How Nkrumah’s United Africa Ideologies Backfired -Part 3

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TOM 10 years ago

Africa leaders became power hungry after tasting the sweetness of power and followed Dr Nkrumah one party President for life disastrous example.

Africa leaders became power hungry after tasting the sweetness of power and followed Dr Nkrumah one party President for life disastrous example.
Kojo T 10 years ago

Osei Tutu the dictator followed Nkrumah.Why do the Danquah folks think from their anus?What hog wash?

Osei Tutu the dictator followed Nkrumah.Why do the Danquah folks think from their anus?What hog wash?
SARPONG 10 years ago

Hogwash, one word not hog and wash, you incestuous trokosi child molester illiterate.

"Osei Tutu the dictator followed Nkrumah" huh? What are you illiterate talking about?

Hogwash, one word not hog and wash, you incestuous trokosi child molester illiterate.

"Osei Tutu the dictator followed Nkrumah" huh? What are you illiterate talking about?
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

No matter how hard you try,Nkrumah will remain the founding father of Ghana,forever.He was not perfect but he did his very best for his country and that is what we expect any Ghanaian to do.Thank you.

No matter how hard you try,Nkrumah will remain the founding father of Ghana,forever.He was not perfect but he did his very best for his country and that is what we expect any Ghanaian to do.Thank you.
SARPONG 10 years ago

I do agree with you in toto with this comment and that is all I personally expect Nkrumah supporters to admit for all of us to live in peace as one people.

"He was not perfect but he did his best for his country"

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I do agree with you in toto with this comment and that is all I personally expect Nkrumah supporters to admit for all of us to live in peace as one people.

"He was not perfect but he did his best for his country"

I have said the exact words in one of my articles about Nkrumah but these Nkrumah apologists want to make him seem like a Messiah like as if without him, Ghana would have ceased to exist.

What you said here is what most Nkrumah opponents have been saying for the longest. I don't believe any Nkrumah opponent will argue that. I have said a thousand times that Nkrumah was too patriotic it made him think that he was the only one who loves Ghana and therefore needed the PDA, President for life and one party state policies to take the country to the next level which were all mistakes that caused his demise.

You guys have to agree those three policies were mistakes and then we can all get along fine.
Nana Kasapreko III 10 years ago

Sarpong, it seems to me that you are just merely a victim of the kind imperialist propaganda that avers to say that Black people have no right to be smart, intelligent or visionary.

Kwame Nkrumah, unfortunately, was all of ...
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Sarpong, it seems to me that you are just merely a victim of the kind imperialist propaganda that avers to say that Black people have no right to be smart, intelligent or visionary.

Kwame Nkrumah, unfortunately, was all of these and more so perhaps that is why some of you find it so difficult to justify your dislike for the man.

If in the English language a messiah means something akin to a saviour or a redeemer, well then the Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah is indeed a messiah - metaphorically or in the full sense and meaning of that word. I suspect that fundamentalist followers of the Christian faith and religion, in allegiance with the Holy Scriptures, have assumed an appropriation of the word 'messiah' to be exclusively used to refer to Jesus the Christ. They therefore feel slighted when that word is being used as an epithet to describe an ordinary mortal. This may have attracted the ire of many people of the Christian denomination to take an instant dislike towards Nkrumah and every thing else that he stood for.

Again without Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana would have become just another dumb African country like Nigeria, Togo, the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Morocco and the rest. Ghana may not have ceased to exist but Im sure you know what I mean.

You are right that Nkrumah may have thought that he was the only one who loved Ghana the most and therefore he needed the PDA. The thing is what did he need the PDA for? Let me ask you a personal question. What measures would you employ against terrorism if you were the head of state of Ghana today?

Considering the consistently uncompromising and disruptive misdemeanours of the opposition during the time of the Osagyefo as President of Ghana, does it surprise you that he would propose a one-party state?

Now fast-track to today. Considering the glamorous circus-like multi-billion dollar fanfare that is shamelessly undertaken by political parties in the name of election campaigns in an underdeveloped society, would you in all sincerity, not opt for the zero-expense option of a national party where proper internal democracy can be activated to determine who our leaders should be?

Considering the obnoxious , divisive and fractious fall-out of multiple competing parties for an election. do you not think a single national party would bring to an abrupt end all the nonsense that multi-partyism entails?

Considering the fact that members and sympathizers of all other opposing parties to the winner of an election are summarily dismissed, isolated, criminalized and/or are made to step aside from high public office whilst those in the private sector will have their businesses abruptly abrogated or undermined, makes the case for a unitary national party more enticing and a more sensible option.

Considering that the largely illiterate mass of people do not vote on principle but on such spurious sentiments such as ethnic, religious and monetary compensation, do you not think that a national party would make more sense by sanitizing the political terrain?

Do you not think that as it happens in countries like the US and UK where two or three parties with the same political philosophy have monopolized the political scene for decades and in some cases centuries, the whole thing assumes the nature of a dictatorial duopoly?

I am sure that the great Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah and the CPP considered all these and more before proposing the idea of a one-party state which to all intents and purposes is a more practical option for the under-developed nations of Africa.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Sarpong is misrepresenting the thesis from Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam's 2010 essay on Huffington Post.

ITEM: Nkrumah understood economic develop ment will contribute to democratic governance!

Prof Alemayehu G. Mariam
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Sarpong is misrepresenting the thesis from Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam's 2010 essay on Huffington Post.

ITEM: Nkrumah understood economic develop ment will contribute to democratic governance!

