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Ofori-Atta has hired top lawyers in the US but I'm not afraid – AG

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  • Liber8 15 hours ago

    Where did he get that money from?
    He is using our money to insulate himself from the people he was supposed to serve.

  • Nana Yao 15 hours ago

    Can't the spiritualist and the self acclaimed prophets in this country come together and send their messengers to bring that criminal ofori atta to Ghana?

  • FRANKIE 14 hours ago

    A criminal fugitive running away from his own country. Why are you so scared of returning to your own country if you're innocent?

  • John,Tema 14 hours ago

    President John Mahama is equally a Criminal, based on his involvement in the Airbus SE bribery case and other domestic corruption cases.How can a Criminal request for an alleged fugitive to face prosecution under his regime?

  • Kojo 12 hours ago

    You are not an idiot

  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 10 hours ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion.
    Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper.......Search online for ways to move away from evil islam. ...You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe........... ...
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  • Observer 10 hours ago

    Good observation @Kojo, may you live long

  • Kelvin Taylor NDC propaganda secretary. 10 hours ago

    IT'S AN ESTABLISHED FACTS THAT JUDICIALLY UNDER ANY NDC PROPAGA.NDA ADMISTRATION IN GHANA IS A FALACY. Why have soo many NDC judges been pushed into the SUPREME COURT recently????. "A word to the wise is enough. "

  • Asantehene ba 9 hours ago

    Akronfuor abusua like Akuffo Addo and Ofori Atta...Ghanaians, going forward let's avoid this NPP forever. A vote for npp is an endorsement of thievery.

  • Nana Sarfo Kantanka. 9 hours ago

    GHANA IS NOW A BANANA REPUBLIC. ITS VERY DIFFICULT TO DIFFERENTIATES BETWEEN AN ELEPHANT AND A HIPPOPOTAMUS UNDER AN NDC SUPREME COURT IN GHANA TODAY.

  • Bob 5 hours ago

    Thanks for your sincerity

  • SD.com 2 hours ago

    Beeeee mooooh

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 14 hours ago

    Frankie, I don’t want to disrespect you or any Ghanaian in what I am about to post. Which Ghanaian, knowing how or she has stolen so much from Ghana will voluntarily? I will not come to Ghana for any trial when my Party and ...
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  • OFORI ATTA IS A CRIMINAL MINDED PERSON, HE IS A DISGRACE TO THEIR FAMILY 13 hours ago

    NOW, USING OUR MONEY TO FIGHT THE STATE BACK. START CEASING HIS ASSETS.
    I AM SURE, HE HAS STARTED TRANSFERING OWNERSHIP INTO OTHER NAME.

    THE SAID LETTER TO CHIEF OF STAFF WAS TO THE SAME NPP. POWER HAS NOT CHANGED HANDS ...
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  • MAHAMAH IS INTOLERANT 12 hours ago

    There's no justice in Ghana under ndc that's why he won't come

  • Onipaba 12 hours ago

    Nyamakpla.

  • .. 5 hours ago

    This is exactly my mind bro..............hmmmmm

  • Wwwe 4 hours ago

    Lol ndc animals who's more crime than Adam mahama hmmmm ofuibiba kwasiman tell Ur AG to go and bring ken and Mrs Tamakoro idiots

  • ALLIANZA.. 15 hours ago

    A THIEF IS ALWAYS A THIEF...!!.!.!!
    KROMFUORHENE OFORI-ATTA CAN EVEN GO AND HIRE ANGEL GABRIEL FROM HEAVEN TO COME AND DEFEND HIM... HIS THIEVERY CASES ARE MORE THAN 1,OOO AND ONE. HE IS ALREADY AN NSAWAM PRISON INMATE.

  • cccs 14 hours ago

    OSP Agyebeng caused all this. sack him
    now

  • ALLIANZA.. 14 hours ago

    Better late than never.

    If this guy believes he has nothing against him, he wouldn't allow his image to drop into the Korley lagoon like it has done

  • Npp Mafiascology 7 hours ago

    When society gets over intoxicated and confused with Oyibo laws, such is the type of spider net that suffocates it, stiff and tight. Corruption, broad daylight robbery, glaring white-collar criminalty, heinous collusions and ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, nation with foolish leaders 14 hours ago

    They will turn their backs on him and take his money

  • Ng 13 hours ago

    The ill gotten gains

  • KK 12 hours ago

    Clearly an admission of guilt. He definitely doesn't want to come back to Ghana for obvious reasons.
    I am disappointed in a man I once believed was a genuine businessman.

  • Konfo 15 hours ago

    Hiring top lawyers in the US not a matter of Ghana Cedi. Where did he get the money from? Our stolen money is being wasted. Start seizing all his properties in Ghana.

