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Insulting a sitting president is the most unfortunate sin against God

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  • KWASHIE ADJAH 7 years ago

    NOW THAT THE SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FOOT, WE HEAR COMPLAINS FROM THE NDC APOLOGISTS. RAWLINGS STARTED IT ALL, WITH HIS EIGHT YEAR LONG VULGAR INSULTS OF PRESIDENT JOHN KUFUOR AND DURING ALL OF IT, NO PASTORS COMPLAINED, NO CHIE ...
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  • Koo Sigi. 7 years ago

    I thought you are a wise. I don't know u a also like them. We wise

  • Anonymous Coward 7 years ago

    So it's ok for the president to continuously insult Ghanaians right? Bloody hypocrites. The word Baloney, Baseless, Opana, Useless etc. is still fresh in our minds. In the history of Ghanaians presidency, JJ Rawlings and Maha ...
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  • Anonymous Coward 7 years ago

    In the history of Ghana's presidency....

  • Fear God 7 years ago

    You don't like the truth.Did Rawlings call Kufour a thief? Maybe the little girl who called Manama a thief was watching the television when Rawlings called Kufour a thief.This is what we are teaching our children.

  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Anthony Obeng Afrane,

    READ YOURSELF: "...Multimedia and Joy FM must apply a stiff sanction to deter others from doing same if they are not in support of what the young man did. I aso want a reaction from the Media Commissi ...
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  • K. M., Australia 7 years ago

    You lack common sense. I think you are a bigger idiot than Kojo. Fancy, Anthony does not know quotations from the Quran etc etc to quote to support his piece of advice. And the Quran abhors such stupid behaviour of Kojo. Anth ...
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  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Getting to your comment this late!

    We see!

    You are full of insult and can't fathom the public policy implications we addressed competently.

    And, you, K. M., Australia, you are preaching " good morals" from Australia ...
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  • TTT 7 years ago

    JONH MAHAMA LET ME TELL YOU ONES YOU ARE STEALING OUR MONIES TO TAKEN GOOD CARE OF YOUR 22 CHILDREN WITH I8 GIRLFRIENDS,WE WILL INSULT YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES INCLUDING YOUR MINISTERS. UNLESS YOU STOP STEALING OF OUR MONIES.
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  • samuel azumah 7 years ago

    there was an ashanti man reading the daily graphic in a taxi.he turned the paper down and his attention was drawn to it.mr rawlings,the president then was on the front page.he said let blood flow into his head just as he turn ...
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  • Basu 7 years ago

    The ashantis jealous .

  • Kay 7 years ago

    Not when the President uses uncouth and streets language like baloney, and I don't like Amerrican cars.

    Remember, he's representing the whole country, and that's not a light burden or joke ting.


    If speaks like a fool, ...
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  • Nana Ajena 7 years ago

    We will insult this idiot because he's a thief.he's an asshole .ofui mahama otoolege doesn't respect himself.he's gyimiiii

  • George 7 years ago

    Look at this foolish fellow to, u people will die one by one for insulting the sitting president, do u have an idea what a presidency is? Foolish Ashantis

  • Nana Ajena 7 years ago

    I thought u were sensible not knowing u are as stupid as John Ford mahama. Why are u insulting Ashantis? Gyimiifo

  • Ghana nie ba 7 years ago

    God bless u for insult of Ashanti's

  • SAD. 7 years ago

    If Mahama can't take the heat you dingbat should ask him to get out of the kitchen.
    Why don't you fool explain to us what a presidency is all about. Some years ago Bush had to take cover being hit with a sandals. If you die ...
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  • I fear no foe 7 years ago

    Son of a bitch, what do you have that Ashantis, and for that matter Akans don't have, or it is shear envy? Nonsense. What are you, and who are you? Stop playing a dead goat syndrome,too. Gyimifuo.

  • Yamz 7 years ago

    May God forgive you for don't know.

  • ayeye 7 years ago

    continue to insult him.wonder if u re married with kids n even able to manage ur family more lest alone a small community,not to talk of a whole country.people lyk u no hope.