Prof Alemayehu G. Mariam
Professor of political science, CSU San Bernardino

The Democracy Before Democracy in Africa
Posted: 03/26/2010 5:12 am EDT Updated: 05/25/2011 3:20 pm ED

READ:
Since the dawn of African independence from colonialism in the early 1960s, African liberation leaders and founding fathers qua dictators, military junta and "new breed" leaders have sought to justify the one-man, one-party state -- and avoid genuine multiparty democracy -- by fabricating a blend of self-serving arguments which converge on the notion that in Africa there is a democracy before democracy. The core argument can be restated in different ways: Before Africa can have political democracy, it must have economic democracy. Africans are more concerned about meeting their economic needs than having abstract political rights. Economic development necessarily requires sacrifices in political rights. African democracy is a different species of democracy which has roots in African culture and history. African societies are plagued by ethnic, tribal and religious conflicts which can be solved not by Western-style liberal democracy but within the framework of the traditional African institutions of consensus-building, elder mediation and conciliation. Western-style democracy is unworkable, alien and inappropriate to Africans because the necessary preconditions for such a system are not present. Widespread poverty, low per capita incomes, a tiny middle class and the absence of a democratic civic culture render such a system incongruous with African realities. Liberal democracy could come to Africa only after significant economic development has been achieved. Any premature introduction or misguided imposition of it by the West could actually harm Africans by destroying their budding faith in democracy itself.

Read the entire article at: www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/the-democracy-before-demo_b_434992.html
Kyeremateng 10 years ago

All roads are leading to the fact that Sarpong is clearer in his mind than Lungu hence his bashing and attacks, but then it render Lungu useless and backward looking.

All roads are leading to the fact that Sarpong is clearer in his mind than Lungu hence his bashing and attacks, but then it render Lungu useless and backward looking.
James Obeng 10 years ago

Who envies SARPONG,the quasi intellectual and the apostle of mentally deranged DR SAS?

Who envies SARPONG,the quasi intellectual and the apostle of mentally deranged DR SAS?
Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

So one party dictatorship President for life was better for Africa, is that what you are saying? Tell us of all the Africa dictators who became virtual powers unto themselves from Mobutu to Toure who ruled for decades which o ...
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So one party dictatorship President for life was better for Africa, is that what you are saying? Tell us of all the Africa dictators who became virtual powers unto themselves from Mobutu to Toure who ruled for decades which one of them was able to develop their respective countries.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

No!

Sorry!

When a government elected by the people is subjected to attacks by those inside with agendas and those outside with other national interests, that government must act to secure the Nation. That is our belief.

No!

Sorry!

When a government elected by the people is subjected to attacks by those inside with agendas and those outside with other national interests, that government must act to secure the Nation. That is our belief.
Concerned Citizen 10 years ago

Nkrumah when he introduced Prevention detention Act in 1958 has not been subjected to any attack on his person physically so what was his reason if not to silence his opponents with total power dangling in his head?

Nkrumah when he introduced Prevention detention Act in 1958 has not been subjected to any attack on his person physically so what was his reason if not to silence his opponents with total power dangling in his head?
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Concerned Citizen,
You are asking about harm to the body of a Head of State that may compel the government to institute measures to prevent such incidents in the future.

In the US, we found out in our own life time that ...
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Concerned Citizen,
You are asking about harm to the body of a Head of State that may compel the government to institute measures to prevent such incidents in the future.

In the US, we found out in our own life time that Pre-Emption is the equivalent of the PDA, whether in Ghana, India, etc.

That said, we are not sure why a state should wait until harm to the Head of Government is attempted before the state acts to secure the State. That does not sound like good governance to us.

For one, the US did not wait until Bush was harmed, or until an attempt on Bush failed, before enacting the Patriot Act.

To your specific question, we are far from the experts in this area of Ghanaian life/history. However, we can provide these 7 examples that predate 1959 about insecurity in the Gold Coast and Ghana that could have necessitated the PDA, from reading and saving records on Ghana web, and other media, Ghanaweb in particular. In fact, if we take the work of columnist Francis Kwarteng and others serious enough, there are a lot we all could learn about that sordid history:

1. Dr. Ama Biney: “The political violence in the country continued with a dynamite explosion at the Central Market in Kumasi on November 17, 1955, and the murder of Krobo Edusei’s sister the following month.”

2) Dr. K. A. Busia and the NLM warned the British government in August of 1955 of grisly after-effects, if the country attained independence under the CPP government.

3) On November 10, 1955, Nkrumah’s house was bombed while he was resting and working in his house with his secretary and others because of a terrible cold.

4) On the eve of Ghana’s Independence on March 6, 1957, the Ewe Unificationists, led by S.G. Antor (Danquah’s buddy), formed themselves into a ragged guerrilla army in Alavanyo and prepared for armed insurrection with homemade guns against the CPP government. The Governor-General sent troops to the region to put down the revolt.

5. In 1957, Busia was making clandestine calls from the US Embassy in Accra asking for funds and requesting the origins of those funds be hidden to show he raised those finds from "party activities. In one instance Busia was asking for $25K, (no $10K). We imagine throughout this period Ghaiana security were monitoring those subversive activities.

6) In 1958, there was a plot to assassinate Nkrumah at the airport and then overthrow the CPP government as Nkrumah was about to leave for a state visit to India. The plot was discovered and the plotters were arrested.

7) In 1958, Modesto Apaloo and R.R. Amponsah (General Secretary of the N.L.M, and later the opposition parties, UP) were implicated in plotting the first coup in the new Ghana with Captain Awhiatey, Commandant of the Gifted Camp (now Burma Camp). The Granville Sharp Commission reports the following: “Amponsah and Apaloo since June 1958, were engaged in a conspiracy to carry out at some future date in Ghana an act for unlawful purpose, revolutionary in character.”

IN SUMMARY: A nation need not wait to see harm done or attempted on the Head of State before they take proactive/pre-emptive actions. There were direct threats to Nkrumah's life, and general threats to Ghanaians citizens and to the security of the state predating 1958.

Remember, Nkrumah was Leader of Government Business from 1951-1957, and the Danquah-Busia confederates never yielded. Hence the PDA...in 1958!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Your reasoning assumes that the PDA was right and simply assigns reasoning to rationalize it.....

Otherwise you will not be assigning as reasons some things that happened in 1955 to justify a law that was enacted in 1958, ...
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Your reasoning assumes that the PDA was right and simply assigns reasoning to rationalize it.....

