both corrupt, self-seeking, incompetent, visionless and tribalistic
both corrupt, self-seeking, incompetent, visionless and tribalistic
Clarence Hedzolleh 11 years ago
What hypocrisy is this? When did this funny group realise that tribalism was creeping into our politics? Where was the group when Kennedy Agyepong uttered his tribally-charged call for attack on Gas and Ewes? Is it because ... read full comment
What hypocrisy is this? When did this funny group realise that tribalism was creeping into our politics? Where was the group when Kennedy Agyepong uttered his tribally-charged call for attack on Gas and Ewes? Is it because Haruna Iddrisu made reference to Asantes and the need for them to guarantee the safety of others that this ridiculous ethnocentric group suddenly realise that the political atmosphere in Ghana is charged with tribal sentiments? Balderdash!!!!!!!!!!!
TOGBE GANYO. 11 years ago
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN KENNEDY AGYAPON SAID , GAS AND EWES BE KILLED IN YOUR REGION????. LET ME TELL YOU THIS GROUP SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PLEASE ANYBODY,AND SAY YOU HAVE'NT HEARD THIS. HARRUNA IDDRISU IS WIS ... read full comment
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN KENNEDY AGYAPON SAID , GAS AND EWES BE KILLED IN YOUR REGION????. LET ME TELL YOU THIS GROUP SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PLEASE ANYBODY,AND SAY YOU HAVE'NT HEARD THIS. HARRUNA IDDRISU IS WISE TO ASK THAT QUESTION.
WHO 11 years ago
Idiot, did anybody hurt any Ewe or Ga? Have you ever heard of any ribal fight in Ashanti region, you stupid trokosi skunk.
Let's wait and see if that stupid Northern cow called Haruna will ask the Volta Regional Minister d ... read full comment
Idiot, did anybody hurt any Ewe or Ga? Have you ever heard of any ribal fight in Ashanti region, you stupid trokosi skunk.
Let's wait and see if that stupid Northern cow called Haruna will ask the Volta Regional Minister designate if Moslems who are mostly Northerners and Akans are safe in that Trokosi region of yours since it was in Trokosiland that you smelly Trokosis told the Moslems they cannot bury their dead people in that Hohoe village.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Who started it? If they don't know, they should read all about it, beginning from below. It won't stop until we get to the bottom of it! Brace up yourselves for the rough ride and bumpy!
Andy-K
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Who started it? If they don't know, they should read all about it, beginning from below. It won't stop until we get to the bottom of it! Brace up yourselves for the rough ride and bumpy!
Andy-K
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THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1
The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
Dza le le leeeeeee!
Me zu kluvi
The road to Kontsiabu
Strewn with gold dusts.
Only those without
in their eyes gold dusts
felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…
then you’d know that the time to narrate the doleful tales of the pre-colonial era, where it all began, has arrived; but you’d get a glimpse now.
Not to waste time apportioning blame, the Akans (and Gas, if I may add them), started these tribal abuse and attacks on Ewes many decades ago; nay, centuries back, as I said earlier. But as mentioned above, I won't delve as yet into the pre-colonial times when it was free for all, with even some Ewe states joining in marauding and plundering other Ewe states for the slave markets of the Gold Coast. I had indeed provided a write up on that sordid era on Ghanaweb’s SIL in the 1990s, which is available. One German businessman with biz connections to Ghana who used to read the nonsense on SIL wrote a private mail to me saying that he was always wondering why Africans sold each other into slavery to Europeans and Arabs; reading my detailed historical account enlightened him on how and why it happened for the first time. That story must be re-told all over Africa in other to understand the roots of the conflicts that bedevilled the continent after independence.
In Ghana, the colonial times modern version started after the WW1 when Anlo, Tongu and Peki migrants from within the Gold Coast and those from the newly acquired TVT from the Germans started moving to the Akan and Ga areas to either fish, farm or seek paid employment. Ewes from Togo and Benin Republic (Dahomey) escaping from French repressive rule came later. Some Ewes, esp. the educated ones, also got jobs with the commercial houses and the colonial administration. Some, such as Gbedema and Nkulenu, started their own private businesses. Soon, they were becoming prosperous in their chosen fields and/or rising up in the ranks wherever they were employed due to the usual hard working nature of most migrants. After all, the far superior German missionary vocational educational set up, compared to the British, had equipped them much better with skills in the crafts and building, such as carpentry and masonry, which were in much demand by the colonial authority and the other natives of the Gold Coast and Asante. That was when trouble began and the attacks started, as far back as the 1930s.