  • Omanbapa 7 years ago

    Mr Afrane thank you, you have spoken well.

    Really your article on insult raining on our president of late has gone too far beyond and if care is taken our beloved could loose its respect in the international level.
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  • Mr Bond 7 years ago

    Bro,did president John Dramani Mahama Insult on Obasanjo gain Ghana international respect?Late Bob Marley said when you throw a ball against the wall it bounce back to you.President John Dramani Mahama is tasting his own medi ...
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  • AMOH 7 years ago

    if mahama rigged even for one vote during last elections and that was proved beyond every doubt.. God has no hand in mahama's govt....read the bible to know what happened to saul as the first human king ordained by God..there ...
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  • maaluuu 7 years ago

    I totally disagree with sm Ghanaians attitude towards our leaders n presidency.de way n manner we were raised with morales n virtues n culture!l wonder how we end up being so rude to our leaders with insults n abusive urgly w ...
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  • Kwesi Ocran 7 years ago

    Who should condemn him, the cleggy, or the civil society? Did you just arrived from the moon? OK, for your information, all these guys have been already insulted by your babies with sharp teeth. Go ahead and dream. Not all le ...
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  • Says Who 7 years ago

    Only Mahama praising articles appear here. It makes you gag.

  • Ben 7 years ago

    Presidents are elected and they are not monarchs. When they do a better job they are immortalized and if they screw up they are serenaded with the disdain they deserve.

  • Nana Ajena 7 years ago

    He's a thief so God has disowned him. Gyimiifo John Ford must stop stealing.

  • Constable Joy 7 years ago

    SHAME TO HOOLIGANS AND POLITICAL-CLOWNS

  • Man 7 years ago

    You've only succeeded in displaying your stupidity & how confused you are. Have you just awoken from slumber, or you are insulting Ghanaians of having short memories as your master prez Dramani did, or the only stranger in Je ...
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  • kululu 7 years ago

    St Paul spoke of a particular situation in mind at a given dispensation. Saint Paul spoke his mind about what he believed at that time was morally right in guiding x'tians from coming into confrontation with the establishment ...
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  • Alonte dinn 7 years ago

    Another attention seeking and favour seeking buffon!

  • neutral 7 years ago

    were you not awere of Roman 13:1-2 when Asiedu Nketsia insulted the NPP including then President Kuffour of Seventeen thiefs

  • Joe Pasasa 7 years ago

    Charity, they say starts at home. NDC thumb-sucking and bib wearing kids like Sam George, Omane Boame, Kwakye Ofosu constantly attacking Nana Addo for no good reason. How about that?

  • Master Jay 7 years ago

    Please what about killing a sitting Prez like how yaanom did to Our Peace Loving Prof. Mills? Hell's fire....period.

  • OFO 7 years ago

    You people live on a grass-land and are throwing stones...
    Does that same bible urge leaders to describe his people in derogatory words like
    .........SHORT MEMORY....etc?
    not supporting that insultive mood..
    But leaders ...
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  • Jo Alaa 7 years ago

    Where are these so called national organizations: Ghana Bar Assoc, Catholic Bishops Conf, Christian Council of Ghana, Peace Council and the rest. They would have shouted at the top of their voices if those insults have gone t ...
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  • Emmanuel-London 7 years ago

    Thanks for this article which touches on the basic foundations in life. we have failed to develop as a Nation because we lack the simple technique of sharing opinions. keep it up and never be discouraged by silly comments to ...
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  • Sweet Lady 7 years ago

    Very encouraging words from you gentleman and the difference between you and all the others on this thread is very clear.
    Afrane is a member/secretary of the Ghana writers association with many books to his credit.
    He ...
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  • LEVEL PLAYING FIELD 7 years ago

    STEALING UNDER THIS GOVT IS FRUSTRATING CITIZENS TO ACT OUT. THE SUFFERING IS TOO MUCH. REFER TO WHAT JESUS DID TO THOSE WHO WERE GUMBLING IN THE CHURCH. WHEN IT COMES TO THE WORSE AND INDIVIDUALS ARE TOEMENTING GOD'S PEOPLE ...
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  • K Mensah 7 years ago

    Mahama deserves to be insulted because he is a thief. Period.