Otherwise you will not be assigning as reasons some things that happened in 1955 to justify a law that was enacted in 1958, three whole years after the event, to incarcerate people without trial. If the so-called dynamite explosion and the murder of Krobo Edusei's sister occurred in 1955, why wait until 1957 to enact a draconian law to countermand it? Where is the emergency that would justify such a far-reaching law? In any case, why not arrest the perpetrators and deal with them under existing law? What has the perpetration of any political crime got to do with mass imprisonment of citizens without trial?

And what has a warning of the grisly effect of independence got to do with the PDA? Busia gave a warning of the grisly effects of independence in 1955, so after independence in 1957, there should be a PDA in 1958? Was that not in and of itself a fulfillment of Busia's warning of the grisly effects of independence that one could be incarcerated without trial? And if Nkrumah's house was bombed in 1955, PDA should be enacted as a result of it in 1958?

The two events in 1958 (6 and 7) could offer some justification for emergency rule if they rose to the level of a national crisis; but even if true, attempted assassinations and coups happen all the time, and are not presumed to be cause for any emergency rule anywhere. All out civil war and national disasters might justify emergency rule with something akin to the PDA, although for the duration of such events. Otherwise whoever is involved in any crime is tried by existing law and punished accordingly.

Political crimes happen all the time, but they do not constitute any reason to impose marshal law on any country. You accuse a person of any crime, give him a shot at a trial. That ought to be the rule under any civilization. If you think you could make yourself a judge and jury and prosecutor in your own cause, you are a dictator and you must be prepared to be deposed in disgrace.

So if it is all right with you to justify Nkrumah's emergency rule under the PDA wherein thousands were incarcerated without trial, it should not be a difficult intellectual leap for you to understand his ignominious overthrow.

And if you think "A nation need not wait to see harm done or attempted on the Head of State before they take proactive/pre-emptive actions" that means by your reasoning, laws like the PDA do not necessarily need any justification for their enactment. That was indeed Nkrumah's view then. And yet he spoke of freedom and justice and independence for Ghana. What was the meaning of all those phrases in the context of the PDA, one party state and life presidency?

Your type of mentality is an existential threat to our democratic dispensation, and it is the work of men of reason to ensure that it does not become a ruling philosophy in our dear country. In this sense, CPP is forever doomed to the fringes of our country's leadership.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

You got it all wrong!

You are thinking our Ghana-centered approach is synonymous with support for the CPP. You are dead wrong, lawyer.

But maybe you cannot see that because you are too much in the trenched with the NP ...
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You got it all wrong!

You are thinking our Ghana-centered approach is synonymous with support for the CPP. You are dead wrong, lawyer.

But maybe you cannot see that because you are too much in the trenched with the NPP and the Nana Addo crowd.

Good luck!

So, you can now read that partial catalog of events that preceded the PDA - provided to "Concerned Citizen".

You are not parading as "Concerned Citizen", are you, behind another moniker?

So back, we will say "Precedents", and you are the lawyer!

We could add more to that list, but we will not, not for the sake of "Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law".

Nkrumah, as many people say, was benevolent to the subversives, traitors, and secessionists who were bent on tearing apart the new nation, complaining they were being dragged to their own freedom and independence.

ITEM: We generally do not cover individual politicians, unless they make outrageous statements. For the longest, Mr. Mahama has borne the brunt of our critiques. That is because he is the head of the government.

But since you appear agitated by our partial list of events, we will now say this to your NPP persona.

ITEM: We imagine no government will condone those types of conduct, even today. So, use reason and look at the mentality behind Nana Akufor Addo's "All Die Be Die". Then re-process the national outrage, and come back again.

And we thought you wanted your side to win elections!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

You may continue to deceive yourself that your so-called Ghana-centered approach that sanctions incarceration of people without trial will wash.....

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You may continue to deceive yourself that your so-called Ghana-centered approach that sanctions incarceration of people without trial will wash.....

And you may continue to invoke imaginary catastrophic events leading up to the imposition of the PDA. But the facts of history do not support Nkrumah's PDA in the context of his declaration of freedom, justice and independence. And that is why Nkrumah was ignominiously overthrown. He was an arrant dictator who concocted reasons for his tyranny, so he had to go in disgrace. It is all right if you think he was benevolent to the "subversives, traitors, and secessionists who were bent on tearing apart the new nation" by imposing dictatorship upon a country to which he had made a promise of freedom and justice. We also find it all right to recount his tyranny and to celebrate his overthrow as fair and just. You may also continue to spawn his PDA legacy today; but Ghanaians know better now and will resist the oppressor's rule with all our hearts and minds forever more.

And as regards my side winning elections, it will not be at the sacrifice of the truth about Nkrumah. Indeed, I would rather NPP lost than that we concealed the truth about Nkrumah's arrant dictatorship. A truly Ghana-centered approach will begin to uncover where we went wrong, so that we can discover where we can get it right. Such an approach will never engage in revisionism, rationalizations and dissembling of the historical record. And if it is the purpose of you Nkrumaists to blackmail us into accepting Nkrumah's infallibility and immortatality before voting for our national salvation, you may keep your votes for the NDC every time.
Kwadwo 10 years ago

This " Ghana centered" mantra of Lungu is nothing but what Nkrumah tried to impose on Ghana and Africa at large. Let him keep on living in this false paradise. The majority of Ghanaians have moved away from this one party sta ...
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This " Ghana centered" mantra of Lungu is nothing but what Nkrumah tried to impose on Ghana and Africa at large. Let him keep on living in this false paradise. The majority of Ghanaians have moved away from this one party state or unitary government nonsense. NPP doesn't need to accept Nkrumaism to win Elections.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

YOUR" "...The majority of Ghanaians have moved away from this...unitary government nonsense..."

WE SAY: Looks like, conceptually, you do not know what you are talking about, Kwadwo!

If you did, we would say that, that i ...
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YOUR" "...The majority of Ghanaians have moved away from this...unitary government nonsense..."

WE SAY: Looks like, conceptually, you do not know what you are talking about, Kwadwo!

If you did, we would say that, that is as we would expect from a Danquah-Busia-Dombo Confederate sympathizer.

