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Ghana’s constitution is like a ‘toilet paper’- Lawyer Adofo

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE ( OFIE P33 ) 7 years ago

    Author:-OFOSUAA..... JJ Rawlings knows too well that he has unleashed a group of monsters and nation wreckers on Ghanaians bcos this current ndc is never what he dreamt of at all at all…..this ndc fears to use the very word ...
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  • sanjay - Abu Dhabi 7 years ago

    thats why we dont want npp to come power again, they think Ghana was made by npp, NDC all the way

  • william 7 years ago

    The constitution does not implement itself. LAWYERS AND NON-LAWYERS ALIKE UNDERMINE IT! IT IS OUR ATTITUDE, INCLUDING YOURS WHICH IS LIKE TOILET PAPER AND MUST CHANGE, NOT THE CONSTITUTION.

  • Kwaku 7 years ago

    William, well said.

  • Kofi, Ketu 7 years ago

    Supreme Court has lost its relevance in Ghanaian justice system. How can they interpret the law when same b.l.o.o.d.y court could not have the balls to interpret over voting.

  • Sam 7 years ago

    Good William. It saddens me to hear a lawyer saying this. It's really sad. He must a third class lawyer

  • Charles Higgins 7 years ago

    Sanjay the Insane, have you taken your medication today?

  • SAY IT LOUD ! 7 years ago

    LET ME GIVE YOU EXAMPLES OF STUPID LAWS DESTROYING GHANA, THOUGH THEY ARE SAID TO BE "GOOD" LAW AND LOOKING NICE.


    GMO
    DOVVSU
    STUPID GENDER MINISTRY
    CHINESE CHAIRS HIDDEN LAW
    MPs PEJAROS
    ETC
    ALL THESE AND MANY MORE ...
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  • DEEP THOUGHT 7 years ago

    Thank you sir!

  • JO UK 7 years ago

    Scrap the constitution and start from scratch.
    1st amendment should be to revoke immunity accorded to Mr Rawlings so that he be duly tried and judged by his peers in a court of law.

  • Mr civilize 7 years ago

    WELL SAID.WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS ARE BEYOND THE RULINGS OF THE HIGHEST COURT OF THE LAND.LUNACY IS WHAT I WILL CALL IT.

  • sam Oduro 7 years ago

    I have been reading all these posters everybody wants a new constitution so when it was written where were you folks

  • OPANINPA 7 years ago

    THIS IDIOT CALLS HIMSELF A LAWYER. HE GIVES THE ADISHONEST PROFESSION A BAD NAME. WHAT IS PARLIAMENT FOR - TO MAKE AND UNMAKE LAWS. THIS SIMPLETON DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE CONSTITUTION ONLY HAS TO ESTABLISH A PARLIAMENT ...
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  • yaro 7 years ago

    At times when I hear people talk like this I fill LIKE KILLING THEM.

  • the lone Prophet of Jehovah 7 years ago

    Because Ghanaians of today are not law abiding citizens due to corruption and democracy which many of the citizens don't understand likewise gov't.May God Almighty help us from copycat Alleluia.

  • APANTESIS 7 years ago

    Adofo you talked as if you were schooled on the moon.Why not give to Ghana for study and adoption what you think must be an ideal constitution for Ghana.Other than that keep your beak shut

  • mohammed 7 years ago

    I am very disappointed n hearing from such empty fellow Ghanaians who label themselves lawyers without the basic brains of human. CEO can appoint millions so long as they are working for the company. A good state is one that ...
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  • Tony 7 years ago

    I agreed with you .I think our Constitution is copy and paste. Let write constitution that reflects the people of Ghana

  • Kofi Kyei- Baffour Kantanka 7 years ago

    Two changes needed: 1/ No donations exceeding what the average Ghanaian can afford. 2/ Reduce the powers of the president, he has too much power and that is why many in gov are just rubber stamps, they do the president's bidd ...
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  • Jojo 7 years ago

    Then why are you practicing law as profession in Ghana ? In some descipline countries this foolish lawyer would have been purge from the bench. A profession of such always it to protect and defend the bible of a nation ie con ...
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  • TULA 7 years ago

    Massa; you got it all WRONG ; it is not the constitution STOOOPID !!!!!!!!!; it is the people who are suppose to make THE CONSTITUTION work ; Ghanaians do not understand DEMOCRACY and tend to see the CONSTITUTION as an alie ...
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  • KWAME-BELGIUM 7 years ago

    Look at the person speaking. He has no respect for the nation.