Below is a brief quote from S. Greene about how the Fantes started perceiving Anlo-Ewe fisher folk; a perception or prejudice which is not much different from what permeates the Akan ethnic group as a whole up to today (not only a few bigots on Ghanaweb). Ewes find out to our chagrin or amusement, often as a kid, that that was how our fellow country men and women perceive us. The encounter is therefore a personal story too.
Not much has changed in the prejudiced minds of too many Akans, as we daily witness on Ghanaweb, even though many too have developed over the years an obsession or desire to marry Ewe girls, failure which often brought in its wake stories of tribalism heaped against Ewes. As I told some Akan teacher colleagues in Nigeria, it was the scary and “irrational” Akan “wofa” (uncle) inheritance system, stupid! Horrible stories of how Ewe widows were in particular dispossessed and treated shabbily were enough to dissuade any idea of marriage to even a most love besotted Akan man! It is no wonder that, with the interstate law of inheritance in place, marriage to Akan men has been on the increase.
I know an Ewe from the Peki area who swore that it’d never be possible to change the jaundiced perception of Akans of Ewes from his own experiences attending Mpraeso Teacher Training College, and then teaching at Mpraeso and in Kumasi. He said one particular woman - a cook in the school - they used to go to church with wouldn’t believe that he did not have any “akpeledzi” under their bed! I said it was possible and gave an example of my own experiences in Nigeria. I managed to convince my fellow Akan teachers that I don’t indulge nor believe in those things - juju or voodoo or even any god (white or black), and wouldn’t drink “ogogoro” with them – when there is original Gordon’s gin and lime cordial to have – and they somehow lost some “respect”, (or was it fear?) for me. They’d say I wasn’t a proper Anloman and fool around with me!
Between 1982-4, when their Anti-Ewe diatribes had reached fever point and they were advocating massacring Ewes as done to the Ibos in Nigeria who they claimed were also allegedly dominating Nigeria in the 1960s, I thought of putting some fear into them by creating some “kporsi” (“see-and-run”) to scare them. Fact is, practically every smart Ewe knows how to scare Akans and Gas even though they don’t have “foko” (anything), as we say in Anlo but I will keep that out of this write up. Good I didn’t do so, otherwise they’d be giving testimonies up to today about what an Anlo teacher did to them in Nigeria – they’d have packed out and run from their rooms on the ground floor of the storey building we were hiring. I “protected” myself practically by chocking the door handle with a chair, as I had seen in movies, before I went to bed, in order to prevent them from making me the first casualty of their let-us-kill-Ewes mania! Funny some of them even became staunch PNDC supporters, only to change their minds again years later when I met some on a visit to Ghana.
Anyway, enough with the digression into the personal narrative and to Sandra Greene.
From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:
"Increased Anlo identification with their northern Ewe-speaking neighbours may have also been enhanced by the experience many had while participating in migrant fishing. After World War I, numerous groups of Anlo men and women traveled to other coastal areas, including the Fante area of the Gold Coast, in order to pursue their commercial fishing activities. For many, this was probably the first time they had traveled outside their home area, and/or to a district where they were a distinct linguistic minority. In these locations, they conducted themselves as they had in their own home villages, but those among whom they come to live - often temporarily, just for the fishing season - came to view the Anlos' prosperity with jealousy and suspicion. Stories circulated that associated the Anlo with "blood-curdling" crimes. R.W. Wyllie indicates, for example, that from at least the 1930s "Fanti [children] learned to view the Anlos as thieves, kidnappers, sorcerers, and ritual murderers." The social tensions that accompany these beliefs - and the very fact that these beliefs were held by a non-Ewe speaking people - must have heightened the Anlo's awareness of their linguistic and cultural background and generated some sense of identification with their Ewe-speaking peoples whom they would have encountered in the Gold Coast."
The encounter with the Gold Coasters was enough to turn any Ewe into a paranoid schizophrenic, developed a siege mentality (become “inward-looking”?) and very resentful towards any idea of union with the Gold Coast, not to mention marry an Akan.
As some of you know, the Anlo area through Tongu to the Peki area had been part of the Gold Coast colony proper, effectively from 1874 though the British “bought” and claimed the area from the Danes in 1850; hence the freedom to move to other parts of the Gold Coast and Asante later. Besides, many southern Ewes are descendants of Ga-Adangbe, Elmina and Denkyira fugitives dating back respectively to 1687 when the Akwamus first thrashed the Gas for cutting the “bolobolo” (foreskin) of their prince sent to the Ga Mantse Okai Koi’s court to understudy courtship, and 1700, when the Asantes defeated the Denkyiras and took over Elmina from the Denkyiras. Going back to Ge (Accra) and Sima (Shama) with their new kinsmen was just like returning to the ancestors' land. In fact, it was the descendants of those fugitives who were the first migrants, having maintained links with their ancestral lands during their long period in exile. Reindorf had written about that back and forth movement among the Ga fugitives long ago. That’s how Osu-Anecho came to be founded and how all Ewes got the derogatory epithet “Ayigbe” (Ayi refuse), whether they were descendants of fugitives or not. The “dzulor” bit the Gas added originally referred to the Okai Koi stool regalia which the Ga-Ewes in Togo refused to return to Accra and still claim to be its protectors. Remember the trips with pre-colonial undertones their chiefs made to Ghana when the NPP took over power in 2000?
