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Nobody should ever put up a statue of themselves while still alive - Former UK Ambassador to Ghana

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  • Madiba 11 months ago

    Perfectly said Benjamin. No one should put up a statue of himself wether in office or not

  • FRANKIE 11 months ago

    AKUFFO ADDO was an aberration, a mistake, simply anathema to Ghana. Posterity is what judges all of us. Engagement in self adulation and self aggrandisement is for failures and fraudsters. AKUFFO ADDO is a perfect example.

  • THE TRUTH 11 months ago

    Time will tell.Mr Mahama is too young in the seat but signs are that he is not a changed person and he is going to repeat the same horrible performance that he did in his 1st term.

  • P Djamgbe 11 months ago

    @THE TRUTH, if Akufo Addo's performance was like Mahama's "horrible performance" in his first term, he (Akufo Addo) would have erected his statue in every corner of the country and you NPP followers would be worshipping them ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Don’t let me laugh. Was Nkrumah that much loved during the early 1960s? He lived a scared life and did not trust anybody. Do you know who Gbedemah was? He was the most trusted ally of Nkrumah but find out why he fled Ghana ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Correction. I intended to write that FUTURE PRESIDENTS SHOULD NOT ERRECT STATUES FOR THEMSELVES AS NKRUMAH AND AKUFFO ADDO DID.

  • Czar 11 months ago

    Is this foolish man still alive?

  • Asterisk 11 months ago

    @ FRANKIE

    Such a fool like you who think displaying grammar and speaking big Englidh is synonymous with being ntelligent. Was the statue mounted by Akufo Addo with the tax payers' money or it was done by private individual ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    I find the meddling in the Internal Affairs of Ghana by this British as stupid , outrageous, and obnoxious. Let him go to Britain and see how people from the Royal family stupidly spend the country’s money. Yes and King Cha ...
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  • Diarra 11 months ago

    The biggest mistake Ghanaians have ever made was to have handed this country to that Kyebi lunatic chimpanzee to govern. Now I know why Kofi Coomson was almost crying when the topic came up and he was advising Ghanaians. If o ...
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  • Godfrey 11 months ago

    The biggest mistake is rather to neglect research or learn how to research on matters like this. It is imperative to note that Nana was bestowed with the statue solely by the Western Regional Minister and the chiefs and popul ...
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  • Kiwani 11 months ago

    Wó y3 aboafunu kwasiampanin bi paaaaaa... @Godfrey! Take your stupid research away, and go and check whether the roundabout where the ugly statue was standing was even completed. When you finish, go and watch the video of yo ...
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  • Kwaku 11 months ago

    Hello, so it is clear that nobody has the monopoly on insults. In the end it does not serve any good purpose.
    We can do better by making our point without resorting to that.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    And are you not sure places were named after the murderer Rawhide Rawlings despite all his evil and malicious deeds? How many innocent people were killed, murdered, and raped or tortured by evil and malicious Soldiers under h ...
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  • Bakogone Tiblisi Honest VIEWS ATTEN TION 101 K.I.A 11 months ago

    Frank,
    Your view on K.I.A.

  • Shallom Shallom 11 months ago

    When ever intellectual capability is lacking insults is what will save you ofuii

  • Martin Kreisler 11 months ago

    So how come the NPP performed so poorly in the Western Region in he last election, if the people were so appreciative as you claim?

  • Martin Kreisler 11 months ago

    Not just the Western Region, but Sekondi in particular where the statue was unveiled, the NPP lost the presidential & parliamentary elections for the first time in the 4th Republic.This does not seem like appreciation for goo ...
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  • THAT FOOLISH STATUE OF THAT MONKEY MUST BE SHIT-BOMBED, FOLLOWED BY A REAL BOMB. 11 months ago

    SHIT-BOMB THE DAMN UGLY STATUE.
    THANK YOU! UNCLE JON BENJAMIN!

  • THAT FOOLISH STATUE OF THAT MONKEY MUST BE SHIT--BOMBED, FOLLOWED BY A REAL ATOM BOMB. 11 months ago

    CRIMINALS AKUFO-ADDO AND KUFUOR CAME IN TO LOOT GHANA AND DUMP A PLERHORA OF DEBTS ON BANKRUPT POOR GHANAIAN TAXPAYERS TO FORK OUT IN REPAYMENTS TILL THY KINGDOM COME.

    THESE TWO FUCKING INDIVIDUALS SHOULD NEVER ENJOY A DIM ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 months ago

    Criminals like Akuffo Addo and Kuffour? Have you forgotten your mentor? Which leader of Ghana stole more than your Efo Jeremiah John Rawlings? Was he not a Pauper when he seized Power but left with his wife and family as mult ...
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  • AKUFO-ADDO SET UP THAT FRAUDULENT "NATIONAL" CATHEDRAL PROJECT TO SYPHON OUT LOOTED GOVERNMENT MONEY. 11 months ago

    AKUFO-ADDO NEVER MEANT TO CONSTRUCT ANY REAL "NATIONAL" CATHEDRAL PROJECT FOR GHANAIANS.