You are enjoying the vision accomplished, and yet will spit on it!

ITEM: Sorry to say this, but we must, finally:

Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, SARPONG, and you, Kwadwo are giving all Asante people a mighty bad name in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. But on that one, we are glad you are in a very small minority.
KKO 10 years ago

Giving a bad name to Asante people for defending the truth? Wow! The Americans have to go back to "MacCarthism". There are a lot of people living in Uncle Sam's country who do not deserve to be there. How else could people li ...
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Giving a bad name to Asante people for defending the truth? Wow! The Americans have to go back to "MacCarthism". There are a lot of people living in Uncle Sam's country who do not deserve to be there. How else could people living in the greatest democracy on earth today support an obnoxious law like PDA?

This Lungu guy obviously does not know the recent history of Ghana. Acheampong was full-blooded Asante but when he went wrong against the people of Ghana, his greatest opposition came from the Ashanti Region. While the Gas did not want Kufuor to build his library in Accra and have removed Ohene-Djan's name from Accra Sports Stadium, the Asantehene recognises every tribal chief in Kumasi.

Clearly, if we had adopted a federal system after independence, some regions would have moved forward by now and drawn up the inward looking backward thinking ones with them!
Mr. Figure-Out 10 years ago

Some of you lazy Nkrumaist cannot seize to amaze me. They cannot help the fragmented remnants of the moribund Nkrumah's CPP to unite to context and win elections, neither do they want the more vibrant and competent NPP to com ...
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Some of you lazy Nkrumaist cannot seize to amaze me. They cannot help the fragmented remnants of the moribund Nkrumah's CPP to unite to context and win elections, neither do they want the more vibrant and competent NPP to come to power. Call them haters if you want. All they could do is to follow their stomach and help the NDC to perpetuate their corrupt ridden governance. Such is of nature of these apostles of doom, namely, Odikro Akyea Mensah, Francis Kwarteng, Andy-K, Kojo T and most treacherous of all is Prof Lungu. Some of us are smart enough to know the inherent mischief in prof Lungu's stance on events here on Ghanaweb. He claim he is not a CPPian, therefore, and by extension, he could be considered a non Nkrumaist. His take on issues bordering on Nkrumah contradicts his outfit and exposes him as a dishonest person, especially as he seems to uphold and defend everything Nkrumah, both evil and benign.

He wrote: "ITEM: We imagine no government will condone those types of conduct, even today. So, use reason and look at the mentality behind Nana Akufor Addo's "All Die Be Die". Then re-process the national outrage, and come back again. "

I say prof Lungu needs serious mental evaluation if he cannot see the import of the "all die be die" rhetoric which some propagandic dunces and scumbags have been mischievously tried to score cheap political points since it's advent. Who in his right senses do not know Nana was referring to that stupid act of bullying and intimidation which preceded the by elections at Atiwa and Akwatia where at one instance Anita DeSoso had her pickup truck run through a crowd of NPP supporters, injuring scores of those poor souls. What about the Azoka boys who were transported all the way from Tamale to beat up, intimidate and prevent NPP supporters from coming out to vote. So, is it a crime for a leader to tell his followers to stand up to the task, defend their votes and squarely face their idiotic opponents with the same aggression ( that is to say, all die be die) with which they( the Ndc foot soldiers) approach election? What is worse than Prof Mills telling Ghanaians that would be like Kenya if ...............? If telling your supporters not to snatch ballot boxes, as Yaw Boateng Gyan was caught on tape telling NDC foot soldiers to do, but encourage them to protect their votes at the pulling stations can be misinterpreted or misconstrued as 'power at all cost' by some of you guys, then I would suggest you need medical intervention for something must be wrong with your thinking faculties.
KKO 10 years ago

Good comment, Figure-Out,
The problem is the NPP's porous and ineffective communication system. They let these rogues get away with murder and cannot even defend their own achievement in government.

A recent example was t ...
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Good comment, Figure-Out,
The problem is the NPP's porous and ineffective communication system. They let these rogues get away with murder and cannot even defend their own achievement in government.

A recent example was the hulabaloo about the criminally recorded "Osafo Marfo comment" on Ghana's resources. Even if he said what he was reported to have said, so what? That was an obvious truth. The NPP could not defend him and you even had idiots like Arthur Kennedy and Nyaho Tamakloe castigating him.

This time around, some of us are going to watch the "Akufo-Addo haters" like hawks. The incompetence and corruption must end in 2016!
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Sorry!

That is actually not the Prof Alemayehu G. Mariam thesis when you get to the end of that essay!

In that sense, it was we who mis-read the heading.

Our apologies to Justice Sarpong on thi one/point!

That sai ...
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Sorry!

That is actually not the Prof Alemayehu G. Mariam thesis when you get to the end of that essay!

In that sense, it was we who mis-read the heading.

Our apologies to Justice Sarpong on thi one/point!

That said, we do not agree with that particular Ethiopian centered analysis. Education, development, prosperity, and improving governance are the best factors for "democracy" that is relevant to the people involved.
Ghana 10 years ago

Prof I'm glad you pointed out the foly of this bovarism bastard trying to demonstrate his ignorance to the public.

These are bastards who think they Ashanti/Akyem are the only people who should rule Ghana forever.

Ment ...
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Prof I'm glad you pointed out the foly of this bovarism bastard trying to demonstrate his ignorance to the public.

These are bastards who think they Ashanti/Akyem are the only people who should rule Ghana forever.

Mentally sick people!!!
GOLD COAST 10 years ago

This is a fourth grade (middle school) essay that shouldn't even get on Ghanaweb.

Since Danquah the terrorist's anniversary,his tribal supporters - mostly "educated idiots" like Sarpong,Ahoofe and "Dokita" Sarfo(the Slip ...
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This is a fourth grade (middle school) essay that shouldn't even get on Ghanaweb.

