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'Do you know the law better than the AG?' – Ablakwa clashes with Bernard Avle over US agreement

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  • Karikakchar 3 months ago

    Well court rulings are written in English and I guess the average person that can read should be able to understand, right?

  • Kweku Tsin 3 months ago

    Our leaders are idiots. 1 Do you think the US will volunteer to take in a Canadian deported from Ghana? 2 When these people get to Ghana, who bears to cost to send them their home countries?

  • TT 3 months ago

    Arrogant baby with sharp teeth at it again. Idiots have been appointed as ministers.

  • The Spear 3 months ago

    In just a few months, Ablakwa is losing most of his admirers including my wife, and I wish he knows this. His handling of "Nigeria Must Go" and a few other things don't reflect his previous strongman sorties on key issues bef ...
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  • John Martin 3 months ago

    Exactly
    Very arrogant

  • Mr Foreign Affairs Minister Be Circumspect. Don’t Dabble In Those Issues In The Negative. 3 months ago

    Also the fact that he’s getting himself involved in the Israeli - Palestinian issue making statements that are condemning Israel is not good for Ghana.
    Israel is fighting existential threats and so they are doing everythin ...
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  • Agya 2 months ago

    Please stop misquoting the scriptures. No where in the bible does it say that. Genesis 12:3 was a promise given to Abram not Israel and note that when God gave that promise to Abram, Israel had not yet come into existence. P ...
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  • Kwame 3 months ago

    Your clueless and shallow minded Akuffo Addo and his cousin Ofori Atta including Bawumiah are the most clueless ever

  • AK 3 months ago

    @Kwame. You are rather clueless. You appear to be ignorant of the issue being discussed here. The arrogance of Mahama and Ablakwa are becoming too obvious.
    Kudos to Mr Avle.

  • Concerned Citizen 3 months ago

    Typical party foot soldier! You will never see anything wrong with what the NDC is doing until Ghanaians vote them out massively in 2028. Pride and arrogance will be their undoing.

  • Dogo 3 months ago

    In your dreams. You think Ghanaians will vote NDC out over such trivial issues and bring your incompetent and corrupt NPP back to power to do what?

  • Oprege 3 months ago

    All these NKWASEASEM because of money !

  • Etche 3 months ago

    Don't delude yourself into thinking all countries are equal in capacity, ability, influence and strength.

  • Enyonam Ayayee 3 months ago

    TRUST GOOFY TEETH ABLAKWA, THE TRIBAL BIGOT TO ARGUE FOOLISHLY EVEN THOUGH HE IS WRONG.
    BERNARD DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME BECAUSE THE ARROGANT IGNORANT SELFISH BOY OR BABY WITH SHARP TEETH HAS ALWAYS BEEN SLIMY AND DODGY. THE ...
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  • Oman Ghana 20 marks 3 months ago

    They understand the court ruling by Supreme Court of Ghana 2017 but they would like to compensate USA for the senseless statement made by Ablakwa which caused diplomatic chaos recently for Ghana. They want to be in good books ...
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  • Prince Ali Baba 2 months ago

    Seek forgiveness from Almighty Allah
    Gk and made research about Islam and Christianity

  • Kwame 3 months ago

    Everyday this Bernard Avle guy only want to major in the minors and minor in the majors. No doubt he went to the Presidency for the Press encounter asking foolish questions

  • Yaw Kwab 3 months ago

    That is your thought. You should have been there yourself to ask your good question. Pls stop showing your deficiency.

  • SammyGyamfool 3 months ago

    See fool. Shamima Moslim was asking same foolished questions today, she is with the NDC.

  • Nii 3 months ago

    Bernard Avle attended PRESEC Legon, and studied Economics at UG. Ablakwa Okudjeto was also at PRESEC Legon,not so intelligent and went to UG to study a soft course.Benard has far more work experience than this noisy sycophant ...
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  • Kwame 3 months ago

    Which work experience has Bernrd Avle more than Okudjeto Ablakwaa? You must be a joker. Who in your wildest imagination is deceiving you that work in the public service doesn't constitute tremendous work experience?

  • Mantey 3 months ago

    The man has never worked anywhere apart from his national service and politics and other jobs related or connected to politics even the farm and all that. Business people must ran the country and not these stupid politicians

  • Opoku Amsterdam 3 months ago

    Kwame,why are so stupid? As far as you are concerned the Ndc does no wrong.What sort of gullibility is this.You are too pathetic.

  • Enyonam Ayayee 3 months ago

    Kwame you an ignorant bastard and an extraordinary illiterate. YOU DID NOT GET ANY PROPER CHILDHOOD UPBRINGING. WO HO FIIIIII. Do you understand what Avle said. I’m wondering whether ABLAKWA understood the question. The Att ...
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  • Kofi 3 months ago

    Ghanaweb please get your facts correct Gitmo 2 was 2016 not 2017 as started in the writeup. As KWAME deeee he is only doing damage control and emotional repairs.