  • Paul 7 years ago

    What about stealing president

  • Baba oforikrom 7 years ago

    Who is that fucking idiot talking about insulting a president.where were u when Asiedu nketiah said 17 armed robbers including president kuffuor if u dont to hear more insults fuck off

  • Baba oforikrom 7 years ago

    Basu u an idiot the writter is an asante and u are insulting asantes u are just jealous of asantes because they are far ahead of you.you idiot

  • Yaw 7 years ago

    This gentleman called kojo yankson is intellectually disable, he is fit for the cesspit, he is not fit for radio. He is half-baked journalist. I am making all this because he himself says it was the backlash he had on social ...
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  • the gods are crazy 7 years ago

    those insulting mahama i petting u cos not even ur entire generation will ever get to mahama's level

  • Immortal 7 years ago

    I have been quiet on this platform for far too long and I think an opportunity has presented itself for me to say something. I must say that this article is the perfect description of either stupidity or pretension. Is it onl ...
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  • Samson Tayare Adjei 7 years ago

    Dear country men and women, have you ever thought evil about somebody and hoping to see that person slip and fall?, but that person continues to live happily?. pls let us love and live a happy life. so long as the person you ...
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  • jam 7 years ago

    IF U KILL TO BECOME A PRESIDENT YOU SAY ITS A POSITION GIVEN TO YOU BY GOD ? MAHAMA FOUND IT EASY BECOMING A PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE KILLED HIS BOSS, ATTA MILLS. HE MAHAMA IS ALREADY CURSED AND THE INSULTS ON HIM IS THE REPERCU ...
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  • Joe 7 years ago

    There is a difference between criticism and insult. If someone call Mahama's government as incompetent, it not an insult to the person of Mahama but a criticism to the way his government is being run. So there is a vast dif ...
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  • Wontuuro Christian 7 years ago

    infact, God punish those who insult authorities.May God give Mahama patience to rule the state.

  • Gyeeda, Sada, Suba,Bus Branding Woyom 7 years ago

    When the authorities are thieves and goes about killing their fellow humans, who says they can't be insulted? You must advice your foolish president to stop stealing state's funds, stop hiring thugs to kill fellow MPs and ste ...
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  • Concerned 7 years ago

    Won't the three years girl know if she is hungry? the God you are talking about would rather punish you and your incompetent mahama,fools,sorry to say.

  • jeee 7 years ago

    pity,if yu are insulting someone that. he is a fool, and that person makes laws for yu, who is now a fool, the wise could have say no, but am supprise woo, wise men.its vote not insults, it changes nothing.

  • Kingsley 7 years ago

    what is wrong is wrong. he is wrong but have you now seen or heard someone insulting a sitting president? Did you hear of Koku Anyidoho insulting Pressident Kuffour, and recently pastors? Dr. Asemfofro insulting President Kuf ...
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  • Kingsley 7 years ago

    what is wrong is wrong. he is wrong but have you now seen or heard someone insulting a sitting president? Did you hear of Koku Anyidoho insulting Pressident Kuffour, and recently pastors? Dr. Asemfofro insulting President Kuf ...
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  • Change Mahama 4 Good 7 years ago

    WHO DOESN'T KNOW THAT MAHAMA IS A MISTAKE PRES THUS GHANA;S UNFORTUNATE TROUBLES OF TAX STEALING, POVERTY AND LIES

  • Concerned 7 years ago

    The insults from Ghanaians to mahama is appropriate, because he is cursed,and no one should attribute God's name to him,be

    he is a condemed person, but human view point we see him as a sitting present.