Since Danquah the terrorist's anniversary,his tribal supporters - mostly "educated idiots" like Sarpong,Ahoofe and "Dokita" Sarfo(the Slip and Fall lawyer) - have been trying their best to paint a saintly picture of the traitor,by throwing mud and paint at Osagyefo DR.Kwame Nkrumah's national and international reputation - but to no avail.

However,come 2016,the good people of Ghana,including CPP and independent voters are going to send the visonless,backward and primitive elephant of the NPP back into the bush - as prophesized by their own Kobina Kennedy,in his book.

PEACE
SARPONG 10 years ago

GOLD COAST, I will give you parole for making me laugh so much with this quote;

"the slip and fall lawyer"

Seems like you have done a few slip and fall schemes yourself.

Now ambulance chasers have become slip and "fa ...
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GOLD COAST, I will give you parole for making me laugh so much with this quote;

"the slip and fall lawyer"

Seems like you have done a few slip and fall schemes yourself.

Now ambulance chasers have become slip and "fallers" lawyers huh?

Don't be a hater, those slip and fall lawyers are doing real good financially.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

SARPONG,
Laugh is good!

Humor is good!

To say, we've got the $1 billion per year Kwame Nkrumah Tourism, Education, and African Diaspora Initiative to create, promote, and deploy, in Ghana. If even 85% of those funds co ...
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SARPONG,
Laugh is good!

Humor is good!

To say, we've got the $1 billion per year Kwame Nkrumah Tourism, Education, and African Diaspora Initiative to create, promote, and deploy, in Ghana. If even 85% of those funds come from outside Ghana, imagine how quickly we could lift Ghana (and Africa).

That said, the little we know about Houston, Texas, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, and Texas big cities in general, attorneys, lawyers have freedom to "ambulance-chase" and "slip-and-fall", even from the same event/mishap/incident/accident. Some of that may explain "doing real good financially."

Greetings!
GOLD COAST 10 years ago

Hey man,I ain't into acquisition of materials things like you big brothers - just to please folks in the village. Heard through the grapevine that big brother "Dokita" Sarfo went to the village with tons of goodies and the po ...
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Hey man,I ain't into acquisition of materials things like you big brothers - just to please folks in the village. Heard through the grapevine that big brother "Dokita" Sarfo went to the village with tons of goodies and the poor folks were jubilant and greatful. Unfortunately,they thanked Sarfo by saying,"Bla Sarfo,yedawo ase paa." Quickly,Sarfo corrected them,"Don't you know I just got minted as a new lawyer in Amelika? Now,all of you must call me "Dokita". That's how Amelikan lawyers are addressed."

On a serious note,you folks should stop shipping junk(1980s)cars to Ghana.People are dying on the roads because of these cars,and the air pollution is killing folks,especially children with breathing problems.

PEACE
SARPONG 10 years ago

You definitely don't ship cars to Ghana or you would have realized shipping any car ten years or older is a No, No. The financial penalty of shipping any car ten years or older is prohibitive enough for even Midas to engage i ...
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You definitely don't ship cars to Ghana or you would have realized shipping any car ten years or older is a No, No. The financial penalty of shipping any car ten years or older is prohibitive enough for even Midas to engage in.

I do agree with you though on your last paragraph. People don't ship 80s cars but rather salvaged cars, cars that have been involved in accidents and deemed not road worthy, bought, repaired and shipped home that cause many accidents in Ghana. We all need to discourage that.

I agree with you on that. Have a good week.
Sam 10 years ago

SARPONG the SKUNK, you will forever be a SKUNK

SARPONG the SKUNK, you will forever be a SKUNK
SARPONG 10 years ago

God created houseflies,tse-tse flies,ants,bugs, cockroaches, maggots, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, slugs, leeches, and intestinal parasites , then he lowered his standards and made you.You are a real monument to stupidity.

Wi ...
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God created houseflies,tse-tse flies,ants,bugs, cockroaches, maggots, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, slugs, leeches, and intestinal parasites , then he lowered his standards and made you.You are a real monument to stupidity.

Will you now get back into your cage ? And I mean now, you vulgar little maggot !
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

Apart from NPP,all the rest of political parties in Ghana are Nkrumahists.Tell me why?Can NPP win general elections in Ghana without the help of some Nkrumahist parties?Go on bashing Nkrumah,we shall see how NPP will negotiat ...
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Apart from NPP,all the rest of political parties in Ghana are Nkrumahists.Tell me why?Can NPP win general elections in Ghana without the help of some Nkrumahist parties?Go on bashing Nkrumah,we shall see how NPP will negotiate with the Nkrumahist parties.Thank you.
Fred Apau 10 years ago

The narrow-minded and conceited SARPONG who claimed Ivory Coast was more developed than in 1966 with many French built factories,was challenged to to list the number of French built-factories in Ivory Coast in 1966 and he dis ...
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The narrow-minded and conceited SARPONG who claimed Ivory Coast was more developed than in 1966 with many French built factories,was challenged to to list the number of French built-factories in Ivory Coast in 1966 and he disappeared.The ignorant SARPONG is no match to Prof Lungu.
Fred Apau 10 years ago

who claimed Ivory Coast was more developed than Ghana in 1966

who claimed Ivory Coast was more developed than Ghana in 1966
SARPONG 10 years ago

Ivory Coast was far better than Ghana in everything, economically and politically. Their GDP was higher and rising whilst that of Ghana was declining. They have better infrastructure.

Whilst Ghanaians were lining up for es ...
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Ivory Coast was far better than Ghana in everything, economically and politically. Their GDP was higher and rising whilst that of Ghana was declining. They have better infrastructure.

Whilst Ghanaians were lining up for essential commodities like milk and soap, shops in Ivory Coast was bursting on the seams with these goods.

I don't have to list factories in Ivory Coast. Just google Ivory Coast economy in 1966. I hope you know how to do basic research.

In 1966, some of the Nkrumah built factories and industries were failing because most of them were losing money and the state supported factories could not be supported.

Typical example was the workers Brigade farming enterprise. It was failing because we have hundred people in almost all workers brigade farms that should have only ten workers, typical socialist policy that also came out when USSR and East Germany came unglued.