  • Yaw Kwab 3 months ago

    Hon. Okudjeto Ablakwa should stop the bluff. AG is not the only knowledgeable person in law. And the fact that he is a lawyer does not mean he can't make mistakes. If a media person has drawn your attention to an anomaly, ple ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 3 months ago

    The PhD Dr Ayine is holding is confusing him ,he's not that knowledgeable as NDC followers would like to portray him. He needs to.be reasonable to protect his career.

  • Achakanapaya 3 months ago

    This Avle guy is an npp activist therefore what do you expect.
    Should be ignored.

  • Yaw Kwab 3 months ago

    Please this is not NPP & NDC activists issue. Is Avle's points raised not true? If Supreme Court took a decision to send future similar arrangements to parliament, how do you use MOU? Now the deportees are taking the govt to ...
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  • MORALS, ETHICS : GHANA'S SOLUTIONS 3 months ago

    Indeed 'this is not NPP & NDC activists issue'.

    Mr. Bernard Avle is a BBC WORLD
    prize-winning journalist, NOT an NPP
    prize-winning journalist.

  • Prayer 3 months ago

    Let us all stop beating about the Bush.This MOU is about what Ghana stands to gain under the table.The narrative that we are doing this on humanitarian grounds for our West African brothers is a nice way to add perfume to our ...
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  • Kwesi 3 months ago

    Are you sure of what you are spewing out?

  • Fred 3 months ago

    You can't reason beyond politics shame on you. Avle made a valid argument based on what the law stipulates. The Minister's intent was to bully the host.

  • Opoku Amsterdam 3 months ago

    Another fool,always thinking on political lines.

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  • Lopez 3 months ago

    Is Okudzeto Ablakwa trying to tell Ghanaians that this AG is the only knowledgeable law lord in Ghana who understands the constitution better than any legal brain in our country? It's a shame.

  • Say it again 3 months ago

    And that 1000teeth guy brought in the US Attorney General 's view that it doesn't breach Ghana's constitution. How idiotic can Ablakwa base his argument on this hb pencil shaped woman to defend their nonsense

  • Sheer arrogance 3 months ago

    The arrogance of this balloon cheeks guy is without bounds. How many blunders have this so-called Attorney General made already?

  • Kwame Peter 3 months ago

    Achakanapaya,I’ve always thought you’re well informed but you’ve disappointed me,are you aware Mr Avle was once considered for the vice-presidency,no?
    All West African states met and decided to collectively reject Trum ...
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  • Nana 3 months ago

    KWAME YOU NEED TO GO TO HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW BECAUSE SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU OR YOUR MOTHER DID NOT GIVE YOU A MILK WHEN YOU WERE BORN. YOUR WORDS LOOK LIKE YOU ARE A BABY. YOUR GUY ABLAKWA DO NOT MAKE SENSE ON THIS AG’s ...
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  • Be wise 3 months ago

    If it is MOU, what are the deportees doing in Ghana? You deserve to be jailed when NPP comes into power for abusing and disrespecting the constitution. A fool and ignorant person.

  • Edi 3 months ago

    ABLAKWA IS AN ASSHOLE HE VOTED AGAINST US AND ISRAEL IN THE U.N FEW DAYS AGO AND RISK GHANA OF POSSIBLY GETTING HIT WITH 50% TARIFF [ JUST LIKE THE USA HIT S.AFRICA WITH 50% TARIFFS FOR SUPPORTING THE HAMAS KILLERS ] .ABL ...
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  • Joe Atiso 3 months ago

    I don’t agree with Ablakwa on many issues but any morally responsible country would vote Against the Zionist / racist Israel and senseless Trump backed Israel’s Genocide / atrocities against defenseless/ occupied Palestin ...
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  • Shamsi Waleed 2 months ago

    Hamas and Israel. Both are racist fuvks who hate black ppl

  • Kojo 3 months ago

    Ablakwa and ndc are all dummies folks dont mind them

  • Razal Sheiba 3 months ago

    Bernard Avle quoted from a source. The supreme court ruling was in simple English words. You don't need to be a lawyer to understand supreme court rulings. It takes a person with sound mind to admit that he's wrong when he's ...
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  • Bobo 3 months ago

    Even if this goes to parliament for ratification I don't think it would be stopped so what's the big deal in this. If government refuses to accept the people you are the same people going to accuse the government of not being ...
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  • Navapio 3 months ago

    This JDM told us that the deportees have since left for their country only to wake up to hear that the government has been sued for unlawful detention. The corrupt and a scammer is at it again. He might have taken money fo ...
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  • Paa Kwesi in the Bronx 3 months ago

