it’s not always apparent at first,” he says. “But if the current startups in incubation hubs along Ngong Road can scale effectively, monetize and avoid the pitfalls … the Silicon Savannah will be in full bloom,” he says.
The African tech boom is not unique to Kenya. In emerging economies around the continent, entrepreneurs are beginning to innovate in earnest. Elikia, the first African-designed smartphone, was released in the Republic of Congo in September. Founded in 2004, the Nigerian-Kenyan tech firm Cellulant began by selling music to mobile users. Now, it has moved into mobile banking in 12 fast-growing nations in West and East Africa.
In August this year, the Savannah Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund aimed at East Africa, made its first investment of US $2 million in biNu, a fast-growing startup founded by Zimbabwean-Australian Gour Lentel which brings a smartphone experience to the lower end phones still the norm in Africa.
Kenya has earned the lion’s share of attention on the ICT front, trumping even the economic powerhouses of Nigeria and South Africa. Kenya’s education system is envied by other African nations, producing a qualified and literate workforce. The nation prides itself on its openness to outside investment and its relative stability.
And behind the scenes is another force: the strong political support of Dr Bitange Ndemo, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for ICT. “He’s the greatest technology evangelist of our times,” says Madowo. Hype? Not at all. It was Ndemo who fast-tracked the four new undersea fibre-optic cables, which made landfall in 2009. Plans are now well advanced for a fifth cable with much larger capacity.
The Kenyan Government has moved towards greater transparency with the Open Data Initiative, placing non-classified government data online. That, too, was one of Ndemo’s ideas, a radical departure from the decades-long rule of autocrat Daniel arap Moi which ended only in 2002. During Moi’s reign, civil servants were prohibited from disseminating any government data.
There is also an ambitious blueprint for a $7 billion tech city modelled on Silicon Valley and Mauritius’ Cyber City at Konza, 60km southeast of Nairobi. On his official Facebook page, Ndemo writes, “The big idea is that a poor country should take a small, empty part of its territory and say: We're going to build a new city here.” Will it work? “I would move there,” says Anthony Wang’ombe, a Nairobi networking consultant. “Every bank would want to be on Wall Street. It is the same. If you are a key player, you will want to be there.”
There are now no less than seven ICT incubators in Nairobi, the highest concentration in Africa. They offer everything from a space to meet fellow developers to a chance to present to angel investors and secure crucial early-stage funding. The enthusiasm is palpable. The problem now is that so many apps and mobile-based products are pouring out of the incubators that the focus is now shifting to quality over quantity.
Mark Kamau, the lead for the almost-completed iHub user experience lab says it is time for Kenya’s mobile market to come of age. “In the beginning, we had a lot of enthusiasm, with people churning out apps every other day. But we need to make sure that our products are designed to actually resonate with users,” he says. “You might have a beautiful app technically – but how will users use it? Will it add value to their lives?”
Sitting behind a Dell laptop papered in NASA stickers is Patrick Mithamo, a Python programmer and self-confessed geek, says iHub changed his life. “I never thought I would meet someone with similar interests,” he says, eyes flashing. “But I came here and I met people who knew what PHP was, how websites worked, people who knew how to program. iHub is aggregating people.”
He’s working on a mobile survey platform designed for microfinance providers. Mithamo spent long weeks in rural Kenya as a survey field worker, walking kilometres house to house in the scorching heat. Back in Nairobi, he realised that technology offered a much easier way. “Walking around kind of sucks,” he says. Why visit the beneficiaries of the microloans, when right there in the hands of most villagers was the most remarkable and the most portable communication device ever invented – the mobile phone. Soon the surveys will come and go by SMS.
But why? What need for indigenous innovation when there are already millions of apps available? In part, the reason is the platform: millions of poor Kenyans own the cheapest possible mobile, a entry-level $20 model. Third-party mobile services in developed nations focus on smartphones through app stores. Here, it must be simpler. Many startups use the USSD protocol, a basic two-way form of communication with a telco’s servers. But it’s more than that. “Why would I want to find out the best jogging route in Nairobi?” asks Mithamo. “Who does that? People don’t jog. We are not a middle-class economy.”
Global companies are getting in on the act. Samsung has released a solar powered laptop and a new fridge with a built-in coldpack, designed to endure frequent power outages. In Kenya, 15 per cent of deaths amongst women of childbearing age are linked to pregnancy. To address that, Marcel Ogweno built Mimba Bora, an application designed to let women track their pregnancies and – if needed – find nearby medical help. And in agriculture, too, mobiles have arrived. Despite the growth in ICT and tourism, agriculture still accounts for almost a quarter of Kenya’s economy. But life for small farmers is hard. It was impossible to know whether they were getting a good price for their produce. That issue gave rise to M-Farm, a mobile app which began at iHub as an idea batted back and forth between three female techies.