  • Kwaku Tee 14 hours ago

    Donald Trump knows the history of President John Dramani Mahama in relation to the Airbus SE bribery case. NDC members shd be measured in their expectation to bring down Ken Ofori Atta and disgrace him.We believe in accountab ...
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  • Asantehene ba 9 hours ago

    @Kwaku t....you this vagabond again. Nanduruwa

  • FACT 13 hours ago

    USE THE POWERS OF OWUSU BEMPAH
    So-called Nation Prophet Owusu Bempah can go into the realms and whisk away Sedinam Tamaklo and Ofori-Atta.
    .....no need of extradition paperwork....

  • New Ghana 15 hours ago

    Just steal from the country and be able to hire top lawyers to free you. NPP never again. The armed robbers shouldn't come close to powerful again.

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, nation with foolish leaders 14 hours ago

    Gh is very dirty and unplanned lacking basic necessities for human life because of people like ofori atta very wicked he is the main reason Ghanaians are walking around like zombies in Ghana he is thr main reason they flee ac ...
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  • Kk 15 hours ago

    Why don't u bring Sedinam first?.. Fat hypocrite

  • FACT 13 hours ago

    THE SO-CALLED NATION PROPHET OWUSU BEMPAH CAN GO INTO THE RALMS AND WHISK AWAY BOTH OFORI-ATTA AND SEDINAM TAMAKLEO
    .....no need of any extradition paperwork ...

  • Kona 15 hours ago

    Sedinam will definitely be repatriated to Ghana. I bet my last coin that when she comes, she will be granted bail on appeal and later discharged for not getting a fair trial. There was a hint of this in the AG's comment on th ...
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  • Kwam 15 hours ago

    If that is point in Sedinam case, it will be better Ghanaians forget about democracy. We can't continue like this as country, wanting to progress..

  • Kwam 15 hours ago

    Why spend money to hire top lawyers if he has a good case on sending our money on the National Cathedral? Can the AG make available the defense statement or arguments the former Finance Minister has put forward to plead innoc ...
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  • Appiah Kubi 14 hours ago

    AG if you have any personal scores will Ofori Atta don't use government instruction to intimate him. Who do you think you. Go for Temakole before you look for Ofori Atta. We have used our resources to school you and try to fo ...
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  • Antonio 14 hours ago

    So you went to school, and this is the English you came out writing. Tsakaii

  • T 12 hours ago

    A few words forgotten in haste. Smart people fully understand what he means

  • Y 2 hours ago

    @T, yes a few words missing, but the thrust of his message still proves he is a complete dickhead.

  • COD 14 hours ago

    Ken Ofori-Atta is a professional thief and a nation wrecker.
    He is a total disgrace and disappointment to his shameful-self, wife, children, family, tribe and nation.
    However, the Attorney General is talking too much now.
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  • Kofi Asare 14 hours ago

    Is he supposed to sit and fold his arms? If you're not afraid then shut up and do your work Useless Ayine.

  • LONGJOHN 14 hours ago

    GHANA SHOULD START USING THE SCAMMERS AS BARGANING CHIPS. WITH THE US

  • Kofi Asare Bediako 7 hours ago

    You are right.

  • Chile 14 hours ago

    Just petition Donald Trump’s White House & he will help us bring Ofori Atta down.
    Ofori-Atta & the Npp are very disgraceful.
    Jail him now or never
    Npp must forget winning power in this country because if Ndc decides not ...
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  • Yaw Manu 13 hours ago

    Even your damn criminal asshole John Mahama, the Airbus thief is the President so shut up. Didn't Amidu's Airbus investigation implicated him as the GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ONE? MAHAMA IS A DAMN CRIMINAL. If you idiots want to fi ...
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  • JJ KUFFOUR AKUFO ADDO 14 hours ago

    He should come home and fight. Nonsense

  • FACT 14 hours ago

    OWUSU BEMPAH CAN BRING OFORI-ATTA

    PROPHET OWUSU BEMPAH CAN EASILY GO INTO THE REALMS AND WHISK OFORI-ATTA AWAY.

  • BIG EYE IS WATCHING YOU. 14 hours ago

    What a shame to ayine and ndc. So for all the noises you people make you are not able to prosecute anyone. Noise makers

  • Ewvevi 13 hours ago

    So this useless block head of a former finance minister was just throwing dust into our eyes that he was sick and all that. We shall see. Look at his dirty face in the picture. Saana he was a thief. Oh, so his daughter ohemaa ...
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  • Yaw Manu 13 hours ago

    NDC, John Mahama is also a damn ass criminal. The Airbus criminal. Do you idiots know Amidu's Airbus investigation implicated him as the GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ONE? Yes Mahama is also a criminal. Bring on you guys we see fire. I ...
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  • La Pleasure man 12 hours ago

    Shut up, idiot!