  • FRED 7 years ago

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  • Ishmael boryor aka (Mogaby) 7 years ago

    Listen to what this toilet layer is saying bcs he uses this same toilet constitution to make his money do people even reason before they talk he hv to be delt with if Ghana constitution is toilet paper then he is also a toile ...
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  • Toffey 7 years ago

    The lawyer is perfectly right! A country subjecting herself to international ridicule day in and day out.

  • kofi 7 years ago

    Lawyers don't use such cheap language. If this guy is a lawyer, then I am very disappointed. He never raised one wise query against the Constitution. Tweeeaaaa

  • Opanin Koo Kwakye J'burg 7 years ago

    Mr. Lawyer, I expected you to give at least one example of what is the Constitution that you think is useless but you didn't - just saying that it is useless is not enough.

  • Kootse 7 years ago

    Adofo I share your frustration absolutely but comparing this rogue constitution to a toilet paper is rather a huge insult and disservice to toilet paper. At least without that useful piece of paper personal hygiene will be un ...
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  • JO UK 7 years ago

    1st amendment should be to revoke immunity accorded to Rawlings so that he is duly tried and judged by his peers in a court of law.

  • Kofi Gbagbladza 7 years ago

    Another fool like lawyer Adofo, he made no sense,

  • Avor 7 years ago

    Don*t insult people of Ghana. Get matured

  • gyidie 7 years ago

    Twerp and loser, you'll discover he bought his way into becoming a 'lawyer'!

  • Joey Boy 7 years ago

    The NDC will win the elections in Nov. 2016, and appoint that blockhead called Sanjay Abu Dhabi as a minister. He doesn't know the difference between"looser" and "loser",some generous people have corrected him several times b ...
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  • nana@ 7 years ago

    Mr. We can't talk like that. Who are the intelligent Ghanaians with brains.
    By your words you are saying those who drafted the constitution are stupid and have no brains like you. Do you see the same things that fools see.
    ...
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  • Clement 7 years ago

    Who are the intellegant men and women

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

    A self-conscious wife asks her husband, "Honey, are my boobs too small?"

    "No, honey, they're fine, but if you want to make them bigger, why don't you rub toilet paper between them?" he suggests.

    For the next couple of w ...
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  • gyidie 7 years ago

    Is describing the ultimate source of power and authority in the land!
    And of course, his biggest 'beef' that he has, and can readily point to is the appointing authority of the President. He has absolutely no qualms about a ...
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  • Odikro 7 years ago

    The 1992 constitution was written by butchers, ... and tailors, ... and hairdressers. Then the libertine Tsatsu Tsikata tacked in the Indemnity Clause.

  • Adako 7 years ago

    I am beginning to have hope in Ghana because of the new breed.I have always said the constitution is useless and Jesus Christ can only be president of Ghana.

  • Ideal Ghana 7 years ago

    Ooh oooo! Lawyers I think you just want to be heard or what ever hidden agenda you have? We Ghanaians have been Governed by this very constitution through Republic after another and you have the guts to call our national Cons ...
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  • Omanbapa 7 years ago

    Mr Adofo, you have spoken well, yet I would condemned the language used to cement your opinion on the subject matter.

    First and foremost and been a legal practioner you should know better, assuming your son tells you , you ...
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  • KPAKPIL 7 years ago

    ADOFO I DONT WANT TO DOUBT THAT U ARE A LAWYER BUT I AM DISAPPOINTED ABOUT YOUR COMMENTS. I AM VERY SORRY FOR YOU

  • kwaku london 7 years ago

    THE CONSITUTION AND LAW DOES NOTWORK BECAUSE OF NDC POOR GOVERNMENT. GHANAIANS MUST THROW THIS NDC GOVERNMENT OUT AND THEY WILL SEE GOOD CONSITUTION AND LAW.

