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Mahama Defends Visually Impaired Minister

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  • Kweku Boateng Jnr 11 years ago

    Dr. Henry Seidu Daanaa is a human being who is well qualified to be a minister. What Nana Kwaku Dwomo Ankoana 11 should be worry about is the corrupt politicians they the cheifs met regularly.
    The UK had for sometime under ...
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  • Proud Pepeman. 11 years ago

    That is right, the minister in question was David Blunkett. He managed the home office which has a budget several times more than that of the nation Ghana. He was also elected MP several times.

  • Quashie Bongo 11 years ago

    Mahama, Mahama, Mahama! This is a message from your Lord God. Remember Koku Anyidoho before your bad days come. Give Back koku's position at the castle before he expose you and your 'first coup de tat' plotters who kill Mill ...
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  • kobbydoe 11 years ago

    Well spoken

  • Ibrahim Alah 11 years ago

    Kweku you are right, we had a governor in New York who was visually impaired before and who did complete his tunre of office successfully. If Britain and the United States could do that why not give it a trial. After all we ...
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  • Nana Akomea 11 years ago

    Next it will be a blind and paralised pepeni man for minister

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Another stupid Ashanti black monkey calling somebody pepeni. Kotibotor man like you, you smell.

  • Banana.com 11 years ago

    This Seikwa chief should know that his primitive norms cannot supersede the constitution of the country. If he does not meet a blindman he better isolate himself from the rest of the country because the nomination of the blin ...
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  • kobbydoe 11 years ago

    Eyewu ya

  • kobbydoe 11 years ago

    Nana akomea eyewu ya,how many of your family members has doctrine degree

  • tt 11 years ago

    Akomea is a habaseni meaning forestman. Too ignorant with a midevil mentality reserved for animals. In his world pigs fly.

  • LARYEAH 11 years ago

    THEY SHOULD GET LOST WITH THEIR BACKWARD OLD AGE AKAN CULTURE. THIS IS 21ST CENTURY AND STILL WE THIS BACKWARD ASHANTEHENE AND BACKWARD SUBJECTS ON THIS STUPID CULTURE. IT IS HIGH TIME ONE MUST ATTACK THIS BACKWARD CHIEFS OF ...
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  • CTZ 11 years ago

    IF YOU SAID SO THEN NO PROBLEM MR. PRES!!!!!

  • Mahama-Gbagbo 11 years ago

    Mahama: Appoint him as Minister for Sht Carriers and the noise will stop.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    You are a good for nothing Ashanti monkey and the best place for you is under an Odum tree.

  • Yaa Baby 11 years ago

    Even you asantes think you are human beings. Village goats. Even you who have both eyes what have you achieved. Asante villager. You Asantes are the worst humans yet you think you are the best. Champanzee family. Ugly mo ...
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  • Against Mantse 11 years ago

    Someone please help me understand this. The name or moniker of the person who made the comment is Mahama Gbagbo. How do you presume he's an Ashanti and what formed the basis of your assumption? Instead of attacking his/her co ...
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  • tt 11 years ago

    It is called PSYCOLOGY.

  • KK 11 years ago

    The President to order Roads & Highway minister to employ more physically challenged persons at our various toll booths as cashiers.

  • Boateng 11 years ago

    Shame on the chief of Seikwa! Thank God there are chiefs that support this appointment. Thank Mahama for being open minded on such issues and his willingness to open new frontiers for Ghana.

  • OZA 11 years ago

    A visually impaired individual with a PhD! Are people not impressed by the challenges he overcame to attain that smartness. Shame on the critics!

  • tt 11 years ago

    His critics are illiterates, who are busy calling others names and eating kosea with fufu and saying i am kontohene. idiots of idiots.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    Nana Kwaku Dwomo is out of his senses. Is he better than Dr. Henry Seidu Daanaa?

  • Yaa Baby 11 years ago

    Nana Akomea you are bush meat. Asnate/Akyem villag goat.

  • mawusi 11 years ago

    This traditional chief opposing this guy is ignorant and unenlightened.

  • KWAME 11 years ago

    IGNORANT FOOL. THE LAST GOVERNOR OF THE THE GREAT STATE OF NEW YORK WAS LEGALLY BLIND. HE IS ALSO NOW A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF MTA. THE MINISTER WITH HIS CREDENTIALS IS QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB. IDIOTS WHO STILL LIVE IN THE 18TH ...
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  • Upiown 11 years ago

    Illiteracy will remain a disease, how did he become a chief? An insult of the intelligence of his people an a mockery to the stool

  • .................. 11 years ago

    After all Dr Seidu is not going to be sworn in as a chief so why those quarrel over his appointment as a minister of an institution? His appointment is not for just Akans or chiefs but all Ghanaians. If any Disable person ca ...
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  • Mensah 11 years ago

    I want to believe u went to school. I fu did then at least let Ghanaians benefit from your going to school. The chiefs represent our tradition and that is the position of these chiefs. The tribal twist u have given this issue ...
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  • Dr.AMOAH GYABI 11 years ago

    These chiefs habouring nonsensical stoneage mentality should be warned that in this modern era chieftancy is as useless as dead leaves.What is wrong with a disabled man?These chiefs should go to hell.

  • YAW MENDS 11 years ago

    GOD WILL NEVER FORGIVE,YOU ARE A CURSED MAN FOREVER.

  • Tony - Germany 11 years ago

    let nana kwaku dwamo ii go burn sea, For Dr Daanaa will still be the minister.in his bushy village where he is made a king it could be an abormination,for ghanaians it is not.

  • Kwame 11 years ago

    We have signed international obligations to keep invalid in employment including the visually impaired.

  • Ketasco Headmaster 11 years ago

    Is the chief of Seikwa Traditional Area, Nana Kwaku Dwomo Ankoana II, a chief for the able only? Does he not have disabled subjects? Anyway, he is rotten.

    Maybe somebody can tell me; from Kwame Nkrumah to Mills, is there a ...
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  • SAY IT AS IT IS! 11 years ago

    If we have have people of this nature as so called chifes in our mist, then we are in trouble as a nation.
    IDIOT CHIFE KWAKU DWOMO ANKANA, can go to hell if he will not like to meet a blindman. After all what dose a village ...
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  • Elorm 11 years ago

    Why do these self seeking chiefs stoop so low that they accept just thousands of cedis from Mahama to parade themselves as chiefs to congratulate. Why didn't they congratulate the idiot long time ago and now that some chiefs ...
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  • Ketasco Headmaster 11 years ago

    Now the question is about how Northerners acquire their Doctoral and Professorial qualifications. Nobody ever questioned the qualaifications of Dr. Danquah; Professor Busia; and Professor Adu-Buahene because they were Akans.
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  • KOGYAM 11 years ago

    "f a Northerner wins elections to be the President of Ghana, it is a rig of elections"

    LIMANN WAS A NORTHERNER YET NO ONE PROTESTED IN 1979 BECAUSE IT WAS CLEAN ELECTION IN WHICH VICTOR OWUSU, THE THEN PFP(NPP) CANDIDATE C ...
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  • Sam 11 years ago

    This Seikwa chief should rather be thrown out because he has really disgraced the people of Seikwa.It tells you how a primitive person in this era is leading his people.How can you discriminate in this era because somebody ha ...
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  • wangah 11 years ago

    i tink we shd encourage de disable to fill part of us,i was so happy to when I was a blind man presenting news on ETV and he did very well