  • nana antwi 7 years ago

    The authority of the President does not come from God. It comes from the 1992 Constitution. And the authority of the constitution is derived from the sovereign will of the people. Ghana is a Republic not a theocracy. A Presid ...
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  • ABDUL MUMUNI 7 years ago

    Mahama went to kumasi to insult them that even when he used gold to make a road they will say he has than nothing what an insult,how can a president speak like that.

  • Adam ziba 7 years ago

    Nana Ajena or what ever dog name u give yourself.
    A monkey can never become a human being.
    The President is the President. And you and your people have not left Ghana because of
    your claims.
    Northers and some Southern c ...
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  • Nana 7 years ago

    Ghana is for all not some selected self seeking opportunist, John Mahama is the President. and He's continuing his second term. Nothing can change that. If u claimed Ghana is lost hope then go to where u think there is hope f ...
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  • KOFI A 7 years ago

    Foolish article. The President deserves insults if he does not behave like he was voted to do. We are his employers Mr Afrane if you must know.

  • Esunga Kipo 7 years ago

    WHAT AT ALL DO YOU WANT FROM PRESIDENT MAHAMA? WHAT HASN'T HE DONE FOR MOTHER GHANA? THOSE OF YOU INSULTING HIM ABOUT ARE CREATING A VERY BIG SIN OB YOURSELVES IF YOU DONT KNOW. IT TAKES NOT HATRED TO WIN PRECIDENCY. GOD HAS ...
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  • NTIM Gyakari 7 years ago

    TOO MUCH FAKE RELIGION KILLING GHANA NOW.

  • NTIM Gyakari 7 years ago

    WHAT ABOUT STEALING GHANA MONEY?

  • Kofi Boahen Paris 7 years ago

    One good turn deserves another,when yo keep on calling Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo names so it shall be. OFFUI.

  • George Nutsugah 7 years ago

    John Mahama has been the de facto president of Ghana for the past 7 years. The general public opinion about him is that he is incompetent and corrupt. He is also a thief and a liar.

  • moshie 7 years ago

    he deserve it. this stupid president is not GOD ordain president so even those yet to be born will insult him. look corruption everywhere in his government. people are dying bcos of him, we never experience this hardship in G ...
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  • Victor Baidoo, South Africa 7 years ago

    If your PRESIDENT takes bribe leading to a multi-million dollar road project awarded to the BRIBE-GIVER going bad in less than 3 months of completion, what genuine English words can one use to describe the President other ...
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  • FREDERICK APPIAH-KUSI 7 years ago

    READ AGAIN YOUR BIBLES THE GOOD BOOK SAYS IF ONE USES EVIL POWERS OR MULTREAT UR OPPONENTS GOD DISGRACES U READ ROM 3:13-18, 2 TIM 3:2-5. LISTEN TO URSELF WHAT ABOUT PARTY PEOPLE INSULTING MEN OF GOD WHAT MUST GOD DO TO THEM

  • Chicago Guy 7 years ago

    OTANI ABOA you stealing ghana money
    That's good

  • Kwaku Obeng 7 years ago

    Please do not use tribal sterotypes. You can talk about his incompetency. Pls do not use such words. Good night countrywo/man.

  • Chris KK 7 years ago

    Nana Ajena or who ever u call your self may the Good forgive u ur sins for raining insult on Prez Mahama, but i want assure u that the most painful things that will hit u and your generations is that(1) you are cursed n ...
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  • apuuuu 7 years ago

    Sorry bro dead goat President Mahama do not respect himself he insult we the citizen when ever he had a chance remember you are not my co equal baseless i do not like America cars he insult Obasanjo he can not even answer ...
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  • Chicago Guy 7 years ago

    What's the Ashanti can do you pepeni or where ever u from u people can not do
    U don't have to compare yourself to Ashantis ,Ashantis are blessed

  • Kwaku Obeng 7 years ago

    Asantes are not special human beings. You, yourself may not an Asante so pls do not pit Asantes against other tribes. From your writing, any enlightened person could see that you are not an Asante!