    ALL OF THOSE FAKE NPP PROJECTS ARE AZAA. THEY WERE ALL CONCEIVED TO BE USED TO SYPHON OUT STOLEN FUNDS IN THEIR PERSONAL FOREIGN ACCO ...
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  • Raymond 11 months ago

    Efo John, God bless you!

  • Kwaku Tee 11 months ago

    I completely support Jon Benjamin. Nana Akuffo Addo made a big mistake in accepting this gift(statue).Most of these our traditional Chiefs do this to deceive our politicians. Osagyefo suffered from these deceptions.

  • Capricorn 11 months ago

    That coccousian, John Benjamin should mind his own business. I don't support the living with statue though, it doesn't lie in the mouth of fvcking Benjamin to meddle in our affairs. Look who's calling the kettle black. Was he ...
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  • Kwaku 11 months ago

    Well said Sir !!!!

  • Ike 11 months ago

    Well said Sir, because someone might mistakenly take you for a ghost when they see you physically and could get you harmed.

  • FRANKIE 11 months ago

    Hahahaaaaaaa Hahahaaaaaaa...... You killed it Bro! ❤️

  • No problem 11 months ago

    Nonsense, do you think we are in that colonialism again.

  • Ruthan 11 months ago

    It is a common phenomenon all over the world that statues are often pulled down when there is a change of govt.But time has proven that over a period these same ppl come back to regret for their action.Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrum ...
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  • AbasZ 11 months ago

    The statue of former president Nana addo that you are talking about, is he the one that erected it or somebody did it as a present for him?
    If you do not take time you will be advertising your ignorance on Ghana Web .

  • TRUTH 11 months ago

    There are videos of Nana Addo Commissioning the statue.

    This was the same charge against Nkrumah by the ancestors of Nana Addo.

    If they were right then, we are also right now.

    I would want the statue to stand as a r ...
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  • The Truth 11 months ago

    That useless statue forms about 75% of NPP's abysmal performance in Takoradi especially Lossing their traditional seats. Akufo Addo was regarded as deputy God by Wontumi and the likes in the party. Not even a single person wa ...
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  • Peeeeeeeee 11 months ago

    Throw it in korle lagoon

  • Musa 11 months ago

    This is unprecedented. A sitting president erected a statue of himself?? Especially when he has ruin the country and humiliated the chiefs. The nation rather needs to erect a monument in his memory as A MAN WHO STOLE THE FOR ...
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  • Julius Asare 11 months ago

    Is that your concern, dismissed diplomat!
    Go chop your house matter, you have worse things in the UK you should be concerned about

  • Obibs 11 months ago

    Nonsense. Did he put up that statue by himself or it was the chiefs of the area that decided to honour him with that statue ?

  • Kwane Nkrumah Learnt it the Hard Way!! 11 months ago

    That such stupidity is not tolerated by Ghanaians. Rawlings got the message. Unfortunately Akuffo-Addo did not!

  • Bombo Tone 11 months ago

    Ex UK Ambassador focus on your country. You better ask the UK government and people why they have statues of the likes of Alex Ferguson who is very much alive before indulging in the affairs of Ghana. Put on your thinking cap ...
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  • KK 11 months ago

    The biggest mistake Ghanaians made in 2016 was voting for an incompetent person to become president of Ghana. This man, branded as a visionary leader and could not be corrupted but rather the opposite. This leader was very op ...
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  • Nana Akua Adobea 11 months ago

    Who is this white clown. Who said no one should allow their statues to be put while they are alive. Statues are not the only tool of memorialization. Street names, monumental buildings, festischrift, towns, halls of fame, wa ...
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  • Q-zone 11 months ago

    I'm sorry, you don't make sense one bit... @Adobea. I don't see the connection you have for statues and street names.

  • Jane 11 months ago

    How dare u interfer in our affairs?

  • AttoKwamena 11 months ago

    Go away, don't you go to them for loans?

  • Sam Fante warrior. 11 months ago

    The loans is for free ? The British should mind their own fucking business.

  • Donatus 11 months ago

    Akuffo Addo was a big, bigggg mistake.

  • Erik 11 months ago

    Wake up from your slumber GhanaWeb if you're still daydreaming. President Mahama is not a former president but the president of Ghana. And don't you ever refer him as a former.

  • Sofoline 11 months ago

    Advice them,they gave you platform to lash out on their opponents, deal with them.

