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The story of how Ghana's main airport was named after a coup plotter

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  • Wilson 9 months ago

    You wrote quite excitingly but you missed the reasons why the airport was named after him.
    The airport was named after him because when he was killed his severely mutilated body was found there.
    Secondly, the action that le ...
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  • I piss on sick dog prophet mohammed 9 months ago

    Qur'an is toilet paper. Burn all mosques.

  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    No matter the noble reason behind Kotoka mode of thinking-He WAS A SELFISH EWE. Dr Kwame Nkrumah educated Kotoka and promoted him and the EWE Kotoka as usual betrayed his master and maker. He brought instability to Ghana-henc ...
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  • AM 9 months ago

    Your incoherent diatribe full of ignorance is nauseating

  • Kweku Tsin 9 months ago

    To all you Asantes up in arms about Kotoka Airport, STFU ALREADY with your hatred. The airport is not on your land. BTW, Did you ask anybody permission before you named an airport after Prempeh? Nkrumah was a self-aggrandized ...
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  • they say they say 9 months ago

    How did communist China become the 2nd most powerful country in world, fool. Answer the damn question you fuckin so called democratic brain washed lunatic. You're proud to follow American style democratic governance but where ...
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  • Ooba k3 2 months ago

    You are the fool with false equivolence. The corruption, incompetence, and tribalism that plaqued Ghana would not have changed our fortunes eitherway. But thanks to open society a fool like you can express your dumb ideas wit ...
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  • Scullee 9 months ago

    Koteboto Ponkor-London-UK6, why is a neanderthal like you still tolerated here?

  • Scullee 9 months ago

    .A neanderthal is
    an uncivilized, unintelligent, or uncouth person (typically used of a man).

  • Yohanes, Houston Texas 9 months ago

    @Kojo Poku - London you are the biggest tribal bigot I’ve seen in recent times. You are full of hatred. Your hatred of others shall be your undoing if you don’t change to embrace love and peace for all.
    Grow up!!!!

  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    No matter the noble reason behind Kotoka mode of thinking-He WAS A SELFISH EWE. Dr Kwame Nkrumah educated Kotoka and promoted him and the EWE Kotoka as usual betrayed his master and maker. He brought instability to Ghana-henc ...
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  • AM 9 months ago

    Your incoherent diatribe full of ignorance is nauseating.

    (My earler post was entered in the wrong space)

  • Pantalon Peach Pilate 9 months ago

    The airport will always remain kotoka that's the name we all want as a nation. Nothing changes. This is not supposed to be political.

  • Akosua Do 9 months ago

    Who are the "we"? A lot of evil men had their statues erected all over the globe - we know better today so they are all coming down - everywhere. A coup plotter shouldn't be honored with the biggest icon of this nation, perio ...
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  • Asídu Keta 9 months ago

    Many of us don't want it changed to Nkrumah. He was a dictator. He put his name on all the currencies while alive, I prefer to keep Kotoca there. It was a brave effort since it looked impossible at the time and it was a popul ...
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  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    YES-YES-Ewes have brought instability to mother Ghana. Ewes were part of the German Togoland. Dr Kwame Nkrumah agreed for them to be part of modern Ghana and he educated and promoted Ewe Kotoka but Ewe Kotoka betrayed his MAS ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 9 months ago

    @Kojo Poku-London-UK...This is a story of the pot calling the kettle black..

  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    YOU ARE AN INWARD LOOKING EWE. BLOOD THIRSTY EWE. NATION WRECKERS EWES. EWES WERE NOT PART OF GHANA. IT IS REGRETABLE THAT YOU WERE ADDED TO MODERN GHANA. SECEDE. DR KWAME NKRUMAH BUILT AKOSOMBO DAM. HE WANTED UNITY. YOU TOOK ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 9 months ago

    @Akosua you haven't learned. Do you remember the attempt to rename Accra Sports Stadium after Ohene Gyan? Accra Sports Stadium is STILL Accra Sports Stadium.