We read from the December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine a letter sent to the colonial government of the Gold Coast:
“We PEOPLE of Togoland, descended from two principal countries, Elmina
(Ane) and Accra (Ge), both of the Gold Coast Colony, ask to have British government because it is the government of our fathers, whose customs are our customs, and a British Colony is half-an-hour distant from us.
We ask to have British government because it is the government of our kith and kin, our race and our tribe.
We ask for British government because of our relationship with our people on the west, which must assert itself..” (culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)
And so on it went. I can make long comments on the above quotes but suffice it to say that it was the beginning and end of the love affair which started as unification with the Gold Coast movement ending up as the drive to secede from the Gold Coast.
One may wonder why the petitioners did not even acknowledge the Ewes, Dagombas, Konkombas, Akans and the host of other ethnic and tribal groups in Togo who also have their “kith and kin” within the Gold Coast and the Northern Territories. I guess this piece of history may come as a surprise to the ingrates who make a living of always reminding us that Ewes come from Togo, some of whom carried a video to Lome to trace the roots of Fiifii Kwetey there, instead of doing so in Accra; better still, Ayawaso! Well, he said he was from Nogokpo, which rubbed a sore spot for me, but that’s another, story.
THE EWE BACKLASH
By the 1940s, Ewes, Anlos in particular, in the Gold Coast had had enough of the vilification and undeserved demonisation their successes were arousing. The returnee Anes and Ges (Gas), now fused as the Genyi, as Anlos refer to them, through intermarriages, also soon discovered that they were not welcome, or often welcomed with shouts of “Ayigbe dzulor”! Disenchantment set in and secession from Ghana became a far better option. The result was the 1956 plebiscite and the rest is history.
Then come the post Feb 24 1966 coup era, when Busia and his PP turned this traditional vilification of Ewes into a political tool to win the 1969 general elections. It was preceded by an internal struggle within the NLC to share the spoils of office after the coup, which increasingly took an ethnic tone. My own father was a sacrificial victim. An extended quote from Dennis Austin, that great chronicler of Ghana history, captures the gist of it, so here we go:
“A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was express1ed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema’s reappearance in political life but in relations to events after the 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone burst out singing, but when the music died down away it was noticed that the NLC (it seemed) was commanded by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankrah (a Ga), was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of Defence Staff, Michael Otu, the evidence to many was overwhelming. It was all an Ewe plot. Soon Ghana would be run for the benefit of an energetic minority, operating first within the armed forces, and now behind Gbedemah. ‘Appoint an Ewe to a public corporation or to a government department and within a year the entire hierarchy down to the messenger will be an Ewe.’ So the argument ran. And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their own barren region, have been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and the police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government department and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be in view of their number. But a belief does not, of course, have to be true before people hold it fervently.
Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable chance of fate, leader of the governing party I would be much less apprehensive of my Ewe opponents in front than of the large and expectant following behind. I would be fearful too of the ambitions of those now excluded from power, remembering the Songs of Innocence that:
The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caeser’s laurel crown” (D. Austin 1976:125)
Austin was writing with hindsight about what befell Busia’s regime, overthrown in a coup led by an Asante.
The interested reader is referred to the link on the Internet to read an extended abstract of the book in order to get a fuller understanding of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana and so be able to compare events from then and now and subsequent analysis.
Dennis Austin - 1976 - Political Science - 199 pages
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=084190278X...
In Part 2, I intend to examine the hate campaign against the Ewes and the consequences or reactions from the 1970s which led to Kofi Awoonor’s infamous prison book, The Ghana Revolution, which he claimed he wrote in prison when gaoled for helping Brig. Kattah to escape from Ghana. It’d be necessary to focus on the Ghana Army, from its origins and recruitment trends since it is at the crux of the matter.
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Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, better known as C.Y. Andy-K, is a freethinker, Pan-Africanist and an ardent Nkrumaist.
cyandyk@ymail.com
References:
Dennis Austin (1976): Ghana Observed: Essays on the Politics of a W. African Republic.
Manchester Univ. Press.
