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MANASSEH’S FOLDER: A critique of Akufo-Addo’s 'Thank you' tour

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  • Kweku 7 years ago

    I wish all journalists and other categories of writers in Ghana will learn to write objectively on national issues as you are currently doing. We are tired of the partisan consideration of issues in this country. Don't mind ...
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  • Nii Teiko 7 years ago

    There is more wisdom abound in Nana Addo. He understands our traditions and culture. Indeed, he could have waited to have the chance to use state apparatus to embark on his thank you tour. But he did not. This goes a long way ...
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  • CHARLES ADU-GYAMFI (USA) 7 years ago

    Thank you Nii. You said it right!

  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    "This goes a long way to prove that he could be one of the best, if not the best, president Ghana has ever had". You arrived at this conclusion simply because of a thank you tour? Is that your yardstick for measuring a good P ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

    I can say emphatically that our traditions and culture are the main reasons our country is underdeveloped and will stay underdeveloped, unless there is a paradigm change that is conducive to progress.

    Donald Trump is still ...
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  • Nii Teiko 7 years ago

    It is very important to understand the culture and tradition of the people before you can deal with them. Development evolve in stages; that is, you cannot count two before the count of one.

    The Western World pass the sta ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

    You seem to underestimate the cultural deficit hampering Ghana's development. It is more palpable than you think. What the western world and all the countries you named have in common is conviction of purpose and discipline, ...
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  • Concerned 7 years ago

    Is it possible to die a year before your child is born

  • Kkd 7 years ago

    This same mannaseh wrote something against Npp n you fools desended heavily on him. And who told mannaseh that because nana addo visited the chiefs and the clergy they won't come and visit him after the swearing in ceremon ...
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  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    "Last leave the Ga chief alone and go and make peace among the northern chiefs".

  • osei 7 years ago

    Why do you constantly use oldman in your article. Couldn't you have used a different description.

  • BB 7 years ago

    You made me cry reading this master piece. I admire the artistic nature of your writing. You have made your teachers proud. Osei, don't worry about the use of 'old man'. It is called sarcasm. remember he is only using the wor ...
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  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    I guess you have emotional issues. It doesn't take much to make you cry.

  • Oseis 7 years ago

    Mr. Osei, if there is anything you must recognise, it is that Manasseh is a very good writer. May I inquire if you have been following elections in Ghana, especially the just-ended one. The description, "old man", as used in ...
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  • Ek 7 years ago

    I think by now we can call him old man without any ill feelings and insult attached and as a sign of respect, after all heis 72 years, but he is now considered to be the old man of much trust and expectation

  • Kkd 7 years ago

    Is nana addo a young man? Kwaaasia kwa hahaha

  • aikins 7 years ago

    I don't see anything wrong with him using the word "oldman" he is 14 years younger than the so called youth but still beat him with 1.5 million votes.

  • Kotey 7 years ago

    It has taking you the first veil instead of the seven veils to show where you stood all along,no guise but straight to the point by saying I am a true npp.

    Mahama and some of these ndc inexperience leaders who confided and ...
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  • ll 7 years ago

    WAS THE GIFT DURING THE OUTDOORING OF HIS BABY MEANT TO KEEP HIM MUTE.

  • Kotey 7 years ago

    No he thought he was a friend not knowing he was dealing with a mole.

  • King Bright 7 years ago

    A mole? Pls come again. Why is it that the ndc are only friends to sycophants? Ask Martin Amidu.

  • Ek 7 years ago

    I have live in upper west for the past five years now, but when I read from this man, all I see is a native from the northern part of the country who indeed is a son of watchman but hve not sold his conscience like his other ...
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  • Ghana Baby 7 years ago

    Very well written article... May God be Nana-Addo helper... Amen

  • Mba Abilla, Bolga 7 years ago

    We all knew that Manaseh Azure will soon become the unofficial PRO of the Nana Addo's government. See, even the president elect is not yet inaugurated he has already put his pen into action praising Nana Addo all over. What ...
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  • Nii Teiko 7 years ago

    Is Tanii not a human? And who said calling somebody Tanii make such a person a second class or lesser being. Fuck off, you stupid hater.