  • Pat 11 months ago

    The forma president doesn't understand life yet. Arrogance

  • A SMALL EXAMPLE HERE!! 11 months ago

    My father built a Secondary School for his tribesmen in the 60s. He was just a poor teacher supported by a poor nurse (my mother) against all odds (ridicules, laughs) with her monthly salary to build the school. Not too soon ...
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  • Achakanapaya 11 months ago

    Jon Benjamin, you .go to hell. out of our issues. Foolish Man. A gang star.

  • F C B 11 months ago

    I really support this advice to our Leaders
    It's wrong and what is wrong is wrong
    I strongly agree with the advice

  • Naomi 11 months ago

    After breaking Akufo Monkey's statue, they should have urinated into his mouth and plaster it with sellotape

  • KA NA WU. 11 months ago

    Dr. Nkrumah also had a statue when he was alive. It was destroyed in 1966 when he was overthrown. Bashar Al Assad of Syria and Saddam Hussein also had statues while living.
    Dictators usually erect statues of themselves while ...
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  • Indeed God Bless Akufo Addo. 11 months ago

    Actually you are not correct former ambassador you talk any how your actions foretells the kinda human being you are if the one you call King in London have his statue in London why can't we have our leaders statues while the ...
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  • TT 11 months ago

    Will this JON ever shut up and mind his business?

  • ABC 11 months ago

    This man. UK the king and Queens has their portrait on their notes.

  • Blay 11 months ago

    That's right. Statues, are put up to relive the memories 0f great leaders like Dr. Nkrumah.

  • Antiba 11 months ago

    Piaaaaaawwwww!!! Mr Ambassador

  • Agyei Agyeman 11 months ago

    Who ask you this foolish man
    We will not entertain you this time around
    Thats why the sack you from South America as Ambassador
    Criminal

  • Martin Kreisler 11 months ago

    Mr. Ambassador Jon,
    Its so nice to hear from you again.

  • Shallom Shallom 11 months ago

    This man is slowly behaving like an idiot, do you know the source of founding for the statue ,broni kwasiampanyi sei ah ,instead advising your government on how to stop crime and clean your city's you are just going round and ...
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  • Rio 11 months ago

    Good observation

  • PAULO 11 months ago

    If this 'nose-poking' UK Diplomat had cared to investigate well, he would have known that Ex-Prez Akufo-Addo did not erect the statute by himself, or on his orders. Traditional rulers in the Western Region put up the statute ...
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  • PAULO 11 months ago

    CORRECTION
    Wherever 'STATUTE' is mentioned in my write-up, it should correctly read 'STATUE'. Thanks.

  • Lorraine 11 months ago

    If you think that Benjamin not meddle in Ghana's affairs, then my advice to those who speak English with their children, should start speaking their native language with their children, since English is taught in every school ...
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  • Sam Fante warrior. 11 months ago

    Another idiot homosexual, did we Africans invited any British or white people to come to our land and taught us their language ? What about our Gold Diamonds and Silver they stole from our us including our children, what you ...
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  • Lorraine 11 months ago

    If you think that Benjamin should not meddle in Ghana's affairs, then my advice to those who speak English with their children should start speaking their native language with their children, since English is taught in every ...
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  • Sam Fante warrior. 11 months ago

    Nobody want old ugly chimpanzee criminal statue in Takoradi but homosexuals vampires criminals British should mind their own business and talk about their own British problems not Ghana.

  • Kofi dynamics 11 months ago

    Can you please tell the Asanthene then because Ghanaians don't like Truth

  • Kofi dynamics 11 months ago

    Asanthene also have statuse of himself so to me this is not news, master ask the Asanthene that why he have status of himself than

  • State Capture and fake journalism, and miscreants 11 months ago

    In the geat of the campaign the sitting president nade certain utterances charging his supporters ti remove posters on DRIP Machines that set footsoldires on the rampage. There were clashes, matchet welding, veating and fight ...
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  • Lorraine 11 months ago

    Fante warrior can I also say that you are an idiot. Respect yourself, you can either agree or disagree by not insulting me. Learn to respect and don't disgrace your parents for bringing you up.

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  • Nii Adjei 11 months ago

    You this twerp again? Where have you been all this while? You were very vocal during the tenure of Mahama, but went silent during the tyrannical reign of Akufo-Addo. What brings you back this time? Hypocrites and parasites!

  • Good Mama 11 months ago

    Says who

  • ABREWA 11 months ago

    Was that statue put up by Prez Akuffo Addo himself?
    Did he direct or force those chiefs to erect it for him?
    Let’s all answer these questions first.

  • GH 11 months ago

    Akufo-Addo is so handsome that he wanted to preserve his image that is why he erected the statue of himself. Can't you see how ugly the old, selfish moron is? He needs a statue to convince himself that he is handsome. I don't ...
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  • Kk 11 months ago

    Get away with your colonial mentality you idiot!!! Talk about happenings on the UK and leave us alone. Foolish diplomat.