  • NANA 7 years ago

    THAT LAWYER NEVER GAVE ONE EXAMPLE;NOT ONE.
    IF THE EC CANNOT DISQUALIFY A PARTY,WHO CAN?
    A LAWYER HAS TO RELY ON LEGAL IMPLICATIONS,TO WIT,FACTS,FACTS.

  • Kojo Morovia 7 years ago

    Allyou need to be a lawyer in Ghana is a relation or family member in the Makola Law School. He would leak exam papers and even give you a pass if you fail. That is why most lawyers are thieves and dumb.

  • JM 7 years ago

    He has no respect for there nation law.

  • Nii 7 years ago

    The American Constitution was written 200 yrs ago but know American pronounce it a TOILET PAPER
    You see some sector of Ghanaians who believe The country is for them and they are not in Power see everything wrong with everyt ...
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  • Missibuunn. 7 years ago

    An embarrassment to the legal fraternity of this country.Yet he applies the constitution when he argues for bail in court.To denigrate the Constitution in such intemperate metaphor calls for ethical sanctions.
    You are lucky ...
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  • JH. New York 7 years ago

    A respectable Lawyer would not use the word 'toilets paper' to describe the Constitution of his Country. A lawyer in his right mind would make suggestions for Constitution-Amendment,unless he's insane to make that Comment.Ado ...
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  • Kofi, Ghana 7 years ago

    The lawyer was too charitable. I think he should have described the constitution as toilet itself. By the way JH, you need to work on your grammar a little bit.

  • Kofi Adu Bediako. 7 years ago

    This is the hard and gosple truth.
    Unless this thrash is thrown out Ghana will never.move foreward.Drawn by Rawlings to suit him it is like some pieces of woods.

  • black magic powers 7 years ago

    i there is a greate man from indian, who have powers to help other\, do you know any sprite call the greate hamzard.that was the srite that the king pharo of egypt was using but, there is a spritualist from indian who is havi ...
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  • JIM 7 years ago

    GHANA CONSTITUTION IS LIKE TOILET PAPER !!! LAWYER ADOFO ,HOW DID YOU BECOME A LAWYER , YOU ARE VERY VERY STUPID, AMONG STUPID, I THINK YOU ARE BIG FOOL HOW CAN YOU SAY THIS, FOOLISH MAN, SHIT LIKE YOU

  • Blackstar babe 7 years ago

    Shame on you disgrace. Yourselff

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    This what happens when a Consultative Assembly to draft a national constitution is packed with December 31 Women Moment operatives and CDRs. When you give power to idiots, don't expect anything other than idiocy. Thanks to th ...
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  • Kay 7 years ago

    Until the current constitution is changed, people will continue to steal and practice corruption with no fear.

  • Obuamah 7 years ago

    Look at the face of the person insulting our collective being as Ghanaians. I am sure he is one of those pampered idiots who went from secondary, through tertiary to the Law School through cheating. Since when did he notice t ...
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  • Foli 7 years ago

    How can you as a lawyer describe national constitution in such derogatory terms.
    Lawyer Adofo.?
    The moral degradation of this nation of ours have permeated all aspects of life

  • KKBK 7 years ago

    The cheapest profession ever..... Being a lawyer shouldn't have been a job.....

  • Emerjina 7 years ago

    I think it is an insult to describe the constitution of our country as Adofo did. But I think his sense of reasoning appears not to have been sharpened at his years at the law school and his practice as a law year. Common ba ...
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  • roland B. fahnbulleh, Sr. 7 years ago

    A Private Legal Practitioner, Lawyer Kwame Adofo has described the constitution of Ghana as not worthy of a ‘toilet paper’" sounds more like "Tiresome" to me & and an insult from the very individual that has benefited so ...
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  • Papapee 7 years ago

    I want to ask Mr too know layer, where was he when the review of the constitution was in progress. He should give as a break.

  • Plasma Kote 7 years ago

    Not intellectually challenging.