“We realised that farmers [in Kenya] were always complaining because the middleman was taking what they should be getting,” says marketing lead Linda Kwamboka, an effusive 24 year old. “And others had no other markets to sell to. So we decided to help these farmers.” The app works through SMS – and by a network of agents on the ground.
Farmers can text in to discover the current market rate of produce in different towns around Kenya. Alternatively, they can find other smallholders and combine their crops for a better rate. And farmers can also find M-Farm approved sellers who offer a price guaranteed by M-Farm. The system is intended to increase accountability by providing a trusted link between buyers and sellers. More than 7000 farmers now use the system.
Another localised solution is M-Shop, a mobile ticketing system for mobile phones of all kinds. The company, MTL, also hails from the iHub incubator, but has since migrated further along Ngong Road to the Greenhouse, a large and open office space. The story behind the system stemmed from a universal problem, says CEO Meshack Alloys. “A friend wanted to go for a date with his girlfriend, and he wanted to go out of Nairobi. But they missed the bus because when they got to the terminal, the tickets were gone.” Now Alloys’ mother, who still lives in a village, can buy a ticket to come and visit him in Nairobi without enduring an expensive and time-consuming 60km round trip just to make sure she can get a ticket.
“We’re building on top of M-Pesa and the environment that created for us, where people already trust mobile transactions,” says Alloys. “Early on, people didn’t trust M-Pesa — would the money really get there? But now they do. And that is quite amazing to see. The strong growth in startups means we can plug another group’s solution in. You don’t have to build it all yourself.”
Perhaps 10 years ago, Alloys – a USAID merit scholar in engineering – would have left for California, part of Africa’s brain drain. But times have changed. “Our future is very bright,” he says. “We are growing steadily. Nairobi is at the centre. This is the best place to be.”
james 12 years ago
Whatever reforms are necessary to out electoral processes we must ensure the elections are won at polling stations and not by clever statisticians and crazy legal arguments
Whatever reforms are necessary to out electoral processes we must ensure the elections are won at polling stations and not by clever statisticians and crazy legal arguments
Obeng Rago 12 years ago
NDC GOVERNMENT MUST SOLVE GHANA’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
NDC Government under President John Dramani Mahama must now help Ghana. 25 years of ruling a country is no mean achievement. Now, having won the Supreme Court c ... read full comment
NDC GOVERNMENT MUST SOLVE GHANA’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
NDC Government under President John Dramani Mahama must now help Ghana. 25 years of ruling a country is no mean achievement. Now, having won the Supreme Court case, the way is clear for NDCs to produce positive results in government. Their politicians, scholars, serial web writers and political commentators must come together to solve real socio-economic problems facing the poor country: The people want action, and for that matter, I am personally happy that NPP’s Election Petition has come to an end: We now face reality, which is NDC's exposure to socio-economic problems they have created in Ghana since their return to power in 2008, including the following:
- Woyome and Judgement Debts - the mounting revelations from Apau's Commission and the monies involved are huge and even far more than the GH8300000000000.00 we first estimated. We can do a lot with this money like constructing KVIP Toilets to relieve many Ghanaians who openly defecate along our beaches in the coastal areas of Volta, Accra and Central Regions; tree stumps and manholes in Eastern, Brong Ahafo and Ashanti Regions and the Savannah plains in Northern Ghana; as well as plastic bags in the country’s Markets…This is the bestial level NDC has plunged Ghana into after ruling us for 25 good years.
- To me, the most disturbing situation in Ghana today is the Filth, Squalor and Poor Sanitation, which has led to the phenomenal increase in Respiratory Tract Infections and spread of bacterial and viral infections that kill so many poor Ghanaians. Everywhere in Ghana the stench hits you hard. The foul stench coming from Takoradi gutter pavements; Cape Coast London Bridge; Accra Lagos Town; Pig farm; Mamprobi; James Town; Kumasi City market; Tamale Metropolis; Sekondi-Inchaban…and almost everywhere you go makes you remember the local song - stench no…ooo agye bebiara, stench no agye bebiara”! The huge pile of rubbish dumps confronts you at every turn in such a beautiful country. When NDC were last in power, they stopped removing rubbish by breaking down all the rubbish dumps in the cities and towns of Ghana. They did not put anything back in place, forcing Ghanaians to throw rubbish anywhere. Wherever you go, you see people carrying rubbish and sometimes faeces in plastic bags and throwing them into nearby bush. Recently, AMA Officials said, 70% of all the Rubbish they remove from Makola Market is FAECES: Yes. Our Mothers and Sisters pay tolls and taxes but do not get common decent toilet to use, and thus suffer such indignity of going to toilet in their stalls and wrapping them up in plastic bags to be thrown away in the very market they sell food to human beings to consume. WOW. I always knew Ghana under P/NDC will come to this for they are talkative and lazy! The Supreme Court case has finished, and there’s no more excuses again: NDC Government must now build new toilets in Markets for Ghanaians to use.
