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Defeated candidate chases delegates for cash refund

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  • Tijani 10 years ago

    no news

  • GHANA 10 years ago

    NO MONEY; NO NPP

  • SHAMU 10 years ago

    Something fishy seems to be going on here. This is not a political party at all. About NPP is now serious. Ghanaians have to now do something about this group of criminals. The way things are going on in this group of gangs, ...
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  • DER-GBAALE 10 years ago

    With the reasons that have been given, was there any sense for the Military to accompany him to threaten civilians? This stupid businessman should know that Ghanaians are now alert. They will take anybody#s money and then vot ...
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  • Krikri,, 10 years ago

    John Agyekum Kufour, you truly coached all the cocaine party followers how to pay and receive BRIBES. Ayekoo

  • ODIKRO 10 years ago

    IT WAS JAKE'S IDEA. CLAIM THE MONEY FROM JAKE

  • william 10 years ago

    'we will collect but vote according to our conscience'! Na be de message dat! You can't buy a vote. You can't buy their conscience!

  • NT 10 years ago

    NO MONEY IN NPP; YOU ARE USELESS

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    I wish the voters could do that to all politicians. Take the money but vote for responsible

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Are there election laws/regulations that in Ghana that prohibit the use of money or other illegal means to obtain votes? If yes, then this man should be arrested, charged and prosecuted for breaching electoral laws. That will ...
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  • RastafaraI 10 years ago

    cry for ghana....ghanaians should be ready to die in order to live..for political freedom....these criminal politicians should all be eliminated...

  • Hebert, Sweden 10 years ago

    Kofi Atta, thanks for your comment, but note there is nowhere votes should be bought including Ghanaian Laws.
    It will be right to set things straight, uit inducement, corruption or how you may call it. The candidate Alhaji T ...
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  • kuundari veng wa west 10 years ago

    Hmm, why this same man confiscated a one time parliamentary aspirant motor bikes and said that for working for him it was his compensation.well what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

  • KnYc (USMC) 10 years ago

    You lose election and hire military personal to do your dirty job. He should refund tax payers money. Only in Ghana where by such foolish things goes on. No wonder, what kind of backward behavior is this.

  • JH New York 10 years ago

    Exactly.

  • Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 10 years ago

    I want someone to educate me on the role and responsibilies, duties and functions OD NPP elected positions. And/or most probably BENEFITS they acrue when elected, hence dolling out such húge amounts of monies/resources. Any ...
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  • OBRONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

    I agree with you but when government that is centralized fails, it fails because they lose the traditional close proximity contact we had with each other when we used to have in .. College Debating Society and UNSA and Red Cr ...
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  • Eredec61 10 years ago

    Who are the millitary men? Bring them to book.

  • Akua 10 years ago

    This underscores the hopelessness our institutions have gotten. In Ghana, you can probably have a police officer or a military man to guard you while you rob.

    It is only in our part of the world where you get armed milita ...
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  • paa 10 years ago

    look at all this,corrupt party

  • NT 10 years ago

    FAKE PARTY

  • NT 10 years ago

    NO MONEY NO MEMBERSHIP

  • sammy 10 years ago

    NPP IS AND CORRUPTION ARE ALIKE. THANKS KUFFOUR AND HIS CROOK MEN!

  • Nuamah 10 years ago

    This innocent guy should take it cooooool. That is what the NPP stands for. Even their useless illiterate drunkard, Jake, has support the use of money. He should just take it easy. Folks, are these people qualified to rule ov ...
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  • RastafaraI 10 years ago

    NPP is a disgrace!!

  • kanawu 10 years ago

    npp policy is disgrace to motherghana!

  • Richie Darlin' 10 years ago

    Is a pity, this man must be punished and even sacked from the party cos is a disgrace to the party.

  • KOFI JIMMIE 10 years ago

    IF JAKE SAYS YOU CAN DO IT, WHY ARE WE COMPLAINING? THE NDC WILL NOT DO IT BUT THIS IS NOT NDC. THIS IS NPP. WE HAVE DIFFERENT RULES. ALL MONEY BE MONEY.

  • solom owuram 10 years ago

    during the pre and pro independence era, use of money in Ghanaian politics was not known until the npp led by the thief of Bagdad and his forty thieves came on the scene. they stampeded the political landscape with money and ...
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  • Beatrice, Odinka 10 years ago

    Kofi Atta but the Chairman of the party just only few days ago said that it was alright to use money as a bait to lure the voters. This is the protocol and the trend in the party so what is your problem?. Do you think NPP wou ...
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  • zion wa 10 years ago

    The delegates have done well by not electing a person like this to lead the region. How can you do such a thing.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Two couples were playing cards. Jeff accidentally dropped some cards on the floor. When he bent down under the table to pick them up, he noticed that Dave's wife, Sandy, was not wearing any underwear! Shocked by this, Jeff hi ...
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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Sandy Toyiba Mahama had something that the delegates liked

  • Wuofei 10 years ago

    He must be arrested immediately together with those soldiers.I wish you the best of luck retrieving that money.