    Few years ago, the small boy accepted some detainees from here to Ghana, did he seek parliamentary approval? When our tax money is converted into foreign and sent to you in Ghana, did you request parliamentary approval before ...
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  • Ashley 3 months ago

    The government erred on this matter. They should just do the needful and send the MoU or Agreement to Parliament for ratification. They have a huge majority and it shold pass. Just correct yourself and obey the Supreme Court ...
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  • Offshore Waters 3 months ago

    There may be precedence but the two scenarios differ. In the Gitmo 2 case, they came to stay. Whereas in this case they are transiting. An unratified MOU may suffice in this case. However another Supreme Court interpretation ...
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  • SammyGyamfool 3 months ago

    The babies with sharp teeths are at it again, this time we see how it goes.

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  • Davidson 3 months ago

    Hon Ablakwa is gradually loosing my admiration for him. The answer given doesn't sound pleasant to me.
    Those close to him should sit him down and coach him more than he's doing.
    He's Ghana's heart and eye around the globe.

  • The Wiseman 3 months ago

    Heart and eye around the globe my foot. How dare you opine such a hogwash of a statement? Wise up baba.

  • JK Bukari 3 months ago

    What is "Do you know law than?"

  • Akwasi 3 months ago

    Imagine Akufo Addo accepting these deportees, Ablakwa, Kwasi Pratt, Lawyer Anokye Frimpong and other fake socialist would have attacked and insulted him.

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 3 months ago

    40 more deportees from the US coming? Why?

  • Pelicles. 3 months ago

    Ask John Dramani Mahama, the man who hardly uses his brains.

  • The Wiseman 3 months ago

    Kwesi, just accept that the NDC bigots are paid to receive those deportees. Ghanaians should be ready to camp with terrorists.

  • Pelicles. 3 months ago

    Ghanaians, especially NDC goons think that our country need such people as if we are sparsely populated. I remember JJ accepting Liberian refugees and later, they became an incurable cancer to us. Mahama then took in Guantana ...
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  • Hmmm 3 months ago

    NDC government always treat Ghanaians as fools. They lied to power and are treating Ghanaians as if Ghana is their property. They did same as GITMO 2 when president Mahama was a president and is doing it again despite the Sup ...
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  • T.T 3 months ago

    Just like the way you are acting foolishly too.

  • Agyeman 3 months ago

    SO YOU THINK YOUR AG KNOWS THE LAW? DUFFUOR, COLLINS DAUDA ET AL STEAL BILLIONS AND YOUR AG STOPS THEIR CASE AND GOES CHASING 49 MILLION FROM ADU BOAHEN AND YOU SIT TV CAMERAS AND EXHIBIT SUCH EMPTINESS IN YOUR HEAD. YOU GUYS ...
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  • Onipaba 3 months ago

    Ablakwa very childish and empty.No serious Nation will appoint such clueless and incompetent person as their foreign minister.JJ once called him Team B and Baby with sharp teeth.

  • Hon. Ablakwa, who's that AG, whom you think is more knowledgeable 3 months ago

    Hon. Ablakwa, who's that AG, whom you think is more knowledgeable.

  • Kwam 3 months ago

    Seriously, is not a matter about law, but common sense, , how do you explain you brought illegal immigrants to our country, because they are ECOWAS citizens? Do the Hon. foreign Minister thinks their country was not consulted ...
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  • Kwame panin 3 months ago

    Very useless and untruthful minister appointed by a clueless president.

  • dboyy 3 months ago

    Sometimes our leaders behave as though everything is alright here, between USA and Ghana which country is resource enough to take care of these deportees. Africa leaders and sense are synonymous. Wei

  • Kofi Sam 3 months ago

    Mr Minister i trust you can easily go and get parliamentary approval. Mr Avle has a point so be patient and go through what he said and act appropriately

  • Truth 3 months ago

    Na this one, is it gyimie in the highest level or what? How is this issue an NPP or NDC matter. The ruling by Supreme Court was clear and I'm surprised the partisan political animals are defending this. Kwame Nkrumah abr3 agu ...
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  • Kubi 3 months ago

    Please stop that because that person you Ablakwa feels he is somebody is nothing to some of us.

  • Okogyeadwa. 3 months ago

    There is NO FREE THANK YOU IN AMERICA, so therefore there might have been a thank you attached to this deal. The government should let us know how much AMERICA paid .

  • KPMG 3 months ago

    AG. is the supper man, he is with legal error, AG,s brain is what defines the Ghana's 1992 constitution so whatever he said final. AGs position can be occupied by anybody with social and legal background with party colour. Th ...
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  • Konfo 3 months ago

    Ablakwa, you are taking Ghanaians for granted. The government made a big mistake. You only have to accept it and cancel the stupid MoU.