- The Parliamentary Assets Committee has recently revealed that P/NDC Governments under Rawlings, Atta Mills and Mahama have only collected less than $1 Billion of $8.7 Billion of Debts owed to the Divestiture Implementation Committee from THEIR sale of 330 State Assets to their cronies/associates. For example, what happens to the GLAHCO Properties Gaddafi purchased from Rawlings? Who runs these properties today? We need our monies or properties back, and therefore call upon Ghanaians not to allow this to be swept under carpet. It is not fair for NDC to take us for granted by selling State Properties without Accounting for them. This is one of the major reasons for all the tension and agitation by victims of their harsh revolution, who suffered horrendously at the hands of their persecutors in NDC for far less crimes. NDC must be very careful, and do the right thing by collecting our monies back from those who bought our Gold, Diamond, Bauxite, Manganese Mines as well as Ships, Hotels, Factories, State Corporations, Lands and many other State properties! This is no joke…We can use the money to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youth of Ghana, or revive these Industries by recapitalising them with Investors to create viable jobs for the people of Ghana…Why are Ghanaians quiet about this? NDC must account for these debts!
- NDC Government must also deal with the spiralling effects of reducing secondary schooling from 4 to 3 years again. I know ignorance and lack of good education is a political strategy of NDC, who seem to win many votes from illiterate populations across the country during Elections: BUT we cannot allow a country that produced so many scholars prior to the Rawlings Revolution to sink so low forever. We have to take these people to task for mismanaging our education system and producing semi-literates in the country. Also what do we do with all these many, many SSS leavers coming out of these schools annually? NDC is storing big trouble for Ghana and we must force them to tackle the educational crisis. Primary Schools do not have any teaching and learning resources - good textbooks, equipment and proper Teachers and Assistants. I always weep when I remember the good old days when we had Seven Year Secondary School Education. I come from Cape Coast and saw these intelligent and fragrant students going to school for 7 good years, and then move on to achieve professional careers and change the destinies of their poor families. Sixth Form Education is ever so popular everywhere except Ghana under NDC. When President Kufuor added only a year to secondary schooling, these same NDC people reduced it again to three years to let Ghanaians remain backward, indolent, illiterate and ignorant so that they can easily deceive them during elections…Except the children of the CPP leaders like Mahama’s father, NDCs have used their own good education to change their own lifestyles, and then destroyed the same good education for others, whiles educating their children overseas. NDC cannot get away with this and should be made to account for the poor state of our education.
- Then the indebtedness of $8.1 Billion incurred between September and December 2012: NDC says the huge monies were used to pay Single Spine Salary, but it is revealed that only GH 2 Billion CEDIS was used for salaries and wages. What did they do with the rest of this huge sums of money, if they were not used to finance NDC 2012 Elections? I was in Ghana in November 2012 when I saw with my own eyes many GOODS being shared openly and blatantly to many Ghanaians prior to the elections: I was so ashamed to see Elders in Society like Chiefs, Imams, Pastors, Opinion leaders, Student Leaders receiving from the NDC Government many Saloon cars for no reason than to sway them to their side. The House of Chiefs led by J S Nabila, got Vans and Saloon cars: I saw NDC people distributing Outboard Motors to their people in the fishing villages. They all took these things without pricking their conscience that it’s our money they are stealing. Sewing Machines were distributed to loud mouthed Ghanaian women, who can now talk even more politics than men. On 15th November 2012, NDC took delivery of ONE Million Motor Bikes from China: Instead of distributing them to State Corporations; Teachers in Villages; Hospitals; Universities; Ministries and so on, they rather gave them to their supporters. It was a big blow to Ghana’s ailing industry. Then the Lap Top Computers they foolishly distributed to ordinary supporters of NDC; instead of giving these to schools and Colleges and working Institutions of the country! The cost of these bribery items distributed openly to Ghana in addition to the stockpile of GH50 Cedi Notes they shared among Voters is the cost of the GH 8.7 Billion Cedi Indebtedness we face now: This is a clear case of gross irresponsibility! These monies were taken from Central Bank of Ghana under the auspices of Amissah Arthur, and we must probe into it now that the dust has settled over this Supreme Court case: For Ghana does not belong to only NDC people, and must not think they have the right to do whatever they like with it!