Sandra E. Greene (1995): Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave
Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Heinemann and James Currey
Robert W. Wyllie. “Migrant Anlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A
Comparative Study.” Africa, XXXIX, 4 (1969), 396-410.
Remember 11 years ago
It's unfortunate that you are totally ignorant and oblivious of what is happening around you in Ghana .
Tribal politics is rife in Ghana, be it NPP or NDC in power. This is what people with good intention are coming toge ... read full comment
It's unfortunate that you are totally ignorant and oblivious of what is happening around you in Ghana .
Tribal politics is rife in Ghana, be it NPP or NDC in power. This is what people with good intention are coming together to call on Ghanaians to eschew this canker which is gradually gaining root.
Never try to use what Ken Agyapong said to be a yardstick to encourage this evil trait. Where I come from, the question which the honourable Minister asked would have been the end of his political carrier. Please just be honest to yourself .
WHO 11 years ago
Listen to this trokosi fool too? A lot of Akan people condemned Kennedy Agyapong and no Ga or Ewe trokosi was hurt so what is this nonsense about? Have you any record of tribal conflict in Ashanti Region?
You moron. What d ... read full comment
Listen to this trokosi fool too? A lot of Akan people condemned Kennedy Agyapong and no Ga or Ewe trokosi was hurt so what is this nonsense about? Have you any record of tribal conflict in Ashanti Region?
You moron. What did you say when you skunk trokosis told the Northern Moslems that they cannot bury their deads in your stupid region? Did you not kill Moslems and loot their stores in Hohoe?
Busumbru 11 years ago
Insults does not make you look nice. It is even worse than the evil effects of what the issue under focus breeds. Sometimes we need to be careful not to allow our hearts rule our heads. Long live Ghana.
Insults does not make you look nice. It is even worse than the evil effects of what the issue under focus breeds. Sometimes we need to be careful not to allow our hearts rule our heads. Long live Ghana.
KATE 11 years ago
HARUNA IDDIRSU YOU'ER A FOOL, WHEN YOUR BROTHERS WERE COMING TO ACCRA FOR THE INAUGURATION ON THE 7TH JAN; THEY RATHER BEAT PEOPLE AT KUMASI, WHO CAN DO THAT IN THE NORTH AND GET AWAY WITH IT? BUT THIS HAPPENED IN KUMASI, THE ... read full comment
HARUNA IDDIRSU YOU'ER A FOOL, WHEN YOUR BROTHERS WERE COMING TO ACCRA FOR THE INAUGURATION ON THE 7TH JAN; THEY RATHER BEAT PEOPLE AT KUMASI, WHO CAN DO THAT IN THE NORTH AND GET AWAY WITH IT? BUT THIS HAPPENED IN KUMASI, THE ASANTI CAPITAL. THE GROUP ARE RIGHT BECAUSE MAHAMA AND HIS NDC FOOLS ARE PLAYING DIRTY POLITICS
Kwame 11 years ago
Where were you hypocrites when men in Ghana were proclaiming killing ga and ewe in Asante region? Did you fools not hear words like ten akanfuo etc. what about all die be due etc?
Get out of here
Where were you hypocrites when men in Ghana were proclaiming killing ga and ewe in Asante region? Did you fools not hear words like ten akanfuo etc. what about all die be due etc?
Get out of here
Nick 11 years ago
Where were you when Nii Lantey organized Gas and northerners to attack Twi speaking people in his constituency? Where were you when some northerners, on their way to Accra to celebrate Mahama's inauguration, attacked innocent ... read full comment
Where were you when Nii Lantey organized Gas and northerners to attack Twi speaking people in his constituency? Where were you when some northerners, on their way to Accra to celebrate Mahama's inauguration, attacked innocent people in Kumasi? Be the that fool you are and bury your head in the sand. When we are engulfed in any conflict know that Akanfuo will bleed, but you will also bleed profusely. A word to the wise is enough.
Mankind 11 years ago
This tribal politics was started by JJ Rawlings in the 1980s. Where was GNA then? GNA connived and colluded with the Tsikatas' and JJ!! So, what new today??
This tribal politics was started by JJ Rawlings in the 1980s. Where was GNA then? GNA connived and colluded with the Tsikatas' and JJ!! So, what new today??