  • Tintin 10 years ago

    Please, pay up if you failed to deliver the votes. Business is business

  • Joeman 10 years ago

    Money, money in NPP everywhere. You don't need any scientific experiment to understand what this bush elephant party folks are gearing for. Sincerely, Toyiba's action is perfectly right. This will help the people centered NDC ...
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  • Joeman 10 years ago

    Arrest who? Has he stole the money? Arrest those who induced him to dole out this sum of money. If retrieving his money will spoil his political career, then misleading him to equally dole out money for a predetermined outcom ...
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  • KOOKZI 10 years ago

    SOMETIMES ONE WONDERS IF OUR SECURITY FORCES HAVE ANYTHING PRODUCTIVE ENGAGING THEIR ATTENTION.
    ELSE WHAT EXPLANATION CAN ONE CONCOCT FOR MILITARY GUYS FOLLOWING THIS GUY TO HELP HIM RETRIEVE HIS MONEY FROM NPP DELEGATES FOR ...
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  • Ataa Kanfla 10 years ago

    What if those to whom you dolled out the monies are those who voted for you? After all, you did not get zero votes.

  • Yeboa 10 years ago

    The name Mahama tells it all

  • OTCHERE DARKO 10 years ago

    This man is guilty of bribery and corruption.

    People like him must be arrested, irrespective of the fact that the bribery occurred during a party's internal elections. Bribery is bribery, no matter where it took place.

  • KOFI - USA 10 years ago

    WHAT HAS MILITARY MEN GOT TO DO WITH THIS. THEY HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HAND AND BEING PAID TO DO NOTHING. THIS IS A PRIVATE ISSUE AND THE MILITARY FOLKS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT AND SHOULD NOT BE INVOLVED. THOSE MILITA ...
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  • Koffie 10 years ago

    This has vindicate the truth of most people that Ex-prez Kuffour and his people are highly corrupt.

  • kwame kofi 10 years ago

    jake told him to use money to buy votes..he shd attack jake rather

  • ONIPANUA 10 years ago

    It serves him right.NPP is a party of corrupt politicians who want power to continue to steal what belongs to the nation.THIEVES!!!!!

  • Kwame Amponsah 10 years ago

    Is that the role the military are supposed to play??? They should go and drive away the Fulanis in Asante Akim who are destroying our farms, killing our citizens and raping our women. Its a shame how the Miliatry allow themse ...
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  • Ayeboafo NkwantaBisa 10 years ago

    Tweaaaaaa, who says NPP is a political party?

    A band of Rogues, thieves, cocain dealers, Mafia and liars?

    Is it true that they don't hold proper elections but bribe or pay their fellow Delegates to vote for them?

    Thi ...
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  • PUTO 10 years ago

    WHAT A PILLOCK

  • Ghanabiya 10 years ago

    I think all those blaming Alhaji Toyiba should first blame the National Chairman of the party who has justified bribing delegates to win elections.

    What has the military got to do with this shameful acts? I hope the Comma ...
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  • Osei Yao 10 years ago

    Our soldiers are used as debt collectors?

  • Philips 10 years ago

    This is the seed sowed by Director of Corruption greedy Jake Obetsebi- Lamptey.

  • CLUELESS BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    hahahaah, not surprised at all

  • Dzifa 10 years ago

    How on earth could the military be used to collect debts? Oh Ghana, when shall we move a step forward?

  • JH New York 10 years ago

    When “ Sweeya" Seller become a politician /politrickcian what do you expect !.

  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    Go for your money.

  • kofi Antwi 10 years ago

    Everyone in the NPP group is corrupt---openly corrupt. Ghana beware !!! These crooks are just there for the MONEY.

  • maxi touch 10 years ago

    Simply bad investment

  • New Sheriff in Town 10 years ago

    Collect the money and Youth for Mahama Hyundai i10 but vote the other way next time round

  • Rakatomalala 10 years ago

    Ghanaian politicians are a liability to the country, with all our natural resources they always sing poverty, as they fleece the country dry to their selfish enrichment. Shame on them all.

  • kwasi Kakraba 10 years ago

    Yes charity begins at home. this shows that, that is what NPP do in terms of very elections being internal or General Elections and if they don't wine, then Kwadwo Afari Gjan (EC) is in trouble. God save Ghana.

  • king 10 years ago

    MY WORRY IS, HOW DID SUCH AN ANIMAL GOT TO THE TOP RANKS OF THE PARTY?BUT THIS SHOULD BE A GOOD LESSON TO THE PARTY .SO IN FUTURE ACTIVITIES,TODDLERS OF HIS KIND WOULD NEED TO BE WELL SCRUTINIZED.THAT TOYIBA GUY FROM THE WORD ...
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