- NPP followers must copy President Kufuor and Nana Akuffo Addo and Dr Bawumia by keeping quiet for NDC to deal with the country’s poor economy; bankruptcy; low agricultural produce; low industrial output; constant electricity cuts; water shortages and more unemployment ...These are major socio-economic problems. NDC Government under this ‘Validly’ Elected President Mahama must now DEAL with these bread and butter issues now...than the ‘jaw jaw’ and celebrity circus freak show that has characterised this dormant Presidency.
- NDC must be made to fulfil their lavish promises: In Cape Coast alone, we are waiting for NDC promises of building a Sports Stadium, Teaching Hospital, Market, Slavery Library and solving the unemployment galore in a town of able bodied beggars…And Mahama never stops promising to turn Ghana into a land flowing milk and honey, with the Asontagba projects etc.
- NDC must deal with teeming masses of unemployment of NDC supporters throughout the country. If they could provide employment for only their supporters, then almost half of our problems are solved. They can use the cleaning of Filth and Poor Sanitation as a base for real employment than the age old voluntary project where rice and Akpeteshie are distributed to unemployed volunteers. NDC must do something in Ghana. They cannot run around the place in big cars talking and talking to no end. NO. This has gone on for 25 years now. 25 years of ruling a country demands real answers to the problems they themselves have created, and NDC has many academicians and experienced politicians to do something for the poor country. We need action, and must force them to account for their stewardship. They must work hard now to help their own country! They must SOLVE problems for once than all the personality driven politics NDC propagandists know best. It’s boring now to hear always of political semantics and ideological wrangling of meaning to lives of ordinary
NDC won’t divert attention again from the reality of governance to empty, jaundiced political rhetoric and constant bickering they enjoy so much. There was no evidence of any solid and concrete achievement when P/NDC ruled Ghana for 19 years, and sold all our state properties, as well as destroying our education system...BUT NOT Again! We must now watch NDC's handiwork; we are tired of NDC verbal trickery...for propaganda politics is tedious enough...
NDC is in power enjoying the handiwork of NPP including the efforts of Kufuor, Bawumia and Nana Akuffo Addo to build Presidential Palace and Plane, Oil Discovery, BUI Dam, and many useful, productive, good things in a typical case of “monkey dey work; baboons they chop” syndrome, where they enjoy the sweat and sacrifices of hardworking NPP Politicians
Now is the time for NDC faithful to stretch forth their hands and deliver for the people of Ghana...Just Fulfil your promises and clean Ghana and restore the battered economy and shut your bitter mouths...It is now back to reality now, NDC: We wait for the delivery van of goodies for people dying in their thousands from common hunger; common hernia operations; starving to death for lack of a good diet and simple medication for their ailments, arising for basic poor hygiene…Ghana has indeed suffered under 25 years of NDC rule: They will now be on the pedestal for all to see their handiwork. President Kuffuor’s NPP has given these NDC’s good stand: For where will these NDC government be without the OIL and BUI Dam? NDC do something now for your country!
Kofi Freeman Amponsa-Dadzie
GDK 12 years ago
You have finally exposed your true colours. Elections are won at polling stations.
You have finally exposed your true colours. Elections are won at polling stations.
Charlie King Addo 12 years ago
Great article. Thank God there are sound minds in our society. Stay blessed.
Great article. Thank God there are sound minds in our society. Stay blessed.
KOFFI 12 years ago
I cannot but agree with you that the Supreme Court Justices were only telling us to forget about regulations to guide future elections. We do not have to complain about over-voting, voting without verification with machines w ... read full comment
I cannot but agree with you that the Supreme Court Justices were only telling us to forget about regulations to guide future elections. We do not have to complain about over-voting, voting without verification with machines which the state became poorer for by spending our hard cash to procure, and that the Electoral Officers could be a law unto themselves on the day of voting! What a shame!! By inference nothing went wrong in the last elections and therefore Ghananians should not waste their time talking about electoral reforms,for according to the majority of our Justices of the highest court of the land who sat on the petition, nothing adverse happened so Afari Djan and his cohorts should rather be given the highest state awards for a good job done!! Oh! mother Ghana, who again can we trust to right our wrongs?