TONY 11 years ago
I DO NOT BLAME THESE P/NDC TRIBALISTIC BEHAVIOUR BUT I BLAME J.J. RAWLINGS FOR EVERY TRIBAL PROBLEMS WHICH WE ARE FACING NOW. J.J. CAME TO POWER TO DIVIDE US. SINCE AFRC TO P/NDC TIME NDCs AND NPPs HAVE BEEN HATING EACH OTHER ... read full comment
I DO NOT BLAME THESE P/NDC TRIBALISTIC BEHAVIOUR BUT I BLAME J.J. RAWLINGS FOR EVERY TRIBAL PROBLEMS WHICH WE ARE FACING NOW. J.J. CAME TO POWER TO DIVIDE US. SINCE AFRC TO P/NDC TIME NDCs AND NPPs HAVE BEEN HATING EACH OTHER. WHEN NKRUMAH, ACHEAMPONG AND KOTOKA AND BUSIA WAS IN POWER THERE WAS NO TRIBILISM IN GHANA.BUT WHEN RAWLINGS CAME TO POWER EVERY THING CHANGE.
ASANTEWA 11 years ago
PREACH to NDC BASTARDS(TONY)
PREACH to NDC BASTARDS(TONY)
DAN 11 years ago
Let the Queens in flagstaff house spread hiv to whole ndc gov..Arthur and Mahatma butt fuck every nite and day!
Let the Queens in flagstaff house spread hiv to whole ndc gov..Arthur and Mahatma butt fuck every nite and day!
Mubarak 11 years ago
Where was this group when Ken Agyapong called on Akans to kill Gas and Ewes?Hypòcrites!
Where was this group when Ken Agyapong called on Akans to kill Gas and Ewes?Hypòcrites!
ASANTEWA 11 years ago
BASTARD.MAHAMA asked for VOTES from Northeners in GHANA in the ELECTIONS.
BASTARD.MAHAMA asked for VOTES from Northeners in GHANA in the ELECTIONS.
Akom 11 years ago
What is so sad and disconcerting reading some of the comments in Ghana Web is the tribally charged nonsense. Comments on important issues are reduced to tribal warfare. It makes you wonder: do Ghanaian tribes actually hate on ... read full comment
What is so sad and disconcerting reading some of the comments in Ghana Web is the tribally charged nonsense. Comments on important issues are reduced to tribal warfare. It makes you wonder: do Ghanaian tribes actually hate one another or it's just a problem of unsophisticated/ignorant citizens being used as pawns in the political game? And when will people learn to realize that hating one tribe does not provide you a job or put food on your table. Our political leaders should take the lead in nipping this tribal cancer in the bud if they care about Ghana. But I doubt they will do it if sowing tribal hatred serves their political agenda.
ASANTEWA 11 years ago
MAHAMA used it at ELECTION
MAHAMA used it at ELECTION
ASANTEWA 11 years ago
Ghanaians allowed Rawlings(NON GHANAIAN) to use TRIBAL POLITICS to steal GHANA money to FORM NDC.
NDC MORE TRIBALISTIC than NPP(PERIOD)
Ghanaians allowed Rawlings(NON GHANAIAN) to use TRIBAL POLITICS to steal GHANA money to FORM NDC.
NDC MORE TRIBALISTIC than NPP(PERIOD)
Truth Investigator 11 years ago
I love my country and we must remeber we are one people with diverse origins - the people of Ghana. we should all join hands and work to the betterment of Ghana.
ONE GHANA, ONE PEOPLE STRIVING FOR A HAPPY,BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY ... read full comment
I love my country and we must remeber we are one people with diverse origins - the people of Ghana. we should all join hands and work to the betterment of Ghana.
ONE GHANA, ONE PEOPLE STRIVING FOR A HAPPY,BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS NATION.
ASANTEWA 11 years ago
JJ is NOT Ghanaian(his COLOUR) BUT used EWES and NORTHENERS to FORM his NDC(BASTARD)
JJ is NOT Ghanaian(his COLOUR) BUT used EWES and NORTHENERS to FORM his NDC(BASTARD)
Kojo@ T. 11 years ago
Where were you when kenedy agyapong asked akans to kill Gas and Ewes?
Where were you when kenedy agyapong asked akans to kill Gas and Ewes?
WHO 11 years ago
FOOL, PUT YOUR THINKING CAP ON
Idiot, did anybody hurt any Ewe or Ga? Have you ever heard of any ribal fight in Ashanti region, you stupid trokosi skunk.
Let's wait and see if that stupid Northern cow called Haruna wil ... read full comment
FOOL, PUT YOUR THINKING CAP ON
Idiot, did anybody hurt any Ewe or Ga? Have you ever heard of any ribal fight in Ashanti region, you stupid trokosi skunk.
Let's wait and see if that stupid Northern cow called Haruna will ask the Volta Regional Minister designate if Moslems who are mostly Northerners and Akans are safe in that Trokosi region of yours since it was in Trokosiland that you smelly Trokosis told the Moslems they cannot bury their dead people in that Hohoe village.
DAN 11 years ago
fuck the muslims...hope the forget which hand they wiped their ass with and eat with it!
fuck the muslims...hope the forget which hand they wiped their ass with and eat with it!