No need to engage you in any insult match, just google Ivory Coast in 1966 and compare their economy, education and everything and then make your own informed decisions.

I have never ran away from anybody in this forum including real intellectual giants let alone an intellectual midget like you.
James Obeng 10 years ago

SARPONG,stop spewing blatant lies.What do you mean by Ivory Coast was far better than Ghana in everything? Ivory Coast's illiteracy rate was among the highest in Africa in 1966. Ghana had had three universities in 1966,1vory ...
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SARPONG,stop spewing blatant lies.What do you mean by Ivory Coast was far better than Ghana in everything? Ivory Coast's illiteracy rate was among the highest in Africa in 1966. Ghana had had three universities in 1966,1vory Coast had only one.Ghana had Oil Refinery,Ivory Coast didn't have any.Ghana had a shipping line with 15 ships in 1966,Ivory Coast had none.Ghana had an airline,Ivory Coast didn't have any.Check your your facts,you narrow-minded moron.
Robert Okine 10 years ago

I want to see the list of French-built factories in Ivory Coast in 1966.Don't beat about the bush.You are noted for propogating falsehood.

I want to see the list of French-built factories in Ivory Coast in 1966.Don't beat about the bush.You are noted for propogating falsehood.
Robert Arhin 10 years ago

Stupid and narrow-minded SARPONG! Do you know what it means when a person is universally acknowledged as AFRICA'S MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM ? Nkrumah is the greatest African who has lived on earth in the the past ONE THOUSAND YE ...
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Stupid and narrow-minded SARPONG! Do you know what it means when a person is universally acknowledged as AFRICA'S MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM ? Nkrumah is the greatest African who has lived on earth in the the past ONE THOUSAND YEARS.I hope you know what the word MILLENNIUM means.
SARPONG 10 years ago

Your life is one big W.O.M.B.A.T. and your future doesn't look promising either.

Reading through your twaddle,it is there for all to see that you are deficient in all that lends character .

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Your life is one big W.O.M.B.A.T. and your future doesn't look promising either.

Reading through your twaddle,it is there for all to see that you are deficient in all that lends character .

Try to watch test patterns all day if the other inmates would let you you do so !

You are half-living in the slough of despair !
BEN 10 years ago

We go to them for electricity, asshole.

We go to them for electricity, asshole.
Nana Kasapreko III 10 years ago

Sarpong, you know it is very naughty to lie so blatantly dont you? Do you encourage your children - if any, to lie the way you do on this platform? Shame on you.

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Sarpong, you know it is very naughty to lie so blatantly dont you? Do you encourage your children - if any, to lie the way you do on this platform? Shame on you.

If you say you know how to do basic research as stated above, please go back to the subject of the Ivory Coast and research on the development status of the Ivory Coast at any time of her history, to figure out if that country has ever been as close to Ghana in her development as you falsely claim?

First of all, and to put it bluntly, Ivory Coast is simply put, still a mere overseas (economic) plantation for the French economy. Up to today, most economic installations in that country - from production to agriculture, belong to French and other investors.

La Francophonie is a term used to describe the French empire and in that empire, the French have absolute authority over any financial or economic activity that goes on in any of the countries of that dominion.

As I stated a couple of days ago, the anti-Nkrumah bashers are informed only by their own deep-seated ignorance, lack of knowledge, malice and spite.

Up to the time when Ouattara usurped the sovereignty of La Cote d'Ivoire, the real Ivoiriens were second class citizens to the French immigrants. With the exception of an infinitesimal politically induced middle-class, most Ivoiriens who do not have the privilege of higher education because they simply cannot afford it, were and are now relegated mainly to activities like trading and other menial jobs.

Now, the real Ivoiriens are merely the third class citizens after the Bourkinabe immigrants (the people of Bourkina Faso) who have not only been led by France to take over the Presidency and govt but the second-class slot of the economy where once the Ivoiriens were relegated to.

So now with a foreigner now running the show, Ivory Coast has now virtually become a regional dept of Bourkina Faso. However they are all firmly under the thumb of France who by the neocolonial standards of La Francophonie, gets first choice decision on any major investment opportunities and that is why virtually anything of economic significance or importance in the Ivory Coast belongs to France. The Ivory Coast has never really been an independent country in the real sense of the word.

Generally, in spite of the fact that the imperialist errand-boys have reduced our country Ghana to her knees to become a neocolonial entity, the people of the Ivory Coast still look up to Ghana as if it is the utopia of Africa.

Sarpong, I do not know whether you live in Ghana or not, but if you do and you are not blind, just go around to all the major educational institutions in Ghana and you will be amazed at the number of Ivorian students studying in Ghana. They still dont even have the institutions in their country and if or when in isolated instances they do, they are too expensive for the average Ivorian to attend. And you ungrateful SOB you compare this to Ghana? And this is only just in the area of education. Come on wake up!

You Nkrumah-bashers don't change do you? In the same way that your precedents took a plane to go all the way to London to plead with her imperial majesty the Queen of England - the longest ever serving and unelected head of state in the world, not to grant independence to Ghana, your attitude about belittling your own country has not changed. What at all is it that you guys want?

To compare the Ivory Coast to Ghana amounts to an insult - an act of treachery and high treason.
Hammond 10 years ago

Ivory Coast is more develop than Ghana and for you to write this nonsense does not change anything. Whether most of their production plants are owned by France or not, the living standard of Ivorians are higher than Ghana, an ...
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Ivory Coast is more develop than Ghana and for you to write this nonsense does not change anything. Whether most of their production plants are owned by France or not, the living standard of Ivorians are higher than Ghana, and have more developed cities than Ghana. Go to Ivory Coast especially Boauke, Yamouransakro and Abidjan and it compares to most small cities in Europe. What city in Ghana can even come close?
Nana Kasapreko III 10 years ago

My friend you have very clearly never been to the Ivory Coast before. If you have, there is no need for you to lie like this unless you are blind.

The proper spelling is Yamoussoukro and not Yamouransakro, as you wrongly a ...
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My friend you have very clearly never been to the Ivory Coast before. If you have, there is no need for you to lie like this unless you are blind.