  • Jude 3 months ago

    Ablakwa is just a loudmouth Baby Born With Sharp Teeth. Is he an illiterate not to know that their Attorney-General Ayeni could get it wrong in his advise? These stupid NDC boys are senseless and nation wreckers.

  • fg 3 months ago

    This tadpole of a foreign minister is so arrogant and stupid.
    Are you saying that the A-G is infallible and that he cannot make mistakes? How come he loses cases in court?
    This is not about who knows law, it is matter of c ...
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  • Fromtomfrom 3 months ago

    YOU ARE A DISGUSTING KOTOKAIST AND NO PANAFRICANIST!

    You led Ghana, for a Morrocan bribe, to recognize the blatantly illegal colonization of the Sahraoui Republic!
    You claim to be a panafricanist but shamefully honour Kot ...
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  • Bk man 3 months ago

    Don't mind these politician journalist
    This bilateral relationship has been there
    Rawlings time,Ghana Airways used to bring
    deportees from duseldorf transiting to Nigeria,
    Gambia, Senegal, Conakery and Sierra Leone e ...
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  • the Villager 3 months ago

    BTW, who owns the radio stattion Avle works at?

  • Ghana's foolish leaders 3 months ago

    We have weak and foolish leaders. and that is why we have so many slave castles in Ghana.

  • JULOR CAESAR 3 months ago

    Once it becomes a full agreement? You've started executing on that agreement, so what's left to make any different from what it currently is? Just acknowledge your mistake and stop this double-talk. Ghanaians must keep their ...
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  • K Duah 3 months ago

    US is bullying Ghana they can’t say no like what Nigeria did.US should send them directly to their countries.When soft and weak people rule you thus what happen.

  • Kevin Gee USA 3 months ago

    Why waste your time on a gay man like BERNARD AVLE. A VERY DIDGRACE TO ALL VOLTARIANS. EVEN SATAN WONT DESIRE FELLOW MAN"S ANUS. SO WHO ARE YOU BERNARD.

    I DON'T KNOW WHAT MAHAMA IS WAITING FOR TO PASS THE LGBT LAW, SO THA ...
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  • Obuor 3 months ago

    Please let Ablakwa understand that being the Attorney General doesn't necessarily mean you know the law more than anyone else in the country. The AG position is a political post just like any ministerial appointments like him ...
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  • Wow 3 months ago

    Mahama is an Uncle Tom kneeling to racist felon pedophiles. Disgraceful. No self-respective shoukd should be acting as a slave to a pack of racists who literally are erasing black history in America as we speak, and have thei ...
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  • Stone 3 months ago

    At this point it's clear that most of the current ministers including the cj and deputy are unbaked for their positions. Maybe a reshuffle or outright change of most of these appointees will save the president a lot of headed ...
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  • Alkabulan 3 months ago

    President JM has failed for this time by allowing those deported people's direct to Ghana just because of west Africa visa free, it's doesn't make sense the agreement is incomplete sad.

  • Kwabena 3 months ago

    Very biaded reportage. Eihh ghanaweb

  • Atsu 3 months ago

    Okujato the born liar has been disgraced by Bernard Avle good job Bernard

  • This guy err! 3 months ago

    This Ablakwa guy with his head like a newborn baby's scrotum is such a pathological liar.

  • Antiba 3 months ago

    Ablakwa ni gyimii de3. What has this guy said that is wrong.

  • Okukuseku 3 months ago

    The arrogance has started already. Can you even imagine Ablakwah asking that Question? Is the Attorney General a master of all he surveys? No wonder the Attorney General with all the knowledge in the world looked on for the m ...
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  • First Offer 3 months ago

    It’s the hatred and the wish that the government fails that’s making you confused. Because you support another party, you have become blind and deaf to truth. Is it the attorney general that remanded abronye? Or all of a ...
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  • First Offer 3 months ago

    This fake avle guy. Because of his stomach he doesn’t even want to associate himself with his tribe. Coward! Now he’s interested in politics again

  • Charles 3 months ago

    We don't have a country we have a territory which we are administrating. That is why powerful nations can dictate to us what to do and who should come and stay in our territory. Africa we are doomed.

  • Nico 3 months ago

    Politicians never disappoints, time will tell

  • Kwame Peter 2 months ago

    Fellow Ghanaians,Nkrumah’s birthday is around the corner,John Mahama and his rogue Foreign Minister are imperialist lackeys and capitalist roaders.

  • KofSam 2 months ago

    The AG must have a press conference to explain to Ghanaians the reason for accepting the deportees from the US . Ablakwa demonstrated some arrogance in his exchange with the journalist. Though the reason for accepting the dep ...
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  • Kwame Peter 2 months ago

    Bernard why banter with a glorified fool,some body who gets rewarded for playing mischief.