NPP ASHANTI FOOLS 11 years ago
Ernest Owusu-Poku – (IGP-22 January 2001 – 21 July 2001)
Nana Owusu-Nsiah – (IGP-22 July 2001 – March 23 2005)
Patrick Kwateng Acheampong – (IGP-25 March 2005 - 28 January 2009)
Nana Boakye- (CEO-National B ... read full comment
Ernest Owusu-Poku – (IGP-22 January 2001 – 21 July 2001)
Nana Owusu-Nsiah – (IGP-22 July 2001 – March 23 2005)
Patrick Kwateng Acheampong – (IGP-25 March 2005 - 28 January 2009)
Nana Boakye- (CEO-National Board for Small Scale Industries)
Mr Osei Asamoah Owusu- Chairman,VRA.
Mr. Alex Twumasi Boakye – Chief Director- Dept of Urban Roads.
Mr. Kofi Asante- Frimpong- National Coordinator- CPRP.
Captain Joe Boachie- Director- General- Ghana Civil Aviation Authority.
Dr. Amoako Atta, Director,Centre for Bio-Diversity Utilization (CBUD.
Nana Timoty Aye Kusi- MD, Produce Buying Company (PBC)
Mr Osafo Sampong, Director of Public Prosecutions, (DPP) .
Dr. Osei Agyeman Bonsu, Greater Accra Regional Public Health Officer.
Mr. Joe Osei Wusu, Chief Executive, DVLA. Col. Isaac K.Akuoku, Executive Secretary, Narcotics Board.
Mrs. Gifty Anim-Butwe, Commissioner, Human Resources, Police Force.
Mr. Bright Oduro, Accra Regional Police Crime Officer.
Mrs Elizabeth Adjei, Director of Immigration.
Mr. David Ofori-Adjei, Dircetor, Noguchi Memorial Institute, Legon.
Mr. Philip Oduro Yaw Amoako, Director, Geological Survey Department.
Mr. Grace Bediako, Government Statistician.
Mr. William Kwadwo Asiedu, DG, Ghana Prisons Service."
And
SIC Peter Dua, Ashante ku4's nephew
NHIA Ras Boateng, Ashante, ku4's nephew.
Mr Boatin, Ashanti, Dupty Dirctor General of SSNIT.
80% of Ambassadorial post went to Ashantis.
PRESIDENTIAL AFFAIRS Edward Osei Kwaku (MP Asokwa West)
INTERIOR MINISTRY Yaw Barimah
AGRICULTURE MINISTRY Dr K. Antwi
COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT MINISTRY Agyeman Manu
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LANDS,FORESTRY AND MINES Benjamin Osei Kufour (MP Asonafo North)
ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Mrs Anna Nyamekye
MANPOWER AND SOCIAL WELFARE Joe Donkor (MP Tano North) John Debrah (Educationist)
ECONOMIC PLANNING Professor Abena Busia
Dr. Richard Anane, Minister of Health
Mr Kwadwo Adjei-Darko, Roads and Highways
Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, Energy
Dr Kwaku Afriyie, Lands, Mines and Forestry.
Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor, Defence
Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu (Local Government and Rural Development)
Dr Kofi Apraku, (Trade and Industry).
Mr Felix Owusu-Adjapong, Transport and Communications
Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Mr Kwadwo Mpiani
Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Mafo
Mr Dan Botwe, Ministry of Information
Mr Charles Bintim, f Local Government and Rural Development
Mr Joseph K. Adda for Manpower Youth and Employment.
Mr Joseph Henry Mensah, Senior Minister
Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Albert Kan-Dapaah, Minister of Communications
Mr Felix Owusu Agyapong, Parliamentary Affairs.
Mr Alan Kyeremanteng, Trade and Industry
Hackman Owusu Agyeman, Works and Housing
Prof Daniel Adzei Bekoe, Chairman of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC)
Mr Kweku Agyemang-Manu, Acting Deputy Minister In-Charge of Finance
Ms Cecilia Dapaah, Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines
Mr Kwadwo Agyeman, Presidential Staffer
Mr Bafour Awuah, Presidential Staffer,
Osei Asibey Antwi, Presidential Staffer
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Deputy Majority leader
Mr Frederick Opare Ansah, Deputy Minister of Communications
Mr Owusu Ansah, Ashanti Regional Minister
PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS Paapa Owusu Ankomah
Prof. Kwabena K. Oduro becomes new Head of Office of Accountability
Felix Kwame Ferka heads Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS)
Tony Oten-Gyasi becomes Council Chairman of the University of Ghana
YINFO 11 years ago
Thanks so much. I hope the hypocrites have read it.
Thanks so much. I hope the hypocrites have read it.