Syllah 12 years ago
First of all, this is the Interpretation of the rulling, for the Split vote, those whom Held the Argument of the NPP. On over Voting, there is no Proof from the NPP but there is Argument what over Voting is , from their Inte ... read full comment
First of all, this is the Interpretation of the rulling, for the Split vote, those whom Held the Argument of the NPP. On over Voting, there is no Proof from the NPP but there is Argument what over Voting is , from their Interpretation when an unknown Material is found in the Box for Short that amount for over Voting , which the NDC And EC disagree with this Interpretation ,which we called excess becourse you Need to Convince the Court who voted for the unknown Material so u See the jurdges Took a stand on Interpretation , but Not on any evidence , so it goes with the Otters
Kobena 12 years ago
Excellent piece, Sydney,
You have just provided the roadmap for a Ghana that should now be travelling light and unimpeded. The road head should be straight and clear. No more excuses whatsoever. What we need to do as passeng ... read full comment
Excellent piece, Sydney,
You have just provided the roadmap for a Ghana that should now be travelling light and unimpeded. The road head should be straight and clear. No more excuses whatsoever. What we need to do as passengers is to make sure that the driver and his 'aplankes' do not drop debris on the road, to make excuses.
And, oh, we also have to make sure the tattered, bruised and exposed EC is reformed for the next stop on the journey!
Kwesi Agbenu 12 years ago
The clerical error about Baffoe Bonney vote by Justice Atugubah in the final ruling was deliberate.;;;;
It was planned to give credence to the mantra ‘’TO ERR IS HUMAN’’ just to
equalize the errors in the EC pink ... read full comment
The clerical error about Baffoe Bonney vote by Justice Atugubah in the final ruling was deliberate.;;;;
It was planned to give credence to the mantra ‘’TO ERR IS HUMAN’’ just to
equalize the errors in the EC pink Sheets;;;;
So that the EC grave errors, sustained in the ruling are rationalized and accepted as normal clerical and administrative errors.;;;;;
Justice Atugubah and his goons will fool nobody
Roce Koran 12 years ago
Sydney, you are trying to portray yourself as a neutral person but your writing gives you away. LETS US ALL KNOW THAT YOU ARE NPP, PERIOD. Upon all the explanationS by EC that PINK SHEETS are not SECURITY DOCUMENTS(printed ou ... read full comment
Sydney, you are trying to portray yourself as a neutral person but your writing gives you away. LETS US ALL KNOW THAT YOU ARE NPP, PERIOD. Upon all the explanationS by EC that PINK SHEETS are not SECURITY DOCUMENTS(printed outside Ghana and stuff) and the serial numbers were a creation of the printer and not the EC, you are still not satisfied.
Shame unto you. I know you would quickly jump onto GYEEDA and continue with your SKEWED ANALYSIS forgetting that you and the NPP blamed institutional weakness for the Ghana@50 rot
Kwesi Mends, Takoradi 12 years ago
From Elections to GYEEDA to Zambia. Are you as confused as your party NPP?
From Elections to GYEEDA to Zambia. Are you as confused as your party NPP?
Paul Amuna 12 years ago
Sydney, you make some fine points in your article but you spoil it all with something I cannot quite understand. I believe the decision of the MPs to "work together" to solve the nation's problems is not equal to having a "si ... read full comment
Sydney, you make some fine points in your article but you spoil it all with something I cannot quite understand. I believe the decision of the MPs to "work together" to solve the nation's problems is not equal to having a "single" 'all agreed' approach.
Of course we all wish to see a vibrant, active and "combative" opposition and that is why we condemned the NPP MPs for boycotting parliamentary business early on. There is absolutely no reason why people cannot 'fight' their case as an opposition and still cooperate with the government where that is the right thing to do.
Are you one of those who simply believe in opposing for the sake of it just because your party is in opposition? That style of doing business has never worked and will not help put food on the table for our many poor in Ghana.
You need to re-think that strategy because it makes you look small in the eyes of others.
Michael biko 12 years ago
A great piece love it.
A great piece love it.