The proper spelling is Yamoussoukro and not Yamouransakro, as you wrongly and farcically put it. In terms of development, what is there in Yamoussoukro?

Yamoussoukro was designated as the administrative capital of the Ivory Coast simply because it happened to be the birthplace of their first President and loyal French servant, Felix Houphouet Boigny.

Yamoussoukro is one of those certificates of evidence of idiotic governance in Africa by imperialist puppets. Yamoussoukro is host to the largest church in the world, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro. It cost the imperialist dog Houphouet Boigny, the French slave, $300 million to build this basilica which is now in total ruins due to the inability of the state and the Catholic Church to foot the huge financial costs of maintenance. This huge edifice used to stand tall and regal in sharp contrast to the vulgar poverty of the living conditions of the local Ivorian people living within its vicinity.

The other city that you mention is also spelt Bouaké and not Boauke. Bouaké can at best compared to Koforidua and nothing more than that.

The very fact that you cannot even spell the names of these places tells me that you dont know the most basic things about the subject matter at hand. Dont be too known, it can backfire on you.

As for Abidjan, it used to be referred to as Le petit Paris (small Paris) because of its extravagant and elegant structures as well as cosmopolitan characteristics. And mind you, the average Ivorian was not factored in the fairy tale impression of Abidjan. Witha few exceptions they were at best the servants, drivers and watchmen who serviced the largely expatriate class. It was like the period when Ghana was still under colonialism and Ghanaians used to go to work at the European quarters as menial workers.

For your information, Abidjan is now a pale shadow of its former self. Since the French were thoroughly shaken by Gbagbo's nationalist approach to get their country back from the French, many of them have run away to other safer and more vulnerable locations in Africa. The economy however still firmly remains in the hands of the French.

If you live in a country where most of the major economic installations belong to foreigners, does it not mean that you have lost grip or ownership of your country?

Hammond, what is your level of education to be thinking this way? Have you ever heard of the word neocolonialism? It means being colonized again economically. That is the case of almost all of the French colonies in Africa perhaps with the exception of Guinea when it was being run by a nationalist govt.
SARPONG 10 years ago

"Hammond, what is your level of education to be thinking this way? Have you ever heard of the word neocolonialism? It means being colonized again economically. That is the case of almost all of the French colonies in Africa " ...
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"Hammond, what is your level of education to be thinking this way? Have you ever heard of the word neocolonialism? It means being colonized again economically. That is the case of almost all of the French colonies in Africa "

And you think Ghana is not neocolonialist? Stop insulting people who are telling the truth.

Ghana is not economically independent if you are not aware. Don't we depend on the so called donor countries to support our budget? Have you so soon forgotten Mahama complaining for not receiving the donor contribution last year?

Isn't IMF now controlling what we can and can't do including putting a freeze on hiring b the government? My friend, Ghana I still economically enslaved.
Nana Kasapreko III 10 years ago

Sarpong I am sorry but sometimes I forget that we also have people like you on board, whose minds are so hopelessly prejudiced that we have to break everything down into infantile variables for some of you to barely understan ...
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Sarpong I am sorry but sometimes I forget that we also have people like you on board, whose minds are so hopelessly prejudiced that we have to break everything down into infantile variables for some of you to barely understand what some of us are trying to arrive at.

Of course Ghana is now a neo-colonial nation. There is no doubt about that but isn't that what some of you prefer? I only referred to the French colonies in my earlier submission because that was what the subject was about. But the truth is that at the time when Ghana had become solidly independent under Kwame Nkrumah, the French colonies had still not yet gained even the aesthetic superficial independence that the colonialists had begun to allow its former colonies to get excited about.

Damn it! Why did the likes of you take the trouble to overthrow the nationalist Kwame Nkrumah govt? Wasn't it because you didn't think that the newly independent nationalist, bold and determined govt of Nkrumah should not be allowed to assume an independent path towards development but should obey the prejudiced whims of what you people refer to as the international community? Of course there were dangers related to the path that Kwame Nkrumah was pursuing but was there any other option to be a free and independent nation?

I thought your mentor SAS was perfectly happy about the sordid situation that we now find ourselves in. You on the other hand sound as if neo-colonialism is distasteful. If so, then I daresay, you may be on the right path towards total recovery from the Post Slavery Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTSD).
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

Justice Sarpong get clearly and consistently confirm the theory that not all the classroom earned credentials from America by migrants of African decent are worth a dime.
Justice Sarpong cannot tell his head from his posteri ...
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Justice Sarpong get clearly and consistently confirm the theory that not all the classroom earned credentials from America by migrants of African decent are worth a dime.
Justice Sarpong cannot tell his head from his posterior because it is just as hard a task as him reading on American history while surrounded by American history books or ebooks. A simple listening of America's military experts, war historians and articles by investigative reporters do confirm one thing, if even faint; they refute your simple-minded and callous approach to facts and conclusions. Most nations "freed" from under tyrannical leaders have become failed states thanks to your whitewashed ideas and ideals on democracy without hard work , shedding of blood, sweat, tears and understanding.
In the USA where you and others like you live relative comfortable lives, the Republic did not become a reality overnight without wars between the new settlers and the natives, between the settlers and former colonial masters and finally between the northern states and southern renegade states. To this day there are backward southern states who would like nothing more than use discriminatory laws to continue slavery for commerce; some of us will take an Nkrumah era dictatorship over slavery but know you are the house negros kind and would not understand. Why do you think northern states elected officers deemed it necessary to go to war with the south when democratic values of freedom of individuals in the south to choose for themselves were being trampled by forces from the north? Would you call actions of the north as dictatorship or colonial mentality of masters thinking they know better than those they lord over? So just as history lessons should have been a clue to you so it is that your hatred for Nkrumah and biases against national unity could not be achieved in Ghana and or Africa at large without strong men short of waging wars on those with love for tribe over nation and or unity. The one thing that should be clear to you since you are of the "me do because master do" mental set is that all the recent failed states/nations around the globe were no breeding ground for global terror under "dictators" but are very much so now under their new found freedoms. Furthermore, some states in the USA would not make it on their own, democratic or not, were it not for shared commerce and practice of socialism that takes tax money from other states for distribution to poor states. Get a clue Justice, its worth it. Did all dictators bring about development of course not just as some state governors in the USA do bankrupt their states and some national leaders have failed in America and or elsewhere democracy is the way of life. Can you name one country where there is the practice of absolute democracy? There is none because there are no absolutes with humans; eventually greed inherited from Adam and Eve comes calling.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

READ: "...some states in the USA would not make it on their own, democratic or not, were it not for shared commerce and practice of socialism that takes tax money from other states for distribution to poor states..."