  • CHARLES ADU-GYAMFI (USA) 7 years ago

    Very pragmatic and well written article.

  • CHARLES ADU-GYAMFI (USA) 7 years ago

    Crique is a detailed analysis and assessment of something...It is not an act or insult or defamation, so if you do not see the critique, go back to school, and stop making inflammatory statements that can impede our peace and ...
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  • B San 7 years ago

    Where is the critiques?
    When I first read what this new young journalist wrote about his village and how his father slept on benches in mosquito infested ghana to make him a journalist, I shed a tear and only hoped he conti ...
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  • CHARLES ADU-GYAMFI (USA) 7 years ago

    What is this? Cut it, please! Ghanaians are well cultured and educated so when people like you come on this site, and gush words like this from your wherever, it makes me pocket my gentility for a little while and yell, get o ...
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  • Ken Ntiamoa 7 years ago

    Ken

  • rash 7 years ago

    Fantastic piece. I'm always in awe of this gentleman; he writes intelligently and thoughtfully devoid of wordiness. Some would've bombarded us with "big big English" yet the message won't be clear. Everything in this article ...
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  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    "I'm always in awe of this gentleman". I am sure on all fours with glee.

  • nana addo 7 years ago

    Manaseh with Mahama gone your main source of livelihood is up in smoke.
    Will you now turn to vilifying Nana your messiah?

  • Gidusworld 7 years ago

    May God help all of us this country called Ghana. With others we don't need to be political but with others we campaign for four full years non stop.

  • Ozziduro, USA 7 years ago

    This guy is a gem.

  • Ozziduro, USA 7 years ago

    Do not say The North is impoverished. What do you make of the Human Capital?

  • Patriot 7 years ago

    We never knew how much was spend on President Mills' funeral, neither did we know how much was spent on the thank you tour Mahama did after the funeral.

  • #theunseen.... 7 years ago

    Charley ibi true oo...uu seff u remind me....Akuffo Addo for investigate that thing was.....people take the funeral chop GH money waaa

  • CHARLES ADU-GYAMFI (USA) 7 years ago

    Thank you Kweku. That article, to me, is my new year gift, very touching, reflective and reflecting. I hate those articles by the so called professional like Kweku Baako and that tall guy journalist...I do not know this Manas ...
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  • Eric 7 years ago

    Precisely,the man Akufo Addo is really blessed, indeed God has rewarded him for his sacrifices for democracy in Ghana. Even young Mahama lost his voice and using helicopter and jets because of bad roads,at his age Nana was sp ...
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  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    Hahaha, I laugh enter the asslicker's room. Very soon you will call him Nana commando, Nana one man delta force, Nana King Kong, Nana ogboo etc.

  • serwaa aka Mrs Jasikan 7 years ago

    Actually, he's already all that. We don't need to wait for any "soon" to call him so. Feel free to call him any of those names

  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    I won't be surprised if you call him Nana Yesu; especially you. You've always sounded like a griot. Praise singing and bootlicking without substance. Besides it's useless explaining anything to you because you hardly understa ...
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  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    Lol. Why am I not surprised you call him all that already. You sound like the type.

  • TRUTH STANDS 7 years ago

    You could have adopted kweku Baako style. Declare your stand and be objective rather than malicious style of journalism. But I promiss you that you would be humillated soon by the people you are worshiping. It shall come to p ...
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  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    Bro, Mannaseh wants to belong and people like him must do much more than others, to be accepted by that society they wish to be part of.

  • serwaa aka Mrs Jasikan 7 years ago

    ...you mean like Kwasi Pratt??? Cos he's lost all honour unlike Baako who is respected and has His words treated as facts. You should wish for manessah's downfall after you've wished for the sane for Pratt. The most senior-m ...
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  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    Do you understand what you read at all?

  • serwaa aka Mrs Jasikan 7 years ago

    @ Kweku, No I don't understand what i read. How can I comprehend any information when there's an incompetent party in power? Just as the prez is incompent in governance, I'm also incompetent at comprehension

  • Salifu R. Angaamwine 7 years ago

    I think the thank you tour is timely and cost effective as per the issues raised. Not withstanding, the oldman needs rest. This Bongo boy is simply good.