  • Peter Ayamga 7 years ago

    Insults are not gud to all not prez only

  • Mosco De Gamma 7 years ago

    DO THE RIGHT THING mr talk chaw n do little prez do the right thing God is watching if you don't want to be called thief do the right at the right time

  • Abusua 7 years ago

    But what about the President allowing his boys insulting decent people who make comments on national affairs.
    What about President Mahama himself? No president insults more than Mahama perhaps only Rawlings can beat him

  • kwasi Daabour 7 years ago

    thanks God u have seen this n talking abt it, but if I may ask, when did U realise dat? am sure u were grown up when Rawlings overthrown Dr Limann? when Rawlings was insulting left right center?Tony Aidoo call fmr pr Kuff ...
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  • Mosco De Gamma 7 years ago

    MAHAMA GOVERNMENT is first of all born like the natural siamese twins that bonded with absolute lies and cheap talking hmm what do you take us for? Mahama govt is a total failure base on the agenda they used in 2008 7th Janu ...
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  • Wisa 7 years ago

    Hahaha etuaa wo yonko ho a na etuaa duah mu. Mind my twi, we don't think insults alone is enough to describe president mahama n other worthless leaders of our time, not long ago real human beings were lined up and shot dead o ...
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  • SIMPLE TRUTH 7 years ago

    Afrane, try and GET an ANSWER for this simple QUESTION.Why is a sitting president being INSULTED?

  • Honest Thruth 7 years ago

    Jesus went in a rage when he saw the House of God turned into a profit making place. When a chosen leader gets insulted, it means something is wrong. Don't fault the renegade until you have honestly found out what caused that ...
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  • Moses 7 years ago

    The crying of Ghanaians has arised to God,hopefully change ll cm... so pls let's watch our tonque as the holy book talks abt..God is answering our prayers......

  • The Don 7 years ago

    Go and eat your head if you have a problem, kwasia fui

  • BABA 7 years ago

    Mr. writer, some things are of God. Psalm 15:4 "In ?whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honours those who fear the Lord ".
    The thing may also be of the Lord :
    2Chronicles 10:15 "So the king did not listen to the p ...
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  • Luca Dotti, Italian 7 years ago

    So if he is a fool we still keep our mouth shut because he is a pressident, brutana

  • samson 7 years ago

    stop the stealing.ghanaians deserves better

  • Tompo 12 7 years ago

    Loooh who is complaining! You surround yourself with insultinmouth on. entities like okudzeto ablakwa, age nim Boateng Felix Kwakye ofosu Sam George koku anyidoho who but for Ghana politics would have been to nothing. rewardi ...
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  • C4 7 years ago

    President is the father of the nation just as the husband is the head of the house if you're a father and don't provide for your family whilst working you will never deserve a father's day

  • Kahuna 7 years ago

    When Hannah Bissiw insulted Nana Ado, calling a man old enough to be her DAD 'A SEXY OLD FOOL' it was perfectly alright because Nana Ado being opposition leader deserves that. In most 'civilised' countries somebody like her w ...
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  • King Faisal 7 years ago

    Is a hatred to my understanding you know Ashantis don't respect anybody in Ghana apart from their people All the discrimination that goes on is that under this particular tribe is so sad that we don't love but God us all

  • Abdul 7 years ago

    People should read this article objectively; the advice is good for the nation

  • THEREALTRUTH 7 years ago

    Sorry Abdul but I think that bible was speaking of good leaders. When the citizens are happy there is a Good and Honorable leader in power and when the citizens are unhappy that means there is a Bad leader in power.These peop ...
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  • Ben 7 years ago

    Tell your president to talk and behave like a grown up person. Was he not the who told us that shopping malls don't construct road. Nonsense

  • Farmer George. 7 years ago

    These are the same quotations from the bible the the white men used to enslave Africans for hundreds of years.
    We've seen thieves and murderers like Jim Jones hide behind the bible to commit real atrocities against mankind. ...
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  • KK Kobby 7 years ago

    I agree with President JM on that. However what does he say about what the NDC insults to Kuffour when he was president. At that time it suited JM so was that ok? Why didn't he come out to condemn his party? What is good for ...
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  • Eugene Yagason 7 years ago