Maxwell 11 years ago
Haruna imposed his friend at Ghana Post and the northerners have began theirs in the road sector Silly contracts being awarded to so called pwoerful contractors who are ensuring the promotion of their kinsmen to top positions ... read full comment
Haruna imposed his friend at Ghana Post and the northerners have began theirs in the road sector Silly contracts being awarded to so called pwoerful contractors who are ensuring the promotion of their kinsmen to top positions in the sector. We have seen this before it is only a matter of time. Just look at the promotions/demotions at Urban roads.
Junglefire 11 years ago
This group can choose to bury their heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich and pretend there are no ethnic issues in Ghana. Maybe this group should do more to change the misplaced perceptions of akans in general....the ... read full comment
This group can choose to bury their heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich and pretend there are no ethnic issues in Ghana. Maybe this group should do more to change the misplaced perceptions of akans in general....then maybe they would achieve their goal of a non-tribalised ghana. Tribalism is alive in Ghana and the Akans are in the lead to show it.
Tijani 11 years ago
what the minister said is true, Ashantes are always showing thier tribalism agaist other tribes in the region. Ashantes think they are superior than any tribe in ghana, they claimed they know everything, meanwhile,there're no ... read full comment
what the minister said is true, Ashantes are always showing thier tribalism agaist other tribes in the region. Ashantes think they are superior than any tribe in ghana, they claimed they know everything, meanwhile,there're nothing more than a bunch of thieves out there in Kumasi. All these problem is happening because Nana did not win the election.
Nii-Acquaye Danquah 11 years ago
PLEASE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS,LET US FORGET ABOUT THIS TRIBALISM.DIVIDED WE SHALL FALL.TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT.WHY ARE WE FIGHTING?FIGHTING CAN NOT SOLVE OUR PROBLEM.IF WE JOIN HANDS TOGETHER, WE CAN DO SOMETHING BETTER FOR ... read full comment
PLEASE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS,LET US FORGET ABOUT THIS TRIBALISM.DIVIDED WE SHALL FALL.TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT.WHY ARE WE FIGHTING?FIGHTING CAN NOT SOLVE OUR PROBLEM.IF WE JOIN HANDS TOGETHER, WE CAN DO SOMETHING BETTER FOR OUR COUNTRY.WE NEED PEACE.
THE SON OF YAHWEH 11 years ago
I HOPE THE INCUBENT IS DOING HIS BEST INCLUSIVELY AS A GOVERNMENT
I HOPE THE INCUBENT IS DOING HIS BEST INCLUSIVELY AS A GOVERNMENT
ISS 11 years ago
DE ONE WHO SAYS ASHANTIS AR FOOLS I CALL ANCESTRAL OF ASHANTI 2 IMPOSE CURSE ON U IF USE ANYTHING OF ASHANTI
DE ONE WHO SAYS ASHANTIS AR FOOLS I CALL ANCESTRAL OF ASHANTI 2 IMPOSE CURSE ON U IF USE ANYTHING OF ASHANTI
Talley20Hattie 11 years ago
That is great that people can get the loans moreover, this opens up new chances.
That is great that people can get the loans moreover, this opens up new chances.
both corrupt, self-seeking, incompetent, visionless and tribalistic
What hypocrisy is this? When did this funny group realise that tribalism was creeping into our politics? Where was the group when Kennedy Agyepong uttered his tribally-charged call for attack on Gas and Ewes? Is it because ...
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WHERE WERE YOU WHEN KENNEDY AGYAPON SAID , GAS AND EWES BE KILLED IN YOUR REGION????. LET ME TELL YOU THIS GROUP SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PLEASE ANYBODY,AND SAY YOU HAVE'NT HEARD THIS. HARRUNA IDDRISU IS WIS ...
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Idiot, did anybody hurt any Ewe or Ga? Have you ever heard of any ribal fight in Ashanti region, you stupid trokosi skunk.
Let's wait and see if that stupid Northern cow called Haruna will ask the Volta Regional Minister d ...
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Who started it? If they don't know, they should read all about it, beginning from below. It won't stop until we get to the bottom of it! Brace up yourselves for the rough ride and bumpy!
Andy-K
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It's unfortunate that you are totally ignorant and oblivious of what is happening around you in Ghana .
Tribal politics is rife in Ghana, be it NPP or NDC in power. This is what people with good intention are coming toge ...
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Listen to this trokosi fool too? A lot of Akan people condemned Kennedy Agyapong and no Ga or Ewe trokosi was hurt so what is this nonsense about? Have you any record of tribal conflict in Ashanti Region?
You moron. What d ...