  • Anthony Achampong 9 months ago

    well said. We know better now and there is ample proof of his selfish role and for that a name change is appropriate. What I don't like though is for us to make it a tribal cause instead of being factual. Justice must be done ...
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  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    We who. Are you insane. The Airport was Accra International Airport. It should NOT have been changed to the name of an EWE TRAITOR COUP PLOTTER EWE BLOOD THIRSTY ANIMALS. TROKOSI UNCIVILISED PEOPLE-INWARD LOOKING EWES. BLOODY ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 9 months ago

    Kotoka the fool.he was on CIA's payroll just like jb danquah..if what these two were doing was good why woukd they be involved with external forces like the Cia, taking monies from them to destabilize the country? And to thos ...
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  • Truth is Truth 9 months ago

    The best history as legacy is to meet the interest of the contemporaries, either in heroism or philanthropic measures
    An appellation won within the contemporaries then reserved in history is indelible, and better be indeli ...
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  • Pelicles. 9 months ago

    If Kotoka's name is removed from the airport, will that change our "sand-filled mindset"? Ghana is not developing fast enough due to our filthy mindset and nothing else. We can rename the airport after Nkrumah but till we cha ...
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  • Kwame 9 months ago

    Kotoka put an end to a ONE PARTY GOVERNMENT. A President for life. The rulling party did not even have a succession plan. No vice president etc. complete one man show. Rawlings on the other hand overthrew a Democratic Governm ...
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  • Tony 9 months ago

    Kwame or what do you call urself, honest dictatorship is far better than this our present day dubious democracy, Ghana has been practicing this so called democracy for more than 32 years today, what is the result? Bankruptcy! ...
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  • Dzimakpla 9 months ago

    Typical Ghanaian as always. We cherish our leaders when they are gone.A name change is long overdue

  • Nkwantabisa 9 months ago

    REMOVE THAT TRAITOR'S NAME TO KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. KOTOKA DOES NOT FIT TO BE NAMED AS A HERO IN GHANA. CHANGE IT ASAP. THANK YOU.

  • Mr Coobi nose 9 months ago

    If Kotoka’s name should be DELETED then NDC party should be DELETED too. That is equity. NDC is an offspring of an entity which overthrew an elected/ constitutional government like Kotoka: as ‘filthy’ as NDC.Ghana must ...
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  • Akosua Do 9 months ago

    Not too late to right the wrong. Do the needful, Mr. President.

  • Bakogone Tiblisi Honest VIEWS 9 months ago

    Man must do right thing! The name is riveted back. We revert the name to AIA.

    Evil must not be justified. Good must prevail.

    Good AIA. The people have voted for you.

  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    DID Kwame Nkrumah kill people like Ewe Rawlings? You are a very tribalistic person. Why are you mentioning Anlo Ewes etc. It is NOT necessary because the Airport was built by Dr Kwame Nkrumah, and it is befitting that it is c ...
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  • Augustina Quayson 9 months ago

    Please Wilson, it is not true that Kotoka was nursing the possibilities of bringing Dr Nkrumah back. If Kotoka wanted Dr Nkrumah back, please why did Kotoka lead the coup to overthrow Dr Nkrumah?Please the coup ...
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  • Erik 9 months ago

    To say the 1966 coup that overthrew Nkurumah's regime was popular is not entirely true. Ghanaians were forced to jubilate on the streets of Accra and Kumasi. If civil servants went to demonstrate today the following day schoo ...
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  • Olla Rinke 9 months ago

    The 1966 coup was made to look popular through the manipulations of the press and other stage managed activities sponsored by foreign intelligence agencies. Before his death, one of the most gifted artist, Ghanaba confessed h ...
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  • NKRUMAH TOO WAS BEHAVING LIKE PUTIN CHANGING CONSTITUTION EVERY 6YRS TO STAY IN POWER!!!! 9 months ago

    "Anoma entu aaa oji buo". (A bird thst doesnt fly invites a stone). Literally meaning dont stay too long in a particular position!

  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 9 months ago

    Where is the proof?

  • Kofi Ghanaba 9 months ago

    Kotoka liberated Ghana from the tyranny of Nkrumah.