  • Anthony Tee 7 years ago

    just asking oo. Mr Manessah! please chill as the work has not started yet- dont start licking boots too early

  • Tilayoo 7 years ago

    Baaam I didnt know the Azure guy could be such a bootlickers. A critique must be balance for people to form their own opinions and not this.

  • serwaa aka Mrs Jasikan 7 years ago

    Okay. Now tell us your opinion .

  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    Would you understand an opinion if you read one? In your mind it's either Nana asslicking or nothing.

  • KWAPPS 7 years ago

    It is a good observation raised in this piece, that the old man is using his own resources to embark on a thank you tour. All other presidents would have used the state's apparatus, hmmm. They say one swallow does a summer n ...
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  • Oseis 7 years ago

    Kudos Manasseh! This is an intelligent write-up. You are just a phenomenon.

  • God bless! 7 years ago

    A brilliant write-up from the pen if a brilliant journalist. Manasseh go on, beyond the sky is your limit.

  • ZIga 7 years ago

    Nice piece. May God grant our president- elect the strength and wisdom to build our country like Malaysia, Singapore etc.

  • Amaliba 7 years ago

    Manasseh, this is an objective piece, well written . I like to read your write-ups a lot. Keep it up young man.

  • say it loud 7 years ago

    Manasseh you are too much!!! I never get tired of reading your articles. Great write up from an intelligent young man.

  • KOJO HAMBURG 7 years ago

    God Bless You So Much Manesseh!

  • Abdulai Mahamadu 7 years ago

    At the moment I am not in position argue with Manassehs lengthy" Ananse Story" ,but I am praying that we should all be alive to witness the inaugural ceremony of this failure and beyond up to his second and third years of h ...
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  • serwaa aka Mrs Jasikan 7 years ago

    From the way you are able to predict future failures, I'm certain you re used to failure and you're also surrendered by losers. Why don't you write a book about your failure expeditions

  • JDM 7 years ago

    Wow my brother, well written piece. Continue on this path

  • villag Kakalika 7 years ago

    i hope he will not go and borrow money to build any infrastucture as that is the cheapest thing anybody can do.

  • Shell 7 years ago

    That's what I thought. How old is old?

  • Keli Mensah 7 years ago

    One year paa....he was born after the demise of his father?

  • Mandeya 7 years ago

    lt is better to go and do serious politics for the npp like kojo opong Nkrumah than to be a pretentious political journalist.God is keenly watching the hypocrites .

  • serwaa aka Mrs Jasikan 7 years ago

    Yes! hypocrites like Kwesi Pratt who was given a V8 for just for been an ndc“senior journalist". Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house

  • dak 7 years ago

    big fool calling himself a journalist. I learnt you're even a bastard.

  • serwaa aka Mrs Jasikan 7 years ago

    When a man's thinking faculty becomes a refuse dumping site, all you can expect from him is garbage.

  • kash 7 years ago

    Keep it up, my brother... Your writings always keep me thinking. For the first time in several elections I voted for Nana Addo and I hope he succeed. IF PEOPLE STEAL MOBILE PHONES and get jailed.. Nana should be mindful not t ...
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  • Yussif 7 years ago

    Manaaseh you just made my day with this wonderful peace of article,you re indeed the true and proud son of the north,your objectivity and the maturity of your words means that you didn't read under the light of your fathers e ...
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  • Ibrahim 7 years ago

    Manasseh please try and work like Anas is doing your political colour is clear

  • Dessie 7 years ago

    This is rubbish: It is all about energy saving as the old man can't move around the country again as he is too old to do that.organizing chiefs at Paramount chief parlour and inviting Akuffo Addo ,the same as others as well a ...
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  • TK 7 years ago

    The oldman will balance everything from state coffers, so stop all the praises

  • Francis 7 years ago

    Please keep it up.Nice piece Manasseh

  • Bismark.#krachiboy 7 years ago

    Oh! !! my God this chap is indeed a writer genic He knows when to and exactly what to write. my fellow Npp men and women let's not chastise him when he begin writing about rots and canker in the old man's reign. God bless Gh.