  • Ewvevi 13 hours ago

    Let's not rule out the fact that Ofori-Atta could be a CIA agent and if so, he is gone for good and thus enjoying the protection of the USA. This happened before in the mid 80s when a whole Ghana navy commander called Commodo ...
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  • Momo 13 hours ago

    The youths are the ones he stole their future wealth so they should go and protest peacefully at the us embassy so the American government will know that he a criminal

  • Pee 13 hours ago

    Cease Databank and all his business back home

  • Stephen Johnson 13 hours ago

    Is all the fault of former president Akufo Addo whenever his party members commit crime then he will come and exonerate them. This sort of behavior emboldened them to do more.

  • Noisome Panlatrine Party(npp)~Governed Ghana on Cocaine & Mafiascology with Dwarf Artificial Intelligence 13 hours ago

    This ugly akyem ofori-atta blockhead. Who ransacked all State money and plunged Ghana into collosal hardship. And still talking bullshit. He should add lawyers from Russia and Ukraine to his pay list. His miserable end sh ...
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  • Pee 13 hours ago

    Am sorry Ken can't go to the supreme court' , he's not a citizen

  • Pee 13 hours ago

    NPP , there's no way Ghanaians will vote for you again

  • JULOR CAESAR 12 hours ago

    So that thieving looting crook Ofori Atta was lying all this time when he claimed that he was receiving medical care in the USA and would return to Ghana once done with his medical treatment? The government of Ghana should al ...
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  • Nana kwame 12 hours ago

    YOU POLITRICTIANS ARE VERY DANGEROUS HUMAN BEINGS. OFORI ATTA WAS SEEN BY THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, KISSI AGYEBENG , AIDED HIM TO LEAVE THE SHORES OF GHANA FOR MEDICAL REASONS. SO WHY HAS IT NOW TURN INTO HIM HIRING TOP LAWYERS ...
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  • Kwabena Ansa 12 hours ago

    Honorable Attorney General, you'd agree with me that Ken. Ofori Atta operated directly under Akuffo-Addo and if the Government is assuaged beyond any doubt that Ken Ofori-Atta deserved to be charged for Financial Fraud agains ...
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  • Kofi BA 12 hours ago

    Dominic Ayine is behaving more stupid than the 3rd class history graduate president who appointed him. Doesn't he know that President Mahama will die before him (according to Mahama's own logic)? I pray Ayine lives long enoug ...
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  • Noisome Panlatrine Party(npp)~Governed Ghana on Cocaine & Mafiascology with Dwarf Artificial Intelligence 12 hours ago

    Today is Friday. In that consideration, I spare you for the name "Kofi", which you do NOT deserve

  • Sam Fante warrior. 12 hours ago

    Babylonians are more criminals than Ofori Atta and NPP, the smooth criminals.

  • Kwabena Ansa 6 hours ago

    Sam, who are the Babylonians you are talking about? You know what, you are a typical example of those people who choose not to speak out when criminal activities are being perpetrated by those in power and let them abuse the ...
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  • Agbeli Kumordziì 12 hours ago

    There's no law protecting a thief like Ofori Atta

  • Osika 12 hours ago

    The talking is too much
    Please do your work and stop talking
    Zip your mouth

  • The Wiseman 12 hours ago

    Akuritinga or whoever you are going eat the tuwozafe prepared for you and stop being a basket mouth. You were on your seat when FBI picked Abu Trica without resistance. If you think you are a man and learned enough, go with ...
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  • Castro 12 hours ago

    Bring that criminal back to Ghana.

  • Kwasis 11 hours ago

    He wasn’t a minister in United States so the lawyers should know better that he can’t commit a crime run to the us to protect if he is innocent. Besides the US who doesn’t tolerate corruption has to send him back immedi ...
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  • Pouv: Why be afraid? 11 hours ago

    If the Opuni, Agongo, Duffour and 8others metrics is applied, then just tell Atta to pay 60% of the alleged loot
    ( which he actually does not have to pay, since same's been done for others) then cite the case as too complica ...
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  • Truth stands 11 hours ago

    Ofori atta's continued stay, will put NPP party in long opposition.
    Come back to Ghana and account for your stewardship and you're running away.