  • foster 7 years ago

    Corrupt lawyer like him.shit that adofo

  • kwame 7 years ago

    What a talk. So stupid people wrote the Constitution. Some of these lawyers behave as if they are gods. How can you refer to your country's constitution as toilet paper. How patriotic is this supposed lawyer. Let's appreciat ...
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  • agyapee147 7 years ago

    also the closing of door to independent prosecutors is the key for coruption and the raping of the nations resources. the constitution is indeed flawed

  • Kofi Gbagbladza 7 years ago

    Foolish lawyer talking by heart. Is that what professor Kofi Kumado and professor Kofi Quashigah taught u?? U lawyer Adofo did not point out any flaw in the 1992 Constitution and how you want it couched. You are not correct

  • Sam 7 years ago

    Whoever your name is you are senseless how can you talk like that even you don't qualify to be a lawyer

  • PHEL 7 years ago

    I agree with you Lawyer. We must change this bogus law.

  • Ekow Samuel. 7 years ago

    We do not think the mister suppose to use the term toilet paper for the constitution Ghana and he should not do that insult to ghanians,we hope next time he will know how to the people of Ghana as the learn of some of t ...
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  • pro 1 7 years ago

    Which law does adofo use to defend his clients if any at all? What does he mean by throwing de constitution into the bin? People like these calling demselves layers. No wonder!

  • MUNTARI 7 years ago

    MAHAMA N NDC MEMBERS SOILED THE CONSTITUTION. MAHAMA IS A THIEF AND A MURDERER

  • witch hunter 7 years ago

    Kookooase kruaseni lawyer,

  • Pacheco 7 years ago

    The current constitution of the 4th republic of Ghana is flawed in many aspects and therefore a suspect that need to subject to critical scrutiny ,,,
    The constitution was written a time Ghana was governed by revolutionary mi ...
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  • Freddie 7 years ago

    Any stupid lawyer in the country Ghana can stand and denigrate the laws of the land
    Where the fuck were they when the laws were been made. The same useless so called lawyers when they were invited to help make the laws whic ...
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  • Pacheco 7 years ago

    The current constitution of the 4th republic of Ghana is flawed in many aspects and therefore a suspect that need to be subjected to critical scrutiny ,,,
    The constitution was written at time Ghana was governed by revolution ...
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  • Kwame Aboagye Mensah, Accra 7 years ago

    Lawyer who? Smh

  • Anthony Frimpong NY 7 years ago

    This is myself observation :THE MORE FORMAL EDUCATION THE DUMBER WE GET.The division of the the EDUCATION system is not helping matters any. Nkrumah only had an honorary doctorate and we did not display this level of dumbness ...
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  • Victor 7 years ago

    There was nothing wrong with this constitution when Kuffour was President!!!

  • Sarfo Acheampong 7 years ago

    May almighty God bless this lawyer .And please can someone get this lawyer number for me? This is what we need as a nation the electoral commission should appoint or choose by the parliament

  • Godwin 7 years ago

    Look at this stupid man says ghana constitution is useless.where was he when president kuffour used the useless constitution for 8 years?he is has intellecture brain diformity.

  • Abraham 7 years ago

    U see how stupid a lawyer can be? but he think he is wise.he don't know he disgracing our country in the present of foreigners all bcause of politics.

  • Theophilus Nketiah 7 years ago

    What an idiot Doctor you are to compare the country's constitution to a toilet paper?

  • Wise Otumfuor 7 years ago

    So you hosted this mad man in your studio ? What does he use to practice? The toilet paper ? The you are worse than the toilet.

  • CONCERN CITIZEN 7 years ago

    WISE UP! LAWYERS DONT TALK LIKE THIS. THERE IS NO FACT IN ALL YOUR STATEMENTS. SPEAK WITH DECENCY AND SENSIBLY TOO

  • DRAWINS 7 years ago

    Who ever insult dis man iz rada de number 1 foolish mankind of all generatn 2 come.Hv we ever asked our self yyy NPP or NDC both curious 4 POWER.They all know their Boss ar protected by IMMUNITY LAW nd beside dose intelligent ...
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