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READ: "...some states in the USA would not make it on their own, democratic or not, were it not for shared commerce and practice of socialism that takes tax money from other states for distribution to poor states..."

OUR COMMENT: Great point! They are called "dependent states".

The last we checked, “dependent states,”...Mississippi and New Mexico, each...gets back about $3 in federal spending for every dollar they send to the federal treasury in taxes. Alabama and Louisiana are close behind. Then there are Kansas and Louisiana, Mississippi, etc.

Democracy, just like socialism, is relative. In many cases, it is in the eye of the beholder, more so, in the eye of the people who with power, access, money already!
SARPONG 10 years ago

You guys should be ashamed of your lies and God will help continue to help us expose your lies.

I thought you guys are against federalism and say doing that in Ghana is called "Mate me ho" but when USA does it, it is calle ...
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You guys should be ashamed of your lies and God will help continue to help us expose your lies.

I thought you guys are against federalism and say doing that in Ghana is called "Mate me ho" but when USA does it, it is called socialism, huh?

Oh my God, I didn't know you guys are brain dead. One moment, federalism is not good because according to you guys, it will bring integration in Ghana and here are you guys praising the federal system as being the backbone of USA economy because the poor states benefit from the federal government welfare system by taking from rich states like Texas, California and others and giving to poor Mississippi, Arkansas, Wisconsin etc.

Thank God you are now singing the praises of "MATE ME HO" as you people call federalism.
SARPONG 10 years ago

Hahahaha, what an incoherent bosh of tosh. What do you prefer, federal system or unitary system?

You idiot is not making any sense. Are you Nkrumah apologists and Ndc fool soldiers not the same people who argue that Up de ...
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Hahahaha, what an incoherent bosh of tosh. What do you prefer, federal system or unitary system?

You idiot is not making any sense. Are you Nkrumah apologists and Ndc fool soldiers not the same people who argue that Up demand for federalism is "MATE ME HO"? Now you are telling us if it is not the system of government here in USA that takes from the rich states like my Texas lone state to your poor Wisconsin state, some state will be an impoverished states.

I thought you lobotomized socialist praise singers are of the opinion that a federalism in Ghana will bring "mate me ho" where each region in Ghana will be like an independent state without sharing its resources with other regions but here you are arguing differently that if it wasn't the federal system here in USA where the government takes from rich states and shares it amongst poor states, some states would have gone under.

So you praise federalism in USA which you compare to socialism and sees it as good but when we demand the same for Ghana, a moron and Fante supremacist like you call it "MATE ME HO" and not good for Ghana huh? Who is confused now?

Yes, I acknowledge Nkrumah did some good for Ghana but he did other things in Ghana which he preached to other African leaders especially one party rule and President for life that other African leaders adopted as had been shown so far in this series as it being the bane of Africa under development with Dictators who learned from Nkrumah and destroyed their various countries with their own PDAs, one party and President for life foolishness.

I just don't understand why you dunderheads can't accept the fact that dictators in Africa with their one party state and President for life foolishness is the reason why almost all Africa countries are in a mess.

Look at South Africa that did not resort to the foolishness of one party or President for life and Zimbabwe with Mugabe who is an Nkrumah acolyte and what he has done to a rich country called Rhodesia and turned it into a primitive poor country called Zimbabwe.

If you want to envisage what Ghana could have become without the 1966 coup,look at Zimbabwe and you will get your answer.

Nkrumah preferred Mate me ho because he was the first to practice it by breaking away and forming his own Cpp one party state government.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

SARPONG,
We were going to respond fully to your comments, to include comments about Texas vs. Wisconsin, etc.

But, that you will compare Zimbabwe to South Africa tells us you cannot be serious. We seem to have a case of ...
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SARPONG,
We were going to respond fully to your comments, to include comments about Texas vs. Wisconsin, etc.

But, that you will compare Zimbabwe to South Africa tells us you cannot be serious. We seem to have a case of "historical recollection gone astray/unhinged".

So with that, we must close shop on this one!

Greetings!
BEN 10 years ago

Lungu answer or respond to what Sarpong said. You like federalism in USA but you don't want in Ghana, WHY?

Lungu answer or respond to what Sarpong said. You like federalism in USA but you don't want in Ghana, WHY?
Ghana 10 years ago

Mr President we have bastards who don't care about their fathers property because they don't even know their fathers.

One is this Dark Lilliput Bastard called sarpong justice!! This creature insults everybody and it's the ...
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Mr President we have bastards who don't care about their fathers property because they don't even know their fathers.

One is this Dark Lilliput Bastard called sarpong justice!! This creature insults everybody and it's the same of his ilk everywhere you meet them.

It's very easy to identify them anywhere you meet them.

Insults are their way of debating, be it at Ghanaweb, on the radios stations or at the parliament.

Their mothers were always at the market bleaching and left them alone at home by themselves so, there's never been any parental guidance in their lives.

It's very easy to know them because if you say something contrary to what they want, they will insult you immediately before they even think about what you said!!

It's surprising that these short dark creatures who out of their ugliness eat shit and yet thinks it's unearthical for any different tribe to rule Dr Kwame Nkrumsh Ghana except these creatures alone.

Theres no way we will allow uncough urgly creatures to rule us in peaceful Dr Kwame Nkrumah Ghana. Never!!!

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