Nii Ansah Germany 12 years ago
People like you makes me cry for mother Ghana WHY what is happening to you rahter what is critical about what you write please stop being bais its time stop your one way writtings Ghana is for we all not NPP alone
People like you makes me cry for mother Ghana WHY what is happening to you rahter what is critical about what you write please stop being bais its time stop your one way writtings Ghana is for we all not NPP alone
Good Citizen 12 years ago
I have a rope for you to hang BIG IDIOT
I have a rope for you to hang BIG IDIOT
SYLLAH 12 years ago
How on Earth ones right to vote will solly be determined by Finger Print , First of all its a process so if we go by Logic , we Begin from the begining to the end which is the final vote, how Many process One have to trough , ... read full comment
How on Earth ones right to vote will solly be determined by Finger Print , First of all its a process so if we go by Logic , we Begin from the begining to the end which is the final vote, how Many process One have to trough , in all this
KOFI 12 years ago
Mr writer, how does the absence of the signature of a residing officer change votes counted?. DO YOU THINK I A DEMOCRACY, ONE SHOULD BE A PRESIDENT AT ALL COST? GHANAIANS HAVE BEING DRAGGED TO COURT BY A GREEDY BASTARD. THAT' ... read full comment
Mr writer, how does the absence of the signature of a residing officer change votes counted?. DO YOU THINK I A DEMOCRACY, ONE SHOULD BE A PRESIDENT AT ALL COST? GHANAIANS HAVE BEING DRAGGED TO COURT BY A GREEDY BASTARD. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED
You are NPP man! Shame on you. You were trying to be objective in your write-up but failed abysmally. Ghana is truly the winner, period
THE PRETENDER IS FULL OF IT.PLEASE GO QUITELY IN THE CORNER AND LICK YOUR WOUNDS.FHIS CRAP WON'T WASH
PUT MARCUS GARVEY, KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X VISION ABOUT AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN/DESCENT INTO ACTION/PRACTICE.
BUILD A ‘MARCUS GARVEY, KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X LIBRARY’ ALL OVER AFRICA/GHANA. AFRICA/ALL PEOPL ...
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Ayi, Sorry for chasing you down here and my apology to Sidney for being off-topic. The truth must be told!
Many thanks, Ayi, for honoring the memory of these great African pioneers and patriots.
BUT the time has come fo ...
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Whatever reforms are necessary to out electoral processes we must ensure the elections are won at polling stations and not by clever statisticians and crazy legal arguments
NDC GOVERNMENT MUST SOLVE GHANA’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
NDC Government under President John Dramani Mahama must now help Ghana. 25 years of ruling a country is no mean achievement. Now, having won the Supreme Court c ...
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You have finally exposed your true colours. Elections are won at polling stations.
Great article. Thank God there are sound minds in our society. Stay blessed.
I cannot but agree with you that the Supreme Court Justices were only telling us to forget about regulations to guide future elections. We do not have to complain about over-voting, voting without verification with machines w ...
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First of all, this is the Interpretation of the rulling, for the Split vote, those whom Held the Argument of the NPP. On over Voting, there is no Proof from the NPP but there is Argument what over Voting is , from their Inte ...
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Excellent piece, Sydney,
You have just provided the roadmap for a Ghana that should now be travelling light and unimpeded. The road head should be straight and clear. No more excuses whatsoever. What we need to do as passeng ...
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The clerical error about Baffoe Bonney vote by Justice Atugubah in the final ruling was deliberate.;;;;
It was planned to give credence to the mantra ‘’TO ERR IS HUMAN’’ just to
equalize the errors in the EC pink ...
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Sydney, you are trying to portray yourself as a neutral person but your writing gives you away. LETS US ALL KNOW THAT YOU ARE NPP, PERIOD. Upon all the explanationS by EC that PINK SHEETS are not SECURITY DOCUMENTS(printed ou ...
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From Elections to GYEEDA to Zambia. Are you as confused as your party NPP?
Sydney, you make some fine points in your article but you spoil it all with something I cannot quite understand. I believe the decision of the MPs to "work together" to solve the nation's problems is not equal to having a "si ...
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A great piece love it.
People like you makes me cry for mother Ghana WHY what is happening to you rahter what is critical about what you write please stop being bais its time stop your one way writtings Ghana is for we all not NPP alone
I have a rope for you to hang BIG IDIOT
How on Earth ones right to vote will solly be determined by Finger Print , First of all its a process so if we go by Logic , we Begin from the begining to the end which is the final vote, how Many process One have to trough , ...
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Mr writer, how does the absence of the signature of a residing officer change votes counted?. DO YOU THINK I A DEMOCRACY, ONE SHOULD BE A PRESIDENT AT ALL COST? GHANAIANS HAVE BEING DRAGGED TO COURT BY A GREEDY BASTARD. THAT' ...
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