    INSULTING A SITTING PRESIDENT ELECTECTED BY A POPULAR VOTE IS WORRYING.
    IT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE TO AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT. WHY IS IT DONE IN GHANA?
    WE HAVE JUST STARTED THE WAR BY THESE INSULTS AND BURNING OF PARTY FLAGS!
    P ...
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  • change is coming 7 years ago

    what about de useless Mugabe always insulting nana addo. this article is a stupid one. when mahama told Ghanaians BALONEY, was that one allowed by God or that one is righteousness. what sort of foolishness is this. de nonsen ...
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  • larry 7 years ago

    shame on you kojo. you can criticise the president but not insult him. if you are not happy with the work he is doing vote him out at the ballot box or even campaign against him, I am not a fun of president Mahama but i will ...
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  • Nii 7 years ago

    Al thanks to shortingo Akuffo-Addo and his npp

  • kirtis brown 7 years ago

    It is a big shame for some one like your status to have called The sitting President arm robber. please do the honorable thing by apologizing to the President on the same plat form that you use to called him an arm robber.

  • Kongfumasters 7 years ago

    They lacked moral training. Been brought up in uncivilized society. Mahama is winning again decreed by God Himself ! Because of their insult s I cursed them, NPP

  • npp nima 7 years ago

    it only a bastard child who insults the elderly.

  • Gyeeda, Sada, Suba,Bus Branding Woyom 7 years ago

    What is Mr. John Ford up to now. He forget the numerous times he insulted the intregrity of Ghanaians and even in this peace, he repeats himself saying" if becoming a president is that easy, somebody would have been president ...
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  • OWUSU NYAMEKYE 7 years ago

    A SITTING PRESIDENT SHOULD NOT BE CORRUPT AND INCOMPETENT AS THE ONE WE HAVE NOW.

  • Niim3Niim3 7 years ago

    We are reading but we are not understanding. By insulting a sitting President, you are actually insulting your entire nation to the rest of the world. HE IS OUR NUMBER 1 CITIZEN. A car which was received at the High Commissio ...
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  • Forson Junr Tle 7 years ago

    My brother you are more than god sent to speak this to our elder statesmen and women. I have always said that the people who are letting our country down are the traditional and religious authorities as the new stand bold to ...
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  • Babana Tamale 7 years ago

    Insulting the president is a sin, but insulting the flagbearer of a political party is not a sin,check to see the insult giving to Nana Akuffo Addo by Ablakwa, Mutala, Offosu Kwakye, Koku Ayidohu, Kojo Boafu, Philip, Baba Ja ...
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  • Kofi 7 years ago

    what about a sitting president insulting the people .

  • KANAWU 7 years ago

    MR PRESIDENT MAY I KNOW FROM YOU SINCE
    NDC YOUTH ARE ALWAYS INSULTING NANA ADDO,HAVE YOU EVER CONDEMN THAT?LOOK YOUR BOYS LIKE KOKU ANYIDOHO,ASIEDU NKETIA,OFOSU KWAKYE.OTTU KONNOR, OKUDJATO AND OTHERS. TELL ME A SINGLE DAY ...
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  • Dr. Acquah 7 years ago

    Another Idiot! Stop this God here, God there!Even in well-advanced countries, Presidents are insulted.Are Presidents not human beings? Are they above reproach?What do you expect from the people if the Prez.makes them suffer d ...
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  • Agbozo 7 years ago

    He killed Attack Mills,Stole our money to buy property in Dubai,use our money to befriend many women including Nadia,impose harsh tax on us,increased light bill to the roof top,gave all juicy jobs to Nigerians n Burknabes,re ...
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  • sky news reporter 7 years ago

    John mahama is kwasia, aboa, Aponkye, fufu head food and banku politrician who tricks and steals.... God didn't appoint him as president..that's why nothing seems to be working under his watch.....his hands are cursed for sab ...
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  • Bisa Goma Nash 7 years ago

    Kennedy Agyepong fulked his mother before