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Insults does not make you look nice. It is even worse than the evil effects of what the issue under focus breeds. Sometimes we need to be careful not to allow our hearts rule our heads. Long live Ghana.
HARUNA IDDIRSU YOU'ER A FOOL, WHEN YOUR BROTHERS WERE COMING TO ACCRA FOR THE INAUGURATION ON THE 7TH JAN; THEY RATHER BEAT PEOPLE AT KUMASI, WHO CAN DO THAT IN THE NORTH AND GET AWAY WITH IT? BUT THIS HAPPENED IN KUMASI, THE ...
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Where were you hypocrites when men in Ghana were proclaiming killing ga and ewe in Asante region? Did you fools not hear words like ten akanfuo etc. what about all die be due etc?
Get out of here
Where were you when Nii Lantey organized Gas and northerners to attack Twi speaking people in his constituency? Where were you when some northerners, on their way to Accra to celebrate Mahama's inauguration, attacked innocent ...
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This tribal politics was started by JJ Rawlings in the 1980s. Where was GNA then? GNA connived and colluded with the Tsikatas' and JJ!! So, what new today??
I DO NOT BLAME THESE P/NDC TRIBALISTIC BEHAVIOUR BUT I BLAME J.J. RAWLINGS FOR EVERY TRIBAL PROBLEMS WHICH WE ARE FACING NOW. J.J. CAME TO POWER TO DIVIDE US. SINCE AFRC TO P/NDC TIME NDCs AND NPPs HAVE BEEN HATING EACH OTHER ...
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PREACH to NDC BASTARDS(TONY)
Let the Queens in flagstaff house spread hiv to whole ndc gov..Arthur and Mahatma butt fuck every nite and day!
Where was this group when Ken Agyapong called on Akans to kill Gas and Ewes?Hypòcrites!
BASTARD.MAHAMA asked for VOTES from Northeners in GHANA in the ELECTIONS.
What is so sad and disconcerting reading some of the comments in Ghana Web is the tribally charged nonsense. Comments on important issues are reduced to tribal warfare. It makes you wonder: do Ghanaian tribes actually hate on ...
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MAHAMA used it at ELECTION
Ghanaians allowed Rawlings(NON GHANAIAN) to use TRIBAL POLITICS to steal GHANA money to FORM NDC.
NDC MORE TRIBALISTIC than NPP(PERIOD)
I love my country and we must remeber we are one people with diverse origins - the people of Ghana. we should all join hands and work to the betterment of Ghana.
ONE GHANA, ONE PEOPLE STRIVING FOR A HAPPY,BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY ...
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JJ is NOT Ghanaian(his COLOUR) BUT used EWES and NORTHENERS to FORM his NDC(BASTARD)
Where were you when kenedy agyapong asked akans to kill Gas and Ewes?
FOOL, PUT YOUR THINKING CAP ON
Idiot, did anybody hurt any Ewe or Ga? Have you ever heard of any ribal fight in Ashanti region, you stupid trokosi skunk.
Let's wait and see if that stupid Northern cow called Haruna wil ...
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fuck the muslims...hope the forget which hand they wiped their ass with and eat with it!
Ernest Owusu-Poku – (IGP-22 January 2001 – 21 July 2001)
Nana Owusu-Nsiah – (IGP-22 July 2001 – March 23 2005)
Patrick Kwateng Acheampong – (IGP-25 March 2005 - 28 January 2009)
Nana Boakye- (CEO-National B ...
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Thanks so much. I hope the hypocrites have read it.
Haruna imposed his friend at Ghana Post and the northerners have began theirs in the road sector Silly contracts being awarded to so called pwoerful contractors who are ensuring the promotion of their kinsmen to top positions ...
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This group can choose to bury their heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich and pretend there are no ethnic issues in Ghana. Maybe this group should do more to change the misplaced perceptions of akans in general....the ...
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what the minister said is true, Ashantes are always showing thier tribalism agaist other tribes in the region. Ashantes think they are superior than any tribe in ghana, they claimed they know everything, meanwhile,there're no ...
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PLEASE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS,LET US FORGET ABOUT THIS TRIBALISM.DIVIDED WE SHALL FALL.TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT.WHY ARE WE FIGHTING?FIGHTING CAN NOT SOLVE OUR PROBLEM.IF WE JOIN HANDS TOGETHER, WE CAN DO SOMETHING BETTER FOR ...
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I HOPE THE INCUBENT IS DOING HIS BEST INCLUSIVELY AS A GOVERNMENT
DE ONE WHO SAYS ASHANTIS AR FOOLS I CALL ANCESTRAL OF ASHANTI 2 IMPOSE CURSE ON U IF USE ANYTHING OF ASHANTI
That is great that people can get the loans moreover, this opens up new chances.