  • Kojois 11 hours ago

    The talking is too much. Only illiterates will accused Ofori Atta. Your bogus govt collapzed all ghana banks if not Ofori Atta do you think you will have the courage to speak this kind of nonsense. Your govt signed that bogus ...
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  • Obroniba 10 hours ago

    You have pampered this thief for a very long time and even aided him to escape the country. That thief shall face the dire consequences of his stupidity and foolishness. An incompetent blockhead idiot with no manners and dign ...
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  • nigga stole enough to afford 10 hours ago

    Stole billions to build a refinery for his unborn generations, why can't he afford too lawyers. We have clowns at the attorney generals office playing with our emotions and don't know how dead serious we are to retrieve our s ...
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  • 12345 10 hours ago

    hahahahaha, Dr please don't hang up the gloves just yet.
    Its so funny

  • Jonathan Mensah 10 hours ago

    Playing the dirty game of politics is like living dangerously. The party in power will do whatever to smear the people in opposition and get away with it. The ordinary people don’t understand that they are being lied to unt ...
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  • Holy Sinner 10 hours ago

    Ex French president Nicholas Szarkoski was arrested, prosecuted and sent to prison so why can't Akufo Addo and his cohorts who condoned and conived with him to loot the state be arrested and sent to prison. This idiot was alw ...
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  • Akajatayogogo 9 hours ago

    So Adu Boahene, Peter Amewu,Gifty Oware,Wontumi,Paul Adom Otchere etc who stole and looted Ghanaians Taxpayers monies where are they now? They are walking free and and did not go into prison? NDC president Mahama are weak

  • UK boy 9 hours ago

    The current president Mahama and the AG are criminals

  • SURVIVAL. 9 hours ago

    Upon all this nonsense some fools want to vote for Bawumia.

  • Afutuo 9 hours ago

    Lesson for NPP how they blind to send NDC double salaries to jail,government official ONE case about John Mahama.

  • noise maker 9 hours ago

    you talk too much without actions my AG. up to now no action for a single prosecution. give us a break

  • Alkabulan 9 hours ago

    Instead of this forgetive good for noting to come to Ghana and hand the Ghanaians stolling money back to them ,he is bussy highering top lawyers to waste that money before he died .

  • Watchman 8 hours ago

    If you have all the solid evidence to put him before court, try him in absential.

  • Agyengo 8 hours ago

    This Attorney general is becoming too talkative. Am not a lawyer but common law states if a person is charged and he decides not to avail himself to defend himself, cant he be tried in absentia like That Tamakloe woman? So wh ...
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  • Nana Yaw 8 hours ago

    He is using our own stolen monies to hire lawyers to defend his crime. This man and the whole corrupt Akyem Mafia must really face Firing Squad

  • jesus 8 hours ago

    With our stolen loans. Where are the equally guilty stooges and accomplices that claim he did no wrong?

  • Donatus 8 hours ago

    That guy is no longer wearing white. No longer quoting the Bible.

  • KofSam 8 hours ago

    The NDC has been in power for almost a year and it is time for President Mahama to evaluate his appointees and do the necessary re-shuffling of his ministers and to get rid of those not performing their duties. Ghanaians want ...
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  • SA 7 hours ago

    Please fellow ghanaians
    Lets gather and demonstrate at the American embassy for 3 days with international media coverage he will be sent to us.

  • Perfect @ SA 7 hours ago

    The 10-Letter word "Revolution", has begun

  • TRUST IN THE LORD 6 hours ago

    This is the consequences of the choice we made as a nation when we handed over the realm of affairs of this country to former President Nana Addo on December, 7th 2016.

  • FunnyGhana 6 hours ago

    If the guy has nothing to hide why is he evading coming back. He did not want to leave his post when he had the power and yet now he doesn't want to come back.

  • The orangutan State 5 hours ago

    If you know you are innocent why not come to face the law? But now you are using our Stollen monies to rent very expensive lawyers thinking they can save you. That is how you will
    Will waste Stollen monies saaa.

  • Cici 4 hours ago

    NDC is becoming boring in terms of prosecution of those they told us have looted the state in unimaginable levels, how can't you by now prosecute someone who have taken money to construct a dam and never did? Or they need roc ...
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  • Wwwe 4 hours ago

    Ofuibiba are U a farmer lol

  • Banta ebenezer 3 hours ago

    This confuse ndc people paaa! Live the man alone

  • kofi annan 2 hours ago

    And so what. you talk too much. Are you also not a competent lawyer????? do your work and stop asking for public sympathy

  • Of 2 hours ago

    Telling Ghanaians he gas hired lawyers is not necessarily at all. Is he not entitled to do so.please do your work as expected of you and stop unnecessary media engagement

  • Mubi 1 hour ago

    We never heard the former AG lamenting the way this one doing. Instead of concentrating on the job he is meeting the press always with the complaints.

  • Okukuseku 1 hour ago

    This an absurdity from the AG. You just started that has even reached the US authorities yet you are here telling us about lawyers Ken has hired? Aaaba AG

  • 7564BKB 14 minutes ago

    GHANA IS A BIG JOKE!